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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Who knows, she obviously lacked experience, I guess she just panicked or worried it might be an issue with the barrel rather than her pour?
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
1985 is the current one: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/72/contents It's why all bars will have a little plaque saying what size their shots are. Almost always 25ml these days, but 35ml was co
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
I got poured a pint by a newbie behind the bar at a hotel recently and she looked embarrassed as it was about 40% head, but to her credit she went to fetch the shift supervisor before I said anything. He explained after pouring it better th
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
There should be a button too, but it's simple to add a line so that it also defaults to any provided preference.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
Next time please ask it to respect system dark/light mode preference, it's trivial to do, especially for an LLM which can spin up light/dark alternatives easily.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
This one may well get flagged as it appears to resolve to random content too.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
So is this web rings all over again?
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
It's the lack of transparency that is bad. PokemonGo did not make it clear it was taking (and uploading) pictures. You could argue that "of course it must be for AR", but that isn't clear at all. The camera shows a live
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
I didn't recognise the top story ( about cannaboids ) at all. I then went to "past" and nothing from yesterday. I then realised this site is based off the current front-page. So I forced the "past" page to be today,
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
HN appears to encourage it, because it shows a text box which becomes a top level comment when you submit, although it isn't obvious that will happen.
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
They produce wonderful results, they are incredibly powerful, but they do not think or reason. Among many other factors, perhaps the most key differentiator for me that prevents me describing these as thinking, is proactivity. LLMs are neve
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by xnorswap 7mo ago
I agree, it's just easier to write requirements and refine things as if writing with a human. I no longer care that it risks anthropomorphising it, as that fight has long been lost. I prefer to focus on remembering it doesn't actu
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
W = Winners, it's just science ;) I bet someone has actually studied the effect of leading letters in startup names and funding & acquisitions, I vaguely seem to remember a story about it in the past.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
The main reason I wouldn't tell someone command line options is because I'd be unsure that either I'd make a mistake and mix something up, or that the person I'm helping would make a mistake. UIs have better visual feedb
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
That still trips us up regularly to this day.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
I can't see it explained, why/where is 000000 defined as newline?
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
LLMs are heavily biased by what it is told. It is not magic, it is not an oracle, it is not good at analysis, and is particularly bad at predicting the future.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
It is mildly interesting that the top comment on all entries is the same callback to Douglas Adams, but in a natural way, and seems to be some kind of collective trigger.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
I think so? I've not seen anyone take Gas Town seriously or even semi-seriously in the way people take Openclaw semi-seriously. Gas Town certainly seems like a concept for performance art. The original blog post read like it, and so do
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
( 2010 ) Original submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162965 And with a response from pg.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
Not only can you rotate with right-click, you can also pan and zoom and manually add cells.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
I recognise Claude's voice in that when I see it.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
One of the many advantages of LSPs is that they can continue to work even under the condition of compilation error.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
Firstly, I have a good relationship with my employer, so I'm the one choosing my hours. It would have been legal for them to reduce my hours to zero, but I trusted them not to do that, and indeed they didn't do that. Secondly, we
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
A zero hours contract has been useful for me, as someone who needed to work around a medical condition. I worked the hours I could, got paid for them, but I could also take days off at short notice if I wasn't up to working that day. I
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
Most countries require their own dual-nationality citizens to enter on their local passports not foreign ones, Britain was an exception before. It's not unreasonable to ask for the British passport, and I say this as someone affected.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
The only .fun site I know is neal.fun, which regularly features on the front page here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=neal.fun
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
Enums are one of only a few places where there is significant deviation, I don't believe that makes it 400% less efficient.
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
> “I think you’d be a damned fool to invest in this technology for any serious project. Right now this is a toy.” This comment about Typescript was correct. Typescript had a major fundamental re-write fairly early on in it's history
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by xnorswap 8mo ago
I see that's from almost 10 years ago, it would be interesting to see how that's changed with improvements to V8, python and C# since. Also, Typescript 5 times worse than Javascript? That doesn't really make sense, since they

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