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A relatively low tech solution could be to give them 2 separate conferencing links, ask them to join each one from a different device, and have the secondary device point the camer…

> My first real programming achievement was building a website for an Ultima Online shard Mine too! My second one was changing the map (remove static items, add new islands and bui…

I agree this is the silliest part! Even if you are interested in them, the only option is often now or never again. Even worse sometimes you open an app/site and the onboarding/wha…

My experience with AS3 is limited to a single project ~18 years ago, but I still remember it with fondness. No other language ever got close to how much I liked AS3.

> Not wanting and not having a choice are two different things. As a general statement, sure. But if we are talking about mobile phones this is a very privileged and unrealistic po…

That's a fair observation, and yet anecdotally I agree with the parent comment. In my career I fixed quite a few bugs about dates being passed around and unexpectedly modified, whi…

I wonder if we are getting different versions based on geolocation (I'm in Europe) because my experience is the absolute opposite of this. I actually had the thought "maybe I shoul…

> I don't think it's safe to assume so at all. Granted, I only know one journalist, and they've told me they only use LLMs in their work to gather further sources/references to che…

I don't understand the snark. Considering that "using AI" can mean anything from "AI wrote the whole article" to "the author used AI to check the grammar", I'd argue this disclaime…

What's the connection between being an illegal immigrant and having a valid ID? In my experience as a traveller, any ID from any country is good enough to get a mobile contract. So…

> It isn't a leak if you do it intentionally. "Do it intentionally" is a funny way to spell "I'm forcing you to do it by law and if you don't you won't be allowed to communicate wi…

I'm skeptical this is the reason: - Chatgpt uses mdashes in basically every answer, while on average humans don't (the average user might not even be aware it exists) - if the pref…

That is such a fascinating story. I would love to hear more about it.

I thought elements were created inside stars and dispersed by supernovas... Our sun has clearly not exploded yet (and I don't think it's big enough to ever ho supernova), so why do…

Isn't that an argument against the sustainability of the LLM business model rather than their usefulness? People use them because they are useful, not because they are VC funded.

That's probably what they meant, wix.com does have a bunch of react native libraries on github: https://github.com/orgs/wix/repositories

I'm not weighting in on the ability of people to detect patterns, but hand washing is a bad example. Detecting a pattern between 2 things that did happened (everyone but Dave ate p…

> I honestly can't imagine this. If the AI says "However, a downside of approach B is that it takes O(n^2) time instead of the optimal O(nlog(n))", what do you think the odds are t…

If it's your personal project, you are in charge of deciding which "behaviors that are down stream of version control" you want to adopt. If you are applying unnecessarily complex …

> You're, perhaps unintentionally, moving the goalposts a bit. "Version control" doesn't just mean database of code snapshots. It simultaneously connotes all the related functions …

Moral considerations aside, I'm really skeptical of the assumption that following LLM instructions = low IQ. As always, HN is a very biased audience. Most of us have probably read …

> The first example is why `UPDATE CASCADE` was implemented. So it's possible to use natural keys as identity without the fear of children table. At least in most databases it work…

Every point in the sky is on a possible orbit (or on infinite orbits?), so you are not really reducing the problem space. Our planets' orbit do tend to be somehow aligned, so you c…

You probably used a well supported device. I read the article over 3 devices and scrolling can get pretty buggy.

> We have interns coming in and fully ready within an hour or two of setup. Same way changing local machines is a breeze with very little downtime. This sounds like the result of a…