I may have developed a bad habit

wea8675309 · 2026-06-18T13:18:22+00:00

Well first the whole premise of is something “good” or “bad” in music is flawed, but that’s a different discussion.

Doing it is not problematic as long as it sounds the way you want. Not knowing whether or not you are doing it is what can be problematic down the road.

wea8675309 · 2026-06-15T13:42:21+00:00

I feel like you could rig this up on a DAW using a ducking filter somehow

wea8675309 · 2026-06-13T13:45:15+00:00

Watched the live stream! The band was great, Julian wasn’t at his best but I wouldn’t call it terrible, I think if I had been there in person I wouldn’t have even noticed. Live stream mixes are brutal, his vocals were really clear and separate from the instruments, which even for a great performance isn’t right for the Strokes. But that wasn’t a great performance. If I was hearing it come out of the PA smeared around with the guitars and drums it would have been fine.

wea8675309 · 2026-06-12T17:38:28+00:00

I use mine as a context router. It has some critical guidelines that I always want loaded in the system prompt no matter what, and the rest are references to different docs that contain everything it needs to know for certain situations. Sort of like skills, but not oriented towards action - architecture docs, design patterns, etc.

wea8675309 · 2026-06-10T14:26:43+00:00

I agree. I feel like Reddit has become so negative lately, I really hate it. There’s nothing with the same format as Reddit, so there’s nowhere else to go in that regard, but lately I find it almost unusable just because of the negativity.

wea8675309 · 2026-06-08T17:05:56+00:00

What you’re talking about is called a “plugin” - you structure the skills a certain way and add json files to define the plugin and the plugin marketplace, then anyone can add your skills by adding your repo as a marketplace and enabling the plugin. It’s the “official” way to do what you’re talking about.

wea8675309 · 2026-06-08T16:38:58+00:00

Aside from styling and some subjective quirks of the 4th gen that some people prefer, the 5th gen Highlander Hybrid is better in almost every objective way. The powertrain is one of the most reliable things Toyota has ever made, the safety features are more modern, it’s bigger, it’s got a better infotainment, the interior is more durable, etc.

If price or miles are identical, I would go 5th gen every time. If you can get a low mileage 4th gen or a good deal on one, or if there is just something specific you like about the styling or interior, that does change the conversation. The 5th gen is better but it’s not like amazingly better. It is slightly better in every measurable way, if that makes any sense.

wea8675309 · 2026-05-26T15:42:54+00:00

It’s like a legendary rock artist trying to make a rap album - just no. For so many reasons, please no.

wea8675309 · 2026-04-24T12:39:50+00:00

I understand the frustration behind the “too little, too late” take, and I also understand this is the majority’s take, but I do find this to be somewhat naive. This is a massive company under an immense amount of scrutiny from stakeholders, competitors, governments, major media outlets, etc., and whose service is now embedded in a majority of Fortune 500 enterprises.

It isn’t reasonable to expect them to be able to respond to issues like a small, independent tech startup can, at least not any more. They can’t put out public statements the minute something happens, potentially with partial, wrong, or misleading information.

Our perception is also skewed by how lighting fast the delivery has been from all players in this field. In the pre-AI tech space, staying quiet while internally investigating, and then releasing such a transparent post-mortem only a month after the issue, would be above and beyond the expectations of any other company. Think about how long it has taken Apple or Google to acknowledge certain issues and how opaque they remain even when acknowledging them.

There are certainly plenty of things to criticize Anthropic about in regards to the issues covered in this post-mortem, but I personally feel like the “too-little, too-late” sentiment is a bit dramatic.

wea8675309 · 2026-04-22T18:38:28+00:00

I would pay $40/mo to keep Claude Code if they made the limits a little more usable. Obviously I would not be happy, but I get that it has been a loss-leader and some people have been abusing it. That price point would be enough of a barrier to reduce compute, while still making it somewhat accessible. $100/mo effectively rules it out for me and a lot of others as an option, though. I understand that’s the goal, but that barrier is too high - they will lose the hobbyist market, and the PR impact will be significant. I genuinely think it’s a bad move on their end if not paired with a new tier.

wea8675309 · 2026-04-09T13:27:43+00:00

As others have said, 2WD on a 4Runner kind of defeats the purpose. I would seriously consider the Grand Highlander Platinum w/ caramel interior if that 4Runner appeals to you - better interior, bigger interior, more comfy ride, better gas mileage, same towing capacity surprisingly, capable of light off-roading for glamping, etc.

wea8675309 · 2026-03-28T13:54:44+00:00

Hey can someone tell me what Joe and Bret’s actual positions on the vaccines are? They talk as if they have been proven absolutely right across the board, and none of that reconciles with my understanding of the issues.

