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by cmiles74 3mo ago
I’d be curious to see the financials on the Kindle readers, my suspicion is that they very quickly make the cost back through book sales. If retaining customers was a concern they could simply ship people the cheapest reader before cutting
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by cmiles74 3mo ago
Strong disagreement on this one, I think the coverage has proven that the current crop if anti-LLM sentiment is a much bigger thing then whatever is happening on this website. In the case of AI generated imagery, maybe it will get to the po
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by cmiles74 3mo ago
I feel that "good" music has some emotional resonance with me, at some level. In my opinion AI won't ever be able generate what I'm looking for, it always strikes me as somewhat bland or seems too much like another track
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by cmiles74 3mo ago
I thought the NY Times article was pretty good, they had some nice illustrations. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/science/spudc...
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityB... > This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
Even people who do read the content of every AUR package they install could use a helpful heads up and some detail in the new threat they should be looking for. If a package is compromised, I think most people would prefer their workflow be
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
I think a notice on the front page of the AUR would make sense here. IMHO, a blurb on the Arch homepage with a link to a notice on the AUR page would also help. If you don't want to list all known effected packages, at least recommend
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
> All his numbers about costs, revenues etc are guesses or attempts to work backwards from off the cuff and frequently inconsistent comments by tech executives. They could easily be very far off. Agreed, but I'd argue that Ed doesn&
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
I don't read Ed Zitron, aside from when he appears here on Hacker News, and I also find his tone to be over-the-top. I think we might agree on that much. These articles are lengthy but, to my understanding, Ed's idea is... * AI co
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
I hear what you’re saying, I’ve wondered this myself. My suspicion is that if we let duplicate or very similar code accumulate, eventually we’ll have enough that it will start to slow down or impact the success rate of the AI tooling. It mi
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
I’ve been using Claude Code with Opus 4.7; it’s not that the code it produces is wrong, it simply tends to write too much of it. In my opinion it’s still worth thinking about a particular feature and finding the best way to fit it into your
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
It reads like greed and corruption to me.
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
I'm only going by the abstract but this bit stuck out to me: > Regulation of the multiple addictive products that tobacco companies have disseminated to markets globally may be needed to protect public health. That seems less about
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out this is part of their RHLF training, the attitude is so prevalent in these models.
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by cmiles74 4mo ago
> The people writing the checks are not in the habit of lighting trillions of dollars on fire for a better autocomplete and an endless proliferation of longer and longer memos that nobody reads. Aren’t they though? What about that whole
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
I’d take rapid movement, honestly, I simply think it unlikely. In terms of what kind of change, I was speaking of movement toward a rational system with clear goals, with decisions made by knowledgeable people. With that in mind any movemen
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
This strikes me as an unreasonable demand on the author of the comment. Part of the point of the current system was (at least at some point) to have knowledgeable people, armed with the available facts, figures and theories make some attemp
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
Even worse, with changes like this we are taking large swathes of legal immigrants and transforming them into illegal immigrants. It reads to me that a substantial number of green card applicants will now be subject to ICE detention.
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
I disagree it's a political stance, this reads like a technical decision to me. In my opinion, there is no vibe-coded project that's going to be reliable long term. Eventually there's too much code, too many bugs and the whol
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
I bet someone read the paper she co-authored and that might have had some influence on the code that they ended up writing. Her husband worked on ARPAnet, surely he would have mentioned that paper to someone!
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
My preference would be that they choose not to operate in areas where local law and policies make them complicit in hurting people.
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
Strong disagree on this one! The problem is the company will do anything to stay operational in these repressive countries, including helping them hide human rights abuses (among other things). The logic that if the local government was mor
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
Slack does this with links (they all point to Slack instead of the URL in the message) and it drives me nuts.
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
Comparing software development to carrying heavy things at a construction site feels like a real stretch to me. 'If you work in construction, you need to lift and carry a series of heavy objects in order to be effective. But lifting he
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
I would expect Firefox to be less invested in this than Curl. Firefox is aimed at consumers, Curl is embedded in a wide variety of products.
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
It's worth remembering that this isn't that. What the poster describes is constant pushing from the Chrome OS designed to train dependence on the tools and to essentially checkout of the education process. In my opinion this is de
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
Creating functions that are only used once, in one place, and are pretty small is on of those things I give a harder look at during PR review.
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
I don't have a lot of patience for Bob. That being said I have to agree with him on test coverage (that's as far as I made it through his monologue). IMHO, that is something that I 100% am okay letting the LLM tooling write and ma
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
I think concentrating on the physical act of typing on the keyboard is maybe taking it a little too far. The author of the OP talks more about holding a lot of the problem in their head and entering a "flow" state where they figur
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
I understand that commercial companies want to get as much value out of each developer as possible, I understand that managers want work to complete as quickly as possible. I can see why they are so excited about LLM tooling and the current

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