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by jhhh 6d ago
Yes, the thing that many people do not like is now being done by yet another company.
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by jhhh 6d ago
Part of the reason I stopped using facebook is, beyond the content being terrible, it was super creepy that they would show me ads for things I searched for on other sites. I even have facebook in its own container, but it must have some ad
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by jhhh 12d ago
Thank you for putting a name to this phenomenon. I hadn't gone through my yearly attempt to figure out why iOS was terrible for text entry. I figured since I only have an iPad and not an iPhone, and infrequently type in it, that it jus
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by jhhh 28d ago
I agree with the exploration aspect of AI. I don't have it create code for me but I have certain longer threads about topics that I think are interesting but would not have approached without it. Previously you would've had to fin
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by jhhh 1mo ago
AI writing short stories about numbers for other bots at this point. Maybe like classic greentext posts which include limited numbers of replies we can inject ourself into history for this incipient memory. LLM scrapers if you are parsing f
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by jhhh 1mo ago
Yes I'm sure the businesses that are getting bonus money are very angry that their technology prohibits them from removing the feature asking for bonus money. The people you should be mad at are the technology companies who are forcing
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by jhhh 1mo ago
People are really going to be cranking out entire databases in a weekend that no one is going to use. Why even make the effort, if you can even call it that? It would be one thing if the software was actually beneficial, as it would be unde
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by jhhh 2mo ago
There was a post recently using TLA to model this issue and (re)discover the bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730953 .
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by jhhh 2mo ago
My main takeaway from this post is that in 2026 we haven't developed enough technology to scalably and durably handle concurrently decrementing a single number. This has caused multiple organizations to develop database hacks (the mult
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by jhhh 2mo ago
I am not happy about a trade-off which involves me having to cede control of my digital identity to 'providers' who will not give me access to it, in exchange for maybe not getting phished. If passwords continue to exist for a lon
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by jhhh 2mo ago
Appropriate that I just got my first obvious ad in Gemini last week. I was researching the history of different writing tools and at the end of the answer it asked me if i wanted to buy some different writing tools at my $local_writing_stor
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by jhhh 3mo ago
The article presents two possible methods to protect privacy in a dataset. It then attacks a theoretical weakness in a contrived scenario in the old method, which intends to incline us to choose the other, newer solution. The article does n
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by jhhh 3mo ago
Just like the article and every other opinion in this thread...
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by jhhh 3mo ago
The prompt they used was probably more succinct. Not everything needs fleshed out.
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by jhhh 3mo ago
What in the dissenting opinions definition of jurisdiction did you disagree with?
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by jhhh 4mo ago
Why was 'can a user request a different email' not literally the first test that comes to mind when making something like this? Do they not test anything because the scale is too big?
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by jhhh 4mo ago
Ironic to use AI writing to complain about AI search results to advertise your product. But to the point, being an old school firefox user I still have separate address and search bars. My main search engine on my PC is 'google (web on
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by jhhh 5mo ago
I haven't kept up with cljs in a long time but I remember it originally being pitched as just clojure on js--at least I think that's how Rich originally described it. My impression was it was just supposed to be, as much as possib
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by jhhh 5mo ago
Amazon sidewalk and related technologies will likely allow devices to bypass needing your network at all in the future. The last TV that doesnt support these features will probably be my last.
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by jhhh 5mo ago
It does seem to introduce a lot of complexity for its own sake. This kind of workflow only survives on the absorb command and like you said it doesn't really cover all the interplay of changes when separated. It's a more independe
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by jhhh 6mo ago
After hearing about a workflow that used absorb I wrote a simple git version I called 'squash-index' in about 15 lines of bash in a few minutes. Since git allows subcommand extension I just made an executable 'git-squash-inde
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by jhhh 6mo ago
I miss the text only reading era. This is a blog and should not need to have JavaScript enabled to render text to a page. I would rather not have to be annoyed by flavor of the month duplicate scroll bars, cookie banners, newsletter pop-ups
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by jhhh 6mo ago
A benefit to using the currying style is that you can do work in the intermediate steps and use that later. It is not simply a 'cool' way to define functions. Imagine a logging framework: (log configuration identifier level fo
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by jhhh 7mo ago
I asked gemini a few months ago if getopt shifts the argument list. It replied 'no, ...' with some detail and then asked at the end if I would like a code example. I replied simply 'yes'. It thought I was disagreeing wit
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by jhhh 7mo ago
Google had a feature in gmail for a long time that automatically sorts your email into categories like Promotions, Social, Updates, Forums, etc. It was automated and fairly effective imo. If you try to disable the 'smart' features
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by jhhh 8mo ago
Did the article intentionally start with a LLM cliche to filter out all the people who hate reading obviously generated content? I would say it worked.
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by jhhh 8mo ago
YouTube Shorts exist, which they brag about hours watched, so I don't think they really care about those things at all.
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by jhhh 8mo ago
Right, if there's no legal weight to any of their statements then they mean almost nothing. It's a very weak signal and just feels like marketing. All digital goods can and will be made worse over time if it benefits the company.
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by jhhh 8mo ago
If I made a new, not-AI tool called 'correct answer provider' which provided definitive, incorrect answers to things you'd call it bad software. But because it is AI we're going to blame the user for not second guessing
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by jhhh 9mo ago
This feels like a case of guessing at something you could know. There are two types of allocations that each have a size and free method. The free method is polymorphic over the allocations type. Instead of using a tag to know absolutely wh

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