mercanlIl

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by mercanlIl 8d ago
Thank you for posting the other thread, it's much more interesting to read through. Your house is inspiring!
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by mercanlIl 13d ago
Your ability to sell that creation is certainly affected by the competition. Which affects your ability to put food on the table, so to speak.
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by mercanlIl 28d ago
LLMs are making code cheaper to produce, which in turn means people are running more code. There’s more code that needs to be audited for trust than before. And so now we have a new twist on an old problem, and I think it’s going to get wor
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by mercanlIl 28d ago
I’ve talked with colleagues that have confirmed exactly what the parent comment is saying. They benefit from the external structure, routine, and separation of work/home life. Some people just don’t want to work next to their gaming PC
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by mercanlIl 29d ago
Biological addiction is different from psychological addiction, sure. But both are addictive. And personally I believe both cigarettes and Meta products are damaging to a subset of the people consuming them. Why only a subset? Because not e
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by mercanlIl 2mo ago
It sounds like a mess, though comments about Godot are often vaguely positive. I appreciate you posting your experience about a limitation you’re running up against. I can think of only one popular game of note that was made Godot, Slay the
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by mercanlIl 2mo ago
I get the same feeling. There’s a lack of polish and intentionality to it. It’s a cool idea and a nice demo, and there’s certainly a lot of buttons and features. But it’s been laggy on my device, it’s visually distracting, and the UX doesn’
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by mercanlIl 2mo ago
The blog post does the “It’s not X, it’s Y” pattern a few times. It’s hard not to assume the post is just produced by an LLM. It’s frustrating not knowing whether I’m reading the musings of a real person, or the output of an LLM.
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by mercanlIl 4mo ago
Which is to say, not at all? A hammer isn’t subservient, it doesn’t have the capacity to be. Saying a hammer is subservient is stretching the definition for literary flourish, but it doesn’t actually make a lot of sense. The definition tha
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by mercanlIl 4mo ago
I think there are some pretty good ways to understand it now. When the electricity goes out, (most) people get similarly upset. No electricity means no internet, and all of a sudden everything that people had planed to do can’t be done unti
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by mercanlIl 5mo ago
Yes it does matter. Users need to know that the updated URL is correct and trustworthy.
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by mercanlIl 7mo ago
I interpreted the parent comment as asking what society _specifically_? Not some abstract concept, but something that exists a step or two away from where we are right now.
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by mercanlIl 7mo ago
Which writing style standard does that correspond to? This is an internet discussion board with people from diverse backgrounds. Informal quotation style is common. Your comment is the first time I’ve seen someone assert that new paragraphs
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
The tool definitely needs to address tone transformations, it’s a big part of how the language is spoken. Otherwise it’s mostly useful for a first year student speaking in isolation. Hoping to see improvements in this area
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
As a non-American, I like the way HN is moderated. This isn’t an American politics and domestic issues forum.
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
Some of these infractions also carry the risk of losing your license. So it is more than just the fine.
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
Why not? Knowing you’re going to get caught and fined for running a red light, which typically holds significant penalties, would act as a deterrent. You can lose your license for that kind of nonsense (via demerit points), and they’d have
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
I’m a bit biased here, because a close friend’s mother was killed by someone speeding through a red light. I think automated enforcement of minor driving infractions is a good thing. More efficient use of government resources. Incentivizes
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
I assume it’s getting down votes because it’s off-topic. The parent comment was suggesting external mice as a temporary measure to debug the intermittent issue they’re facing. Whether or not external micr suck on MacOS doesn’t really matter
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
If you don’t want to use CC, just use the API
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by mercanlIl 8mo ago
Just one anecdotal perspective: I do not of know a single person in my extended family/professional network/social circle who has had location tracking or app eavesdropping directly impact their life. The only impact I’ve seen is
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by mercanlIl 10mo ago
We appear to be talking about different topics entirely. Your points seem to be about the effectiveness of political involvement, but the comment you’re replying to and the quote I posted relates to political involvement. It’s encouraging t
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by mercanlIl 10mo ago
>Well yeah of course it's not hard to get involved in politics, if the involvement is supporting people who are rich and powerful even if it is via the use of a more modest looking young mouthpiece. I fail to see how it’d be any mor
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by mercanlIl 10mo ago
In practice? Yes it’s unavoidable. Unless you build in enough buffer to account for _every_ possible scenario out of your control, the probability of running late is non-zero.
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by mercanlIl 1y ago
IME (in Canada), the cash discount is surprisingly close to 15%, which is approximately the sales tax in most provinces.