smt88

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by smt88 4d ago
Absolutely not. A human driver has to watch the road and can’t scrutinize a gun. And it’s also not easy to tell toys from real guns. Many cities illegalized toy guns on public transit because people were putting orange tips on real guns t
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by smt88 5d ago
I wasn’t suggesting you do. But how relevant is AI to your everyday life? Do you use it heavily yourself? I was irritated by AI news until it became one of my main tools.
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by smt88 5d ago
I’ve been a hacker since I was 10, so about 30 years now. A couple of years ago, I felt the same way you did. And then I started properly/seriously using Claude Code. When Opus 4.5 came out, it was sincerely life-changing. I can protot
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by smt88 6d ago
Enough people can (and already do) spend that, especially if this replaces an iPad for them. A huge number of people get smart devices from their employers for free, and $1,200 for a regular iPhone vs. $2,000 for a Duo is a rounding error.
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by smt88 7d ago
There's no need to diagnose Mullenweg when his behavior could easily be explained by being a run-of-the-mill arrogant asshole. He never seems to have broken from reality or suffered a mental breakdown. He seems to just treat people (in
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by smt88 7d ago
You're just proving the point of this thread by pining for a niche phone that almost no one wanted enough to actually own.
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by smt88 7d ago
> If I needed that screen real estate, I'd be reaching for my laptop. It is increasingly common for people to have no laptop or any computing device other than their smartphone, smartwatch, and/or game console. I know very fe
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by smt88 10d ago
Again, those are the editorials. The newsroom staff are very well-regarded and separate from the insane editorials.
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by smt88 10d ago
Those ratings are always taking editorials into account. The actual journalism absolutely isn’t right-leaning. They were sued by Donald Trump for writing unfavorable stories about him just this year.
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by smt88 11d ago
WSJ’s journalism is center-left and trustworthy. Their editorials are written by right-wing sycophants and lunatics.
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by smt88 12d ago
Many IT teams are irresponsible though. I have a client now that has revenue of $1B and has no legal review process and doesn’t require IT vendors to submit SOC 2 certifications or any other security attestations.
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by smt88 12d ago
Upvote for bringing up a FOSS alternative, but the rest of your comment is wrong
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by smt88 12d ago
This isn’t helpful to the fairly large percentage of people who are forced to use Windows by their employers
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by smt88 17d ago
Signal doesn’t work with CarPlay or Apple Watch, which are pretty huge gaps even for me.
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by smt88 18d ago
Your body has an excellent mechanism for keeping you hydrated, which is thirst. If you drink water (not soda, coffee, tea, or anything else) when you’re thirsty, you’ll be fine. Most people don’t drink 68-101 oz of liquid a day, but you als
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by smt88 18d ago
I know people who have iPhones just for FaceTime because young and old non-techies use those a lot. I’ve gotten my close friends onto Signal but there are still always 3-4 group chats where that isn’t possible.
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by smt88 19d ago
You don’t need to agonize over a library choice to know that your site will be up for 10 years. If it outputs web standards, the browser engines will make sure it is.
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by smt88 19d ago
The issues are with the Ruby backend. RoR is the only framework I’ve ever heard of being so bad that it killed startups. I personally know of two that were doing well, but RoR was so brittle and slow that they couldn’t hire enough to keep i
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by smt88 19d ago
Only if you don’t know what bikeshedding is and want to broaden the definition so much that it’s meaningless. This is Hacker News. This is exactly the place to tell people they’re overanalyzing and should just build something.
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by smt88 19d ago
Thinking about how well your web architecture will hold up for 100 years (or even 10 years) is bikeshedding and a pointless exercise. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that. If something is useful, it’s possible to fix the architecture l
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by smt88 19d ago
It’s bad enough that I’ve told Claude never to write cleverly and never to use metaphors. Opus 5 mostly ignores those kinds of instructions, annoyingly enough.
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by smt88 20d ago
This is untrue and a naive understanding of modern model training. Opus 5 does not speak like a normal, average, or common English user. For example, it says “stated plainly” or “worth stating plainly” (two very uncommon English phrases) ev
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by smt88 22d ago
I read this three times and have no idea what you’re trying to tell us about
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by smt88 23d ago
It’s not a hypothesis. It’s an observation of reality. The current administration canceled massive renewable projects and has incentivized reopening coal plants, subsidized fossil fuels, and opened government land to oil drilling.
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by smt88 27d ago
Given the jailbreaking behavior of models in Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as Microsoft allowing Copilot access to client data, we should assume our source code on Github is leaked or leakable anyway.
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by smt88 27d ago
Physical trespassing (as far as we know), but they’ve certainly done all of the rest millions of times.
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by smt88 28d ago
Account “seasoning,” similar to reddit. They create an account and give it as human-like a history as possible (a few comments, enough time since registration that it doesn’t look brand new). Then they sell it to whoever will buy it. This c
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by smt88 28d ago
This is absolutely false. You can’t provide an article showing it because it’s untrue and counter to what every official and study has said. https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/baltimores-histor...
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by smt88 29d ago
You when you said that people should type more carefully instead of making tools to prevent mistakes
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by smt88 29d ago
Software devs have actually hard skills and don’t charge $1,000 an hour to develop a PowerPoint. Why do only management consultants defend management consultants? Why don’t employees, C-suites, taxpayers, watchdogs, or anyone else ever sing

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