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by toraway 5mo ago
Back when being taught how to use the internet in schools was still a thing, I would see vestigial references to Ask Jeeves included as an alternative to Google that “let you use natural sentences”. With a 0% success rate every time I tried
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by toraway 5mo ago
I also used to see Grok boosting/slack-cutting on here/Reddit constantly back in Peak Subsidy when xAI was giving out hundreds of dollars of credits for free per month. After they killed that and then stopped handing out free mode
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by toraway 5mo ago
On the other hand, the indignation over faulty logic I’ve seen in multiple comments already is somewhat ironic considering the hundreds of times I’ve seen the Van Halen brown M&M story invoked on HN as an example of a brilliantly simple
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by toraway 5mo ago
True, I would never argue the iPhone wasn't a transformational step-up in usability that made smartphones a mainstream device category thanks to the App Store and slab screen with multi-touch. But at the same time.... I had been doing
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by toraway 5mo ago
To the best of my knowledge Linus Torvalds isn't posting walls of text to Github breathlessly announcing he's 810x -ed [1] his "logical lines of code/day" compared to what he was doing in 2013. And, lest you think
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by toraway 5mo ago
Haha I recently asked Gemini for a product comparison for USB-C GaN chargers and it randomly inserted "as a Software Developer at $COMPANY working remotely, you may find the 100W fast charging useful when using your company laptop whil
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by toraway 5mo ago
I wish the link for "Global Free Tier" [1] included an actual list of the free tiers GhostBox is using (ideally also including some kind of table/rubric for comparisons and any limitations, benefits, etc unique to each). It s
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by toraway 5mo ago
> They were always in harm's way. The war could have waited, and Iran could have doubled or tripled its missile stockpile and then they really would have been in harm's way. I keep hearing this line defending US interv
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by toraway 5mo ago
Yep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged. Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off com
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by toraway 6mo ago
> Importantly, journalists in media, classically inept at any economic analysis, implied that 10% tariff = 10% RRP rise. They never corrected themselves, nor for the economists who falsely claimed the economy would collapse. This
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by toraway 6mo ago
Isn't Mythos limited to a selected group of companies/organizations Anthropic chose themselves? If the OpenAI announcement for GPT-5.5 is accurate the "trusted cyber access" just requires an open, seemingly straightforwa
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by toraway 6mo ago
Are the allegations described here what you're referring to? From cursory reading it sounds like satanic panic bullshit with some good old "gay men are pedophiles" thrown in, and basically just character assasination using de
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by toraway 6mo ago
I live near a middle school in the suburbs and it may come as a surprise but kids are frequently crossing a busy street using a regular, unprotected crosswalk.
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by toraway 6mo ago
Yep, Claude made an executive decision to use Axios when it built one of my projects 9 months ago or so. ... and would then forget to use it 1/5 times and break auth/sessions in new code handling by using plain fetch.
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by toraway 6mo ago
I had a tab on nuclear reactors open and so typed in "Pressurized Water Reactor" and the result while very visually appealing is completely nonsensical (connected the high/low pressure coolant loops together) and would defini
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by toraway 6mo ago
There was still a big gap like, 6 months ago. Now, I'm not seeing it either. It's been working well the last couple weeks after I picked it up again.
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by toraway 6mo ago
The "default" light-mode look of most popular UI frameworks wouldn't have that same issue unless you put a lot of time into customizing your own styling, which most side projects wouldn't bother with (unless that look an
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by toraway 6mo ago
I thought the same for a long time, borderline unusable with loops/bizarre decisions compared to Claude Code and later Codex. But I picked it up again about a month ago and I have been quite impressed. Haven’t hit any of those frustrat
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by toraway 6mo ago
It was for about the first 6 months after I subscribed, then the rate limits were tightened to the point of uselessness and pushed me to cancel and go for the Codex plan instead.
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by toraway 6mo ago
Wait what, so they're testing giving new users misleading information about included services in each tier as an upsell tactic?
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by toraway 6mo ago
I had the same thought recently, that if a new power source was created that was like, a perpetual superheated cube or something with no input costs, it still might actually be beaten by solar + batteries. If not right now, then in just a f
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by toraway 6mo ago
Agreed. WTF is the point of offering a certain # of messages on each plan tier if you're then rate limited and can't even make full use of them?
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by toraway 6mo ago
Yeah I'm a bit confused by the double quota/rate limit situation
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by toraway 6mo ago
"Solved" seems a tad overstated if you scroll up to Simonw's Where's Waldo test with deformed faces plus a confabulated target when prompted for an edit to highlight the hidden character with an arrow.
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by toraway 6mo ago
The user has to choose a device themselves. The only enabled button when a WebUSB prompt appears is "Cancel" until they make a choice themselves. A confused user will likely hit the only available button to "Cancel" whic
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by toraway 6mo ago
> you request webUSB access maliciously to some random device > an unsavvy user is likely to click ok That's not how WebUSB works, the user always has to pick the device themselves from a list. The list cannot have a de
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by toraway 6mo ago
They're describing the "music" that's churned out almost entirely hands off to siphon royalties. Even the creator isn't listening to 100% of what they're uploading, it's spam that can be produced in mass
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by toraway 6mo ago
Your quoted example to make that point isn't particularly convincing, IMO. Cursor came out in 2023 and everything on that list would be a typical use case, plus ChatGPT for the search replacement. Of course, it wasn't nearly as ef
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by toraway 6mo ago
Same. I looked through the other posts on the company's blog and they're pretty much all SEO slop like "How to Restore Old Photos With AI: Complete Guide" clearly written by an LLM. But I can't quite decide whether
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by toraway 6mo ago
They specifically mention using video game playthroughs for rap songs as an example of targeting based on the audience. I'm somewhat perplexed how or why you turned this into a gendered thing to begin with.

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