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It has recently become harder to order novamin versions of sensadyne in the US through Amazon, so I'm hoping something gets onto the shelves soon.

Find harder problems to solve. I can easily make Claude freak out and run into limits. Claude is amazing but it only works at the abstraction level you ask of it, so if you ask it …

I'm building a simulated fantasy town backed by an LLM. Visitors to the website can vote on what the hero does next, and everyone in the town will react naturally to all of the her…

UTF-8 wasn't a thing when the decision to go with UTF-16 was made. UTF-8 became a thing shortly thereafter and everyone started laughing at MS for having followed the best industry…

Windows has had multi-user support for ages. That is how user switching in XP works, and how RDP works. You can have an arbitrary number of sessions of logged in users at once, onl…

What the unholy fucking hell. Where none of the people running these schools ever kids? Did they just magically appear from some portal from another, sad, apathetic, dimension? Or …

I'm already enabling @ts-check so they the jsdocs actually do something!

I am going build less for a recent project. The main difference for me is jsdoc vs typescript. There was a large initial learning curve, and the syntax is ugly, and having to dupli…

2005 was definitely either ftp or ssh/scp mounts if working from Linux!

The other major difference is that table top gaming is a constrained environment where one is allowed to act socially different than normal, and mistakes at the table are left at t…

That top logo is horrible and childish looking. The new logo will look dated soon, but at least it looks professional. And 80k for a logo is incredibly cheap.

I'd kill for a way to apply CRT's filters to my vscode editor...

IMHO the problem is the majority of new multifamily construction is rentals only. Rentals ran by international firms suck the life out of communities, as people cannot be part of a…

> I don’t get how one imagines being an animal and… it just exists as an automaton? And for some reason exactly humans are all conscious/intelligent, So far evidence points to the …

On one hand, eating another intelligent being seems to be an obvious moral wrong. On the other hand, many of the creatures we eat will happily eat us if given a chance.

Last time this topic came up on HN an engineer whose job it is to do these calculations and then re-engineer products not last as long popped into the thread

I'm working on something similar but instead of basing my efforts on the generator agents paper I'm basing it on a technique I call narrative generation. It requires far less conte…

I had an XML file format from one app I needed converted to a json file format for another app. I threw both schemas at Claude and asked for it to write converter code. Writing moc…

They can do surprisingly things if prompted correctly. But their ability to do complex logic falls apart, and their limits are pretty much a hard wall when reached.

> Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? For people with memory issues, products like this can be life changing. On a second note, imagine a w…

One problem that I run into with LLM code generation on large projects is that at some point the LLM runs into a problem it just cannot fix no matter how it is prompted. This manif…

TS rocks so hard for doing pure functional stuff, and its support for type algebra can be an absolute blast. I try to avoid OO now days, and TS is my go-to language for modeling pr…

> couldn’t find “features” (like strong typing) they claimed were critical for writing good software How about reasonable scoping rules? Pre-es6 JavaScript was a nightmare of ugly …

> without all the BS that comes with TypeScript, etc. JavaScript is so powerful and amazing, it’s a bummer to hamstring your app by using TypeScript and classic OO inheritance mode…