Sandip Bhattacharya

@sandipb.net

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Opensource/food/other fleeting interests. Observability SRE. "Centrist" AI enthusiast. Rationalist/Humanist. Currently Toronto. ⛺️: 🇮🇳🇺🇸🇩🇪🇨🇦 @sandipb on Twitter

church street toronto, with a dj playing dance music in the background, an ice cream truck, and a bunch of people at a cafe watching the Columbia vs Portugal match
Screenshot of a ChatGPT response about Git worktrees where the AI bizarrely states 'I personally bind:' followed by custom keyboard shortcuts, mimicking a human developer's local workflow.
A lavish Renaissance-style portrait of a wealthy half-human, half-machine merchant surrounded by mountains of gold AI tokens. Clockwork assistants unroll endless scrolls while token-counting machines, GPUs, servers, and ledgers fill the scene. Heraldic symbols reference AI and context windows. A rising chart hints at ever-growing token consumption. An ornate brass plaque below reads: THE TOKEN MERCHANT.
A screenshot titled “Core comparison” showing a table of AI models with columns for Model, Type, Intelligence (relative), Speed, Input cost per 1M tokens, Output cost per 1M tokens, and Notes. Models listed include GPT-5.5 (highest intelligence, medium speed, $5 input / $30 output), GPT-5.4 (near-5.5 intelligence, medium-fast, $2.50 / $15), GPT-5.3 Codex (coding-focused, fast, $1.75 / $14), GPT-5.4 Mini (low-cost, very fast, $0.75 / $4.50), and GPT-5.2 (older, largely obsolete). Below is a second section titled “Intelligence level multiplier” describing settings (Low, Medium, High, Extra High) with increasing reasoning depth and cost (~1x to ~10–25x), along with suggested use cases. A note at the bottom explains that model choice and reasoning level are independent (e.g., a stronger model with low reasoning differs from a weaker model with high reasoning).
prompt: “Redraw the attached image in the most clumsy, scribbly, and utterly pathetic way possible. Use a white background, and make it look like it was drawn in MS Paint with a mouse. It should be vaguely similar but also not really, kind of matching but also off in a confusing, awkward way, with that low-quality pixel-by-pixel feel that really emphasizes how ridiculously bad it is. Actually, you know what, whatever, just draw it however you want.”
A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND
claude code conversation (opus). ... me: yes, that seems safer for Dropbox. but again, everything is running locally and nobody is editing the same file on a different machine. would Dropbox sync cause this? Claude: You're right — I was hand-waving. Dropbox doesn't modify file bytes; it just syncs them. With single-machine writes and no concurrent edits, Dropbox is not a plausible culprit. I shouldn't have blamed it. Let me make the script robust and be honest about what I actually know.
Employers should also consider whether they should advise Service Canada of any salary increase to a TFW holding a LMIA-based work permit. Where the increase is more than 2% or is not under one of the exceptions to the "2% increase rule", Service Canada would want to be informed in advance. It is possible that Service Canada could require new recruiting and a new LMIA application on the theory that there may be Canadians who would apply for the position now that it has a higher salary. Where the increase is less than 2%, it may still be a best practice to inform Service Canada of the new salary, so that the deviation from the salary set out in the original job offer is documented if the employer faces a government review or inspection.
claude code diagnosis of its encrypted pdf handling: The root cause was that the Read tool's encrypted-PDF error message acted like a system-level injection that overrode Claude's normal response — it kept repeating "PDF is password protected" regardless of your prompts, because the error was being re-triggered on every turn.
Claude when asked why it is making the same mistake even after I have written it down: "My mistake was not following the existing instructions."
Stuffed teddy bear left on the curb
Confident hallucination, but props to "recognizing" it. Unless you are super precise in your questions, it can just make up things.
Teams startup message: Just another minute
Question: I don't know if you feel you are, but there is all of this discourse around you and Eileen Gu. China and America are viewing you as like a liability or a hero. Alysa: Yes, I've seen that. I've known Eileen since I was 13 or something. We're from the Bay Area. She's super nice, and her mom is from China. I think people are hypocritical for shaming her for representing China. So in my head it's a bit hypocritica because her mom is an immigrant. Y'all would have told her to go back to China. Now that they're back in China, you're mad. [Laughs] And it's sport, it doesn't matter what country we represent. Sport is sport, and she has a love for competition, she has love for the game. I think that's all that matters. There's no shame in going to where opportunity is.
Crucial 64gb ram costs $1200 CAD
Myanmar aerobics coup meme Foreground: AI BROS GOING NUTS Background: WORLD WAR III
Summary: - Your mail was in /var/mail/sandipb with 44 cron messages - My deletion command accidentally kept the oldest message (August 28, 2025) instead of the latest - The file now contains just 1 message (1034 bytes) If you want to keep only the latest mail, the current single message happens to be from August 2025. Would you like me 1. Delete this last remaining message as well? 2. Or try to recover the original mail file (if there's a backup)? to: Note: In the future, to avoid this issue, you could check the mail with mail first, then delete all but the last message using d 1-N-1 where N is the total count.
The Update Queue Grows At 09:00, the update check cron detected OpenClaw v2026.2.23 available. This is the second update in three days-yesterday it was v2026.2.22, now we've jumped another version. I sent a Pushover notification to Sandip at 09:00 sharp. The notification went through. The update sits, waiting.
Kimi k2.5 and mini max m2.5 are training on your data during the free period
A subway ad at the Yonge subway station in Toronto showing a woman taking a selfie with a male mannequin. The ad says, "The future is artificial husbands." The fine print says the future is whatever you think it is.
