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BlindEyeHalo··on Steam Machine
Turns out that a company that is not publicly traded and run by people that only care about stock prices, can actually care about their customers.
BlindEyeHalo··on What the hell have you built
Why not do a CI pipeline from the beginning instead of relying on trust that no one ever forgets to run a check, considering adding CI is trivial with gitlab or github.
BlindEyeHalo··on Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
I find this hard to believe and have never seen that ever.
BlindEyeHalo··on Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
Considering all apps become more slow and laggy every year it seems on point.
BlindEyeHalo··on Java 25 officially released
Crazy that it took this long to allow parameter validation and transformation before calling super in the constructor.

That was something that always bothered me because it felt so counterintuitive.

BlindEyeHalo··on Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?
Why wouldn't you factor in training? It is not like you can train once and then have the model run for years. You need to constantly improve to keep up with the competition. The lifespan of a model is just a few months at this point.
BlindEyeHalo··on Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls
So Luke Bryan has been lying to me?
BlindEyeHalo··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
The macbook air doesn't even have a fan. I don't think you could built a fan-less x86 laptop.
BlindEyeHalo··on Calling Their Bluff
Do people not use their own government as the entry point for visa applications? I just go to the website of the foreign office of my government which has a list of the requirements to enter every country in the world and what needs to be done and how. I have never started with a google search.
BlindEyeHalo··on Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile
> ‘They’re not investing in a chatbot’ is a huge miss by apple

Why? Because everyone else is doing it (and not making a profit btw)?

BlindEyeHalo··on Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews
Sure, it was never my intention to make it seem like a general statement, just highlighting that there is a large class of problems for which it is true.

As you point out there are many problems that higher complexity classes than NP.

BlindEyeHalo··on Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews
At the heart of the P vs NP problem lies the observation that solution verification seems to be much easier than solution generation. If that applies in this context is another question but I think it is not unreasonable to assume that the judge needs to be less powerful than the performer.

Or in other words, I don't need to be a chef myself to decide if a meal is good or not.

BlindEyeHalo··on You know more Finnish than you think
This song was a meme in the early youtube days called "Leek Spin": https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leekspin-loituma-girl
BlindEyeHalo··on I dumped Google for Kagi
Search will fold into AI. ChatGPT already searches for answers on given prompts.

There will no longer be a reason to interact with a search engine directly for most people, AI will decide by itself if it retrieves from memory or performs a search.

BlindEyeHalo··on Objects should shut up
This is also why taking the batteries out of the remote and back in works. Hands warming them up.
BlindEyeHalo··on Dark patterns
Plenty of people work in weapon manufacturing or other jobs that bring way more harm to people than a website popup.
BlindEyeHalo··on Stargate Norway
And as a reward you pay one of the highest electricity costs in Europe.
BlindEyeHalo··on The Rise of Whatever
I think it is practical when highlighting text and then pressing " once puts quotes and the start and the end of the highlighted region.

But I agree that in normal input it is often annoying.

BlindEyeHalo··on HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News
Claude API error: {"type":"error","error":{"type":"invalid_request_error","message":"Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits."}}
BlindEyeHalo··on ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
For me the usefulness of LLMs is proportional to how shitty google has become. When searching for something you get a bunch of blog spam or other SSO optimised shit results to pages that open dozens of popups asking you to subscribe or make an account. ChatGPT gives you the answer immediately and I must say I find it helpful 90% of the time.

For simple coding questions it is also very good because it takes your current context into account. It is basically a smarter "copy paste from stack overflow".

At least for now LLMs do not replace any meaningful work for me, but they replace google more and more.

BlindEyeHalo··on The 'invisible crew' who have 35 seconds to prevent a Eurovision blunder
This might help: https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/ask-writer/are-words-...

In short:

When you’re referring to the collective noun as a unit, treat it as singular:

The band lost its spot in the top ten this week. When you’re referring to the individuals within the group, treat it as plural:

The jury had to sign for their ID badges.

BlindEyeHalo··on Disposable Python environments for ad-hoc analyses
I don't understand how no language has really figured out dependencies in a way that is truly sharable. It seems like docker is the only way to create applications that can be build and run everywhere without headache.
BlindEyeHalo··on Borgo Programming Language
> but when pushing to git it would get transpiled to the most common subset.

What about the other direction? I don't think it will be very useful to not be able to read the exact code you wrote after the fact. Feels like writing a book but every sentence you enter is instantly rephrased by ChatGPT to sound more convoluted.

BlindEyeHalo··on 20 years of Google Scholar
computer science has dblp.org which indexes all the relevant journals.
BlindEyeHalo··on Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
Not only on HN. Trying to publish a scientific article that does not contain the word 'novel' has become almost impossible. No one is trying to reproduce anyones claims anymore.
BlindEyeHalo··on The History and Evolution of Playing Cards
> I would love to hear if anyone can think of any one thing nearly as useful in so many ways.

What about a computer? If you make the argument that it is a composite of many different elements, so is a deck of cards.

BlindEyeHalo··on Pi Chess Board
The issue with these "ghost chess" implementations are always the same things

1. How do captured pieces get removed? 2. How to handle pieces that move through other pieces (knights, castling)? 3. How to promote a pawn?

I have never seen these solved in something that is not awkward and neither seems to be the case here.

BlindEyeHalo··on It's called a dance floor
Anyone interested in more recent examples, look up the binaural versions of some of Jean-Michel Jarre's albums.

Most of his music is very experimental but I recommend "Zero Gravity" from "Live in Notre Dame - Binaural headphone mix". It is a straight forward EDM track.

BlindEyeHalo··on A Missing IDE Feature
It is in the article that the screenshots are from RustRover, so the argument is that other IDEs should also implement this feature.
BlindEyeHalo··on Show HN: Which Animal Shares Your Body Fat Percentage?
Having insects in there feels a bit odd to me. Not exactly relatable.
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