If you can't cheat 'em, join 'em.
Yes, since 7.3. But in that typical verbose and awkward PowerShell way. My quip about PowerShell is that if they called it PowerScript, you'd realize it was bad Python. Great tool for Windows admins who haven't realized…
> Math is about clear communication between people first and foremost. I can't imagine I'm the first one to point out that this is perhaps the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics. > Where's the clear communication…
Opus 5.5 rewrote an awful, legacy Drupal app from scratch in my preferred stack in four hours. This included handling abandoned plugins, migration to a not-insane database schema, and content fixups from a Drupal 4…
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Because if you make enough decisions like that in a product that affects consumers and developers, eventually you turn into Adobe. Or worse, this guy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984862
And yet... 10 straight quarters of ARR decline. CEO leaving. Market prices you like a company in decline. Besides, you're on HN, we don't value revenue here because we're idiots. But even the market agrees. Stock down…
Indeed. I can't imagine I'm the only one signing amended returns this week after having LLMs take a peek at the last three years of tax filings.
By running a Tax Summary report and looking at it, just like I always did. Except this time, with fresh eyes and in a good mood. It's still just a bookkeeper and frankly does a more thorough job than I did.
I chose "both shall fall" (future tense) on purpose. And likely in the same manner: a self-destructive period of reactive fascism, followed by becoming a nostalgic name noted for its crumbling architecture.
I have a business. Sometimes I buy things on Amazon. At tax time, I search for the big business items and categorize them in QuickBooks until I give up. You know who doesn't give up? Claude, who doesn't seem to realize…
Or maybe you'll have better luck in a week when somebody familiar with RAW and a 20 year grudge against Adobe chooses to spend a day of tokens on the problem. Maybe me. Rome wasn't built in a day, nor Adobe destroyed in…
If this surprises you, remember that Cloudflare doesn't cache HTML by default.
The problem with “more harm than good” arguments is that the amount of harm relative to the amount of good is rarely specified. Is it 60/40 harm/good? Then shush, it ain't gettin' fixed in your lifetime. Is it 80/20…
Different site, different backend, different problems. GP was talking about wayback.archive.org, which threw a 429 error just now when I verified the URL.
Which archives? Wayback is different from Archive. Which is different from Archive-It. And the problem with Wayback was power poles being set on fire by homeless people, then SF power in general, then "upgrades," then…
If you use the site, support them. If you are a technical person, offer to help them. But maybe cash, or even the proxy of being able to say they have a large number of cash supporters, isn't really what's needed here?…
He doesn't do much better on the other example. Term-frequency saturation is the important part, and he ignores the 1972 paper by Karen Sparck Jones.
"One of the early victories for me was persuading a young boy of 14 or 15 years of age, named Aaron Swartz, to become the technical architect of the Creative Commons. It took a little persuading, but I told him that…
I don't like talking about this, but first hand knowledge is rarer by the day, and there are entire organizations profiting off this mythology. It's pissing me off. Aaron is not a data point to build stupid metaphors…
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It can and does and may choose to do so unprompted. That was one of my "holy shit" moments. Previously I watched it spit out nonsense to get around edge cases and avoid tests and uttered many of the things I read in…
I can specifically and directly state that is false.
Ah, the classic HN "I keep Wikipedia's list of logical fallacies on my bookmark bar" retort. “No true Scotsman” would require me to redefine “senior developer” to exclude people who disagree with me. I didn’t. And…
If you can't cheat 'em, join 'em.
Yes, since 7.3. But in that typical verbose and awkward PowerShell way. My quip about PowerShell is that if they called it PowerScript, you'd realize it was bad Python. Great tool for Windows admins who haven't realized…
> Math is about clear communication between people first and foremost. I can't imagine I'm the first one to point out that this is perhaps the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics. > Where's the clear communication…
Opus 5.5 rewrote an awful, legacy Drupal app from scratch in my preferred stack in four hours. This included handling abandoned plugins, migration to a not-insane database schema, and content fixups from a Drupal 4…
[dead]
Because if you make enough decisions like that in a product that affects consumers and developers, eventually you turn into Adobe. Or worse, this guy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984862
And yet... 10 straight quarters of ARR decline. CEO leaving. Market prices you like a company in decline. Besides, you're on HN, we don't value revenue here because we're idiots. But even the market agrees. Stock down…
Indeed. I can't imagine I'm the only one signing amended returns this week after having LLMs take a peek at the last three years of tax filings.
By running a Tax Summary report and looking at it, just like I always did. Except this time, with fresh eyes and in a good mood. It's still just a bookkeeper and frankly does a more thorough job than I did.
I chose "both shall fall" (future tense) on purpose. And likely in the same manner: a self-destructive period of reactive fascism, followed by becoming a nostalgic name noted for its crumbling architecture.
I have a business. Sometimes I buy things on Amazon. At tax time, I search for the big business items and categorize them in QuickBooks until I give up. You know who doesn't give up? Claude, who doesn't seem to realize…
Or maybe you'll have better luck in a week when somebody familiar with RAW and a 20 year grudge against Adobe chooses to spend a day of tokens on the problem. Maybe me. Rome wasn't built in a day, nor Adobe destroyed in…
If this surprises you, remember that Cloudflare doesn't cache HTML by default.
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The problem with “more harm than good” arguments is that the amount of harm relative to the amount of good is rarely specified. Is it 60/40 harm/good? Then shush, it ain't gettin' fixed in your lifetime. Is it 80/20…
Different site, different backend, different problems. GP was talking about wayback.archive.org, which threw a 429 error just now when I verified the URL.
Which archives? Wayback is different from Archive. Which is different from Archive-It. And the problem with Wayback was power poles being set on fire by homeless people, then SF power in general, then "upgrades," then…
If you use the site, support them. If you are a technical person, offer to help them. But maybe cash, or even the proxy of being able to say they have a large number of cash supporters, isn't really what's needed here?…
He doesn't do much better on the other example. Term-frequency saturation is the important part, and he ignores the 1972 paper by Karen Sparck Jones.
"One of the early victories for me was persuading a young boy of 14 or 15 years of age, named Aaron Swartz, to become the technical architect of the Creative Commons. It took a little persuading, but I told him that…
I don't like talking about this, but first hand knowledge is rarer by the day, and there are entire organizations profiting off this mythology. It's pissing me off. Aaron is not a data point to build stupid metaphors…
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It can and does and may choose to do so unprompted. That was one of my "holy shit" moments. Previously I watched it spit out nonsense to get around edge cases and avoid tests and uttered many of the things I read in…
I can specifically and directly state that is false.
Ah, the classic HN "I keep Wikipedia's list of logical fallacies on my bookmark bar" retort. “No true Scotsman” would require me to redefine “senior developer” to exclude people who disagree with me. I didn’t. And…