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by bartread 2mo ago
> how could you possibly know to go search for Lovable, let alone figure out agents? Is this an actually serious question? Am I losing my mind here? I didn't tell my HR friend about Lovable: she found it on her own. Of course someon
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by bartread 2mo ago
No, not really. My HR friend went out and found Lovable on her own. You're acting like people can't Google, or even ask an LLM via a Chatbot interface for recommendations for tools that would help them build an application as an a
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by bartread 2mo ago
Interesting, but... wrong tool, wrong job. And by tool, I mean web based chat interface, not LLMs in general. (Maybe wrong delivery mechanism, if you like.) Your friend needed an agent, not a chatbot. I use Claude within VS Code (as per man
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by bartread 2mo ago
> I don't think the average person has to be taken into account all the time. This needs to be said louder and more often whenever this "average person" argument is trotted out. Except for the very largest technology busin
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by bartread 2mo ago
If there’s a big difference then it will certainly impact on willingness (and ability) to pay, depending on the cost of premiums, so I’d say it’s very relevant.
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by bartread 2mo ago
What’s the salary difference between doctors and cops of similar experience levels on average in the US?
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by bartread 2mo ago
OK, this was fun. But I think the real problem is that we’re pushing carbon into the atmosphere that has hitherto been sequestered for upwards of millions of years deep underground and under the oceans. I.e., nothing that’s been a part of a
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by bartread 2mo ago
I like your way better. I like your way a lot better. A: It’s actual justice, and B: Otherwise it just becomes another way for insurance companies to make money - in this case by charging swingeing fees that will come out of public coffers.
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by bartread 2mo ago
> not mobile friendly. It’s not what I’d call mobile unfriendly either. I had to zoom in slightly but then it’s perfectly readable in landscape. Some very basic inline responsive CSS would make it work great in portrait too. But the thin
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by bartread 2mo ago
> I wouldn't I'm not talking about you though, am I? I'm saying that there are people working in this field who will do exactly that. We are now going in circles.
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by bartread 2mo ago
No, I absolutely realise that: but it's irrelevant. It doesn't make them safe. And after reading the linked BBC article, along with the article linked from the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489
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by bartread 2mo ago
> was being tested in a controlled environment, but found vulnerabilities and managed to escape. Uh-huh. It's worth keeping in mind that we are here talking about people who simply will not be satisfied until they have built Skyne
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by bartread 2mo ago
Yeah, what convinced me was seeing friends’ setup that they’d had for 10 or 15 years still working flawlessly.
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by bartread 2mo ago
As someone who watches a reasonable amount of PoV outdoor activity footage shot on helmet cams and the like (base jumping, mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, etc)… I don’t love watching 360 videos uploaded in the raw because of the pers
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by bartread 2mo ago
Yeah, we ordered a double width pax with sliding doors, drawers, shelves and lighting, plus another half wardrobe with a mirror door, shelves, and lighting. I’m fairly handy and quite enjoy putting things together so it never crossed my min
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by bartread 2mo ago
I just noticed that by around 2015 it had got super toxic and snippy. Usually I’d find answers on SO. Relatively rarely I’d ask questions but, when I did, I’d always try and follow the netiquette rules of yore, and think in terms of, if I w
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by bartread 2mo ago
It’s also practicality and ergonomics: old furniture is nice to look at but it’s often awkward to use (e.g., squeaky wooden drawer runners that require periodic waxing to keep them running smoothly and quietly, lack of sliding doors, dark c
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by bartread 2mo ago
> piss easy to assemble Sure, it’s not hard, but if there are a lot of steps it’s still going to take longer. A fully specced up pax double wardrobe with drawers, sliding doors, and lighting is made up of hundreds of parts, so does take
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by bartread 2mo ago
Weekend HN is definitely where the more interesting and offbeat content lives, and I often find myself enjoying it significantly more as a result. During the week, well, it would be unfair to call it LinkedInified, but it can often feel lik
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by bartread 2mo ago
It's a brave new world, etc., isn't it? One does find oneself slightly askance at one's own thinking sometimes, that's for sure. But I suppose, is it really so different? I mean, back in the day moreso than now, a lot of
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by bartread 2mo ago
I don't know how you'd enforce that unless it was something you could mandate at the level of the API call, and then the API call is rejected if the customer hasn't configured it for "no transcript". It sort of feel
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by bartread 2mo ago
I imagine this will be because a decent chunk of the IP in Codex is probably within its prompts, how they're built, and how they're sequenced and orchestrated, rather than in the codebase per se. We had this discussion a few month
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by bartread 3mo ago
> humans will forget to replace the placeholders I think you're right. Or people screw up the placeholder content and call you by the wrong name, wrong job title, wrong company, whatever (off by 1 errors in some columns in their aut
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by bartread 3mo ago
> He seems to understand humans. Yeah, I think this is it. The humans were the point, not the minutiae of the tech. (Btw, I hadn't noticed you'd responded whilst I was editing my comment to express myself a bit more clearly - I
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by bartread 3mo ago
It's funny... I enjoyed Neuromancer, although I didn't read it until about 15 years ago. And, yeah, the memory thing hasn't aged well. Thing is, 1984 was a funny time in computing, particularly when you consider the kind of c
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by bartread 3mo ago
Ah, that's slightly disappointing. Although, realistically, when it comes to Amiga I only have DD floppies anyway.
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by bartread 3mo ago
Whoa, wait, what? It can? I did not know that. Back in the day I had an A500, and only bought the 1200 decades later. Had no idea it would accept HD floppies. TIL. Thank you!
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by bartread 3mo ago
Yeah, but eventually the downvoting/community moderation will do its work: it just takes a few hours sometimes. But the original unkind remark has gone from top level comment to nowhere near the top of the discussion (at least I haven&
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by bartread 3mo ago
Probably a lot of people voting aren't aware of the terms of use. But, at any rate, it's certainly not the top comment now - it often takes a couple of hours or so for voting to settle out and the initial top comment quite often d
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by bartread 3mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding me or over-interpreting what I've said. I'm not justifying or excusing the unkind behaviour, and I'm aware of the site terms on HN. What I'm saying is that in large online forums - re

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