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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Gemini is the only model that I still see regularly flat-out hallucinate, e.g. the other day it told me we were using a particular technology (Fivetran) on a project when we aren’t and I have literally no idea where it could have gotten tha
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Battery life was more what I was getting at. You’d basically have to have it plugged in and I couldn’t see Apple going for that.
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
It allows iPad apps to run natively on macOS. Before Catalyst and later Apple Silicon, there were no touch-native apps for macOS.
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
The main objection to touch on MacBooks so far is the software, by far. Apple may now, just about, be in a place where they could support it due to Catalyst, Apple Silicon and some of the latest UI changes in Tahoe. Back then, when they rel
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
The immediate problems were software, but the hardware was what doomed it and I don’t see how they didn’t see that from the start. It could never be in all their products (e.g. iMac, well, without requiring a wired keyboard but that was nev
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
I have a proxy for HN which I redirect all HN links to, across all my browsers. It gives me the ability to block users, domains and keywords (with an exception if a post hits a certain threshold). It also removes karma, allows me to mark a
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Not defending the logic, but a key premise behind it is the use of Starship supposedly reducing cost of launch by 10-100x. Again, not saying that's feasible, but that's the goal.
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Been expecting this. An AI slop equivalent of the likes of https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ etc. A similar style or approach in theory, but without any of the care or attention to detail or humanity as what they
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
I sorta expect the opposite. Anyone can build some small, niche SaaS themselves now. It's the giant, hulking behemoths (Salesforce, as one example) that can't be vibe-coded away easily. I suspect we'll see far more consolidat
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Honestly, probably time to move off it regardless. Perhaps I visited the wrong subreddits but these days, whenever I show up, it's all largely AI slop. Or bot accounts, reposting things. Even on smaller or more niche subreddits too.
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-100-beef/
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
The classifier runs Sonnet so I doubt it contributes too much.
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Worth mentioning as I think at least a few of the commenters are mixing them up: auto mode is different from --dangerously-skip-permissions / YOLO mode. In auto mode, there's a classifier that runs before any command is executed a
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
I'd use a hook to forbid that.
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
There were so many comments[1][2][3] at the time saying that Uber has no moat, there’s no switching cost, the only value is the $3 rides, etc, etc. I suspect it’ll play out the same. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Vietnam? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/asia/vietnam-traffi...
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Wait, only six weeks ago? That's not long enough to be reporting success, genuinely. Come back in a few months, bare minimum. I'm far from a skeptic, but I've also personally had a number of moments over the past 12 months wh
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Not quite what you asked, but I’ve swapped out a lot of paid software for open-source self-hosted software recently. I wouldn’t have started self-hosting if it wasn’t for Claude reducing the maintenance and configuration burden. MCP helps t
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
Posts? Fair. But adverts? There is literally no reason they cannot all be human moderated. Every single one. People are paying to have their adverts placed. Put a small fee on each ad, if they must, for the initial review. Done. Don’t buy i
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
On the off-chance that you were searching in incognito (that's where I run into that the most), iOS now lets you pick a different search engine in incognito mode. Personally I use DDG there.
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by sandcat_ 2mo ago
At one point it felt like Google search could never be unseated, then suddenly within six months or so, I barely use it. I'm not saying it's dead yet, nor do I know what Apple's killer will be, but it is hard to see these thi
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
A lot has changed, in fairness. Stalwart + LLMs can help with the full-time email administrator part. It's a lot easier than it was. And on the deliverability side, using SES for sending avoids this entirely. Yes, ok, not fully self-ho
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
This is just the old argument in favour of SaaS, though. The article is pointing out that those long-standing rules may no longer make sense, in a world where 1. it no longer takes even a weekend to build the niche, perfectly custom tool an
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
I'd argue that raising a bunch of venture capital is what stopped them from being able to be a sustainable business. I paid for Plex for a long time but I no longer use it because I got fed up of fighting it. (I now use Jellyfin + Tail
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
Fair, I don’t know if this helps but it was Opus 4.8 (high effort) via Claude Desktop, but through my org’s LLM gateway so hard to compare really. But it’s usually pretty quick. (don’t tell my boss.)
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
Yes, but the original purpose of the benchmark (simonw, please correct me if I'm wrong!) was to test whether new models were good at novel problem solving. Things they haven't been trained on. So yes, getting better at generating
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
Hm, or even a gambling site that uses real money but where you always get your money back, eventually.
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
Hey now, that’s a bit of a harsh way to talk about record labels. Sure most of the money you pay goes to the top performers, no matter what you actually listen to, but that doesn’t make them parasites. Executives have to eat too.
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
Don’t think so. I’m in BC, Canada.
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by sandcat_ 3mo ago
For what it's worth, I just tried cancelling my NYTimes subscription to see if it was still as bad as I'd remembered, and aside from desperately begging me not to leave, it was quite simple. No need to contact support. I wasn&#x27

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