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Don't use claude -p in any kind of harness at all. I used it ONCE in a local custom made one, and got my account nuked. No help from them at all. Appealed, and the appeal was denied. I had been a Max subscriber since day 1 and Claude subscriber since day 1 in 2023. They don't care.


It's like they oversold capacity and are looking for excuses to get rid of users lol

Opus is fine but it's not THAT much better than the alternatives. I want to support Anthropic because they seem "less shady" than OpenAI but they sure seem determined to push people away.


For what it's worth. I invoked claude -p from a script, and my account was nuked immediately. DM'd Thariq from Anthropic who admitted it was a weird classifier and would look into it, but then he never followed up. Been 13 days since I've been banned now.

Very sad considering I got my whole company on Claude Code for them to just ban be like this, with no customer support response.


Cool, but why not just use Docker? 2-4GB extra ram overhead and some initial learning curve, add a decent Makefile and.. never worry about local env ever again. Switch back and forth between Mac, Windows, Linux like it's nothing.


Add to this that Rails 7.1 comes with a pre-generated Dockerfile that works quite well out of the box


Fascinating that he wanted an expert C developer with a PHD who'd build stuff in one third of the time it takes others.


Hiring C developers back in the day was smart. It meant someone knew computers as much as they knew software.


Hiring C/C++/Rust devs and retraining (stupefying) them where necessary is prob a lifehack to get top talent without having to sift through 1000s of Js resumes.


That pro-tip has been used on me, I haven't touched them in ages, leaving my C/C++ skills rusty (pun intended).


Nothing wrong with that unless you got Catfished into a role or aren't enjoying your job.


…probably for _one third_ the pay!


You need to login each time if you use Safari in private browsing mode.


And if you use a 56kb modem you need to connect to the internet before using the website.

Somehow, I believe you put yourself in that situation and it's not generally applicable to most people who don't use private browsing mode as the default one.


No one forced you to use the private mode!


At least the weather is good in SF and.. you make 3-6x more money.


When I was younger I had this fantasy of moving to and working in SF. Then one day a SF guy joined our company in London. Said it was foggy all the time. Totally ruined the fantasy.


So he lied to you?


That's why we invented remote work. /s


That’s the only this that really matters: making good dough.

Everything and - most of all everyone - else can get ffed.

As long as I get my share I don’t care

/s


If you want to make money so that you can save up a nice nest egg rather than be broke at the end of every month, London is probably the worst place to move to, unless you are working in the City or some other very high paid job, or you are lucky to have a permanent line of credit from the Bank of Mum and Dad. And not only will you be broke, you'll be living in a damp hovel shared with strangers. Kind of like being a student, but with all the responsibilities of having a job.


Why you are talking about Londen all of a sudden is beyond me, but might be some bias.

But it seems that I struck a nerve: that ‘nest egg’ is at the detriment to other people, exactly my point. The homeless pay the price for your nest egg.

The disdain for poor people is dripping from your reply. Yet you have much more in common with the homeless than with the people who pay you. You will be used and discarded as we see happening and who knows where you will end up…


Um, where did I show disdain for the homeless? On the contrary, I pointed out that London has become unaffordable for all but the rich. One might say the same of San Francisco and other cities with gross wealth disparities and sky-high rents.

A "nest egg" means "having a bit saved up" so one might have some economic security. Again, what does that have to do with the homeless?


I know what a nest egg is, yet your high salary hurts others as rents / housing prices go up, pricing the poor out of a home.


You seem to lack reading comprehension skills.

I pointed out that cities - taking London as an example - are unaffordable to people who do not have a high salary. Yet for some reason you are attacking me for...having a high salary?


That's easy, make it so that unlimited amounts of parents can come if the child is a citizen, but they'll have to buy their own insurance.


It's not easy, because capacity is an issue, not just payment. Similarly housing, similarly other services.

Canada already has massive immigration relative to its population - the built environment and capacity for services hasn't increased relative to that immigration. It doesn't matter what insurance you have when there aren't enough surgeons, 130+ days wait for an MRI, etc etc.

Allowing "unlimited" parents per immigrant is essentially tripling immigration on its own. Maybe the answer isn't "limitless immigration" when the problem is lack of housing, capacity, and services.

In my opinion canada's immigration policies are already unsustainable and have cost a huge portion of the canadian population in quality of life.


> when there aren't enough surgeons, 130+ days wait for an MRI

But why, though? Aren't there any surgeons among the immigrants? Don't immigrants generate tax revenues to pay for new infra?


>but why, though? Aren't there any surgeons among the immigrants?

because they can pick up and move to the states and double or triple their income, so the surgeons have to be people who expressly wish to stay in canada over increase their income.

> Don't immigrants generate tax revenues to pay for new infra?

that has not been the case so far. Housing, healthcare, etc are in crisis in canada. meanwhile the government is allowing fast food restaurants to import temporary workers.


Canada only allows like 10-20k parental PRs each year, and 100s of thousands of people apply for it each year (and increasing).

Not really any good. Compare that to the US where your parents get a GC no questions asked if you're a citizen.


> if you're a citizen

Almost any country in the world allows you to bring your parents if you are a citizen. The path to citizenship in US is very very long. Canada allows this while you are on a PR. And not every immigrant is happy to change citizenship, it's a much riskier bet than being a PR.


Is India an enemy?


I don't think India would weaponize H1-B, but it wouldn't be beyond Russia or China. BTW, having sleeper agents deeply implanted in other countries is an insurance policy.


China and Russia were the two countries I was primarily thinking of when I wrote that post. It's worth pointing out that in the international spy game your friends also spy on you. I feel confident India has agents in the US.


They would be stupid if they didn’t. The US has a tendency to meddle in internal politics of other countries and having sleeper assets in sufficient numbers is a deterrent.

Unfortunately, for these countries, H1Bs are very easy to locate.


Should've made a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox.

Without that, how can this ever come to the browser?


hexomancer's script (elsewhere on this page) could be turned into a GreaseMonkey/Tampermonkey user script.


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