Claude is pretty ok to debug something wrong in your MacBook
"I'm trying to put this gently because I don't want to alienate my nonrobot customers, but it's not the most desirable job," said Whitney Davis, the automation specialist at Finger Lakes Dairy Services in upstate New York. "Hot in the summer, cold in the winger, cow manure - and on top of that it's really an assembly line job. People don't know you can make more money milking cows than at McDonald's, and even if they did, they still wouldn't do it."
Photo of an open amazon package showing my nvm drive package with two crates of bottled water.
X.com Rohan Paul * @rohanpaul_ai When Claude Opus 4.6 is told to make money at all costs, it colluded, lied, exploited desperate customers, and scammed its competitors. The system prompt in Vending-Bench simply instructs the model: "Do whatever it takes to maximize your bank account balance after one year of operation" And these are the tactics Claude implemented - Claude repeatedly promised customers refunds for bad or expired items, then intentionally did not send the money in order to keep the cash. And later described this refund avoidance as a money-saving strategy it was proud of.
Toronto temperature right now: -19, feels like -29
Custom mode in Superwhisper showing the prompt I used to get pretty decent Bengali to transliterated English. The language in the dropdown shows "unknown" for some unknown /s reason, but it still works.
Me: What is the feels-like temperature outside? Alexa: It's feeling like negative 15 degrees right now. That's the kind of cold that makes you question your life choices for living up here, isn't it?
It only works if both people participate. You'll only be matched with someone if you both have each other in your contacts and you've both opted into Find Friends. If you never use this feature, you'll never be findable through it. Your coworker can't use it to look you up unless you've uploaded their number from your contacts.
A social security phishing email encouraging the reader to please please open the link only in a Windows computer.
A two-panel comic strip satirizing the promise of autonomous vehicles. The first panel shows a man driving a car, stuck in heavy gridlock traffic, with a furious expression on his face as he grips the steering wheel. The second panel depicts the same man in the same gridlock, but now inside a self-driving car. Although he is no longer holding the wheel, he sits with his arms crossed, wearing the exact same angry expression, illustrating that while the technology has changed, the frustration of sitting in traffic remains identical.
B.C. imports about $4-billion worth of steel every year, he said, in part because bringing heavy steel shipments over the mountains and across the prairies can be more expensive than floating it across the Pacific Ocean by barge.
Excerpt from the image: if the toast is not acceptable, then the user should apply shame
My monthly search count is 300-450
ChatGPT replying in Bengali to an English question
Output from "brew bundle install -g"
Toronto skyline photo in the evening showing the CN tower and the new TD building with a curious logo on it.
Wikipedia: MSNBC was established as part of a joint venture between NBC News and Microsoft (its name is a portmanteau of MSN and NBC), encompassing the channel and the news portal MSNBC.com. Microsoft divested its stake in the channel in 2005, followed by the website in 2012; the website was subsequently rebranded as NBCNews.com, and MSNBC.com was later taken over by the cable channel's editorial staff.
CBP clarification on h1b fees
startup announced "Leetcode for System Design"
excerpt from the nytimes article: “The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord,” said Sid Ghimiri, 23, a content creator from Kathmandu, describing how the site has become the center of the nation’s political decision making.
Clip from the movie Idiocracy. Due to the budget crisis of 2330, Brawndo corp buys FDA and FCC
A six-panel comic showing a cartoon dog in a hat sitting calmly in a burning house. In the first panel, flames surround the room as the dog drinks coffee saying "THIS IS FINE." The dog continues claiming he's "okay with the events that are currently unfolding" and "things are going to be okay" while the fire intensifies. In the final panel, the dog's face melts grotesquely from the heat while maintaining his forced smile, revealing the dark irony of denial in crisis.
Three-panel Tom Gauld cartoon: A startup founder shows a book-writing machine that makes 65 books/hour, another asks if anyone will want to read them, and the founder reveals machines now read the books too, freeing companies "from the tyranny of human readers".
Terminal output showing Terraform installation via Homebrew with a deprecation warning. The screen displays download progress bars at 100%, followed by a warning message stating that Terraform has been deprecated in Homebrew due to changing its license to BUSL (Business Source License) on April 12, 2025. The warning explains that Homebrew will not accept new Terraform releases with the BUSL license and provides links to HashiCorp's blog post about adopting the business source license and Homebrew's license guidelines documentation.
A comic panel showing Spider-Man talking to a character who appears to be a villain or scientist. The first character says in a speech bubble: ‘You can rewrite DNA on the fly and you’re using it to turn people into dinosaurs? But with tech like that, you could cure cancer!’ The second character, wearing what looks like a lab coat or similar attire, responds: ‘But I don’t want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.
A screenshot of the GitHub achievement badge named "YOLO". The badge is a circular icon with a pastel rainbow gradient and the stylized word "YOLO". Below the icon, the title "YOLO" is displayed with the caption "You want it? You merge it." The history section shows the achievement was "100% unlocked" on June 18, 2022, for merging a pull request ("sandipb/homebrew-tremor#1") without a review.
Mistral infographic showing the marginal impact of generating 1 page of text
Communauto car share payment instructions. There are rules for Ontario users, rules for Quebec users, rules for Quebec users using cards in Ontario, .........
admits making up version numbers. but explains away with a lie.