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by Maxatar 25d ago
Users who are unhappy with some idiosyncrasies of a product tend to be significantly more vocal than users who are fine with it, and for any feature whatsoever there are going to be an unhappy group of people who vocally complain about it.
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by Maxatar 26d ago
I do have a way of knowing, but I actually appreciate and respect your reply... My suggestion to you is to take this shred of skepticism that you decided to apply to me, and apply to every comment you read on Hacker News, not simply the o
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by Maxatar 27d ago
Simply untrue. You think everyone is complaining about this because the ones complaining are the only people commenting. The vast majority of people using Claude don't really care or even notice this one way or another. Sure among thos
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by Maxatar 27d ago
Compacting mostly gets rid of reasoning tokens, and honestly it would be nice of reasoning tokens did not constantly follow every follow up query. Asking even a simple/trivial question can have Claude use thousands of tokens. Compactin
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
>There is no “oops, I wrote ‘th’ but I should have written ‘tw’ so I guess I’m stuck writing three instead of tween”. You're mixing up two claims here, and only one of these is kind of true. Yes LLMs do internally plan ahead in a wa
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
There is no infinite regression involved in any of Godel's theorems.
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
The reason the world didn't end is because people refused to upgrade Visual Studio, in particular Microsoft's bigger customers. Microsoft surveyed their users for why people weren't making the switch to VS 2013 despite all th
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
Knowing a definition is not the same as understanding. I know this first hand from interviewing people who at the beginning of the interview can confidently tell me the definition of certain principles in statistics that I ask them about, a
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
What is the relationship between your claim, and the claim I replied to about GSL having special treatment? In other words, why did you reply to me with an interpretation about a post that claimed GSL is afforded special treatment by MSVC i
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
Here is the original statement about special treatment: "It was originally created by Microsoft and as Herb mentions "all our target platforms", so most likely it gets special treatment." My claim is that Microsoft is no
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
How does a library writer testing that their library works with a specific version of a compiler that was already released have anything to do with a compiler implementation providing special treatment for that library? Your interpretation
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
>A program with undefined behavior is by definition an incorrect program. This is simply false and an oft repeated myth. Undefined behavior has a specific technical definition that is in the C++ standard [1] and there is absolutely no me
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
I have no idea where you possibly got this idea from since the Github Issues tracker for GSL has numerous instances of new releases of MSVC breaking GSL compilation.
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by Maxatar 1mo ago
There is absolutely no special treatment afforded to the GSL by any of the target platforms. While we can't inspect MSVC's source code, both clang and GCC do not have any support or affordance for the GSL whatsoever and it would b
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Yes, this is all true but Sutter's comment is that the specific platforms that this specific implementation of the GSL targets results in the correct output. The platforms officially supported are: GCC 12, 13, 14 XCode 14.3.1, 15.4 Cla
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Yes that's true, many classical civilizations saw work as a role for slaves. The ideal for classical elites wasn't to work, it was to have enough slaves that you didn't have to work yourself. Aristotle in particular writes ab
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Yeah it's a nice and pleasant story, assuming you've never actually met or seen the working or living conditions that most of the fisherman in your story actually live in and the terrible toll it takes on their body. Those fisherm
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
I adopted it by growing up poor to immigrant parents who had to work day and night to provide for me the best life they could. Having goals other than financial well being is a luxury. That doesn't mean it's not attainable or shou
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
This is an absurd statement. Lets use bank accounts instead of CO2 to point out the absurdity. Imagine every year a company makes $730,000 in revenue but spends $730,000 on various expenses. Its bank balance doesnt change because the income
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
You might be reading the prompt far too literally then. LLMs interpret words not based on literal and rigorous definitions but based on how those words are actually used in reality based on a large corpus of text. In general, the only time
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
There's a distinction between claiming something is objectively better, which is what Fil-C claims with respect to its "idea" about memory safety compared to Rust... and claiming a personal preference for one approach versus
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
So put in the enormous effort needed to change the Constitution all towards a goal of some superficial and ineffective measure instead of taking a fraction of that effort and putting it towards actual concrete things that might improve soci
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
There are only 900 billionaires in the U.S. Do you think if they lost their voting rights it would affect the outcome of even a single election whatsoever?
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
The article addresses this.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
So data structures like std::vector should never be copied - period?
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Settlements do not in any way establish legal precedent or any legal standing. This is simply an agreement between two parties.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Not sure about Codex but Claude Code works with Github Copilot and can even work with open source models like Kimi/Deep Seek.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
There are but then you're required to pay API prices for them which can end up costing significant multiples of the price of the subscription.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
Violating terms of service and violating IP rights are two independent violations. Neither implies the other.
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by Maxatar 2mo ago
There are soooo many clones of Adobe Photoshop including clones that run right in your browser, and yet people continue to pay Adobe hundreds of dollars a month because there's like one tiny tweak that Photoshop has, or some small mous

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