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Uber is especially bad here. I live rural, but when I travel I use it (and uber eats sometimes) when I'm out of town. At this point I uninstall the app and only install it when I k…

I can't remember, could you buy a math coprocessor for it? I know my 286 you could pair with a 287 next to it.. not sure if it really made a difference you could discern outside of…

If anyone doesn't know where to start - start in places you're stuck next to people. Like in line to check out at the grocery store. I have struck up dozens of conversations lookin…

I still use it on iOS, and I've tried to remove all other keyboards, but Apple still just seems to "make up" keyboards I don't know are installed. Or switch keyboards on me mid-typ…

Working for London startups in the past, I've found they're much more polite, but much less honest and straightforward. There's a layer of britishness you have to get past sometime…

Except the impact of even gas prices going up has added to costs in basically anything delivered by truck. Every tax you put on that just eventually ends up in consumer hands.

It was very much on and off for many years. It was intended to cover the costs then go away. Instead they installed stream lined overhead tolls to not have to wait at the toll boot…

I had a similar issue living abroad. My wife had a work visa (which was the reason we we moving) and I was allowed to go being a spouse, but once there getting a permit to work for…

I mean, as a hiring manager, a fresh grad with multiple bug bounties tells me a lot about their drive and skill, so I'd agree. It's a great differentiator.

I think the cultural norm of a stance like this for attendees will condition people over time to follow the opposite side of things.

I think it's just an unfair comparison in general. The power of the LLM is the zero risk to failure, and lack of consequence when it does. Just try again, using a different prompt,…

That was the point of the article. Users with knowledge of how it works can do it fine, but new users can't. Your average dev who's never used vim or vi will start frustrated by de…

I can in here to be snarky about this because it drives me nuts and screams "I'm so artsy" that it's aggravating. But you beat me to it.

Honestly, if you're not doing it now, you're behind. The sheer amount of time savings using it smartly can give you to allow you to focus on the parts that actually matter is massi…

The thing is, it is replacing _coders_ in a way. There are millions of people who do (or did) the work that LLMs excel at. Coders who are given a ticket that says "Write this API t…

They will also not be offended or harbor ill will when you completely reject their "pull request" and rephrase the requirements.

Assuming power stayed automated, I wonder if all life on earth just vanished, how long AIs would keep talking to each other on reddit? I have to assume as long as the computers sta…

My late father in law worked with them engineering the previous version of this car. It's about maximizing performance and engineering challenges. Many of the engineers are seasone…

My late father in law worked with them in developing the previous generation, and he was 6'4".

I think his statement could have benefited from and/or implicitly in the list of titles. I certainly care very deeply about my people, and letting someone go is a last resort after…

Yeah, the fact that 40% get them regardless makes the slight increases seem.. statistically irrelevant?

Of those who never drank, 40% had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45% had vascular brain lesions. Of the heavy drinkers, 44% had vascular brain lesions. Of the fo…

The difference is HN is a community curated feed, not an advertiser and for profit curated feed.

The issue at hand is despite federal rulings forcing all states to have some level of "shall issue" concealed permits, and laws on the books, California's process has left it to co…

Heh, I was going to say the opposite. Sign me up!