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spiderice··on Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
You can tell it's Claude only from reading the H2 tags on the page.

> What happens on October 19

> If you're close to a limit

> What changes and what doesn't

spiderice··on Astra for Law
Doubt it. When someone can go to Astra MD for 75% of what they used to go to the doctor for, then the remaining doctors only have 25% as many visits. When doctors only have 25% as many visits, they have to compete on price and they make less per visit.

Same argument for plumbers. Everyone always jokes about what a good time it is to be a plumber. But what happens when all the software engineers turn to plumbing? Suddenly it's not such a good time to be a plumber anymore.

spiderice··on Whoisinspace.com/
> 7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage

I guess.. just like how wearing a seatbelt could end up killing you. Doesn't mean the exact opposite isn't a million times more likely.

spiderice··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
This is so stupid. This makes it like, a thousand times harder to fake a photo than it would otherwise be. You pedants imagining a way to fake it doesn't change that.
spiderice··on Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
> Let's spend 13 billion to save 100 million

It's not like they didn't get anything of value for that 13 billion

spiderice··on OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M
Every single thing you mentioned will be completely automated soon. 10 years max. Likely way less. That's my prediction at least.
spiderice··on OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M
Obligatory RIP Windows Phone. I can't help but think about where it would have been today if they'd just stuck with it.
spiderice··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Meh, I don't think it's so clear cut. It's so much worse than the AI that all of us are used to using, that's it's not worth using as AI. And it's now much slower at the few tasks it used to be good at (phone calls, timers, etc..)

So while yes, I would say overall it is much more powerful than it used to be, it still sits in the "every few reasons to use it" bucket for me. I'd sooner just reach for Grok/Chat/Claude

edit: keep in mind this is my experience over several months of beta. I haven't installed the public release yet.

spiderice··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
People on HN are, of course, going to pretend that moving from Michael Jordan to Dylan Mulvaney and whoever that overweight "Own The Floor" lady aren't a huge downgrade. Wearing Nike became kind of embarrassing.
spiderice··on An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Really? Because I'm doing quite alright. But I guess you belong to one of those religions that wants people to not trust their own eyes.
spiderice··on An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
> soon

Always soon. But soon never seems to come. I'm sure we'll all be cooked any day now.

spiderice··on Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE
Ironically, I understand what the "unreadable black hole of nothingness" is perfectly. But I have no idea what your comment means.
spiderice··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Could you reinvent OTA updates in another non-native language? Of course. But then you still wouldn't have a native app. You'd just be doing React Native but worse.
spiderice··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
> Some companies would decide not to bother

Sounds like you agree

spiderice··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Nobody is talking about the real advantage of RN: Being able to release to the App Store without having to go through a review. That's so massive. Getting a bug fix out to users instantly, sneaking in optimizations, etc..

Sure, you need a review to release native code changes, and you should probably get a review if you have big feature changes just for the sake of Apple not banning you. But in practice, it removes one of the biggest annoyances of developing for the App Store.

spiderice··on AirPods 5
I don't think I can adequately express how few fucks I give about my AirPods becoming e-waste. My god, the depressing mental state that some of you must live in...
spiderice··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Oh my god, I think you might be on to something. If you follow the evidence, it does in fact seem like people like color. Of course Apple would exploit this by offering colored phones!
spiderice··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Waymo is better than it was last year. And next year it will be better than it is now. And every year after that it will continue to improve. Meanwhile, a thousand years from now humans will still be humans.

I don't know why you come across as so antagonistic to self driving cars. But even if they're only as good as humans today, then you have completely and flat out lost the argument already.

spiderice··on iPhone Duo
I'm sorry our paper size offends you. Had we have known it would cause such an inferiority complex we never would have done it.
spiderice··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
> There’s always going to be a market for well designed UX

Given the past 3 years, I will never understand how people can be so confident making statements like this

spiderice··on Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
Kind of? But not really.

> his lab predicted 75 percent of suicide attempts and 87 percent of suicide-related events in the week before they occurred

But what is the false positive rate? I could predict 100% of the worlds suicides a week in advance if I just predict that everyone will commit suicide next week. Also,

> The study included a real-time alert system for intervening if a person indicated a high suicidal intent

Wouldn't this skew the study drastically? "Here you go. Push this button if you're absolutely going to commit suicide". I'm sure that isn't how the alert system worked, but it seems like you'd definitely get a lot higher rate of "suicide attempts" if the participants of the study know it's going to get the attention of the clinic to intervene.

spiderice··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
You are playing games. You implied that people's feelings for FB would prevent people from being the target audience.

Clearly that isn't true.

Now you're hyper focusing on how people feel about FB, and not whether it precludes them from being the target market. Convenient.

And before you respond saying "I never said they aren't the target market, just that they hate FB". To which I say, reread the damn conversation. You're obviously drawing a relation between hating FB and not being the target market. Even if you're now scrambling to back out of that claim because we've shown you 3 billion reasons why you're wrong.

spiderice··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
They have over 3 billion monthly active users... Almost half the earth.

I think you need to recalibrate what a "normie" is.

spiderice··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
I still miss the grid spaces that got removed in Lion.
spiderice··on Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
I mean, it's a color scheme. With like 5 colors. So good luck getting it copyrighted anyway.
spiderice··on I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
I bet if me-20-years-ago knew that current me would have no fucking clue how to even begin to tackle a problem like this, me-20-years-ago would be very disappointed. Very jealous of your expertise. Awesome work!
spiderice··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
1. Why pretend like you have any insight into the state of Iranian uranium? Just immediately makes you unreliable.

2. Ah yes, "supreme leader" doesn't sound "top down" at all

3. If by "still operating" you mean, not shooting missiles out of fear of getting destroyed. Sure. But that's silly.

4. For now. But very unlikely to last, imo.

6. "IRGC stronger than ever" is an insane take. How could they be stronger than before this war? They aren't. Again, shows that you're completely unreliable on this subject

7. "Millions of dollars" haha. Oh no, not millions with an "M"!

8. Sure. But how are you going to downplay the damage to Iran and then emphasize the damage to the US when they are many orders of magnitude different? Like, surely you don't think the damages are at all comparable

9. So long as Iran has oil to sell, yes

10. K.. again, playing up damages that are orders of magnitude less than what Iran has sustained

11. True

You seem to be very confident in your understanding of what is currently going on in Iran, despite the fact that you no longer live there. Obviously the IRGC has the internet turned off for a reason. They want to be able to control the narrative. And if it were all roses like you're making it out to be, they would personally be paying the internet bill of every Iranian to spread the word. Yet instead, they silence your people.

And do you really want to bring up the school, as tragic as it was, after your government slaughtered like 30,000 of its own citizens days before that? Motes and beams and all that.

spiderice··on Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
Yes they pulled engineers off the heat shield to engineer the toilet. That is totally how it works.
spiderice··on The MacBook Neo
Why do you need to wonder about this? We've had mechanical trackpads for ages to compare them to. They feel worse. Getting even click pressure across a large surface is nearly impossible.
spiderice··on The MacBook Neo
Sorry but if "Switch to Linux" is a valid suggestion, then you most likely aren't talking to someone the Neo is marketed to. As good as Linux is, non technical people still should not switch to it. It needs to be MacOS or Windows.
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