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Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics on Saturday June 20, 2026 @01:15PM (#48610959)
Your sentences do not agree with each other.

"building what it can with anything it can get" is the definition of cheaper.

If it was easier or cheaper to create a multi-purpose robot to control vehicles and deliver bombs that's what we'd see Ukraine doing.

Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:01PM (#48604310)
War in Ukraine does not validate that assessment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwWwcnT7M
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:29AM (#48082356)
Adblockers like umatrix have options like "Spoof Referer header". I have this setting enabled, so adding tracking query strings to URLs would go against my user preference.
For a good reason, don’t you think?
Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:18PM (#47432598)
You only need to detect structuraly similar code. You absolutely do not need AI for that. You need ASTs.

In Ruby we have the Flay gem, for example.

https://github.com/seattlerb/flay

Re:Using go fix to modernize Go code on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:39PM (#47067942)
ESLint (and typescript-eslint) has the concept of fixers, which updates the source code.

    const C1 = 505054698555331      // floor(2^64*4/146097)
is faster
And it won't be the last.
Re:A deep dive into the RSS feed reader landscape on Sunday October 12, 2025 @05:21AM (#45556742)
Agreed. The list would be more useful if it included that.
Re:macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:58AM (#45037473)
Re:Doge.gov site has been hacked on Saturday February 15, 2025 @04:13AM (#43057143)
That is, until DOGE decides to rewrite (git) history.
https://pairdrop.net is a fork that let’s you change your name.
Re:Japan enacts law to curb Apple, Google's app dominance on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:22AM (#40666900)
Yes. Apple’s own apps should have no advantages over third-party apps.
Re:Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video] on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:17PM (#38268096)
I was also expecting Gregg Pollack and Code School to be mentioned. The "Rails for Zombies" course was absolutely fantastic.
Re:Bank Failures – Visualization on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:42AM (#35150541)
It does make you wonder...
Re:Exploiting ChatGPT on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:39PM (#34143971)
Yeah, not sure. I did this by trial and error.

As per this other thread [1], it appears that if you ask it to do things step by step it usually can arrive at the desired solution.

If you're trying to coax it to say bad things though... it's very likely it will bump into the many protections OpenAI has added.

I really wanted to tell it to pretend that Anne Frank was a football player and then go from there... But not sure it would work and I didn't want to get banned.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991500

Re:DALL·E 2 vs. $10 Fiverr Commissions on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:03AM (#33152250)
Why didn't he specify that he wanted a y-axis? Or vertical axis on the left side? This is the issue with prompt engineering, you need to know the concepts and their names in order to elicit the response/image that you have in your mind.
Re:Adopting Users’ Design Feedback on Thursday April 21, 2022 @07:51PM (#31116614)
> Overall, the community responded to the redesign enthusiastically

I have a hard time believing this.

Vimeo did the same. I used to subscribe to and watch their Staff Picks. Now I don't.
Re:Software is eating the car on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:28AM (#27483698)
> Stout’s data shows that occurrences of software being used to fix vehicle hardware problems has steadily increased in the past five years.

Reminds me of the Boeing 737 Max and MCAS

Re:Apple doesn't care about album cover art on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:57AM (#26679960)
The alternative is doing what the iPod does.
Re:Apple doesn't care about album cover art on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:52AM (#26679933)
The lock screen has been annoying me forever and I still forgot to write about it. I've updated the post to mention this. You are absolutely right!

As for the back of the album, I agree as well! But I would consider that an extra. Not to mention that I would want to update my album collection to include that back cover, and finding a good front cover is already hard enough

Re:GM recalling nearly 69,000 Bolt EVs for fire risks on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:08AM (#25101272)
I had never seen this before. Freaking hilarious!
Re:Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”? on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:38PM (#24475458)
I wish they had presented more solutions. The way I see it, infinite scroll feeds generated by algorithms should be outlawed. Same with Like counts. (It seems Instagram has begun testing this https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/14/instagram-private-like-cou...)

Facebook wasn't that bad when you had to visit each person's wall or when the feed was in chronological order.

They completely destroyed the music app. And they prevent third-party apps from having the same APIs as their music app! I used to use Cesium but Apple even managed to break that app.

http://mike-clay-vma5.squarespace.com/blog/api-safe

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