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They're all crossed wires.

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> and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable In many professions, $5000 for tools is almost nothing.

> They are also experimenting with synthetic data, but this approach has its limitations. I was really looking forward to using "synthetic data" euphemistically during debates.

You can still sign and notarize your .dmg without distributing it via the app store. Users who download from your website won't see the "unknown developer" warning as long as you d…

What benefit do you hope to realize from distributing via the App Store? They aren't going to handle payments for you. They won't market your app for you.

Author here. I don't expect you'd see a difference. For the simple case of iterating on a diagram you describe to ChatGPT, 4o is perfectly fine as-is. I can't see how you'd meaning…

Programs that produce diagrams should be (and are) written in a programming language. They accept input, execute, and produce output. Diagrams themselves do not execute and have st…

Yeah, just about every diagram you see online commits these sins. Probably because companies that create detailed diagrams don't make them public. What's left is mostly diagrams by…

You can do it, certainly, but it is overkill. It also limits your potential editors to people who know Python and are willing to install it on their machine. In contrast to Python …

> It will be saved as web_service.png on your working directory. Nice and simple, but unfortunately you lose all accessibility with a .png diagram. Specifically, they're impenetrab…

I'm biased, but I think it's a bad decision. Programming languages are for writing, well, programs. Programs execute, accept input, have state, and all manner of other things that …

Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652291 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064921 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805529 - https://news…

Is the name for this kind SEO practice, where a company creates a new domain for a strictly "informational" page like this?

Sometimes. In the face of entrenched competition, you can't be just a little bit better. You have to be a lot better. And in a way that said competition can't easily match (or exce…

> To address this problem, we built decisioning models that take into account 100’s of datapoints, such as customer and payment metadata as well as internal classifiers of error co…

Feels like automated title moderation.

> Do you post your blog on social media to be found and shared? It wouldn't do you any good. Social media sites will kill your post if it has a link in it. They don't want you leav…

> More users online than ever, and able to get their attention too. Not really. There are some people walking around with giant teddy bears[0], but that is entirely for show. [0] h…

> On the other hand, social media platforms arbitrarily locking you out is a daily occurrence for tens of thousands of innocent people per day. If you're at all legit, you don't ha…

I thought fragrances in perfumes couldn't be trademarked because they were functional. But you could trademark fragrances as a nonfunctional component of a product (e.g. Play-doh).…

> In fact, they'd likely pay more because then they could reduce investment in detecting bots. A lot more. Preventing bots from eating up your entire digital advertising budget tak…

I can all but promise you these "headwinds" that they are facing in terms of negative PR are in fact a net positive. At their stage, any press is good press.

Trademark, but yeah, that was my understanding as well.