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Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:37AM (#50316595)
This was true but no longer is
Re:Phone is about to stop being yours on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:37PM (#47937761)
This is not true, running your code on your phone with Xcode has always been free.
AirPods Pro :)
Re:Just Use a Button on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:53PM (#45774767)
Re:Just Let Me Select Text on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:05AM (#45361417)
While I agree with you in general, keep in mind that there are plenty of languages where seeing the characters doesn't give you any info about how to type them. No copy-paste means you'd need to rely on OCR.
Everyone is lying to you. Assuming you're talking about the iOS Simulator, the MacBook Air will do you just fine.
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT UI for Rabbit Holes on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:34AM (#40524250)
I really love this. A book was recommended to me that I'm not going to have time to read, but this UI is an amazing way to figure out the main ideas and dive deeper into the interesting ones.

No idea if the things it's telling me are true or not, but that doesn't matter quite as much in this case.

Re:Show HN: Term Typer – Learn a Language by Typing on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:22PM (#40056095)
I wonder how well this approach would work with handwriting and Hanzi/Kanji. Don't focus too much on learning, just write the characters and learn the meanings over and over again.
If you don't want the automation stuff, it's perfectly usable for free.
I to remember having the exact same thought with the original Pokemon games. I could never wrap my head around how the battles could handle randomness.
Re:GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:17PM (#37227335)
It answers this in the 3rd sentence of the page.

"As with all our APIs, data sent in and out of the fine-tuning API is owned by the customer and is not used by OpenAI, or any other organization, to train other models."

Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:46AM (#37161479)
It's nice that we named it so forward-thinking. Not a necessarily Completely Automated Public Turing test to Keep Computers Out.
Re:‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:23PM (#35427743)
I'll advocate for Lex Friedman (https://lexfriedman.com) and say that you're actually talking about Lex Fridman. :)
This is a false dichotomy. There is value in the normal social interactions of a workplace even if they don't become lifetime friends. Seeing people during the day, small talk, having relationships come and go - these are healthy and enjoyable things even if they never get deeper.
Re:Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:29PM (#31276208)
You can do exactly this with BetterTouchTool. You can also set it up with Hammerspoon.
Re:What I learned from running a concierge search engine on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:06PM (#30834308)
The problem is that this then becomes a cache invalidation problem. Many of the examples presented will be outdated in 1 year, and completely wrong in 5. How can you know which answers need to turnover and when?
Re:Please don't ask founders existential questions on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:38PM (#30691289)
> It is almost certain that if someone is smart enough to build a search engine while living off of ramen, they also know more about what Google is capable of.

I'm not sure this is a given. Tons of brilliant developers (myself included) build complex products without having ever considered the market, or just assuming that users will come out of the woodwork if it's technically awesome enough.

Seems to me that if a founder doesn't have immediate answers to some of these "existential questions", that's a red flag right there.

It's all based off the CoL in county of your primary residence. Has nothing to do with the proximity to an office.
I wrote and maintain Lacona, a Mac productivity App (https://lacona.app). The majority of my revenue comes from being a part of the Setapp subscription service.
Re:Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015) on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:55AM (#29037438)
It would work fine as long as everyone consuming the shopping list has a reasonable idea what normal things your shopping lists. Things like "kili sike loje" (red round fruit) are ambiguous but are no doubt close enough to jog your memory enough to work.

The toughest part that comes to mind would be particular spices. You would probably need to start borrowing words to distinguish between things like thyme and rosemary ("namako Tin", "namako Loseli")

Re:T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:04PM (#28202954)
Google Fi and Google Voice are not the same thing - Fi has no such built-in protection.
Re:We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:47PM (#27934847)
Off topic, but looking through the comments, so many people seem to believe that any multi-family housing is noisy. That has literally never been my experience despite living exclusively in multi-family housing for the past 15 years. Sometimes I can hear my neighbor's kid when they're directly outside my front door. That's it.

Have the folks who think that apartments are noisy just never lived in apartment? Or is my experience the skewed one?

Re:We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:02PM (#27932962)
Very interesting discussion about exactly that misconception in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54
Re:Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine' on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:38AM (#27676427)
Since moving to Boston I have only lived in multi-family wooden houses, and this just isn't true, at least with modern-ish insulation. I can occasionally hear my upstairs neighbor's dog when she gets excited, and precisely nothing else.
Re:They're Made Out of Meat (1991) on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:41PM (#24742067)
That's not how that works. Traveling 100 light years will take >100 years for the folks on the ship no matter how fast it's going.

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