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ericol

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    Comment #49251578

    > You ever read a work of literature with such flowery language that right after you've read a paragraph, you pause and realize you have no clue what you actually read, only to rea…

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    Comment #49135379

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    Comment #49115339

    I'm not sure about the x, but the first thing that arises from that is, I feel like in my case it's way higher than 2. The 2nd thing is, how do I measure that. --- In my case, the …

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    Comment #49039678

    Dude. Not even your blog post is clear enough. I had to right click one of the images and open it in another tab in order to be able to discern _anything_ on the image.

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    Comment #49037369

    I don't think that works at all times; actually I think it only works when starting a conversation. In the middle, "Why ~did you~ while action as an export in Lisp ?" needs a certa…

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    Comment #49022689

    ok that cracked me. Could be worth of an update: I don't know what machine they were raging against, but I'm pretty sure it was an LLM

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    Comment #49015626

    Nice read, but having your home page play music is incredible rude.

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    Comment #49015554

    I don't need a computer to mimic a human. AT ALL As a matter of fact, for the line of work I do (programming, devops, the works) being conscious about the fact that I am just getti…

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    Comment #48651218

    Assuming you mean uninstall, yeah I did the same because of that. I wasn getting a constant panel from them regarding using the backup feature, that will just keep re appearing. It…

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    Comment #48651193

    2 days ago there was another interesting article on the effects of AI in hiring[1] I guess this one just compounds. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620142

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    Comment #48620745

    What is means is that now hiring is symmetrically broken. Hiring has always been broken. May be not completely at the FAANG level, but below that, and more importantly across the g…

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    Comment #48601877

    In the style of Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue: "You got your cold brew, your Japanese iced coffee, your iced americano. Then there's your mazagran, that's coffee with lemon juice, r…

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    Comment #48601337

    Wait until in 5 year's time all kids speak in rule of 3

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    Comment #48599385

    > No headers per element. No pointers. No jumping around the heap. that smells of AI [1], and thus lazy writing. I'm all in for using AI to help you write, but if you don't put you…

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    Comment #48304145

    I'm not excited about producing more, and all that jazz. But, work IS exciting now - not sure for how long - because AI allows me to work almost at the speed of thought. Nothing mo…

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    Comment #48094556

    I loved this show as a kid. Growing up in Argentina, back in the day these were all dubbed. The version I watched on tv had a voice and personality of its own - Latin American "neu…

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    Tell HN: The problem with Opus .7 /thinking is not token consumption. It's speed

    I sit down to do some work and as I went for web I decided to take 4.7 for a spin. It doesn't seem to be burning much tokens (MAX x1) But boy is it slow. Thinking mode [1] (Yeah, I…

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    Comment #47896408

    Stop hooks are a world of pain. I recently went on a deep dive about them with sonnet / opus. I wanted to detect if a file or an analysis was the result of the last turn and act up…

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    Comment #47884695

    if "git versioned" means the .md files themselves, I'm sold. I am actually processing files using a git based workflow in order to tell claude what to look at. I'll definitely give…

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    Comment #47877263

    Books _are_ expensive. This article only looks at the monetary side of it. The cost goes beyond the price tag. Books take up space, and that space compounds as you keep acquiring t…

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    Comment #47833967

    > I don't know if you're giving this as something you've actually given Claude, but I don't think it's a good way of using Claude. That wasn't the full prompt, I trimmed it for cla…

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    Comment #47812531

    You are being downvoted but I actually agree with your statement.

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    Comment #47810382

    Matches what I am experiencing. Makes incredible stupid mistakes. The weird stuff is yesterday I asked it to test and report back on a 30+ commit branch for a PR and it did that fl…