themacguffinman

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by themacguffinman 11d ago
It just doesn't scale linearly. There's substantial evidence that happiness scales logarithmically with income. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-pritchard-on-liberal...
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by themacguffinman 22d ago
Reminds me of the bit about security in Steve Yegge's Google Platforms rant: > But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, w
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by themacguffinman 2mo ago
A large part of how actors act is specific cues given to them by the director, which is pretty clearly work by the director. A director also gives specific instructions for a lot of other things that have a noticeable impact on the resultin
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by themacguffinman 3mo ago
The downside is obviously that uncached queries take much longer (adding >100ms) and more queries are uncached since you can't share the cache with a large user-base. Unless you just visit the same websites over and over again, this
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by themacguffinman 3mo ago
If you're referring to voters staying home, staying home is a vote for their state's majority. There's no sense in which the average citizen in a democracy is not responsible for the outcome of a democratic vote.
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by themacguffinman 3mo ago
I don't believe that at all, the average person voted for this government.
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by themacguffinman 4mo ago
I remember reading about how the reason that Rosetta 2 had good performance compared to other x86-on-ARM emulation efforts (like Windows') is that Apple built special instructions into their M chips dedicated to emulation, so maintaini
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by themacguffinman 4mo ago
I think it's because mental ability and personal worth is pretty strongly tied in the modern world, in that way calling someone deficient is like insulting them. I don't know if you can escape that dynamic, intellect is just very
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by themacguffinman 4mo ago
The author isn't literally discarding their stances, they're temporarily putting it aside to investigate a specific question. The paragraph is pretty clearly a throat-clearing that establishes the author's stance while saying
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by themacguffinman 4mo ago
I do, over the years they've replaced my phone three times, two of those were beyond the 1-year manufacturer warranty period.
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by themacguffinman 5mo ago
Seems pretty high effort compared to a content blocker mobile app or native parental controls. I'm not sure why anyone would get this.
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by themacguffinman 5mo ago
The difference is that it's pretty acceptable for you to reject family requests for money, it doesn't make you a pariah and being a pariah doesn't carry the same consequences when non-family institutions govern society. The a
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by themacguffinman 6mo ago
How about they keep the bug report open until they attempt and confirm the bug is no longer reproducible?
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by themacguffinman 6mo ago
I doubt software development will stay as "low skilled prompting", or that it is even low skilled prompting right now. Productive LLM usage goes beyond typing in better prompts and involves things like improving guardrails (eg typ
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by themacguffinman 6mo ago
Isn't that what is implied by the toughest job market yet for junior level candidates? Author is very confident that the answer to his question is "no".
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by themacguffinman 6mo ago
How is it unsustainable when iOS has enforced even stricter rules for its nearly 20 year lifespan?
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by themacguffinman 6mo ago
I think the key metric to good software has really changed, the bar has noticeably dropped. I see unreliable software like openclaw explode in popularity while a Director of Alignment at Meta publicly shares how it shredded her inbox while
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-rog-strix-27-dual-mode-... I haven't found a glossy competitor, or even one with the same HDR spec, but this is the closest I could find so far.
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
The events are out of order, the bottom three events are: - Feb 27, 2026, 02:13 PM: OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation - Feb 27, 2026, 12:00 AM: Anthropic: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth - Feb 27,
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
The keyword is "cancel", not threaten seizure with the DPA and destruction with a baseless supply chain risk designation.
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
Not this, because this is completely unprecedented? In fact, the Pentagon already signed an Anthropic contract with safe terms 6 months ago, that initial negotiation was when Anthropic would have made a decision to part ways. It was totally
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
I think this mostly misses the biggest reason why writers would choose big tech platforms or other big platforms: discovery and aggregation. If you want to speak to be heard and not just for its own sake, then you want to go where the peopl
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
The recent frontpage post I see is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926245 (not on frontpage anymore, probably downranked by flamewar detector since it has tons of comments)
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
Sorry, I do not.
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
A lot of people are using Claude Code which many consider to be a noticeably better for coding than the other models. I think also they tend to be generating non-C++ code where there are more guardrails and less footguns for LLMs to run int
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
Humans are also non-deterministic code generators though. It can be possible that an LLM is more deterministic or consistent at building reliable code than a human.
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
My first impression of the idea is that what you're pitching is a lot like Kickstarter or Indiegogo (I'm assuming you're talking about physical sales because you mentioned Shopify). Kickstarter even holds money in escrow as a
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
The partisan politics are in the story and part of its substance (and really how could it not be? what he's suggesting has substantial political consequences even setting aside the naked partisan jabs). The presence of technical detail
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
No, DNC picking a bad candidate should be responsible for a D electoral loss, it is not responsible for Trump's electoral win. A lot of people seem to think only the DNC has agency in elections, only they should be responsible for outc
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by themacguffinman 7mo ago
You don't have to care how apolitical it is but the partisan political nature of the post, which it starts and ends with, is why the HN thread is reacting to and discussing partisan politics. What makes it partisan is the shift from ad

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