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• 08:43, 5 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2025-12-04/Coders And Conversationalists Switch Places (Created page with "thumb|ChatGPT's safety circuits are on a hair trigger In previous iterations of mainstream chatbots, ChatGPT was the wild one you could get anything out of and Claude was the one that would keep hitting safety guardrails. When Claude Code came out, I started using Claude for code primarily and ChatGPT for discussion, but with the arrival of GPT-5.1 and Opus-4.5 the positions seem to have switched. <co...")
• 08:35, 5 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot - Claude 4.5 Opus pointing out demographic factors in violent crime.png
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• 08:16, 5 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot ChatGPT refuses to talk about Somalian poverty.png
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• 21:05, 3 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2025-12-03/Why Get Rich (Created page with "The point of getting rich is to be able to do more things. The people who I like and admire seem to all have this trait. For them, the amount of things you want to do is usually far larger than the things you have the resources to do. In fact, if I look among my friends, I suspect all of them have this same thing in mind. {{Tweet | name = p19k | username = peteralexbizjak | text = Genuine question: how do you plan on building revenue with your OS? If you answered this s...")
• 09:47, 2 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Eufy E21 Mount 3D Print Test Bar.webp
• 09:47, 2 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Eufy E21 Mount 3D Print Test Bar.webp
• 09:12, 2 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2025-12-01/Grounding Your Agent (Created page with "thumb|A trivial test bar Julie and I got a Bambu Studio recently and it's been fairly useful, providing us with a cover for some balcony lights, and a little holder for a toilet-reading book. These are models you can find online that other people have kindly provided. But one thing I've wanted is to be able to mount our Eufy E21 baby monitor at an angle so that it can look into the baby bed that is on the floor...")
• 08:54, 2 December 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot - Bambu Studio - Eufy E21 Mount Test.png
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• 23:44, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2025-11-29/Things Do Last (Created page with "Something that's common these days is for people to talk about how things don't last and so on and so forth, but in my experience things do last a really long time. I only recently gave away a 4790k-based system that's some 10 years old and it still works. It's just not particularly power-efficient or fast compared to a present day machine. But the thing that most struck me is this microfiber blanket I bought from Big Lots, a home goods store in North Carolina, when I m...")
• 23:36, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Astra on Roshan's old blanket.webp
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• 23:32, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Roshan's bedding as an NC State Grad Student.webp
• 23:32, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Roshan's bedding as an NC State Grad Student.webp
• 18:52, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot - Home Reminders MCP.png
• 18:52, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Screenshot - Home Reminders MCP.png
• 18:48, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2025-11-28/A Better Class of Thief (Created page with "thumb|The brown Radpower Radster Trail I now have. I recently bought a Radpower Radster Trail since it was on sale for something like $850 post tax. That's not the cheapest thing in the world, but I did want an e-bike that I could use, be willing to lose, and that would accept a child's seat in the back at some future time. File:Line Drawing (Ikea-style) of Riese and Muller style cargo e-bike.webp|thumb|A typical R&M bike. It can a...")
• 08:55, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Motorcycle Theft (Created page with "thumb|A beautiful bike Many years ago, I used to ride a Ducati 695 - an elegant tool from a more civilized age. Sadly, after an unfortunate meeting with an Uber driver in a Toyota Prius the vehicle had to be retired<ref name=julie/>. But by the time of that incident, it was already a Mad Max / Borderlands looking vehicle. And the reason for that was that it was stolen. == How == I didn't have a garage back in th...")
• 08:11, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Roshan's Ducati 695 - Front Wheel Damage.webp
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• 08:03, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Roshan's Ducati 695.webp
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• 07:43, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Line Drawing (Ikea-style) of Riese and Muller style cargo e-bike.webp
• 07:43, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Line Drawing (Ikea-style) of Riese and Muller style cargo e-bike.webp
• 07:31, 29 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Radpower Radster Trail.webp
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• 07:39, 22 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2025-11-22/Wage Compression (Created page with "thumb The incomes of the poor have increased faster since COVID-19 than any other group. This frequently leads to laments that everything has changed and gotten more expensive since COVID-19. If one were to listen to what most people like to say about poverty, this income increase should be accompanied by celebration. It's hard to pin down why it's not, but one can guess that it is because most people thought they were i...")
