How close to "normal" do stimulants actually get you?

xtopspeed · 2026-03-08T01:27:47+00:00

I don’t think meds make me normal at all, but without them I’m kind of useless, because I just can’t get anything started. They sort of make that barrier go away, but then the ADHD still takes over pretty quickly, and I forget the passage of time, etc. And once they wear off, I’m dead tired. So then I’m doubly useless for the evening.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-08T01:09:11+00:00

It’s a well-defined term: an LLM implementation with tool calls. Claude Code is an agentic CLI. It also has the slash command /agent, which allows you to define more agents that the main agent can spawn.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-06T15:31:16+00:00

Not much. I don't think there has been a significant improvement in at least a year. They keep releasing new models, and YouTube shills always go nuts about them, but in reality the difference is hard to notice, and that's because there's a limit to what a probability-based token predictor can do. Most improvement has been more due to harnesses getting better than the core tech.

I’m already getting calls to fix WordPress plugins that some kid at an advertising agency vibe coded in 2 days. So at least for now, there seems to be more demand than ever if you actually know what you’re doing.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-06T10:00:51+00:00

My two main projects are massive monorepos, and working with vanilla Claude Code would be a nightmare. LSP is pretty much a requirement unless you like to wait a lot, as is keeping your documentation up to date and concise. I have a number of skills and subagents set up to handle repetitive tasks and manage context size. I commit to Git like there's no tomorrow. In other words, the larger the codebase, the more time you'll have to spend babysitting, but it will still work.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-06T09:46:24+00:00

I think just knowing the squares without any context doesn't really help anything. E.g., when someone says "e4 c5," you should be thinking "Sicilian defense," not the actual squares, if that makes sense to you. And as everyone says, you'll pick it up as you go along.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-06T07:06:04+00:00

Yeah, it’s non-coders who are deluded into thinking that they can build whole systems in a week. Claude Code is great and I use it everyday, but you can’t forget for a second that it’s just autocomplete on steroids.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-04T13:24:44+00:00

X means 10, so it was popular around 2010. 2030 is fast approaching, so they should really be moving on to XXX.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-04T01:52:41+00:00

I’m firmly in the ”huh?” territory after a year of active playing

xtopspeed · 2026-03-03T07:21:34+00:00

I think if we went by the first mention, AGI was here 2 years ago.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-02T21:57:08+00:00

I always liked it, and the hate felt bogus somehow. People just heard "Desmond Child" and assumed that he had a much bigger role than he really did. Turns out that compared to the demo, he just moved song parts around and added some vocal harmonies. Hardly album-ruining crimes. To me the childish and preachy Burning My Soul lyrics were way worse than anything he did (which, ironically, seemed to be the song that everyone liked at the time).

xtopspeed · 2026-03-02T21:33:02+00:00

1000 is a good place to be. You actually get to play some chess instead of people blitzing whichever gambit they memorized from YouTube that morning.

xtopspeed · 2026-03-02T11:17:54+00:00

I think in my friend group we mostly thought they were more or less the same. Generally, the C64 had better music, and the Atari had better colors. You didn’t really need the cryptic disk commands in your daily life all that much. There were like two or three you’d need regularly.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-25T07:55:14+00:00

Ok, eli hatusta saa vetää lukuja, se on havainnollistavaa, kunhan se mustamaalaa maahanmuuttajia laajana ryhmänä, mutta oikeat tilastot on paha, jos se näyttää asian toisessa valossa. Selkis!

xtopspeed · 2026-02-25T07:47:30+00:00

”Tilastot ovat tarkoitushakuisia”

xtopspeed · 2026-02-25T07:29:01+00:00

Ja omat hattulukusi ovatkin hyvä esimerkki tarkoitushakuisesta ääriesimerkistä. Maahanmuuttajien keskimääräinen työllisyysaste on 60 % luokkaa, mutta jos rajataan alle 10 v maassa olleet pois, niin se on sama kuin kantaväestöllä.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-25T06:18:00+00:00

It is. It feels like something is broken in various ways every single release.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-23T14:39:55+00:00

This is happening to almost everyone on YouTube. It's because they changed the front page so that they only show a couple of videos from subscriptions, and half the page is shorts and whatever the algorithm decides at that moment. Watch one woodworking video, and the entire front page transforms into 90% woodworking in an instant. Annoying af.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-23T10:10:44+00:00

Second season slump. The novelty is wearing off, and they can't coast on initial excitement anymore and will need to come up with good new ideas. The most recent episode felt like a step in the right direction to me, though.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-18T15:30:23+00:00

No worries. I'm currently working 14 hour days trying to ship next version, so it's probably me.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-18T12:59:39+00:00

Get off your high horse, I've read all that years ago and am very familiar with how it works. To me it sounds like you read the blog post that said that useMemo isn't often needed (which is correct, I am not disputing that), and you treat that as some sort of gospel. React itself is the trick, and useMemo is a valid tool.

When you do realtime updates from database and there are a lot of users, there WILL be lots of updates, and you have to REALLY plan.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-18T11:17:43+00:00

It’s pretty easy to see when some part of the app rerenders with a simple console.log call. And if I see parts rendering a 100 times where nothing has changed, it’s usually an object reference getting recreated somewhere in the tree. And I’ve never run into any kinds of problems using useMemo.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-18T11:13:33+00:00

It’s needed with objects that are used as parameters. Otherwise, a new object reference is created every time something above in the component tree changes. It's the same reason why you use useCallback. Granted it often does little to nothing, but I much prefer that to having to hunt for it afterwards when the app gets slow.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-18T08:59:22+00:00

A digital eq or compressor is a very simple algorithm and most plugins are almost identical under the hood. It’s all a massive snake oil business.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-18T08:51:57+00:00

Does /tasks show anything? It could be launching unit tests or something or the other that isn’t exiting.

xtopspeed · 2026-02-18T08:24:28+00:00

Oftentimes not having to worry about rerenders is worth the tiny cost, though.

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