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> But for LLMs, my task might be something like "setting up apache is easy, but I've never done it so just tell me how do it so I don't fumble through learning and make it take way…

Brilliant comment. How I wish more applications could just be text...

I was looking for Hungarian and didn't see it, unfortunately. I learned a smattering of it some twenty years ago in a study abroad. I remember it was difficult, but fun, to learn. …

I can't speak for hummus, but I've noticed ice creams with guar gum, xantham gum, locust bean gum, and so on, have an almost foamy texture that is quite unnatural when compared to …

Why penalize all truck and SUV drivers for the small number that cause accidents? I'm okay with registration fees being proportional to weight, but raising fees for SUVs and loweri…

This is the thing I miss most about in-person work. I used to overhear conversations and jump in or just listen and learn something, and this just doesn't happen with Slack, Zoom, …

Me neither. One Plus Nord N30, Android 13. Last security update 1/5/24.

Serious question: Why not plant trees & shrubs & grasses in parking lots? (as in, in containers or medians). Shade the parking lot and make it less hot. Make it prettier to park in…

Not silly. Here's why: 1. Passing on the right, i.e. passenger side, means being in the driver's blind spot longer. 2. On- and off-ramps are almost always on the right, as are poli…

Know what's already illegal? Passing on the right: > Laws that cover passing when crossing the centerline of the roadway is not required (where there are multiple lanes in the same…

Off the top of my head: Libraries already exist, and the regulatory regime to oversee subscription services doesn't. Meaning, no one has to do all the stuff required to bring a new…

I'm surprised literally no one suggested just cancelling the vast majority of your subscription services and cutting ties with unethical companies. The suggestion that poor people …

In my experience, small businesses often charge more than larger businesses, perhaps because they don't benefit from an economy of scale or increased negotiating leverage with supp…

It looks like a back-of-the-envelope calculation to me: twelve summers before the developmental changes she mentions divided by sixteen, when they start driving, get a summer job, …

Perhaps an HN article analyzing which HN articles sink and which swim sometime in the future?

I would like to see keyboards with flexible layouts, where you could reconfigure the positions and sizes of the keys as you choose, so that if you wanted to replace half the spaceb…

Why not replace caps lock with a double-tap of the Shift key? This has the advantages of distance (still close at hand when needed) and memorability (Shift upcases temporarily, Shi…

Also: Bill Shakespeare didn't write novels. Just sayin'.

Seriously. That was great.

Yeah, the whole restaurant metaphor was distracting. Twitter has always seemed to me more like an infrastructure project: we build the highways, you supply the vehicles and the des…

You should check out Jaron Lanier's book You Are Not A Gadget. Very thoughtful philosophical treatment of digital technology and its limitations. Personally, in the last year I've …

Just a transparent way of telling me you know how to drink Scotch. Damn knowledge snobs!

It doesn't hurt the man-cred, does it?