smt88

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by smt88 6d ago
How could those innocent employees have predicted that helping to build out a surveillance state would make them unpopular ?
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by smt88 7d ago
We are absolutely symbiotic from our cells upward. A large percentage of your body mass is bacteria, including the symbiotic bacteria you feed in your gut with the food you think you’re eating only for yourself.
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by smt88 8d ago
Claude sometimes (and Gemini always) will be lazy and fail to fetch new data from the web. Gemini will also repeatedly lie about it and say that it did when it actually didn’t.
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by smt88 9d ago
Why do I care if other shops are Windows-only? The language and ecosystem are phenomenal and Linux support is first-class.
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by smt88 10d ago
My experience with Claude is that it doesn’t handle its own training cutoff properly. It responds as though its cutoff is today. Gemini is even worse about this. I’m going to add this site to my agents files so that they’re explicitly aware
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by smt88 10d ago
This headline was edited by OP and is untrue. The original, truthful headline is: “Republican Rep. Massie moves to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over Iran war” It’s very unlikely the vote will succeed during this Congress.
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by smt88 11d ago
Most Millenials were 30+ when the Tide Pod trend happened. It was solidly a Gen Z thing.
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by smt88 11d ago
“Advertising the product” is an extremely mild form of support in this case. Your criticism of buying used is complete nonsense. Secondary markets have put companies out of business. You’re not “signaling” anything except that the price is
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by smt88 12d ago
Meta doesn’t make money if you buy its hardware used on eBay or similar
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by smt88 14d ago
Absolutely not. A human driver has to watch the road and can’t scrutinize a gun. And it’s also not easy to tell toys from real guns. Many cities illegalized toy guns on public transit because people were putting orange tips on real guns t
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by smt88 15d ago
I wasn’t suggesting you do. But how relevant is AI to your everyday life? Do you use it heavily yourself? I was irritated by AI news until it became one of my main tools.
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by smt88 15d ago
I’ve been a hacker since I was 10, so about 30 years now. A couple of years ago, I felt the same way you did. And then I started properly/seriously using Claude Code. When Opus 4.5 came out, it was sincerely life-changing. I can protot
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by smt88 15d ago
Enough people can (and already do) spend that, especially if this replaces an iPad for them. A huge number of people get smart devices from their employers for free, and $1,200 for a regular iPhone vs. $2,000 for a Duo is a rounding error.
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by smt88 16d ago
There's no need to diagnose Mullenweg when his behavior could easily be explained by being a run-of-the-mill arrogant asshole. He never seems to have broken from reality or suffered a mental breakdown. He seems to just treat people (in
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by smt88 16d ago
You're just proving the point of this thread by pining for a niche phone that almost no one wanted enough to actually own.
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by smt88 16d ago
> If I needed that screen real estate, I'd be reaching for my laptop. It is increasingly common for people to have no laptop or any computing device other than their smartphone, smartwatch, and/or game console. I know very fe
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by smt88 20d ago
Again, those are the editorials. The newsroom staff are very well-regarded and separate from the insane editorials.
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by smt88 20d ago
Those ratings are always taking editorials into account. The actual journalism absolutely isn’t right-leaning. They were sued by Donald Trump for writing unfavorable stories about him just this year.
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by smt88 20d ago
WSJ’s journalism is center-left and trustworthy. Their editorials are written by right-wing sycophants and lunatics.
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by smt88 21d ago
Many IT teams are irresponsible though. I have a client now that has revenue of $1B and has no legal review process and doesn’t require IT vendors to submit SOC 2 certifications or any other security attestations.
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by smt88 22d ago
Upvote for bringing up a FOSS alternative, but the rest of your comment is wrong
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by smt88 22d ago
This isn’t helpful to the fairly large percentage of people who are forced to use Windows by their employers
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by smt88 27d ago
Signal doesn’t work with CarPlay or Apple Watch, which are pretty huge gaps even for me.
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by smt88 27d ago
Your body has an excellent mechanism for keeping you hydrated, which is thirst. If you drink water (not soda, coffee, tea, or anything else) when you’re thirsty, you’ll be fine. Most people don’t drink 68-101 oz of liquid a day, but you als
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by smt88 28d ago
I know people who have iPhones just for FaceTime because young and old non-techies use those a lot. I’ve gotten my close friends onto Signal but there are still always 3-4 group chats where that isn’t possible.
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by smt88 29d ago
You don’t need to agonize over a library choice to know that your site will be up for 10 years. If it outputs web standards, the browser engines will make sure it is.
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by smt88 29d ago
The issues are with the Ruby backend. RoR is the only framework I’ve ever heard of being so bad that it killed startups. I personally know of two that were doing well, but RoR was so brittle and slow that they couldn’t hire enough to keep i
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by smt88 29d ago
Only if you don’t know what bikeshedding is and want to broaden the definition so much that it’s meaningless. This is Hacker News. This is exactly the place to tell people they’re overanalyzing and should just build something.
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by smt88 29d ago
Thinking about how well your web architecture will hold up for 100 years (or even 10 years) is bikeshedding and a pointless exercise. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that. If something is useful, it’s possible to fix the architecture l
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by smt88 29d ago
It’s bad enough that I’ve told Claude never to write cleverly and never to use metaphors. Opus 5 mostly ignores those kinds of instructions, annoyingly enough.

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