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I still miss n-gate so much. I wonder where that guy went. Hope he's okay.

as an American this is my favorite format. Sortable, and the mm-dd order reflects the standard American way of writing month+day, and yyyy is unambiguously the year since it's 4 le…

That hasn’t been my experience in the US, either personally or from talking to others who took CS degrees. Keep in mind that plenty of people on HN and in the industry did not take…

If I picked a human off the street and asked them to "count first two hundred numbers in reverse while skipping every third number and check if they are in sequence", I bet most wo…

It's very easy to say, "well, of course, a thing that looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, is not necessarily a duck." But when you're presented with somet…

> I drink more coffee than 99% of the population How much is that?

AI-generated UIs, at least ones aimed at an engineering audience, have a very distinct appearance. They seem to always have the following attributes: - Dark mode design with lots o…

That's kind of the simplest case, though, where "theirs" and "ours" makes obvious sense. What if I'm rebasing a branch onto another? Is "ours" the branch being rebased, or the othe…

The other comments make good points but also want to point out that that quote was written 37 years ago.

I use Windows and macOS both daily and it's truly baffling to me that anyway could consider Windows software quality to crush the Mac -- either first party or third party. macOS ha…

I don't disagree with you generally but does he really claim it does? The entire page only mentions US, near as I can tell.

The GP's use of the word "impose" didn't seem perjorative to me or suggest that Anthropic is the offender and the government is the victim. I think you're reading a lot into a simp…

The iPhone 8 was released in 2017 and the Pixel 8 is from 2023.

I'm not sure that's a literal quote from their boss. It seems to be an illustrative example, probably exaggerated.

The beginning describes the formation of an intelligence and it is indeed very dense. You can figure out what's going on but it takes some slow reading, and probably best to revisi…

It really doesn't.

This just takes me to an information-less landing page for some unlaunched product.

He changed his mind? The comment you're citing seems partly tongue-in-cheek anyway, but even if it wasn't, how is this some kind of gotcha?

That's the real reason the conversation seems pointless. Every thread is full of comments from one group saying how useful AI is, and from another group saying how useless it is. T…

All of this is written with a sense of anger and sarcastic invective that doesn't seem appropriate. This is part of learning any new language or API. Going in with an attitude of "…

There are simply so many counterexamples out there of people who have developed projects in a small fraction of the time it would take manually. Whether or not AI is having a posit…

> I'd be shocked if the developer wasn't actually less productive I agree 10x is a very large number and it's almost certainly smaller—maybe 1.5x would be reasonable. But really? Y…

I'd rather live in a universe where that money is taken out of the military budget.

You’re right, I think my confusion was that they’re both labeled Kiayukwan in Apple Maps.

I think that's clearly the way to interpret the novel. The idea that you could even debunk a piece of allegorical fiction is silly. It would be like trying to make a point by claim…