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by lapcat 1y ago
> In Writing Solid Code[0], Steve Maguire recommends stepping through every line of code, in a symbolic debugger. > Sounds crazy, but I usually end up doing that, anyway, as I work. This doesn't sound crazy to me. On the contrary
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Do I really have to explain what the fuck Please respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What you need to explain is your claim that the cited LLMs are "early". According t
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by lapcat 1y ago
> That's a really complex, very out-of-distibution, hard-to-know question No, it's not. It's a trivial question in any context. > for the early LLMs. Early? Claude 3.7 was introduced just 6 months ago, and Deepseek-V3 9
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by lapcat 1y ago
> But most users that use an LLM in this mode also wouldn't ask really complex, very out-of-distribution, hard-to-know hallucination-inducing questions. You appear to be assuming, incorrectly, that LLMs hallucinate only "really
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by lapcat 1y ago
Let's be honest: many users of LLMs have no interest in uncertainty. They don't want to hear "I don't know" and if given that response would quickly switch to an alternative service that gives them a definitive answ
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Conclusion: everyone should move to Chicago. Chicago is amazing! I've actually considered it. However, Chicago appears to be quite expensive, at least where I was looking.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Weird! Sorry to hear that commenting (including on HN) didn't make this person any friends. It has made me a bunch of friends, including some very close in-person ones. I don't think I'm an oddball in that regard! You&#x
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by lapcat 1y ago
[self-promotion:] My Safari extension StopTheMadness Pro disables the Beacon API.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> You were trying to re-focus the discussion away from Apple's behavior by pointing to Google. No, I was trying to re-focus the discussion on all of the monopolists: Apple and Google on mobile, Apple and Microsoft on desktop. To tal
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Both Apple and Google can be guilty of anti-competitive and anti-freedom behavior. I said as much. I mentioned twice that I wasn't trying to defend Apple. The article is nominally about web standards, but the WHATWG—whose steering
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and functions as a pressure release valve that enables standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without compe
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by lapcat 1y ago
In fairness, I don't think Socrates went around Athens quizzing people chosen randomly on the street. He was having conversations with the wealthy and/or powerful who were also arrogant and considered themselves wise. Making fools
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by lapcat 1y ago
This wonderful essay explicitly criticizes one genre of philosophy popular in academic English literature departments, but I think it also implicitly undermines another genre popular in academic English-speaking philosophy departments. The
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by lapcat 1y ago
It's not ironic at all. From the article: "They all look like placeholder icons made by a developer who would be the first to admit that they’re not an artist." I think Gruber would be the first to admit that he's not a
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by lapcat 1y ago
> All I'm saying is that these icons have obviously never mattered to anyone That's not true. You can see the history of the Disk Utility icon here: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-histo
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by lapcat 1y ago
macOS Sequoia was released Monday September 16, 2024. The likely release date of macOS Tahoe is Monday September 15, 2025. That's only 20 days from now. Those icons have already been redesigned in Tahoe. What do you expect to happen in
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by lapcat 1y ago
This. It's not an app that you would necessarily use every day, so basing the trial on a certain number of days wasn't a good fit.
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by lapcat 1y ago
You're still misunderstanding. Here's how it originally worked: (1) For the first 15 days, you could make recordings of any length. (2) After 15 days, you could use the app for only 15 minutes. (3) If you paid, then you could once
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Am I the only one who thinks that describing this as a "bug" sounds a bit off? Yes, you are the only one, because you've misunderstood. > Most bugs don't come with their own updated alert text. It sounds a bit mo
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by lapcat 1y ago
Have you ever taken a sysdiagnose and looked inside? It's a privacy nightmare.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The post doesn't make sense. To me they're an improvement Obviously the post wouldn't make sense to you if you think the new icons are somehow an improvement.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Now suddenly a whole Mac Pro laid on top of 2 tools is supposed to be a "great icon by Apple"? No, Gruber said, "I don’t think the old icons for these apps from MacOS 15 were particularly good"
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by lapcat 1y ago
The price of renting is not unrelated to the price of buying. If homes are too expensive or unavailable for purchase, then the rental market will experience high demand, because people have to live somewhere. Buyers and renters may be cash
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by lapcat 1y ago
You seem to be overlooking the elephant in the room, which is that working people add to their wealth via wages, while retired people do not. Again, this is why the inflation rates of housing vs. wages is crucial.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Most of the time, the prices have been going up. That's not particularly interesting though. The rate at which prices go up is crucial, especially in comparison with wages. If the price of housing increases faster than wages, then
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Their homes have had a longer time to appreciate. A home doesn't inherently appreciate over time, like a fine wine. Aside from remodeling, the only thing that increases the value of a home over time is increased demand for homes r
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by lapcat 1y ago
> old people predominantly aren't buying new homes What do you mean exactly by buying new homes? Obviously the average length of home ownership for the oldest group would be much longer than for the youngest age group. How new were
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by lapcat 1y ago
The summary talks about two "smoking guns" for wealth increase in the oldest age group: home ownership rate and stock portfolio value. To me, though, these seem like effects rather than causes. In other words, the older age group
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Now that I think about it, many decades ago I lived in apartment complexes (Indianapolis, as if it makes a difference) that had tennis courts. I don't know if that's a thing anymore or not. It was very common. That's whe
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by lapcat 1y ago
> It went fine. > you can struggle We may have different criteria for "fine". In any case, the debate between hockey and tennis is largely moot, because the availability of ice skating rinks is vastly more limited than tenni

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