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by samspot 19d ago
I received access to AI in May of this year and used smaller models a lot in May, June, and July. Haiku 4.5 is terrible for coding. This month Luna was added and it's incredibly capable. I have to reach for a better model 1/50 tim
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by samspot 23d ago
At least with a TUI you know 100% it works with the keyboard. This is not something you can safely assume about any GUI, on the web or otherwise. Our accessibility team is kept very busy by this fact.
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by samspot 1mo ago
Do you actually manage devices for kids? It's a massive pain fine tuning all the controls on Apple, and the only way to really be sure is to completely ban the web browser and the app store (and probably more things I have missed). Now
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by samspot 1mo ago
Your comment is also an attack aimed to manipulate my worldview and actions. The only difference is the corporate ad is more sophisticated.
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by samspot 1mo ago
Your comment is shockingly low in the rankings. Anyone who upvoted the parent is being absolutely ravished by confirmation bias. Yes the US has big problems, but that doesn't mean anyone should unthinkingly approve of any thought that&
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by samspot 2mo ago
There's a cool site I like: news.ycombinator.com
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by samspot 2mo ago
Ok, so if you want to read https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/ , which is now publishing less than once a month, you prefer to refresh the website once a week hoping there's an article to read? That's unimaginable to m
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by samspot 2mo ago
This is like saying that because some (or many) people are bad at taking notes and highlighting, taking notes and highlighting is a bad idea. It's a skill like anything else. You get better at it the more you do it. I don't know a
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by samspot 2mo ago
The purpose of the fake birthday is not to protect random website credentials. It's to prevent someone with that data from walking into my bank and impersonating me. I started giving a fake birthday after being shocked by how little in
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by samspot 2mo ago
Alternatively, you can easily add the bloat, discover if it has real value, and then strip it without the bad feeling of having sunk countless hours creating it. Vibe coding is excellent for making the first prototype to throw away.
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by samspot 2mo ago
You can also reduce team size by employing insane, life-destroying crunch time.
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by samspot 2mo ago
The no hassle returns from Amazon mitigate everything. I recently bought direct from someone and had to return because they didn't send the advertised item. I had to pay return shipping and a restocking fee, costing me $40 and a lot of
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by samspot 5mo ago
You are not wrong, but I just don't have time. My choices are pay someone or throw my hands up. I have been paying backblaze. But I recently had a drive die, and discovered the backups are missing .exe and .dll files, and so that part
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by samspot 6mo ago
You can get by just fine in the US without a credit card too. At least if you have a debit card (which can pretend to be a credit card in most situations). We were actually unscored by the credit bureaus for several years when we didn'
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by samspot 6mo ago
They said go every day, not do intense workouts every day. Plenty of things you can do at a gym that don't require recovery days. Being there so much should confer some social benefits too.
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by samspot 7mo ago
I envy your life of peaceful routine. For me every evening is a trip into the unknown. Sure some things repeat on the same days. But there is always something new. This week the one I'm aware of is daily Soccer tryouts. I have to check
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by samspot 7mo ago
Posting like this is an anti-pattern. "Everyone wants what I want, and if you don't build it my way you are stupid." Props to teams that can find some value in feedback like this, but I think I would have stopped reading. If
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by samspot 7mo ago
I read the bug as notepad can launch unsafe links by delegating them to the OS to open.
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by samspot 7mo ago
I think we overestimate the amount of reading, writing, and thinking that occurred before LLMs.
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by samspot 7mo ago
It's hard for me to imagine anyone balking at this feature. My core note taking workflow frequently involves: 1. Note about blah 2. Paste link to blah 3. Open that link later when reviewing my notes. Blah is sometimes a web link, somet
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by samspot 7mo ago
If we use our tungsten to make quality Big Mining Drills ( https://wiki.factorio.com/Big_mining_drill ), we can improve the efficiency of known resource patches.
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by samspot 10mo ago
Accessibility is for all user experiences, not just websites. WCAG is still a good resource for native apps even where some specifics do not 100% apply. If Qwasm is referring to Quake, it absolutely should have, for example, legible color c
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by samspot 1y ago
It's good to know that "Linux is only free if your time is worthless" still holds true after all these years. From the way many talk, I honestly thought it might have changed.
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by samspot 1y ago
Article points are mostly all valid, don't give your loyalty in return for abuse, etc. etc. But I've been at my employer 11 years now and I have greatly prospered. They took care of me in many ways that aren't required by law
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by samspot 1y ago
If you never pick up a pen to sign a birthday card, thank you note, or wedding album, that's a symptom you are too isolated!
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by samspot 1y ago
A common mistake in accessibility is to assume accessibility is mostly for users who are blind. I've rarely seen the opposite approach, calling something accessible that is very much not accessible to a person who is blind. A url is mu
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by samspot 1y ago
Copyright, and patents, are not based on moral principles. It's a temporary government license meant to encourage innovation and hustle. Whether it works or not, I don't know. But the only question of morality is if it's immo
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by samspot 1y ago
When you achieve expertise you know when to break the rules. Until then it is wise to avoid premature optimization. In many cases understandable code is far more important. I was working with a peer on a click handler for a web button. The
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by samspot 1y ago
My wife uses this solution. When I am at work and someone wants to know if I can do a team dinner, I have to call her if she's at home, or tell them I'll get back to them. I never know if I'm free and finding out is inefficie
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by samspot 1y ago
Great comment, and I love the thought process. My answer to the question: What is the difference? Humans and corporations are exceedingly predictable. We know what they both want, generally. We also rely on human issues as a limiting factor

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