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I've yet to come up with a workflow where I would want Claude to do this much work... unless I had an extremely detailed spec defined for it. How do you ensure it doesn't go off the rails?
Can this be gifted? Or will the purchase be tied to my email only?
You can patent game mechanics - famous example would be Legend of Zelda's targeting system. Apparently Nintendo is extremely aggressive about patenting game mechanics.

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-is-trying-to-patent-some-really-...

Re:Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:48PM (#39448009)
This would make a great educational blog post
Re:Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:46PM (#39447988)
I'm on OP's side - even if I knew I'd be paying to run some queries against this dataset, I never would have thought it could reach 5 figures in such a short time. And you can't argue that the billing is straightforward. The "Getting Started" guide for the HTTP Archive doesn't even describe what indexes are available/commonly used for limiting the scanned rows.
Re:Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @02:55PM (#37848740)
Here's the link with timestamp (note that the speaker says it was a 2 year transition):

https://www.youtube.com/live/268jdNwH6AM?si=WkgnvqaIwFidt-hc...

Re:Bun v1.0.0 on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:56PM (#37436180)
Woohoo!
Re:Bun v1.0.0 on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:18PM (#37435642)
I have been testing out Bun w/ Nest JS, and oddly it can run a dev server but can't run my E2E tests (using the Bun test runner). I think this has something to do with Nest's heavy reliance on old-school TS decorators.
Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:56PM (#35967657)
Follow-up: the display on this tablet is not as good as I initially thought. It's great for media consumption but not great for text. Seems to have something to do with the subpixel layout required by the OLED display.
Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:41PM (#35922095)
Sounds like something funky is going on... I just flew to/from Europe and I watched many hours of HDR content on mine, and the battery was fine.
Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:47PM (#35909930)
I think they're trying to dump their stock since the P12 is out now?
Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:44PM (#35909912)
Good point! Hadn't considered that.
Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:43PM (#35909898)
I would have liked a slightly higher resolution, but the contrast is so good that you really won't notice in most situations. Certainly for media consumption it looks great.
Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:41PM (#35909884)
Cheapest new ipad is $270, but the base model will have a worse screen. Of course you'll still get all the awesome iPad apps you can't get on Android.
Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:46PM (#35908817)
Android tablets generally feel overpriced right now for what they offer compared to Apple's ecosystem. There's one exception: Lenovo's last gen pro tablet got a small refresh. It's the "Lenovo P11 Pro Gen 2" and it's absurdly affordable compared to the competition right now (~$270). It's got a 120hz OLED display, great general-purpose performance (my previous tablet experience was Samsung's budget S6 Lite, which was a little sluggish and had a worse display.). I'm super happy with my purchase so far.

Downside: the compatible pen Precision Pen 3 seems to be unavailable right now.

[edit: looks like the price has gone back up to $399 in most places. I'd still consider it a good alternative at that price, but if you can pick it up on sale at under $300 it's a no-brainer]

Re:Google Announces Pixel Tablet on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:42PM (#35908775)
Bezels are actually pretty useful on tablets because of how they're held. But I agree in general the specs are just a tad underwhelming. The display is LCD as well, which is a bummer.
I can't wait to see all of the influencers who will feel obligated to post TikToks of themselves eating rotten meat now.
I'm using it to control which fields in a form are visible based on values of other fields.
Ran into the same trouble re: TypeScript. Wanted to break up my definition into smaller chunks but it really did not like that.
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:21AM (#34775523)
Heh - no, just a tool to let companies support chat interoperability between different apps. Lots of companies are running multiple chat apps simultaneously, either due to acquisitions or because there's a department that stubbornly refuses to migrate to a new one.
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers on Sunday February 12, 2023 @07:03PM (#34768554)
I could not have done my last job without this feature, because it required assuming multiple dummy identities across various chat platforms communicating with each other. I still use it to separate out accounts for different parts of my life (work vs conference planner vs personal).
Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:26PM (#34523699)
What a weird attitude. "Why would you ever expect [Business X] to offer [Feature Y] that you, as a potential customer, would like to see?"

edit: especially since they are an outlier in the podcast hosting space in this regard!

Re:The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:41PM (#34523127)
This service doesn't give podcast hosts a way to retrieve their own material. It doesn't inform them that they'll be completely locked into Apple's service. If creators were aware of this upfront, then sure, I'd say "just don't use it" too.
Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:21PM (#34416361)
where are you seeing 1TB max?
Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:18PM (#34416310)
IIRC there was an issue early on with the M1 Macs that involved way higher than normal swap usage, and was potentially bad for SSDs. But I thought that was fixed within months.
Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:16PM (#34416276)
Docker for ARM Macs should be improved with the latest update:

> Yesterday a new @Docker For Mac version was released that will virtualize Intel containers with Rosetta instead of emulating them.

https://twitter.com/tobias_petry/status/1613837074356129792

Re:Ask HN: At 45, I can't seem to read as well anymore on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:19PM (#34330876)
Well this is terrifying (especially as someone who barely sleeps).
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:35AM (#34326364)
I still floss (not as regularly as before), and yeah, the waterpik doesn't replace it.
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:26PM (#34278759)
Ah, I hadn't even thought about power. I'll probably need to go on the cheaper end.

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