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by smt88 6mo ago
Caffeine (like all stimulants) can alleviate symptoms of various dopamine-related disorders, like ADHD. I'm sure many people are self-medicating.
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by smt88 6mo ago
An experienced dev wouldn't need 400 files and 2,000 tests just for this.
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by smt88 6mo ago
Wow, you spent a crazy amount of time on something an experienced dev could hack together in a weekend without AI, and probably as little as a day with Claude Code. This is like an anti-ad for AI and vibe-coding.
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by smt88 6mo ago
What exactly happened then? How did we all have this collective hallucination?
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by smt88 6mo ago
The administration doesn't decide spending. Congress does. There's no chance we get an anti-AI majority until a major AI catastrophe turns the public against it.
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by smt88 6mo ago
Tell that to oil and defense companies. If tech companies convince Congress that AI is an existential issue (in defense or even just productivity), then these companies will get subsidies forever.
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by smt88 6mo ago
Opus 4.6 pre-nerf was incredible, almost magical. It changed my understanding of how good models could be. But that's the only model that ever made me feel that way.
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by smt88 6mo ago
People think it's true because it is true, and OpenAI has told us themselves. They (very optimistically) say they'll be profitable in 2030.
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by smt88 6mo ago
And in those countries, iOS has a much smaller market share. You're proving my point.
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by smt88 6mo ago
> Yeah, that just doesn't pass the simplest sniff tests. I barely use iMessage, and yet I'm an iPhone user. A single anecdote isn't data. You're not a typical consumer. The only major market where iPhone outsells An
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by smt88 6mo ago
What country?
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by smt88 6mo ago
Yes, and the US is by far Apple's most important handset market. The other iOS-majority countries are small markets for Apple.
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by smt88 6mo ago
It is, and the iPhone doesn't have overwhelming market share in any other large market, which is my point.
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by smt88 6mo ago
Consumers don't necessarily want iPhone. They don't want to be excluded from iMessage, which is a completely different motivation.
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by smt88 6mo ago
"10 years behind" would be an improvement for Siri. It's actively broken much of the time in a way that Google Assistant or Alexa never has been.
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by smt88 6mo ago
None of those are the best product in their category, and all are only huge sellers because Apple anti-competitively privileges them in its ecosystem.
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by smt88 6mo ago
> You're conflating MAU with economic relevance. No, I'm not. Are you unable to make a point without being condescending and assuming the worst of people you disagree with? > The overwhelming majority of ChatGPT users are
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by smt88 6mo ago
> face of AI amongst low-information luddites This is condescending and unfair. Altman, OpenAI, and the media have spent years making Altman the face of AI. His company has (by far) the largest market cap, does the most deals, and has
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by smt88 6mo ago
I think you have misunderstood the reason people want social media. They want the audience (or the perception of an audience), and everything else is secondary.
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by smt88 6mo ago
The status page indicates issues on almost all services
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by smt88 6mo ago
If Microsoft is your example of "brand death," Anthropic is dreaming of that kind of wild success and shouldn't care about its brand at all
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by smt88 6mo ago
Yeah. I flagged this thread for spam.
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by smt88 7mo ago
You can already do this with strict type checking enabled and the NonNullable type. You can't enforce it in any normal codebase because null is used extensively in the third party libraries you'll have to use for most projects.
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by smt88 7mo ago
How would TS fix null in JS without violating its core principles of adhering to EcmaScript standards and being a superset of JS?
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by smt88 7mo ago
Seems like a more appropriate topic for reddit, Bluesky, or X.
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by smt88 7mo ago
Doesn't your boycott of the ad-free model confirm to them that the only viable business model is ads?
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by smt88 7mo ago
I don't understand any of those sentences. How do they apply to YouTube?
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by smt88 7mo ago
Do you feel good about YouTube spending money on hosting and video producers spending time/money on content that you're paying nothing for? How is that sustainable?
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by smt88 7mo ago
YouTube, Spotify, and most video steamers have zero ads on paid tiers. I never see video ads.
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by smt88 7mo ago
China is rapidly electrifying and gets a lot of energy from non-US coal. China also sells renewables to other countries. The US will be harmed far more than China by consistently high oil prices.

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