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brianush1

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    Comment #49032829

    in most editors you can just select text and drag it around with the mouse

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    Comment #48077219

    Claude does compaction in the regular web chat interface now, too

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    Comment #47934538

    > They increase reliability? For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down.

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    Comment #47812699

    > Don’t abuse DRY, a little duplication is better than unnecessary dependencies. That's an interesting thing to include. I agree with this point in principle, but I've found that C…

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    Comment #47551527

    claude is stupid but not malicious; chroot is sufficient

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    Comment #46085087

    One could make the argument that higher-level thought is not the same as awareness of higher-level thought; perhaps language only affords the latter.

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    Comment #45777959

    What would you title this article to make it less "clickbait"? This is one of the least clickbait headlines I've seen, it's literally just describing what's in the article.

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    Comment #45414109

    > Realistically, what are the odds that our not very large or clever brains really do have the potential to understand the entire universe My belief on this is not entirely rationa…

  9. story
    Show HN: Super simple file transfer utility

    Recently a friend of mine was having trouble transferring a file from his phone to his laptop, and every website he could find generated super long URLs which were a pain to type i…

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    Comment #43768313

    apparently the pegs only have to touch the holes, they don't have to line up perfectly

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    Comment #43456641

    I'm not seeing anything in that graph that implies that o1 ever fails on "what is 6*1?" The chart is graphing the number of digits on each axis; it fails on "what is (some 6 digit …

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    Comment #42368571

    https://archive.is/xe2V5

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    Comment #42368345

    Your initial translation into JavaScript is a representation of the statement "All my things are green hats", which is not the same as "All my hats are green." The statement "All m…

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    Comment #42190010

    pretty sure you have a typo, should be "If not, consider (sqrt(2) ^ sqrt(2)) ^ sqrt(2)."

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    Comment #40872761

    it works with textbooks too though

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    Comment #40563255

    Why does there need to be an "I" that uses language to transmit information? Language itself encodes information. I can read a piece of text and gain something from it. Where the t…

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    Comment #40218579

    > Put the pen between your index and middle fingers. I'm genuinely curious, how else could you hold a pen?

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    Comment #36482302

    Learning up to 12x12 is commonplace in the U.S., and apparently in other English-speaking countries, too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_table#Modern_ti...

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    Comment #35932245

    Primary sources are not allowed on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a tertiary source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...

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    Comment #27356981

    > such as the fact that a safe subset exists, but depends on GC, @safe works perfectly fine and exactly the same in @nogc code as in GC-enabled code.

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    Comment #26553622

    I use Refined Hacker News[0] to get a list of past threads at the bottom of the page. dang himself has said[1] it overlaps surprisingly with their internal extension, so it might p…

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    Comment #26534712

    For me, this was caused by a buggy service worker; unregistering the service worker (from about:debugging > "This Firefox" > "Service Workers" on Firefox, dunno how on Chrome) shou…

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    Comment #26534699

    From further down in this thread: https://decrypt.co/62217/monty-pythons-john-cleese-mints-bro...

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    Comment #26443227

    From what I understand, Firefox has a lower precision timer, which means you need to do more cache timer repetitions; try increasing it to 400,000, it should look more like the dem…