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So you iterated on the design but not on the code? You have to do with the code what you did with the design. Review, adjust (or ask AI to adjust), rinse, repeat.

I've found that Claude can write code that's on par with what an average SE can produce, but you have to guide it. Write instructions, but also ask it to propose and assess multiple options, even ask it to run a code review and refactoring every so often.

Yes, the code is unlikely to be approved by Linus Torvalds, but so is the code that's made by many humans that is still merged and shipped.

Similarly naive outsider, but I've read things here and there. My understanding is that they should have declared mayday (emergency) and landed (potentially at another airport, potentially in the middle of nowhere) _way_ before so that when they have landed they still had 30 minutes or more of fuel in the tanks.
There's 32-bit audio that sometimes named as floating point.
As a vinyl enjoyer, the sound quality is absolutely not why I buy it. I also use film cameras, and image quality (meaning, definition, color accuracy, etc) is definitely not why I use it. There definitely are those that fit your description, but they are a minority.
Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:47PM (#35085694)
Realistically, how much would this hurt Twitter? Looking at Elon now, he might just go with it.
bluesnooze.app is made to address that.
Serious question — is there a way to defend from this "stealing the API" thing? E.g. building an authentication of some sort and then including a key with your app?
>4. Physical dials where it makes sense (temperature, time etc) instead of clunky touch crap

Physical dials will break eventually. The touch crap doesn't feel as good to use, but actually lasts longer if it's well made.

Re:Google rewrites many page titles on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:52PM (#30089996)
Vivino kinda does that but for wine only. You can scan any bottle with it and it shows you its rating based on user reviews.
I own Lightroom 4.0 from 2012 (that's 10 years ago). It doesn't have the latest features, but it's still a very capable RAW processing software. I don't use it anymore because I've subscribed to the current Lightroom. I've subscribed last year, because (finally!) the new features were compelling enough for me. The old version still works well, even on latest-ish macOS. It still produces great pictures now, as it did 10 years ago.

10 years is not that long ago. In computers and software the difference between 2022 and 2012 is not as big as it was between 1992 and 2002.

Re:Winamp on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:50PM (#29321616)
I have an M1 macbook pro with 16GB of RAM and that website is not stalling, but it's horrible nevertheless.
Re:Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:07AM (#29163562)
As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch on Monday October 18, 2021 @09:53PM (#28914026)
I thought the same when I upgraded from my 2013 13 inch (with SD slot) to 2020 M1. Turns out it's a lot less convenient. As a camera user, it's so simple to just pull the SD card out of the camera and plug it into the MacBook. But now I just plug the camera in with the cable, even though I have the usb SD reader.
Re:Tech firms' nightmare: Vanishing green cards on Sunday September 26, 2021 @11:54PM (#28666928)
Canada's immigration system is built around the immigrant as a person. The US immigration system is built in the colonialism mindset, where the immigrant must fill a need of a US actor - a company (Employment-based), or a US citizen (family-based).
Re:Every engineer should do a stint in consulting on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:25AM (#28548000)
> It felt like fraud at times but we pulled it off so well

This hits home. 99% of work for those projects is common sense, and 1% is that special knowledge that you can learn on the job.

The internet access is largely recognized as utility. The internet services (email, hosting, video sharing, messengers, cloud storage, etc) aren't really a part of that utility. Many ISPs offer some of their own services in addition to the access (@aol.com email anyone?), but that can cause issues if the user moves to a location where their old ISP is not available, or if ISP goes bust.
Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:24PM (#28134807)
Russia does allow American social networks. Facebook and Twitter are alive and kicking in Russia.
Re:No-code startup Bubble raises $100M on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:13PM (#27986244)
Operationalizing an application within an enterprise is its own challenge, and it's adjacent to the creation of said application. There are many custom business applications that were not operationalized even when they were written well, covered all requirements, were tested and accepted. Oftentimes the businesses and vendors have no idea how to get from "the app is ready" to "the app is in use" state.

Without details it's hard to tell if the problem truly was in the app complexity, or because the "non-technical BAs" did not receive proper training, or because of something else.