The volatility of bitcoin is why there is capital gains on every trade, it has nothing to do with the IRS's new crypto policy.

If a bitcoin rises or falls by a calculable amount between when you received it vs when you spent a portion of it, you have gains/losses. That has always been required by the IRS to be reported, whether that is a BTC or chicken feathers.

I'm all for us Americans feeling the pain of electing this idiot, but let's not forget that only 30% of eligible voters actually voted for him. It is a shame that more didn't vote against him, but when the Democrats decided to run someone that the country didn't even remember existed a few months before the election, instead of for the 2 years PRIOR to the election, she never had the chance.

Ah, 30% voted for him, but more than 30% decided it didn’t matter to them which one was in power. It’s unclear to me if that apathetic percentage has actually moved significantly.

This happens with me every time I try to get claude to write tests. I've given up on it. Instead I will write the tests if I really care enough to have tests.

I've tried it. It can work. My prompt was "Use the gh commandline tool to get the issues for the current repository, and work on them in order, with bugs taking priority."

Elsewhere there are steps for how to develop: 1. Create new branch for the feature you are working on; 2. implement the feature fully, thinking hard when you need to (toolcall think(low, med, high) switches the reasoning level);

That said, it also failed a lot.

I've often found that LLMs don't listen to "Don't do" commands with anywhere near the same gusto as "Do" commands.

People don't usually think about pink elephants, unless you ask them not to think about pink elephants :)

Indeed, a whole lot of criticisms against LLMs are involve in part how they increasingly act too much like humans in ways people don't like from their computers...

Rollback? Its the same as all dev work. Use a dev endpoint for APIs, and thankfully git is a great tool to undo fuckups.

Yeah, I lost the tooth genetics race. Brush twice a day, floss 3-4 times a day, still have cavities every visit to the dentist, and need a full on root canal and crown every few years.

Both of my parents have lost half of their adult teeth even though they take care of them, abstain from sugar and processed and/or acidic foods/drinks.

Every time I move, I lose mine and get annoyed for years until I buy a new one, then get further annoyed because I waited so long to splurge on a $3 stick.

If it is a quartz watch, it might be 47,120,384 times per day.

I feel this is true of Americans and Europeans. And as an American, I've been migrating myself more and more into the European mindset. I put in my 8 hours, and I'm done, then I do non-work related activities for the next 8 hours, then I sleep for the next.