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But “health” isn’t just longevity and cancer rates
Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:56PM (#50331242)
The combination of ES5 (and successors), Typescript, and community consensus resulted in everybody using “the good parts” without even having to think about it. Frameworks, in proportion, didn’t have to do much
I realize it’s just nitpicking but: that robot it’s a corporation’s property, not a person’s.
I read that one of the other train did push back and told the dispatcher that they were supposed to proceed "at sight". Sad that this was not enough to rectify
Re:Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:08AM (#50259626)
you can set the writing stile to "concise" all you want in the settings of all the LLMs and you still get a wall of text.
Liveview is neat, but it still has quite some raw edges - and it’s not really meant for SSG which is the topic at hand
Any web components solution is probably going to be as big as React
Re:When the Term "Heatwave" Is No Longer Enough on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:57PM (#50215928)
This summer I’ve seen many people miffed (or worse) but the usage of the Italian equivalent of “heatwave” in the media coverage: both general news and meteorologists insisted that “the fourth heat wave was finally passing” or that “a fifth heat wave was looming” while the general experience was that it was insufferably hot from may until September, with little to no relief. It felt like a cruel joke.
You don’t have to wait for an HN post to run that, though
Re:Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:17AM (#50192226)
The only way to be more explicit and literal about it would have been to make the car jump a shark instead of trucks
Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:29AM (#50176814)
A pill of Valerian is enough to make it hard for me to wake up after eight hours of sleep. I can’t imagine how powerful benzos are or what he’ll are the people taking them going through
Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:24AM (#50176780)
Yeah, that’s a classic dilemma doctors have to face. Even my gastroenterologist stopped giving me details as soon as she convinced herself my issues were due to anxiety (they were not, but that’s another story).
you're treating obesity as a moral failure which is not helpful to the people with the problem, not really supported by science, and frankly a not great position to hold in general. Stop thinking about "blame" in the context of health issues and maybe try to see what helps the people who live with those issues.
+1 for another happy customer. I still wish there was a wider version with all the same bells and whistles, though!
lifestyle changes like you envision are notoriously difficult. if I wanted to single one out, "eat less" is clearly non trivial, since every fat person ever is aware of it and has tried it, but "trying" is not the part that gives the result.
If these changes were “trivial” everybody would be doing it
If it was easily preventable there wouldn’t be rising obesity
Healthy people are not healthy because of a rigorous discipline that unhealthy people are missing, though
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:24AM (#50099953)
This, so much. Even really important stuff like their GitHub integration, which works completely differently in Claude desktop, claude code from Desktop client, and Claude code from CLI
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:22AM (#50099938)
Thinking harder (in the sense of LLMs) also can lead to over engineering and including irrelevant work, in my experience
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:20AM (#50099926)
So they are proving that this model of development isn’t really sustainable. I think this blog is a colossal self own “look at what we need to do to make it work!”
Re:Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:23AM (#50071335)
because the longer they wait, the higher the chance of being discovered before they're able to steal anything. I'm sure there's some game theory about this
Do you remember the blog they made about the Apple lawsuit? The lawyers are probably still busy handling that
I'm sorry, it sounds needlessly rough. I wholeheartedly agree that less paternalism would help us all (I'm still bitter at the insane level of paternalism displayed by my country during COVID)
Re:2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:01PM (#50012210)
It should be noted that as of now there are pretty good ways to deal with the cascade
Re:Clean room implementation of Adobe products on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:57AM (#49992991)
Are we doing a daily thread now?
Re:Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:06AM (#49988902)
Saying “this is subtly wrong” won’t do much in the training data for the same generation. Lots of this expertise is closed source for understandable reasons
And yet at the mere suggestion of cyber security they cut you off
Then why do they need a prescription from a doctor in the first place?
Nice try, I don’t have natural gas at home!

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