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Comment #47341114
Apple's support is top in the industry. And it's not even that great, it's but everyone else's support is just that bad. Easily worth the extra money alone.
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Comment #47097205
I found that "not interested" didn't work for me, that I had to explicitly state what I was interested in and only then did my suggestions become relevant. It will at times revert …
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Comment #46664043
| AI is orders of magnitude more useful and transformative than Facebook was in 2005 It better be, it's taken over 40000x the funding. The question is not whether AI is useful, the…
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Comment #46618199
But why? What problem is this actually solving? The birthrate is reducing everywhere, we produce more food than the current population can eat. The problem is not production, it's …
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Comment #46606966
With regard to Etsy, hand-made crafts don't scale so a VC-backed startup around them was never going to be able to resist this. Only hope would be a highly moderated and curated Cr…
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Comment #46558710
Understanding memory and using a debugger is hard but I'll take that over telling an AI my grandma will die if it does something wrong.
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Comment #46558678
I use AI as a rubber duck to research my options, sanity-check my code before a PR, and give me a heads up on potential pain points going forward. But I still write my own code. If…
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Comment #46558613
My question is why use AI to output javascript or python? Why not output everything in C and ASM for 500x performance? Why use high level languages meant to be easier for humans? W…
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Comment #46520060
Which is why I'm more comfortable using AI as an editor/reviewer than as a writer. I'll write the code, it can help me explore options, find potential problems and suggest tests, b…
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Comment #46446299
Copyleft removes legal obligation but we're free to confer a social obligation.
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Comment #46429770
When building out a new app or site , which means a percentage of zero users is zero.
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Comment #46429640
Could be speed/efficiency was the wrong dimension to optimize for and its leading the industry down a bad path. An LLM helps most with surface area. It expands the breadth of possi…
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Comment #46408520
Right, don't add complexity until you have to.
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Comment #46407533
When building out a new app or site, start with the simplest solution like the html-only autofilters first, then add complex behavior later. It's good to know these things exist so…
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Comment #46341063
Of course. But people also have high uptime servers with long-running processes they barely touch.