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There's a way simpler solution and it's just to leave your phone at home and put your SIM in a different handset without all your data on it

> Sure, AI (not LLMs) are literally going to cure cancer

If AI cures cancer it will likely do so in a world of such horrible inequality that only the rich will be able to afford the cure

Are there any writing apps? Any way to connect a Bluetooth keyboard? (Or USB)

What a great read. Thanks for posting this!

> Pirates essentially changed the studio's whole identity, something that was incredibly hard to do even in those days.

There are indeed very few examples I can recall of a game that completely changed a studio, but one that comes to mind is Worms. Team 17 mostly made top down shooters and fighting games, until they released a silly trajectory shooting game inspired by the ancient basic game, Gorilla. That was such a massive success they mostly only made Worms games after that

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I wish people would find a decent source for these stories in order to post them on here instead of sending us to a tweet. I'm not on Twitterx and it's a mini nightmare on a mobile browser

Kids are expensive, no doubt. But if you want kids, don't let money be the thing that stops you. That would be a far bigger regret

My dad always used to say I was addicted to screens growing up. I don't think he was far off the mark (nowadays he's as bad as me)

One time, almost all of my hobbies involved computers. I was a coder. A gamer. A writer. A digital artist. A filmmaker. I made fun Photoshop things for friends. I built websites. I did a lot of dtp. I made music with music apps. All of these things involved me staring at a screen for hours, but I don't consider them wasted time.

As I've gotten older and had kids I've tried to dial it down. I don't game anymore. I don't do social media. If I draw, it's usually with the kids on a giant sheet of paper on the floor. I spend a lot of time with my kids and it makes me happy. But even in that, I would have to concede I spend far more of my day and week in front of a screen than talking to humans.

One of the most common regrets on the death bed is "I wish I hadn't worked so hard, I wish I'd spend more time with my family", And while I don't have the benefit of 7 decades of hindsight and any clarity of mind that comes with being near death, it does seem to me like a slightly unrealistic idea, that we simply could have chosen to work fewer hours and spend more time with loved ones.

Most of us work 40 hours a week to pay the bills, and most of us can't afford to cut down that time. And I would guess for most of the people on hn, those 40 hours are spent in front of the computer.

We all have to work, and we can't all just wave a magic wand and step away from the computer and spend time with the kids instead. Otherwise said kids will end up without a roof over their head.

Yes, you probably spend more time in front of a computer than you do talking to your children, but don't beat yourself up about it

Total sidebar, but mun logadans site is better than browsers readability modes. I find it so easy on the eye even though the text is tiny on my phone. I don't know what font css combo is being used but it's perfect

And my point is you'll find both on HN

Oh I'm not saying it happens every time, but maybe one in twenty, you'll get a problem that sends it in circles, and that's enough

It got a lot of use in comedy screenwriting. How many shows have you seen where someone says "don't touch that, that's a load-bearing [object that should never be load bearing]"

The fort episode of community springs to mind but there are plenty others

There's a better solution and that is to just not go on Facebook

The last time I went on Facebook, the ads were so similar to posts it was near impossible to tell one from the other. The problem is compounded by elderly relatives liking or sharing weird AI posts, and an algorithm that seems to be random and non deterministic

There's some variety of little people myth in most cultures. There's also giant myths in most and there's no mushroom for that.

I think those kinds of myths are just natural progressions of exaggerations and oral storytelling

If anyone is triggered by AI content they surely avoid HN

> But so far most of what they do is make more annoying work for me. More integrations to debug, more auth tokens to refresh, more bills to keep track of, more meandering and drawn out descriptions of non-bugs with bogus fix suggestions and misinformed “root cause” analyses. It’s tiresome.

God this times 1000. I'm so sick of having AI chase a bug and having to lead it by the hand like a toddler to try and help me solve bugs. The difference is, a toddler learns when you explain. An LLM holds your responses in context and uses them to generate more authentic sounding garbage, but next session, foomf, the lesson is unlearned again.

I had a tiny problem with prerendering not working on a react site last night, I must have spent close to an hour running commands it asked me to run like a moron, verifying dumb things I had already checked like "did the file actually upload to ftp" or had I restarted Apache or was there some magic htaccess file somewhere. Eventually I just gave up on Claude and tried some different paths in Apache virtual host settings and it worked.

Of course if I went back to Claude and reported that, as would be my instinct with a human, it would confidently explain why that was the bug, why it couldn't spot the issue, and how smart I am for finding it. And then it would forget everything tomorrow

> Cyan hoped it would come away from the conferences with a funding agreement between $1 million and $10 million to finish building Anglerfish.

This seems like an insane amount of capital to make a game that could be vibe coded in a few weeks

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If you want a third reason, sitting too long gives you piles

How does creating fake video amplify anyone's voice?

Not doing terribly well anywhere as far as I've heard. That one is probably not cultural

> Consider the English pub, the French café, the German beer garden, or the American tavern

Tavern?

I can't reproduce. It just tells me my message must have gotten truncated

Agreed, the largest container ships put out some serious pollution, going nuclear (a decades old proven technology for shipping) would be a massive improvement

But the people championing nuclear data centers are not trying to solve climate change

Why not fusion powered data centers on the moon?

True. I'm not complaining. I love half life. It's just an unusual burst

What's with all the half life ports at the moment? I think this is the third one on HN this month

The 2005 iPod was state of the art and you couldn't buy a memory card for it. 300 for something with 30gb storage today is a joke

> You can use iTunes on Windows to load music

Yuck