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by saghm 4mo ago
> GitHub style asynchronous pull request review with inline comments is the norm now, but it’s not the only sort of review there is. I’m old enough to remember processes that include in person reviews that were more like a dissertation d
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by saghm 4mo ago
saghm still thought this was a weird explanation when he wrote this comment
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by saghm 4mo ago
I guess that makes sense. Based on my math lectures during college, mathematicians can often be terrible at communication to other humans, so that would explain why they think what they said is different from how pretty much everyone else r
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by saghm 4mo ago
Yeah, I have no idea what they're talking about with that one. I've caught bugs when reviewing code without needing to run it before, and I've had the same happen to me in reverse, and I've seen it happen between others
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by saghm 4mo ago
> That famous McDonalds hot coffee case, McDonalds had caused serious injuries to hundreds of people previously and demonstrated serious negligence and a willing disregard for the safety of their customers and the courts, and yet when th
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by saghm 4mo ago
I agree with the other top-level comment next to yours (at the time of writing): when we're willing to enforce consequences for them in the same way we would for people. If I violate laws, I can get put in jail, and then I (most likely
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by saghm 4mo ago
Why don't the major players open source their harnesses then? As far as I'm aware, the only time the source code for the Claude harness became available, it was due to a mistake (which is it's own whole thing). I'm not s
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by saghm 4mo ago
They've had a couple pretty well-received Pokemon launches in Z-A (not quite mainline, but also about as close as you can get outside of an actual mainline games) and Pokopia (which kind of took everyone by surprise how well-designed i
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by saghm 4mo ago
The other reason that a PC is a bit different for this is that the backwards compatibility for console generations is almost always going to be worse than the ability to run games (even if they came out on previous versions of Windows) on w
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by saghm 4mo ago
There's a bit of a hit-or-miss situation for them, from what I can tell. I recently spent some time trying to figure out which MLB The Show titles worked for emulation, and somehow after the 2010 entry, all of the remaining PS3 ones ha
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by saghm 4mo ago
> The videos are not Hollywood quality [0], however they circumvent rules Disney can't easily break like using the likeness of any actor at any age in any circumstance. > [0] I suppose idealized Hollywood quality. They are better
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm not positive whether this is what they're referring to, but you can add external games to your Steam library. This is how the Steam Deck is able to run arbitrary games without needing to be in desktop mode, and the most straig
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by saghm 4mo ago
Proton is open source though (and a lot of the improvements are also upstreamed to Wine, which isn't directly under Valve's control), and you can use it to run third-party games if you want (even ones that are also sold on Steam&#
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by saghm 4mo ago
Given that there's such severe concern being expressed by Anthropic about Claude being distilled, and the idea that the harness is part of the the moat, it doesn't seem super surprising that the other side of that would try to als
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by saghm 4mo ago
Yeah, given that the web was basically invented there, it seems pretty reasonable
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by saghm 4mo ago
No one ever thought it made good customer support. It makes cheap customer support, and quite a lot of companies already have shitty customer support because they don't care about it being good, so they're thrilled to get to cut c
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by saghm 4mo ago
Did you go to high school last century? They're saying that there was stuff before college then. It's not clear if you're saying you didn't have this in the time period they mentioned or just giving another data point th
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm not sure that's "catching on". One would think that if they can't reliably offer a service, they shouldn't be offering it in the first place.
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by saghm 4mo ago
No, this is my only HN account. I'm equally confused why you think that claiming that being in favor of "open borders" being a common perspective wouldn't generate reactions from the type of people holding the views that
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by saghm 4mo ago
So if I'm understanding correctly, your argument is that it doesn't make sense to make people who make more money pay the same rate of taxes as regular people do because we should ignore the fact that they've been doing it fo
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by saghm 4mo ago
If investments didn't grow at a faster rate than interest, why would anyone ever invest money at all instead of putting into a savings account? I don't know why it''s hard to imagine that a large loan with a relatively l
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by saghm 4mo ago
They're not lying any more than you were when you responded to my suggestion that we should prioritize what's humane with some sort of interpretation that I was saying something about politicians.
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by saghm 4mo ago
> I'm not trying to be snarky here, the point is that there is no easy solution and optimizing based on what politicians subjectively consider "humane" isn't going to get us anywhere. On the contrary, most politicians
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by saghm 4mo ago
> This is not some spurious speculation. That market-based systems drive down costs enormously is replicated across dozens upon dozens of industries. It's one of the most replicable results in economics to the extent that economics
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Here in the UK we see it, too - not so much in human healthcare since we have the NHS - but very definitely in animal healthcare; vets' bills have skyrocketed over the last couple of decades, in a mutually-reinforcing feedback loo
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by saghm 4mo ago
What's the question I should be asking, and what data answers it? I'm genuinely asking
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by saghm 4mo ago
Not even just Republicans, unfortunately. The generation of Americans who grew up in the Cold War were inundated with propaganda about how socialism would destroy America, and then go and say things like this https://www.nytimes.
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by saghm 4mo ago
> To the extent that healthcare costs have skyrocketed, it's precisely because of government intervention in the U.S. Healthcare industry has massively increased over the last 50 years, especially in the form of tax incentives for e
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by saghm 4mo ago
I think the point is that we might as well just give up the pretense of a free market healthcare solution and just focus on what's humane.
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by saghm 4mo ago
> And it kind of makes sense, same has happened with oxen labor, horse labor, etc. Sounds like we should start imagining a world where we don't treat people like literal livestock, and then figure out how to get there fast

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