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I agree. If you use the AI for (4), it's pretty much guaranteed to hallucinate whatever it wants and then approve it. For small projects, it might be good enough. For anything seri…

Only if you don't count the cost of the equipment and installation.

It seems like that, but it's not. When trying to figure out a problem, even that tiny bit of information is worthwhile. If nobody else has posted it, it's the first indication that…

I definitely appreciate being told "I don't know", but I've found in business settings that people expect to get reprimanded for saying that more than a couple times a year, and th…

If you try a new thing and run into 1 (or maybe 2 errors), maybe it's worth the time to report them. If you run into a few errors, it's into "this isn't ready" or "they didn't try …

I didn't play on hard, but that wasn't my experience with the puzzles. I thought they were all pretty good. I didn't use a guide at all. It's been a while, but I think I pretty muc…

It's $7 part made of a tiny bit of metal. If it was actually a $2 part, I'd agree with you. But it's enough that it's probably worth returning, especially since he had to try a few…

In Chrome, I just right-clicked the link above and hit "open in split view" and it did. It was 50/50, with HN on the left, so maybe it's not as easy to read the post in smaller win…

I've been using Matt Pocock's skills at home, and they seem pretty great. He makes a great case for them vs other skills in his videos. I don't remember the exact arguments, but ba…

Some of the US theatres (Regal, for instance) have something like that, too.

That sounds like what I see with Plex, too. It definitely doesn't get it when the intros are unique. And if there's something later that's the same each show (an explanation of the…

I think this is almost a tautology, to the point that I'm surprised more people don't realize it. If you ask the AI to do more work, it uses more tokens. If you do more of the work…

Oh, there were absolutely people giving good answers. I'm just talking about the same kind of person who now just posts what an LLM says, rather than do any research.

I think some may think they're helping like that, but I'm sure there are quite a few who enjoy the feeling of being a notable figure in the community because they answer so many qu…

A quick AI Google search and some fact-checking later, and yeah. At least as of 2 years ago, Thunderbird was getting 3x the contributions that Blender was. It just goes to show you…

In this case, they aren't. I woke up the other day to a notification that my LG monitor driver was installed, with a little window on how to use the on-screen crap. Absolutely usel…

I wouldn't ban renting. Instead, perhaps we ban rentals of unspecified length. The customer has to know what they're getting. Either they own it, or they're renting for a certain p…

The example in the article says the police took her phone. Then her "attorney" gets on to talk instead. Yes, having a secret code is probably the right answer. My wife's family alw…

No, just more prolific.

It's worse than that. If you don't add it, what's to stop someone else from adding it? A lot of them are just "press okay and it's added". There's no security and nothing to stop p…

You're missing the point that it isn't worse than what's already out there for them . They've implemented only the parts they need, and removed all the crap that just complicates t…

I have used and use both regularly. The IDE makes the normal stuff really fast, but the CLI enables things that just can't be done in the IDE. I quite often ended up being the guy …

I've been trying to figure that out myself, and I think it involves things being locked away at the start, and unlocking them as you meet certain criteria. Currently, the only crit…

I started playing Farm Simulator 2025 recently because a friend wanted me to. Even now, I really long for a proper game with progression, etc. But it's really just a way to drive m…

That was their estimate at the time, based off the information they had. You can't ask more of someone than that. Either they estimated poorly, or it ended up the lesser portion of…