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Are there no property taxes in the US? And how do you know if the price is reasonable without knowing its relationship to the property size?

Pretty sure you're responding to someone talking about game development.

I’m not sure if resets require that much compute, maybe a few whales will use the service a bit more right after a reset. What matters more is the money, as they’re giving away free usage, and subsidising subscription users even more.

I haven't received any AI spam. You don't need an LLM to spam people.

Good spam filters should be enough to get rid of spam without annoying people who email you.

The author has supposedly created a company (https://sf.tools/), with a broken /jobs page, and yet is developing the project under their personal GitHub account. Does not look trustworthy.

On the first screen, the only "rewriting" done was s/dataroom/Room/g.

Stewart Butterfield has talked about the pressure Slack faced from large organizations in its early days wanting features that would have fundamentally changed what Slack was. The requests were reasonable on their face: more administrative controls, different permission structures, audit logging. Each one seemed like a logical extension. Taken together, they were a blueprint for a different product aimed at a different user. Butterfield’s team had to repeatedly decide what they were actually building.

I'm pretty sure Slack has those things by now. So the question is, what did the team actually end up building? What features were prioritized over the enterprise compliance features? Would Slack have less revenue had they gone with the enterprise stuff first?

https://hackaday.com/2023/08/29/polish-railways-fall-victim-...

tl;dr: Trains can be stopped by a transmitting a simple, documented tone sequence over analog radio.

The short version is, the DOS-era Japanese character sets had replaced \ with ¥, and modern Windows still shows paths as C:¥WINDOWS if you're using the Japanese locale.

But they do see / or : in file names, and the interesting question is which one it is today on which filesystem.

You need a separate UI to handle things like entering the file name and filtering for appropriate files. Windows was designed so that the same file browser component is used in the Explorer and in open/save dialogs (but with Windows 7-era UI), but on Linux, which file manager should GTK use? GTK sometimes likes to pretend it’s separate from GNOME.

Can we stop this stupid trend to generate prose using LLMs?

First DuckDuckGo result for "windows s mode": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of...

Packaging can be irritating although uv takes the sting out a bit.

uv proves the OP’s point. Why couldn’t the core team and the core-adjacent PyPA make a tool as liked as uv, and why is the Python package manager uv written in Rust and not Python?

The standard library is full of dead batteries. If the stdlib is so good, why does everyone install requests instead of using the stdlib http client? And why requests or something like it hasn't been adopted into stdlib after so many years of stability?

IEEE Spectrum is one of the many things that is always high on the HN front page, but is never worth reading.

Let’s look at the Git history: https://github.com/jdevalk/specification.website/commits/mai...

Yeah, mostly slop. I wonder why the slop slingers never disable Claude's self-attribution, and are too lazy to commit themselves, are they proud that they're delegating everything to a slop machine?

Google barely maintains Blogger, and people have old blogs with old templates they never felt the need to change.

Taking notes in class is akin to making a transcript of what the teacher said in class so you can remember and refer to what was said in class. The encyclical is a written document, so there is no need for a transcript, and "notes" implies commentary and analysis.

Where are the notes in this post? I can only see a bunch of quotes and zero original thought of the author.

They don’t, they just have Claude commit and push straight to the main branch. Just like the author of this 100% slop app: https://github.com/leodavinci1/kanbots/commits/main/

And building a chat app is how you get promoted at Google.

https://station.railway.com/community/what-we-know-so-far-ma...

Around 22:20 UTC, our Google Cloud account was placed into a "restricted" status hence removing all of our cloud overflow VMs, our CloudSQL instance, and our API.

Sure, they have a wonky-looking ribbon now, but try doing anything more advanced, and you’re back to Office 97-era UX.

When the AI bubble inevitably pops, the author will find a new way to skew results in favor of cloud LLMs. Like including the price of a desk and a chair in the local token cost.

The UI is still terrible, still on the level of Microsoft Office 97.

Border crossings inside 10 minutes. International rings.

Or normal people living in Europe in border-adjacent areas.

Also, I guess you don't include card-not-present transactions in this, but you incorrectly assume that every merchant has their location set correctly. And that every sale happens in a brick-and-mortar establishment, not from travelling salespeople or whatever. And that all transactions happen online.

I think it would be fair to distinguish "reasonable report, but not actually a vulnerability" (where you get the submission fee back) and "slop" (where you don’t).

It's classic IEEE Spectrum, uninspiring slop since before slop was cool.

The Wikipedia article does:

After several hours and several drug injections, Jackson was still unable to fall asleep, and, according to Murray, was repeatedly asking him for "milk", a nickname for the powerful surgical general anesthetic propofol, which Jackson had used in the past as a sleep aid. At 10:40 a.m., with Jackson still not asleep, Murray relented to his requests and injected him with 25 milligrams of propofol diluted with lidocaine. With Jackson finally asleep, Murray testified that he left his bedside to go to the bathroom, and after returning two minutes later, discovered that Jackson was not breathing and had a weak pulse.