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Have you driven 7th St. between Adeline St. and Linden St? I wonder if maybe the speed limit is too low. One good thing about not having automated systems like this is it allows natural breaking of rules that are poor rules to begin with, and there is effort in manually enforcing, eventually leading to change
Re:AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @03:55PM (#47784384)
Doesn’t that sound lovely
Speaking personally, the move to unreal engine 5 ruined the feel of the game. Somehow it had a very unique and polished gameplay loop that was as addicting as CS and the unreal 5 launch changed it, at least for the hardware I was running
Re:Believe the Checkbook on Saturday December 20, 2025 @02:26AM (#46334251)
When you have that hair raising “am I crazy why are people touting ai” feeling, it’s good to look at their profile. Oftentimes they’re caught up in some ai play. Also it’s good to remember yc has heavy investment in gen ai so this site is heavily biased
Re:Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:26PM (#43553166)
Would love to see a git repo
Re:Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:21AM (#41838360)
Yes
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Re:TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:25PM (#41351584)
Git uses SHA and then dynamically set the number of characters to use based on repository size. You could do something like this.
Re:Microsoft says EU to blame for the worst IT outage on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:42PM (#41049379)
You can’t “fix issues” if the software is running at the kernel level
Amazing idea
At least google will still walk back on things when they truly suck. Recent example is where they replaced the default Shopping, Images, Videos tabs when you search for something with autogenerated suggestions. It was awful. But, even though it took them a few months, that entire change seems to be reverted.
Re:Raising Children on the Eve of AI on Saturday February 17, 2024 @02:44AM (#39407316)
There is worth in the spiritual sense in that all living things are worthy and all of man are created as equals.

There is worth in a sociological sense in that a disabled person may be a positive contributor to the society in one way, but because of their disability cannot be in another. Similarly a niche artist is a positive contributor in their niche, where an unpopular artist indicates they may be considered less of a contributor than others.

In the sociological sense I would argue yes it is possible to compare “worth”.

No opinion on SOLID with regard to your comment. But DRY is foundational to any code because it forces you to find the right abstraction.
Yeah definitely herd mentality and not fears of recession leading indicators
Re:OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:51PM (#38326297)
Conspiracy time: Is it possible this was all orchestrated? He was fired, causing mistrust in the governance structure, which is part of the remaining open source portion of “open” ai. Then he gets rehired with significant governance changes, thus removing any last vestiges of real power of the open source portion of the company.

Lol

Re:Practical nil panic detection for Go on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:17PM (#38325896)
Well it is in Go, so has to be verbose
Re:.NET 8 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:30AM (#38265499)
Wow that’s a lot of busy work
Is this an ai summarization?
Must be where you live
The health food bowl I like to get for lunch was $11 and is now $15

A chipotle burrito with carne asada steak and guac is now $17

Amy’s frozen pizza was $6.99 and is now $10 (don’t buy it any more, I’ll be dammed if I spend 10 bucks on frozen pizza)

Highly doubt 0 correlation
It’s not a theory, it’s so you are informed. The tax you see up front is a tax on you the consumer, not the business entity
Re:Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:43AM (#37510485)
Flooding an X area field is more water exposed to the air than direct application to a smaller Y area no? So by your own logic more water evaporates into the air with flooding
Re:If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:47AM (#37406824)
In many states in the US if your car lives long enough you get rewarded with exemption from emissions requirements!
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for 500 Alex
Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:50AM (#36858018)
Yeah I noticed something happened late 2019 to SO Google results. I feel like today it is better than it was, but still a far cry from how it used to be. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21503049#21504485)

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