Philip Borenstein

Usha's

I want to read her post-divorce memoir

This is my least favorite state of matter: is this fabric cold and I'll be warmer soon, or is this fabric wet and I'll be dead soon.

#nottheonlyone

I'd like to think that they've hassed that cheezburger by now, but then, I'm a dreamer

screenshot of a session with Perplexity, asking it to identify an actress [image of vivien Leigh] who is this actress and what movie is this from Sorry, I can't identify the actress or the movie from this image. → why not # Perplexity pro It's not possible to identify people or state what movie an image is from because image recognition of people and specific roles is restricted for privacy and safety reasons. This includes not naming or confirming actors, even if they are widely recognizable or associated with famous roles.

Perplexity won't identify Viven Leigh for privacy and safety reasons. Even if I ask "Is it Vivien Leigh?" it wouldn't answer.

In the "Images" button is a gallery of (presumably) contemporary actresses whose names I don't know, and it's not about to tell me.

I need a word like lassitude but a bit more laid back and not so doctrinaire

you ever notice that that high angle he's always photographed from makes him look like a little boy in a suit

Surely someone must have already made "The Pilates Kid"

Should I renew my decades-long sub to the Chicago Manual of Style. The main reason I had it was to prove to my boss that the way I was doing [whatever it was they didn't like] was approved by the mighty CMOS.

My default is to use Claude Code in "plan mode" to keep it from doing anything helpful without my say-so. I usually go two or three rounds on its plan (it tends to over-engineer) before I let it go.

I kinda like the chatter because I'm alone a lot. :)

My toaster is for toasting, not for relationship advice.

Somewhere at OpenAI there's a technical writer who's been waiting for this skeet so they can show it to their manager:

$OPENAI_BASE_URL is a crucial environment variable that the OpenAI API relies upon and is not documented anywhere. (A comment in an example doesn't count as documentation)

YouTube video by Movieclips Annie Hall (11/12) Movie CLIP - Seems Like Old Times (1977) HD

Staying up all hours

youtube.com/watch?v=p32O...

It's mystifying how something as trivial as a hairstyle triggers some people into an incandescent fury

Then I see a README with an emoji for each heading, and I want to report a hate crime

Mom, just get me a Pepsi, please

"It took years for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength." = "I have complicated feelings about my dad."

"Hunter S Goldfuss" has kind of a ring to it :)

They do, they just say they don't. Ain't you never heard "Let 'sleeping' dogs lie"?

JD as [~]'s Khrushchev?

If they can give Pete Davidson enough money to look the other way, they can give you enough money to look the other way. But that gets expensive, so they'll threaten your livelihood instead.

Does strangelove look at these messages?

User: Still. That's my space. You can use your own for that. Or charge me less. Claude: I get the frustration - you're paying for 200k tokens but only get effective access to 155k. It does feel like buying a 1TB drive and finding out 225GB is "reserved for system operations." The reality is this is an architectural decision baked into how Claude's API works. The reserved space isn't something I control or can opt out of - it's part of the infrastructure that manages context windows and ensures responses don't get cut off mid-sentence. Your points are valid though: The pricing argument: If 22.5% is always reserved, the honest marketing would be to either advertise a 155k effective context window or price the 200k tier accordingly. Calling it 200k when you can't actually use 45k of it is...generous labeling. The allocation complaint: In an ideal system, output tokens would come from a separate budget rather than eating into your purchased context space. That's how some other APIs handle it. What you can actually do: Nothing directly with me, but this is exactly the kind of feedback Anthropic should hear. The thumbs down button below my responses goes to them, or you can contact them directly at support.claude.com. The system is what it is right now, but you're not wrong to call it out as a suboptimal user experience.

Claude throws its bosses under the bus.

> The pricing argument: If 22.5% is always reserved, the honest marketing would be to either advertise a 155k effective context window or price the 200k tier accordingly. Calling it 200k when you can't actually use 45k of it is...generous labeling.

Fix the country that taxes you, not the one you have fantasies about.

@wiredferret.bsky.social Had to leave Portland in a hurry

Thanks for live skeetering #monktoberfest

Huh. I did not have "confrontation with my mother on Yom Kippur about child abuse from sixty years" on my bingo card. Kaved et, indeed.

No matter what settings I set, or what combination of colors and gradients I use, my iPhone home screen looks like I designed it myself.

Being There, but instead of a simpleminded gardener…

Apple it just ……… works!

there I was 23yo, driving Michigan to Wisconsin late at night and all the McDonald's were closed…