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by timr 1y ago
> Poltical stories that show "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" are not against the guidelines. Call me evil and obtuse, but this is neither interesting, nor new. The only thing new here is that (it seems) a huge swa
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> I'm upset because a US citizen was arrested for asking a reasonable question to some government officials before complying with the government officials. Some basic facts are true here: a) Brad Lander had no official capacity in t
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> Even if Vyvance is manufactured with compounds that often have a smell or taste associated with them Just to be clear: it's not "associated" -- the drug itself probably smells, and you just didn't notice it. It&#x27
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by timr 1y ago
The "fishy odor" is a classic hallmark of amine-containing compounds [1], of which Vyvanse has three [2], including a terminal amine, which is so infamous (at least in the di-amine form) for being smelly that they have delightful
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by timr 1y ago
Your impression of hipsters is certainly dead-on.
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> Or simply use LLMs that struggle at writing good code (GPT, Gemini Pro, etc). I love how one side of this debate seems to have embraced "No True Scotsman" as the preferred argument strategy. Anyone who points out that these t
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by timr 1y ago
It's based on a short story published by Akiyuki Nosaka [1] which was based on his own experiences, and in general, the fate of many children after the war [2]. As far as I can tell, the movie was a faithful re-enactment of the story,
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by timr 1y ago
> personally Grave of the Fireflies and The Cat Returns are the only Takahata films I've seen You owe it to yourself to watch the Tale of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語). It might be his best film, and quite possibly one of the best ever
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> Oh, you actually are just straight-up lying, or purposefully wallowing in ignorance. Wow. I know I shouldn't reply, but: 1) That's about QSBS, not income tax. 2) QSBS is only relevant should your equity be liquid (i.e.
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> What caused the drop in popularity in RoR? It seemed like ~10-12 years ago RoR was the de-facto startup standard. On any given day there were multiple items on the HN front page having something to do with RoR New things are "simp
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> That’s not how it’s playing out in reality at all. The math is straightforward. You can make wild assertions all day long, but ultimately, you have to have significant revenues for this to matter on the margin. > Small groups workin
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> Yes, it's a huge problem for small startups. Many of them went from not making revenue in the eyes of the IRS to being profitable and having massive tax bills. Let's be clear: as a small startup this means that you went from
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That’s not a study, that’s a report issued by NASA . You have to be painfully credulous to believe that that NASA would find anything to the contrary.
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> NASA has a positive ROI for the American economy. Citation absolutely required. Amongst other things, NASA has set huge piles of money on fire (literally!) building a rocket program that should probably be shut down entirely. Now, whet
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Yeah, the deep irony of the GP comment is that, had all of these supposedly knowledgable people just read the original report from the WHO (~early 2020), they'd have realized many things about the virus (such as the extremely skewed
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by timr 1y ago
> After like the 20th time explaining the same (simple) problem to the AI that it is unable to fix, you just might change your mind [1]. At that point you just have to jump in and get dirty. You're assuming that I haven't. Yes,
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Hah, well, to each their own. That's exactly the kind of thing that makes me want to go outside and take a walk. Regardless of what your definition of horrible and boring happens to be, just being able to tell the bot to do a horrible
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Well, I don't write bugs in my code, of course, but let's just say that you were the type of person who does: having a bot that writes code 100x faster than you, that also occasionally makes mistakes (but can also fix them!),
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Yeah, sorry...I re-read the comment and realized I wasn't being clear. It's bigger than just search/replace. Already updated what I wrote. The far more common situation is that I'm refactoring something, and I realize th
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Exactly the same for me...now whenever I hit something like "oh god, I want to change the purpose of this function/variable, but I need to go through 500 files, and see where it's used, then make local changes, then re-test
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> I'm confused what you are saying, do you suggest "the market" will somehow do something to address climate change? By what mechanism? And what do LLMs have to do with that? No, I'm suggesting that the market will ta
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That's not fair, and not what I am saying at all. I enjoy writing code. I just don't enjoy writing code that I've written a thousand times before . It's like saying that Picasso should have enjoyed painting houses for a
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What should we do with the "company" field?
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> My main issue with vibe coding etc is I simply don't enjoy it. Having a conversation with a computer to generate code that I don't entirely understand and then have to try to review is just not fun. It doesn't give me an
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> On the money side? I don’t see how the math and the capex work. And all the time, I think about the carbon that’s poisoning the planet my children have to live on. The "math and capex" are inextricably intertwined with "
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> That's weird because I'm pretty sure that my point is explicitly spelled out. Yeah I read it the first time, so repeating it is non responsive. The article was about one person's opinion on the subject of water filters
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I'm failing to see your point. If you think it helps -- whether because of taste or personal trust issues or something else -- then great, filter your water. You do you. The article is clearly for someone who is otherwise on the fence
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> I definitely do agree with this; and I would add that at that point you can really make do with tab-completion and not a full agent workflow. I used this successfully even back in 2021-2022 with Copilot. Sure. The thing that "agen
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> I don't really doubt that AI can put together your Nth Rails backend that does nothing of note pretty solidly Ha. Funny you should say that....recently I've been using AI to green-field a new Rails project, and my experience
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Yeah, I'm aware of the benchmarks. Thomas (author of TFA) is also using Gemini 2.5, and his comments are much closer to what I experience: > For the last month or so, Gemini 2.5 has been my go-to (because it can hold 50-70kloc in it

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