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i don't think i have ever even looked at what order the commits are, i only care about the diff vs the target branch when reviewing

especially since every developer has a different idea of what a commit should be, with there being no clear right answer

these models work best when you know what you want to achieve and it helps you get there while you guide it. "Improve anything you can find" sounds like you didn't really know

sadly sometimes it's e-commerce websites where you actually want to buy their product and they interrupt you three times with "sign up to our newsletter and get 5% off with the code" modals, like they're actively trying to frustrate me into not giving them my money

the bayer pattern is one of those things that makes me irrationally angry, in the true sense, based on my ignorance of the subject

what's so special about green? oh so just because our eyes are more sensitive to green we should dedicate double the area to green in camera sensors? i mean, probably yes. but still. (⩺_⩹)

nta you're replying to, but as someone who doesn't know rust, on first glance it seems like it's littered with too many special symbols and very verbose. as i understand it this is required because of the very granular low level control rust offers

maybe unreadable is too strong of a word, but there is a valid point of it looking unapproachable to someone new

yes, first thing i thought of. although i'm quite confident it's still outside the scope of our lifetimes, i do worry for future generations

with gemini you have to spend 30 minutes deleting hundreds of useless comments littered in the code that just describe what the code itself does

exactly, people have preferences, i don't get how this turned into white vs dark mode supremacy war with people seething and attacking each other over what should be a boolean config setting

> If you can capture that market for next 20 years, it's worth $200 billion.

that's like 5% of NVIDIA's current market cap. sounds like peanuts when you lay it out like that

doesn't sweden just.. list everyone's full name, address, job, birthday, age and stuff on a public website?

i always found this so weird, it's like a stalker's paradise

yeah but the pharma comapnies are only in the business of selling drugs so they would need to diversify into retirement homes or somnething to profit from actually curing people

as a casual observer living in the uk, what brexit has done is stopped the influx of highly educated and economically contributing people from the EU, and instead replaced them with people who are claiming "asylum" from asian and african countries

downvotes ahoy

hello it's me the average voter

my wealth is reduced

are exclamation marks not allowed or is that just some absurd mistake by them?

> M&S chair, told MPs that hackers had used “sophisticated impersonation” to gain entry “involving a third party.”

20 bucks says this sophisticated impersonation was social engineering a $5/hour outsourced customer support employee

> The attack is expected to lower operating profits by up to £300mn this year.

that's not counting the reputation and brand damage. M&S is seen as a premium retailer and this whole hack made them seem utterly incompetent and unreliable

> had decided to opt for another service provider after the process had completed

i wonder where this other provider is based. i think i'm gonna place another 20 bucks on this.

> The retailer continues to use the Indian group for other services.

lol.

reason we're benchmaxxing is because there's a huge monetary incentive now to have the best performing model on these synthetic benchmarks and that status is worth a lot of money

literally every new release of something point X model of every major player includes some benchmark graphs to show off

exactly, the "i asked chatgpt" people give off 'im helping' vibes but in reality they are just annoying and clogging up the internet with spam that nobody asked for

they're more clueless than condescending

this one time when i was young and dumb and into smoking weed, i remember running out of rolling paper so i rolled a joint using a supermarket receipt i had and smoked it

this was like 20 years ago, still makes me shudder after i learned about the BPA stuff

i think my situation is quite niche - i host a lot of social gatherings for friends at my place and most of the time we like to play music videos on the TV either in the background or actively sharing our music tastes with each other

adblocking YT on a TV is a PITA. i'd rather have it just work, to not interrupt the vibes

seriously. there is nothing more infuriating then an app (which you pay a subscription for) gaslighting you into feeding you more slop even if you click "i dont want to see this" a thousand times. nice placebo button.

i can imagine the smug face on some manager at google that gets himself off to engagement metrics at night because his life is so miserable. i wish these people could be named and shamed, but they hide behind a faceless corporation

except it doesn't whip the llama's ass

React has been pretty stable for many years now and is almost ubiquitous.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of synthetic benchmarks like in the article such as "render a static list of 25000 elements". This never happens in the real world, you would use some implementation of a virtual list instead.

honestly i don't get the point of leaf blowers, you move the leaves with an extremely loud gasoline powered machine from one place to another

for what purpose, to make it someone else's problem and then they can blow them back?

i don't think general intelligence is technically unachievable with ML but i think we're still orders of magnitude away from the amount of compute needed to reach it and everyone is in a honeymoon period because of how useful text prediction and the current state of it has proven to our day to day jobs

i experienced the opposite of this, bought tickets for a band i didn't really want to see, and ended up selling it on ticketmaster for a profit shortly before the concert

i felt like i accidentally made money on some esoteric stock market

i've noticed recently youtube added a "most commonly skipped to" marker on their videos which is very useful when watching on my TV which doesn't support sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments

more and more youtube creators seem to be integrating their sponsors in their videos in a way where if you skip it you miss an integral part and i do wonder if this is youtube's way of fighting against being left out, but then again, i don't know shit, just an interesting observation

i don't trust companies anymore because every time there's a worldwide outage they use softspeak like "we're observing elevated amounts of errors for a small subset of users", hours after some CTO approves to change the status page

imho there's a big market gap for companies that are truly honest with customers instead of corporate gaslighting

because the preachers preach how amazing it is on their greenfield 'i built a todo list app in 5 minutes from scratch' and then you use it on an established codebase with a bigger context than the llm could ever possibly consume and spend 5x more time debugging the slop than it would've taken you to do the task yourself, and you become jaded

stop underestimating the amount of internalized knowledge people can have about projects in the real world, it's so annoying.

an llm can't ever possibly get close to it. there's some guy in a team in another building who knows why a certain weird piece of critical business logic was put there 6 years ago, the llm will never know this and won't understand this even if it consumed the whole repository because it would have to work there for years to understand how the business works

very cool. now let's see the LLM do the laundry and wash my dishes

yes you're free to give it a physical body in the form of a robot. i don't think that will help.

if i only read HN threads i'd assume 95% of users exclusively use some screen readers to read the web

it's become a trope to the point i know i can ctrl-f "screen reader" if literally anything ui related is being discussed