crindy

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by crindy 27d ago
I don't think this comment is inline with community guidelines. "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by crindy 1y ago
They do talk about working on this, and making improvements. From https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/ > More honest responses > Alongside improved factuality, GPT‑5 (with thinking) more honestly comm
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by crindy 2y ago
Freedom of expression comes to mind. If someone had a friend commit suicide, should they not be able to discuss their experience in public?
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by crindy 2y ago
Yep, been living off it for nine years now
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by crindy 2y ago
Not sure what you're referring to exactly. But broadly yes it is working for me - the number of new features I get out to users has sped up greatly, and stability of my product has also gone up.
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by crindy 2y ago
Yep, I’m with you. I’m a solo dev who never went to college… o1 makes far fewer errors than I do! No chance I’d make it past round one of any sort of coding tournament. But I managed to bootstrap a whole saas company doing all the coding my
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by crindy 2y ago
It's so strange to me that in a forum full of programmers, people don't seem to understand that you set up systems to detect errors before they cause problems. That's why I find ChatGPT so useful for helping me with programmi
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by crindy 2y ago
Seems like I'm one of very few excited by this announcement. I will totally pay for this - the o1-preview limits really hamper me.
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by crindy 2y ago
Before this update you could hold control and click the application, then select "open" from the menu. It would give you a warning and let you confirm you'd like to run it anyway.
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by crindy 2y ago
Yeah, there are clearly other problems with the Canadian market. Didn’t mean to imply there weren’t! Housing stock I really do think is down to regulation - it’s crazy hard to build here in Vancouver, even right near mass transit stations.
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by crindy 2y ago
Yeah, I should have mentioned productivity growth - it is of course another solution to the problem. I think it’s harder for governments to implement policy that increases productivity growth than immigration, though.
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by crindy 2y ago
Since you asked for someone to steelman, I’ll chime in to say this graph looks great to me. As Canada has grown rich, our fertility rate has gone down. I have no moral problem with that, but it does cause a problem: as the population ages,
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by crindy 2y ago
Very impressed by the demo where it starts speaking French in error, then laughs with the user about the mistake. Such a natural recovery.
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by crindy 2y ago
I believe this will legally mandate that Google and Apple remove the app from their app stores. It will still be available online.
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by crindy 2y ago
Nope. Underpromise, overdeliver. Build something so useful that you don't need to inflate it to get it noticed.
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by crindy 2y ago
Why say "any social media" when it's only Youtube and TikTok?
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by crindy 3y ago
"Turn that frown upside down" is a way of saying - don't be sad, be happy. Instead of having the corners of your mouth point down (frown), have them point up (smile). The joke is that if you move the eyes to the other side of
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by crindy 3y ago
I think the phrasing is confusing because on first parsing, it reads like the market is responding to the article
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by crindy 4y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case in this story
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by crindy 4y ago
A car might drop in value by 30% in 3 years, not 30x.
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by crindy 4y ago
> given that sex is immutable and is really only a choice between male and female Putting all the gender stuff aside, biological sex may be immutable but it isn’t binary unless you’re willing to exclude the edge cases. https:/&#x2F
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by crindy 9y ago
This seems like a silly way to think about FaceID. You’d need 1000+ people to all try their faces on each other’s 1000+ phones to get the 50% chance of unlocking. That’s not the scenario biometric authentication is built for, which is why
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by crindy 9y ago
One thing to note: It's at least five times, not exactly. Just click that side button until your phone vibrates a bit and it's locked. I mainly see myself using this feature in high stress situations, like going through airport se
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by crindy 10y ago
I'm just gonna go ahead and mention [messenger.com]( https://www.messenger.com/ ) for anyone who agrees with you and doesn't know about it. It's essentially the messenger app in the browser, so you can access y
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by crindy 10y ago
Filled out the form. Sending out free physical books seems like a lot though - what's the motivation behind that?
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by crindy 11y ago
I thought the poster just wanted people to avoid generalizing. "All women get catcalled" isn't okay, but "I often get catcalled" is fine.
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by crindy 11y ago
This is absolutely amazing. I'll definitely be using it extensively. I'm also incredibly curious about how it's implemented though. As far as I know, reddit doesn't have an API point for all new comments, do they?
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by crindy 11y ago
Most websites are made through Wordpress, Squarespace, Wix, and similar products. I bet the number here is far lower than 1/600.
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by crindy 11y ago
It seems like Amazon is in a position where they could turn a huge profit, they're just choosing to reinvest instead. If they just raised prices by something tiny like 1%, wouldn't their profits become instantly massive?
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by crindy 11y ago
I think the idea would be that this helps fill dead times. If the place is full, they don't need/want more people showing up just to be turned away. If the place is empty, then they want to advertise that to fill it back up. Also

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