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I believe you can use Samsung secure folder to do something like this, I haven’t quite tried it yet though.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:19AM (#50083142)
Now if only I could opt out of training without disabling chat history on a personal plan like I can with ChatGPT and Claude...
Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:57PM (#49869708)
Aren't Cursor Composer models like this too? At some point all the extra RL you do can be considered as proprietary information added.

Not suggesting this is right or wrong, but is sort of the nature of the technology.

I do however know a lot of successful engineers crediting programming on TI-8* graphing calculators to getting them into programming...

I wonder what the best modern equivalent would be? Perhaps web/JS is easy enough to get into these days?

Gemini does the same (though not with health data). The only way to opt out of training on your data is to disable all Gemini chat history.
Gemini is also the only major provider where you can't opt out of using your data for training without disabling chat history.
Re:Banning All Anthropic Employees on Saturday April 04, 2026 @07:36PM (#47644654)
You don’t think openai, google and other companies’ employees don’t do the same thing?

Of all the companies where employees are ghost-contributing llm code, Anthropic would be pretty low on my list to ban.

Re:Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:37AM (#47450552)
Oh man, I ported this to the TI-89 back in 7th grade and made it slightly more school appropriate calling it “pop wars”, trading soda from different machines at different schools instead of drugs.
Re:Shall I implement it? No on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:36PM (#47359702)
It will sometimes do this for gitignored files to avoid reading secret tokens in env files for example. But for certain languages that rely on code generation this can be a pain.
Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator on Sunday March 01, 2026 @04:04PM (#47210633)
Ah I just started using ghostty maybe a week ago and I mostly use quick terminal so I might be missing the panes on the regular windows.
Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:35PM (#47209889)
Zellij has been holding me over with tabs and panes (in quick terminal) while I wait for them to come to ghostty directly.

Tabs (and panes? I haven't tried yet) should work fine for regular terminal windows though.

The DoW wants to only be beholden to the laws, and not to Anthropics TOS.

So the question is: do you trust the government to effectively govern its own use of AI? or do you trust Anthropic's enforcement of its TOS?

Re:The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:28PM (#47185133)
I see it as trying to apply the bitter lesson to robotics. Specialized robots will always have their place, but humanoid ones can take advantage of all the design interfaces that already exist in the world for humans.

Similar to how claude code gained so much traction in terminal by just leveraging the command line interface that already exists for humans, no need to invent a domain specific MCP to just run shell commands.

I agree with you that it's far from the most efficient approach for specific tasks. But the analogy would be that you also generally don't want to use LLMs to do something you can "just" write a script for... that doesn't make LLMs useless though.

Both can be true. I have personally experienced both.

Some problems AI surprised me immensely with fast, elegant efficient solutions and problem solving. I've also experienced AI doing totally absurd things that ended up taking multiple times longer than if I did it manually. Sometimes in the same project.

> The fact that I can unlock and relock the bootloader is not a security issue or a risk. People who don't know what that means cannot possibly do it by mistake.

The second sentence is false. Lots of people blindly follow things and don't understand consequences until they brick their devices. Those who don’t break something won’t notice if they’ve silently backdoored themselves.

People asking for support after getting themselves into some weird hole they never should have been in because some friend or online article said so is super common.

Re:LM Studio 0.4.0 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:27PM (#46801044)
Tailscale serve
Re:Apple M5 chip on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:37PM (#45596716)
That seems like a typo or incorrect info, the M5 MBP definitely can be configured up to 32 GB, and the Apple page mentions 32 GB explicitly as well.
Re:Auth.js Joining Better Auth on Friday September 26, 2025 @08:16PM (#45392331)
You can probably infer some from their Ory case study: https://www.ory.sh/case-studies/openai
Re:GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:59PM (#44828877)
But given the option, do you choose bigger models or more reasoning? Or medium of both?
You don't do it manually. You have claude do it once you’ve guided it back on track to remind itself not to do it next time.
Re:Introducing Gemma 3n on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:13PM (#44389836)
Seems like that was a preview model, unknown if this released version is different
Re:Swift 6 on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:54PM (#41572628)
Kotlin Native's choice to go with a GC over native memory management is my biggest issue with it and really limits its use for memory and performance sensitive use cases.
So basically [engineering] design is more important than implementation details.

I would say the "engineering" part of the design is also optional, as product design is also another lever of higher influence than code optimization.

Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:46AM (#40828345)
That’s a recent development, used to be something else altogether.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:44AM (#40828334)
I had a bunch of very tenured teammates that didn’t really know how to use git, so there were only a few of us comfortable enough integrating and interacting with an open source dependency repo.

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