marcellus23

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by marcellus23 19d ago
Hm, you should generally be able to hit Return to close a message box on Mac. Or, more specifically, to activate the default action in a dialog (the button whose background is the tint color of the application). Spacebar activates the butto
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by marcellus23 2mo ago
I still miss n-gate so much. I wonder where that guy went. Hope he's okay.
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by marcellus23 3mo ago
as an American this is my favorite format. Sortable, and the mm-dd order reflects the standard American way of writing month+day, and yyyy is unambiguously the year since it's 4 letters. Best of both worlds.
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by marcellus23 3mo ago
That hasn’t been my experience in the US, either personally or from talking to others who took CS degrees. Keep in mind that plenty of people on HN and in the industry did not take CS degrees in college. We did learn about PIDs, if briefly.
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by marcellus23 5mo ago
If I picked a human off the street and asked them to "count first two hundred numbers in reverse while skipping every third number and check if they are in sequence", I bet most would screw up. my point is not that current LLMs ar
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by marcellus23 5mo ago
It's very easy to say, "well, of course, a thing that looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, is not necessarily a duck." But when you're presented with something indistinguishable from a duck in ev
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by marcellus23 5mo ago
> I drink more coffee than 99% of the population How much is that?
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by marcellus23 6mo ago
AI-generated UIs, at least ones aimed at an engineering audience, have a very distinct appearance. They seem to always have the following attributes: - Dark mode design with lots of colors - Buttons that have vibrant, bright borders and dul
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by marcellus23 6mo ago
That's kind of the simplest case, though, where "theirs" and "ours" makes obvious sense. What if I'm rebasing a branch onto another? Is "ours" the branch being rebased, or the other one? Or if I'
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by marcellus23 6mo ago
The other comments make good points but also want to point out that that quote was written 37 years ago.
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by marcellus23 6mo ago
I use Windows and macOS both daily and it's truly baffling to me that anyway could consider Windows software quality to crush the Mac -- either first party or third party. macOS has no shortage of bugs but compared to Windows it works
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by marcellus23 6mo ago
I don't disagree with you generally but does he really claim it does? The entire page only mentions US, near as I can tell.
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by marcellus23 7mo ago
The GP's use of the word "impose" didn't seem perjorative to me or suggest that Anthropic is the offender and the government is the victim. I think you're reading a lot into a simple word choice and this response se
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by marcellus23 7mo ago
The iPhone 8 was released in 2017 and the Pixel 8 is from 2023.
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by marcellus23 7mo ago
I'm not sure that's a literal quote from their boss. It seems to be an illustrative example, probably exaggerated.
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by marcellus23 7mo ago
The beginning describes the formation of an intelligence and it is indeed very dense. You can figure out what's going on but it takes some slow reading, and probably best to revisit it once you have some more context from later in the
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by marcellus23 8mo ago
It really doesn't.
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by marcellus23 8mo ago
This just takes me to an information-less landing page for some unlaunched product.
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by marcellus23 8mo ago
He changed his mind? The comment you're citing seems partly tongue-in-cheek anyway, but even if it wasn't, how is this some kind of gotcha?
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by marcellus23 8mo ago
That's the real reason the conversation seems pointless. Every thread is full of comments from one group saying how useful AI is, and from another group saying how useless it is. The first group is convinced the second group just hasn&
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by marcellus23 8mo ago
All of this is written with a sense of anger and sarcastic invective that doesn't seem appropriate. This is part of learning any new language or API. Going in with an attitude of "I should already know how all this works, why am I
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
There are simply so many counterexamples out there of people who have developed projects in a small fraction of the time it would take manually. Whether or not AI is having a positive effect on productivity on average in the industry is a v
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
> I'd be shocked if the developer wasn't actually less productive I agree 10x is a very large number and it's almost certainly smaller—maybe 1.5x would be reasonable. But really? You would be shocked if it was above 1.0x
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
I'd rather live in a universe where that money is taken out of the military budget.
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
You’re right, I think my confusion was that they’re both labeled Kiayukwan in Apple Maps.
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
I think that's clearly the way to interpret the novel. The idea that you could even debunk a piece of allegorical fiction is silly. It would be like trying to make a point by claiming that the tale of the scorpion and the frog was made
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
Edit: nevermind I don't know if those coordinates are correct. They seem to be the exact coordinates of Jiayuguan City [0], but then the article also says that the 404 site is located "100 km west of Jiayuguan City," with liv
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
This reminds me a lot of the 2000s internet that I grew up on. This was the kind of thing I used to find using StumbleUpon.
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
Do you have context on this? Is Goodin generally known to be make mistakes?
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by marcellus23 9mo ago
I don't think it's reasonable. If there's context I'm missing and this guy has written about culture war stuff before, fair enough, but based on this article alone, I'm not seeing any indication of that.

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