• 06:53, 22 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:FRB Dallas - Income Increases to 2022.png
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• 01:22, 22 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2025-11-22/Smart Charities Tax Non-Believers (Created page with "A big difference between my personal belief system and that espoused by many online is that I think charities should accept the money of people they dislike. This allows them to trade their reputation (ultimately a substitutable and cheap quality) for money that can achieve the outcome they desire. A highly effectively altruist organization should attempt to transform even an opponent's money<ref name=wework/> into progress on the organization's aim assuming, of course,...")
• 21:57, 20 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot - Overmod Block-Highlight Buttons.png
• 21:57, 20 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Screenshot - Overmod Block-Highlight Buttons.png
• 21:54, 20 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Overmod (Created page with "thumb [https://overmod.org Overmod] is a small program and directory that allows blocking and highlighting users on Hacker News. Other users can subscribe to my blocklist or create new ones if they so desire. == Why == I often find myself annoyed by people on social media who post repetitive comments that are mostly about one culture war item or another. For instance, comments like the following are not particularly interesting to...")
• 21:51, 20 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot - Overmod Extension Settings page.png
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• 21:27, 20 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot - overmod.org.png
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• 08:14, 20 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Scan of a Post-LLC Establishment Compliance Scam.webp
• 08:14, 20 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Scan of a Post-LLC Establishment Compliance Scam.webp
• 23:48, 18 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Geneva Plant Slag Dumping Youtube Comment (Created page with "This is a wonderful story from a guy posting on YouTube about his experience as a steelworker. I never manage to find it when I want to, so I'm mirroring it here: {{Quote |text=Great video clip. I had a job once at the US Steel Pipe Works, Geneva Plant, Utah where I took "slag temperatures" before they sprayed "devils liquor" sump water on it to cool it down. I wore wooden shoe "clogs" to protect my shoes from melting (the same kind coke oven operators wear when servici...")
• 10:44, 14 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Work Amplification (Created page with "Work Amplification occurs when a request takes a much smaller effort to make than a response. This is a problem in interactions both in the software client/server and in a human context. Any low-effort ask that requires a high-effort response could be work amplification. == Software == In software, a host of techniques exist to reduce the scope of the problem: * caching - cut subsequent response costs at the price of freshness * debouncing - assist with accidental...")
• 08:12, 13 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Astra and Roshan - Baby refusing cuddles.webp
• 08:12, 13 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Astra and Roshan - Baby refusing cuddles.webp
• 08:07, 13 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Snoo Bassinet (Created page with "thumb|The Snoo is a godsend If there is any money you spend on baby sleep related things, spend it on [https://www.happiestbaby.com/products/snoo-smart-bassinet the Snoo]. We got ours from our friends Charles and Anne, and we gave it back to them in case they wanted a second child. Astra fit in it until she was 27 weeks old, but the last few weeks of those we stopped using the Snoo's rocking functionality. The pr...")
• 07:57, 13 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Baby Monitor Screenshot - Astra in the Snoo.webp
• 07:57, 13 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Baby Monitor Screenshot - Astra in the Snoo.webp
• 07:44, 13 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page UppaBaby Travel System (Created page with "thumb|The Uppababy Mesa car seat: the base is usually in the car and then you just lift the seat off and put it in the stroller and away you go thumb|The LATCH attachment points are usually hidden behind some seat protection stuff but you want your car seat's base to attach to those. The tethers at the back of the seat are really hard to use by contrast The term for a car...")
• 07:44, 3 November 2025 Roshan talk contribs created page Friedman's Thermostat (Created page with "Friedman's Thermostat is a control mechanism that attempts to keep an output constant but is mistakenly believed to be causing the external variation that it is controlling for. A slightly more formal description might help. {{Quote |text=Given a system with a feedback controller that adjusts the degree of an intervention C to maintain a target output O despite external variation V, we observe: * C and V are strongly negatively correlated. * C and O are uncorrela...")