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    Comment #49264948

    why a non-decreasing counter? Looking at your solution, if i understand it, is instead of decreasing the inventory count for each sku as orders are processed, you are comparing the…

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    Comment #49228775

    > Shopify incorrectly formulated the very problem they are trying to solve. That’s a bold overconfident statement. Cart abandonment is real. People never clear their carts they jus…

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    Comment #48929785

    don't you then have to keep your IDE config synced across them an open a whole instance for each project? Why even have an OS underneath it at this point? Sometimes it feels like I…

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    Comment #48913074

    I think ultimately you still have to pay down tech debt eventually. Either through bankruptcy (throwaway the project) or servicing the debt (refactoring, rearchitecting etc). It's …

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    Comment #48911188

    mostly i'm trying to get out of the terminal and most IDEs don't understand devbox/distrobox well without lots of finagling.

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    Comment #48741329

    Sure but that's orthogonal. Yes you use the right tool for the job. But if the job requires the best intelligence you can get with an LLM, then you use that. Taking as an assumptio…

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    Comment #48711274

    > beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks Beats which model in Claude? Whenever a "benchmark" doesn't put precise model numbers in their headlines I am immediately skeptical. Either t…

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    Comment #48664196

    > One day, maybe not far from now, a breakthrough will allow huge LLMs (say 200B in size) to run well on an old 5 year old Dell desktop. But if you have such a breakthrough could y…

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    Comment #47506836

    The conspiracy version of this is each bad windows release is purposefully extra bad so the next "good" version is perceived as artifically well. It's a shame too, I feel like the …

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    Comment #47504002

    This follows the standard windows pattern of every release alternating between bad/good. 98 good ME bad XP good Vista bad 7 good 8 bad 10 good 11 bad When 12 comes windows will be …

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    Comment #46925319

    I would wager all of those are distributing malware.

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    Comment #46863569

    > This looks increasingly a good idea. Why?

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    Comment #45784194

    Right I get tha. The point I’m making is that from a users perspective it’s functionally very similar. A non deterministic llm or a non deterministic company full of designers and …

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    Comment #45784041

    Web apps kind of already do that with most companies shipping constant UX redesigns, A/B tests, new features, etc. For a typical user today’s software isn’t particularly determinis…

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    Comment #42217741

    > You're strictly correct, but the rules for chess are infamously hard to implement Come on. Yeah they're not trivial but they've been done numerous times. There's been chess progr…

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    Comment #42164502

    It’s not a questions of being able to reverse. It’s a question of being able to diagnose that one of these changes even was the problem and if so which one.

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    Comment #42138982

    Seeing ads can still affect you psychologically even if you don't click them. Also lots of ads prey on people with worse impulse control who bankroll the rest of us who don't click…

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    Comment #42127433

    I find the bus tracking of this app in my city is pretty poor unfortunately. Probably not the apps fault probably an issue of the municipality but still annoying. That being said, …

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    Comment #41957555

    Sure I guess, I don't know why UAC gets so much hate while sudo gets so much praise. UAC is strictly better than sudo IMO. Does UAC solve security for windows? Of course not, but w…

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    Comment #41955598

    The main difference is that UAC is automatically triggered by the OS and takes over the whole display making it harder to fake/intercept. It’s trivial to put a fake sudo in someone…

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    Comment #41949391

    > I'm convinced computers are much better at it, but lawyers suffice. This is just wrong though. The effect of the law is only what humans determine it to be. Computers can't be be…

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    Comment #41821506

    Don’t need landing legs/gear on the ship. Saves weight

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    Comment #41688802

    > Maybe if the product is shit, the color of the buttons doesn't matter. This should really be on a poster in many offices.

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    Comment #41677158

    They are suggesting that it’s easy to make mistakes when writing the JWT auth code as opposed to just talking to the IdP using TLs