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Lewton··on Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records
Can you elaborate?

To be clear, I know how to look up where the class is used, and i know how to look up where constructors (note, plural) for the class is being used, but I have not found a reliable way to find where a specific constructor is being used if the class has multiple

Lewton··on Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records
Lombok fucking sucks

@requiredargs sucks, if you rearrange the order of two fields with the same type on a class you invisibly break the code. If you have multiple constructors (requiredargs, allargs) it makes tracing how they’re used using the built in tools of your IDE impossible

@builder fucking sucks, if there’s non-nullable fields and you don’t set them, at best you get a runtime exception. Builder pattern should take non-null args explicitly in the builder() method so when you add a new required field it doesn’t invisibly break code 8 modules away

Only good thing is indeed the log annotation, and to some degree @getter @setter, big whoop

Lewton··on A warning about 'model welfare'
> If models had persistent memory or an evolving set of weights, you could easily construct an argument that they can experience "suffering" or other emotions which resultingly adjusts their personality.

They do, during training

Lewton··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
“With minimal cost”

Are you trolling

Lewton··on Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
Thank you!

It really irked me when I read it the first time and it drives me nuts that no one else seems to catch this, you’re the first one in some 100 HN threads to point it out

Lewton··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Some of the cpi data is synthetic, based on best guess, the ratio of synthetic data has gone up sharply https://www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-of-the-cpi-data-co...
Lewton··on How can I influence others without manipulating them?
> That all of earth is round, comes not from direct observation (except for the very few people who have been in space).

or anyone who's been in a plane?

Lewton··on Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others
I'm hard stuck on fish probability 59% fml
Lewton··on LLM Inevitabilism
> I heard majority of the users are techies asking coding questions.

Citation needed? I can't sit on a bus without spotting some young person using ChatGPT

Lewton··on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
I’m not arguing against your basic point as I completely agree arriving on time is my own responsibility, but when I do what you suggest, i forget my house keys lol
Lewton··on The Moat of Low Status
> since 100% of people already agree that you should never be afraid to ask basic but obviously important questions.

You don’t have a great mental model of how most people think

Lewton··on Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations
Breaking down muscle is good, not letting the muscle recover is bad

Same kind of thing

Lewton··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
A week ago, I was looking for the name of a semi obscure late 90ies computer game. Google could not help me given the description i gave

Described it to ChatGPT, and we had a back and forth where I explained why the games it suggested me weren’t right, it eventually found the correct game (Nocturne) and was able to explain to me that half of the things I remembered from the game were just plain wrong, and that’s why Google couldn’t find it

ChatGPT helping me with my hallucinations, go figure

Lewton··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
It’s all good, I didn’t take your comment as an indication of how it actually functions in Canada. Just reacting to the implications of your examples
Lewton··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
> Where they can't afford the medication, or no medication seems to work, or they have an addiction problem and there just isn't any way for them to get into a treatment program

I would consider two of these absolutely monstrous reasons to assist someone in killing themselves. A broken society opting into killing its citizens because it can’t be arsed with fixing itself is next level evil

Lewton··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
>If you sign out and view a user you can see their posts

Only for prolific twitter users and only a random mishmash of 2+ year old tweets. Usually it just asks you to sign up

Lewton··on The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
It's a substack blog, there's no trickery going on. It just means she used https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/ until now
Lewton··on Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills
record players are perfect
Lewton··on Danish government will shut down encrypted messaging (including via blocking)
It's a mistranslation of 'vil' => will, when 'vil' actually means "would like to"
Lewton··on Danish government will shut down encrypted messaging (including via blocking)
*wants to, not will
Lewton··on You've got to hide your myopia away: John Lennon's contact lenses
This is the reason why I wear glasses now, it's not really fun to have your vision go blurry at random while biking
Lewton··on Isometric Projection in Game Development
Oh man, I completely forgot about that game.

Absolutely loved it as a teen!

Lewton··on NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job
where did you get the impression that i spend time hating people? I'm saying that you shouldn't normalise being a shitty person "because you have to be shitty to be great". There's tons of amazing artists that are generally known as being all around great people

(I'm not even referring to fat mike here, I have no idea if he's a good person or not)

Lewton··on NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job
nah, this is just lame apologia that normalises being a shitty person
Lewton··on Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs
I enjoyed this 5 star review

"Fun to play, keeps you on your toes! The only problem is that every once in a while, you have to completely uninstall restart your computer and then reinstall, that's the only way you can keep playing."

Lewton··on How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business
> And these robo-taxis will be worse than public transport

If you soil a waymo taxi, they can ban you from ever booking another one, the same cannot be said for public transport

While I consider this somewhat dystopian, I do think it's pretty clear that they will be much cleaner than public transport for that reason

Lewton··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
> The essence if her claim is they were doing that for their stock options?

Wasn't that extremely obvious at the time?

Lewton··on California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
Exactly as difficult as applying the taxes after sale...
Lewton··on California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
> I know it's more complicated than this

it really really really isn't

Lewton··on They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups
> a single failure in a startup doesn’t make someone an idiot

Depends on the failure

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