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Re:GPT-5-Codex on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:56AM (#45330774)
Why yes, you're right, poor code hygiene and poor documentation hygiene does matter. We finally agree.
Re:GPT-5-Codex on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:07PM (#45280762)
[delayed]
Re:GPT-5-Codex on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @12:48PM (#45264695)
Brand new, clean install of npm.

Poor code + doc hygiene is the problem here.

Re:GPT-5-Codex on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:36AM (#45259196)
The install errors out after following two basic install commands. This is poor code hygiene on the part of the authors. That's "not ready for primetime" in my book.

  npm ERR! code 1
  npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep
  npm ERR! command failed
  npm ERR! command sh -c node ./lib/postinstall.js
  npm ERR! /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/download.js:199
  npm ERR!                     zipFile?.close();
  npm ERR!                             ^
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.'
Re:GPT-5-Codex on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:28PM (#45255147)
Doesn't seem ready for prime-time. I'll be impressed when it actually installs.

npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command sh -c node ./lib/postinstall.js npm ERR! /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/lib/download.js:199 npm ERR! zipFile?.close();

Re:Prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:55PM (#44805989)
I think they are morally corrupt.
Re:The Untold Impact of Cancellation on Friday August 01, 2025 @08:52AM (#44756051)
cancellation often doesn’t feel that much conceptually different from cultural revolution struggle sessions.
a smart judge who is minimally tech savvy could learn to train a model to predict MNIST in a day or two
It’s not a good objection. It conveniently ignores the actual data.
Bluey has made be a better father and partner. Unicorse was ZERO help as usual though.
Re:Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @07:47AM (#43171175)
I love when something like this pops up. Crazy useful, like the various UTC conversion web apps out there.
Re:Emil's Story as a Self-Taught AI Researcher (2020) on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:08AM (#42974259)
Guy seems & speaks like a charlatan.
ctrl-f "android", expected result
Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:28PM (#42835428)
no one wants or need copilot.
exactly what I expected, and thank you!
Re:Starship Flight 7 on Friday January 17, 2025 @07:10AM (#42736707)
Musk is going to end up killing a lot of people unintentionally.
i'll wait to see what sean carroll thinks.
This is very cool and I applaud you OP.
Re:The Unraveling of Space-Time on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:11PM (#41737430)
Seriously. This page looks and interacts like shit on my iPhone. Gave up and went to reader mode. Still sucks.
are we really citing ChatGPT in comments now
I’ve created hundreds of millions of dollars of value working remotely over the past 10 years of my career. Companies are entirely free to skip out on that if they like. Fine by me :)
Re:German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:42AM (#41320178)
the most vulnerable populations in the UK look to be doing a heck of a lot better than the most vulnerable populations in other areas of the world.

not sure how you're concluding totalitarianism is running the show in the UK.

Re:First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @09:13PM (#40519074)
This should be stopped, in my opinion. Feels extremely unethical.
Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:30AM (#40398465)
Very curious to see what other astronomers think about this in the comments. My gut feeling is there are almost certainly natural explanations for these. Just seems unlikely we would only be starting to see these now, even with the greater resolution of telescopes & increase in compute to crunch through the data.

If there were 7 of these ripe for the plucking that were actual Dyson spheres, each one would be the single greatest discovery in all of humanity. Just seems a little too easy.

Re:Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:38AM (#40366795)
It's not flaming. An astonishing amount of money has been wasted on the promise of cross-platform mobile development. At this point, anyone continuing to push it is complicit in the scam.
I love this. Great job. Bought you some coffee.
Re:Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster on Thursday May 02, 2024 @08:06AM (#40235188)
Cross-platform development, the scam that never ends.
Re:Mamba Explained on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:57PM (#39880951)
that's not what it says in the article. it actually says "information from all previous tokens can be passed to the current token".

that statement is meaningfully different from "all previous tokens can be passed to the current token". and both really makes sense if you understand attention mechanisms.

Re:Tissot's Indicatrix on Saturday February 03, 2024 @10:44AM (#39241378)
Ha, my first thought too. Some new kind of movement to follow the Powermatic 80, perhaps?

But like someone else said, a very interesting read.

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