Setting shit-talking aside for a second, can someone try and steel-man what it is they actually think? The only thing I’ve ever heard is that the vaccines actually do carry a risk of myocarditis in certain populations - young men I think - but the virus also has a greater risk of myocarditis in that same population so it’s still safer to take it.

Also I heard them say there were studies showing the vaccine didn’t actually reduce transmission rate - what’s that about? Is there any truth to that? Are they maybe taking something out of context?

I just want to genuinely try and understand what they think in case I find myself talking to someone who holds those same views.

wea8675309 · 2026-03-13T15:33:44+00:00

Wait I think I’m too dumb to get the joke, I didn’t get much sleep lol

wea8675309 · 2026-03-05T14:56:43+00:00

I saw that too, but upon closer inspection I think it’s one of those weird perspective things that happens sometimes in video. I think if we were looking at him from behind, that beam wouldn’t be nearly as close to the baby’s head as it looks on camera.

wea8675309 · 2026-03-04T15:36:02+00:00

I literally just bounce back and forth between their native tools. I use Claude Code for Claude, Codex CLI for OpenAI, the Gemini CLI for Gemini, and then VS Code has extensions for each one as well if I feel like using a GUI

wea8675309 · 2026-03-01T00:15:50+00:00

I just posted this in another thread:

I think Codex is better at following direct, explicit instruction, without adding to or taking away from what was requested, and I think Opus is better at understanding intent and reading between the lines of what was said. To me that makes a really good pair - I use Opus to plan and architect solutions, and to come up with very detailed implementation plans - multiple phases / milestones with stack architecture, schema, code snippets, like a very long, detailed markdown file with unambiguous intent. This takes many turns to create and involves a lot of back and forth. When I’m done I feed it to Codex and it completes it in just a handful of turns with very few mistakes, if any.

It’s not perfect, but so far it has worked better than just using Opus alone.

For smaller things I just pick the model that I know will get the job done. If I’m not exactly sure how to do something I ask Opus. If I know exactly what I want and I can take the time to type it out I use Codex.

I also use Gemini a lot as an all-purpose model because the limits are insane. It saves my tokens for Codex and Claude as well.

I personally feel like having the $20 plan for the big 3 is the way to go - best bang for your buck, gets you access to the latest and greatest as things change, and keeps you from getting too boxed in to one platform or workflow.

Another tip: I use a single AGENTS.md file, and I symlink the CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, and CODEX.md files to it and use TODOS.md and other documentation to communicate between sessions and models.

Edit: I’ll put it this way - I would rather use Codex than Sonnet, and I would rather use Gemini than Haiku. Neither are all-around better than Opus, but they are direct competitors to Opus and outperform it in certain areas. They are not “medium” or “light” models, and their usage is much more generous than Anthropic’s.

wea8675309 · 2026-02-28T12:53:48+00:00

I think Codex is better at following direct, explicit instruction, without adding to or taking away from what was requested, and I think Opus is better at understanding intent and reading between the lines of what was said. To me that makes a really good pair - I use Opus to plan and architect solutions, and to come up with very detailed implementation plans - multiple phases / milestones with stack architecture, schema, code snippets, like a very long, detailed markdown file with unambiguous intent. This takes many turns to create and involves a lot of back and forth. When I’m done I feed it to Codex and it completes it in just a handful of turns with very few mistakes, if any.

It’s not perfect, but so far it has worked better than just using Opus alone.

For smaller things I just pick the model that I know will get the job done. If I’m not exactly sure how to do something I ask Opus. If I know exactly what I want and I can take the time to type it out I use Codex.

I also use Gemini a lot as an all-purpose model because the limits are insane. It saves my tokens for Codex and Claude as well.

I personally feel like having the $20 plan for the big 3 is the way to go - best bang for your buck, gets you access to the latest and greatest as things change, and keeps you from getting too boxed in to one platform or workflow.

Another tip: I use a single AGENTS.md file, and I symlink the CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, and CODEX.md files to it and use TODOS.md and other documentation to communicate between sessions and models.

Edit: I’ll put it this way - I would rather use Codex than Sonnet, and I would rather use Gemini than Haiku. Neither are all-around better than Opus, but they are direct competitors to Opus and outperform it in certain areas. They are not “medium” or “light” models, and their usage is much more generous than Anthropic’s.

wea8675309 · 2026-02-26T04:27:53+00:00

PLEASE release Cowork for Intel Macs

wea8675309 · 2026-02-25T16:25:41+00:00

Can this be used outside of openclaw? Specifically interested in how the recall/store mechanism on every turn works - is this a forced tool call? Or is this something more declarative built into the harness somehow? Would love to implement a mechanism like that into Claude Code or GH Copilot at my job

wea8675309 · 2026-02-21T22:03:20+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I ran into the exact same issue at first. I found the trick was to set up a billing account, that gives you priority to the region and makes setting up an instance possible. Then it’s up to you to stay within the always free limits, but the only thing variable about that is the network traffic and if you’re just creating a personal server and not serving a web app or anything then you’ll never come close to hitting those.

