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by hk__2 7mo ago
You write a metaphore in a comment, you remove half of it, you add another one in the middle, you add the half of the first one, and… nobody understands anything.
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by hk__2 7mo ago
> The actual act of keying in code is drudgery for me. I've written so much code in so many languages that it is hard not to hate them all. Why the fuck is it a hash in ruby but a dict in python? How the hell do I get the current un
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by hk__2 7mo ago
All my side projects exist to solve a problem.
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by hk__2 7mo ago
Not at all. We continue taking that decision today.
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by hk__2 7mo ago
> Most users don't even read error messages, never mind logs. Yes, see all the questions on StackOverflow with people posting their error message without reading it, like “I got an error that says ‘fail! please install package xyz!’
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by hk__2 7mo ago
You still need education, skills to be mastered and expertise even in a world without jobs. How would you play any game or sport without skills?
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by hk__2 7mo ago
It only affects your user; it’s just like adding random extensions to your browser.
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by hk__2 7mo ago
The opinions on DHH on some subjects don’t invalidate his expertise on some other subjects. See also Musk or Ford.
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by hk__2 7mo ago
How is it the customer’s fault that no good alternative to TikTok exists?
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by hk__2 7mo ago
> I would love to understand in more detail what kind of use cases we’re talking about. The whole point is that the use-case does not matter; either you allow the government to do everything they want, either you don’t.
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by hk__2 7mo ago
Yes, you can have your own JS/CSS that’s injected in every page. This is pretty useful for widgets, editing tools, or to customize the website’s apparence.
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by hk__2 7mo ago
Switch to what exactly?
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by hk__2 7mo ago
*for the US.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
Being the first doesn’t mean you’ll win. They have no product, only a commodity that you can find at other companies or even for free (DeepSeek).
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by hk__2 8mo ago
They use their brain for the main idea of the message, and the LLM for the formatting.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
You see these things in the EU too.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
They use it for emails, so why not use it for Slack messages as well?
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by hk__2 8mo ago
It’s literally in the first sentence of the first definition: > bar /bar/ n. [JARGON] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
But yes if it’s another executable.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
No, but you seemed to imply there are people that aren’t partial. Wikipedia is designed to approach impartiality even if its editors are people like you and me who are far from impartial. Are there better alternatives out there?
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by hk__2 8mo ago
In my experience they just add random links at the bottom that are often unrelated to the response they give; there’s absolutely no guarantee that they did read them or that their response is based on them.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
And the CIA is impartial? ;)
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by hk__2 8mo ago
Nobody, you just mention the different points of view that are in the sources.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
At least Wikipedia is supposed to cite its sources, while AIs don’t.
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Sonnet 5(en.wikipedia.org)
14 points by hk__2 8mo ago|2 comments
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by hk__2 8mo ago
HN users assuming the US are the only country in the World, episode #53985902582.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
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by hk__2 8mo ago
Sure; I mean this is what I _would like_; I’m not saying this would work 100% of the time.
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by hk__2 8mo ago
You’ll just end up approving things blindly, because 95% of what you’ll read will seem obviously right and only 5% will look wrong. I would prefer to let the agent do whatever they want for 15 minutes and then look at the result rather than
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by hk__2 8mo ago
> Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Of course it is; I use it every day.

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