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Agreed yes that’s not great. But really if that’s the worst thing you’re noticing in your daily life at home, things must be pretty ok? You must see the difference between us being…

Have they? Obviously there have been a ton of issues due to the US’s strategy in Iran. But almost nobody in the US has any affect from this war. Gas prices are up a bit. Mildly inc…

A static website is one that doesn’t have an associated backend API server, just serves as one or more self contained file assets. The files you serve to the browser are static, no…

It’s just a fancy version of previous tools. Imagine a coworker instead does a refactor by grepping the entire codebase and doing a find-and-replace. Do they ensure that it didn’t …

Every breath you take, there is a 99.99% chance that everything is normal, and a 0.01% chance that you breathe mild acid which horribly burns and causes a massive coughing fit. It …

I don’t think it’s even “seniors” containing slop of others. I think it’s those who still care about quality (which seems to be decreasing in the industry overall) trying to keep t…

Two things tell me this isn’t the case: (1) it’s not that I can’t understand their output, it’s just written in a way that is very homogenous and same-y, with very boring cliches a…

Sure, just like it’s illegal to steal the formula of Coca Cola from their documents. But you can do an analysis of a bottle of Coke to figure out exactly what’s in it. You can even…

I agree that the fair use argument on training data is a genie that’s not getting put back in a bottle. But: > If it isn't fair use, then we may need to sue all teachers for spitti…

Why do you assume they're disagreeing with you?

It’s not interesting to talk about per HN rules, but I expect your downvotes are because your comment doesn’t add any substance or interesting new details, not because people disag…

I don’t hear this perspective too often in my bubbles and it does make a lot of sense - the money of these people would be a means to an end. Sure they might want more money to ena…

If we actually do meaningfully automate intellectual labor, we create a world where we have real technical solutions for our toughest problems. Maybe we can get carbon capture and …

I think we also would need to know how many of these warnings they gave where nothing bad happened

You could also come up with a cure for cancer, but if nobody knows what you’ve done then there’s not a whole lot we can say about it

My TB5 dock from OWC on a M4 Pro MacBook can run dual 4k 240hz displays, 2.5gb ethernet, and several peripherals no problem. It also provides 100W of power. All over a single cable…

Normalizing by miles driven will take you to the wrong conclusions. It underestimates the extra deaths directly caused by the fact that we’ve built exurbs farther and farther away …

I’ve agreed for a long time… Unfortunately though, Apple Maps just added Ads, so expect them to start having the same issues as Google Maps does (like showing big ads for every loc…

It’s filling in a lot of the holes, but it’s putting a very convincing paper cover over the ones it misses. So it’s very hard to find the ones it didn’t fill, better hope your most…

Sometimes, even usually, evolution finds a “local maximum” of effectiveness. Where the solution an organism finds is not optimal but it’s good enough for the organism to survive, e…

I mean my state has been making it illegal to download 3d models of pieces that could be used to make guns in a 3d printer It’s a very broad law and likely not legal, but it’s goin…

Oh California has its problems too, I moved away from California after living there for a few years due to the impossibility of affording a home. It’s a beautiful state but the aff…

Honestly it may be 50-50 purple in population, but the policies are what affect people the most. I’m not even worried about Democrat vs Republican, as I’m not associated to either …

Yeah, I cancelled my Claude subscription yesterday after learning about their attitude of intentionally sabotaging their paying customers. Especially after trying Fable yesterday f…