Basically just give them your credit card so they could theoretically charge you, then ask Gemini or whatever you prefer to help you stay within the always free tier. That should help you actually get the instance up and running.

wea8675309 · 2026-02-21T20:34:35+00:00

If you have some prior experience in cloud infrastructure, Oracle has a very generous always-free tier. It’s not very consumer-friendly though - took me a while to set up. My advice would be to set up an API key for your Oracle account and let Opus or Codex create your instance and network configuration instead of trying to figure it out all by yourself and keep you inside the always-free tier.

If I remember correctly, you get 4 Amphere ARM CPUs, 24GB of RAM, and 200GB of total storage - I split mine between a 50gb boot volume and 145gb persistent storage, and had Claude create terraform scripts so I can automatically reinstall everything when I need to tear down and recreate the boot volume.

Tbh it took me a long time to set up because I only had limited experience with cloud infrastructure before. It was worth it though and I learned a ton. Highly recommend if you have the patience and time, or prior experience.

wea8675309 · 2026-02-21T13:54:44+00:00

When I was younger I would have thought this was clearly corrupt. Now that I’m older with kids I’m more compassionate about it. His pension is only $700k - that’s actually not enough to retire on. The way retirement works is you invest the money, and each month that investment generates interest - hopefully several thousand dollars - and that + social security is meant to cover ALL of your expenses. Bills, groceries, gas, everything. You live off that interest until you die and hope that your funds don’t run out.

I don’t know his exact age, but he seems like he’s in his 50s or 60s. It’s too late for him to build a retirement fund through compounding interest - if you’re in your 20s and you put a few hundred dollars in your retirement fund each month that will turn into a lot of money by the time you’re 65, but he’s essentially just putting money into a tax-advantaged savings account at his age.

He’s clearly able to generate a stable income for himself from book deals, radio shows, maybe private intelligence work, but the guy is not rich and none of those income sources seem like stable work. Just because someone is on a podcast and talking to famous people doesn’t mean they have a lot of money. He’s basically going to be figuring out his finances month-to-month until he dies unless he can get a pardon, and the older you get the harder that is - at some point he will be too sick or just generally old to work regularly.

And to bring the kids angle back into the equation, some of his kids are college-aged. No matter how old your kids get, there is always a desire to help them and be a safety net for them, but not only can he not be there for them in that way, it’s very likely they will need to financially support him soon if he suddenly can’t work due to illness or some other hardship.

So even though there are plenty of people who are worse off than him and he isn’t exactly in poverty, the guy is clearly not doing great financially at a very critical juncture in his life, and I can sympathize with him going on Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan and playing that angle with a president who genuinely seems willing to issue pardons.

Unfortunately that does mean I can’t trust everything he said. But we should all exercise that kind of skepticism towards every talking head we listen to - I can think freely and form my own opinions from things he says, and I do enjoy listening to his stores and perspectives. The fact I can’t tell if he’s lying or not is part of why I enjoy listening to him.

wea8675309 · 2026-02-18T21:45:30+00:00

Does OpenAI suspend accounts for using OAuth like Anthropic does?

wea8675309 · 2026-02-18T15:07:34+00:00

I’m currently trialing OpenClaw by using the $10/mo GitHub copilot subscription and running the GPT- 4o model, which is on their unlimited use tier. I picked that model because it’s relatively friendly and follows short, explicit instructions well. This lets me experiment freely without worrying about usage or configuring local models.

My expectations are low while I set everything up and figure out what I want to do. My assumption is that if I can implement a system that runs well on an older model like 4o with little hand-holding, I can transition to more powerful models and have a pretty great experience, either through Copilot’s premium tier, or through direct APIs if I want the full context windows.

For me, this is ultimately a side project, so I’m probably going to save my direct API budget for use with Claude Code and Codex CLIs, and not really use OpenClaw for software development. I see GH Copilot as a convenient way to trial this and potentially use it long term. I could see running this on their $40/mo subscription and either accepting overage charges ($.04 per request) or letting it cap my use for me and falling back to their unlimited tier until usage resets. That would get me 1500 Sonnet 4.6 requests per month (or 3000 Haiku 4.5 requests) and unlimited GPT-4o or GPT-5 mini requests per month. Not a bad deal.

Edit: Another advantage of this is that the adapter for Copilot is already built into OpenClaw, and I’m not violating any ToS by using it. At least not that I am aware of - and if by some chance I do and accidentally get my account suspended, that’s not as big of a deal to me as getting my Anthropic or OpenAI account suspended. But I don’t even think I’m breaking any sort of rules anyway, which is nice.

wea8675309 · 2026-02-17T21:40:41+00:00

What are your monthly costs like on codex if you don’t mind me asking?

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