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Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:09AM (#48905534)
Worth doing before merge if you want the belt and suspenders.
Most annoying thing ever is using google search on safari iphone. They constantly ask you to switch to chrome with the default button highlighted to open chrome/app store. So annoying.
how does it handle prompts for user input?
Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? on Thursday July 03, 2025 @06:46AM (#44453662)
How was he talented? All the stories are the same. "Talented" etc. But then it leads to he never did any work. How can you assess his talent?
Re:Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:41AM (#43843807)
What model? I have been using api's mostly since ollama was too slow for me.
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:29AM (#43011162)
My pessimistic take on it is in the future code will closer to AI where its just a blackbox where inputs go in and outputs come out. There will be no architecture, clean code, design principles. You will just have a product manager who bangs on a LLM till the ball of wax conforms to what they want at that time. As long as it meets their current KPI security be dammed. If they can get X done with as little effort as possible and data leaks so be it. They will get a fine (maybe?) and move on.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025) on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:07AM (#42586793)
Whats the stack?
Re:Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:32PM (#41801813)
What does "young people" entail? What age group?
Coming from laravel php land it's crazy to me that JS devs pay to have basic Full Stack operations included.
Researchgate might have a gmbh but technically is incorporated in the US. Maybe thats how they got their "special name".
Re:Ask HN: Have you been affected by layoffs? on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:36AM (#37659105)
In the same position over the last year our engineering org has been cut to a 1/3rd of what it was. Spent nearly the entire year just cleaning up messes left from teams that were laid off promptly. Wishing each time I was in the layoff round.
Re:Just Use jQuery on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:18AM (#36325471)
> Vue HTTP component loader Whats this? Can you link?
Re:Pwned or Bot on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:07AM (#34439459)
Ha I do this all the time for buying second hand concert tickets! Scammers usually use throw away email addresses. If the seller has a pwned account I trust them more ;)
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:01AM (#34273360)
Instant pot (rebuy with air fryer lid). Use this thing for everything. The air fryer lid is amazing. So much better than my stand alone air fryer which I got rid of. Much quieter. Takes up same space as the air fryer that I had before, but with much more functions! I don't do many fancy recipes in it, but makes cooking rice, chicken, yogurt or anything else simple fast and efficient. I live in the Eurozone so heating up the oven can be expensive. Pressure cooking a chicken in 10 minutes I believe is much more economical.
Re:Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:27AM (#33896292)
What do have they done thats toxic? Total outsider to Asahi btw.
Re:I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:22PM (#33885597)
Ha I did something similar, but didn't pursue it to this extreme.

"I want you to act as if you were a dump truck and each answer you give must be a written pattern of horn toots like morse code. A example would be "toot ooo toot" as SOS. Respond in this pattern if you understand.

I understand your request and will now provide answers in the form of written patterns of horn toots like morse code. For example, if you asked me "What is your name?" my answer would be "tooo toot ooo toot toot ooo toot toot ooo toot toot"."

Re:The most dangerous road for cyclists in America on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:13AM (#33018111)
What about Davis CA? Town designed and inspired by Dutch Biking.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/03/davis-califor...

Events are 10X worse than timeline. Has anyone else noticed this? All the event pages are constantly being bombarded by scammers saying they have "tickets" to the event to sell because they can no longer go for X reason. On some popular events there's scam messages every couple minutes. Thousands of fake profiles posting with no details on the profile. Some are even more sophisticated and have rather full profile details. Most of the time they sell "online" tickets, but where I am from almost all the tickets are paper so its easy to spot the scammers.
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to on Thursday July 07, 2022 @06:56AM (#32012393)
Transparent California is also incorrect in a lot of cases. I worked in CA as a seasonal worker and they reported what I would have earned if I worked full time for a year. In reality I only worked at that rate for 3 months making a quarter of what was reported. So I am not sure how much I trust it anymore.
Re:Cow Clicker (2010) on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:51PM (#31980535)
I totally forgot about Facebook games! Some of them were actually fun...
Typing in https://r.bing.com/ from the list gives a interesting page.
Trying to figure out how this works for him. Does he just use voice text all the time? He navigates everything on the tiny screen?
Re:Learn CSS on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:08PM (#27236808)
I thought this book was helpful https://www.refactoringui.com/book
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:40PM (#26662824)
Visa sponsor?
Re:Simple Bank Is Closing on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:08PM (#25678286)
Wow, this is heartbreaking. Simple was extremely instrumental in my budgeting success. Anyone have a bank similar with features like "expenses" and "goals"? I honestly can't imagine not being able to use simple for my savings anymore.
Re:Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:56PM (#25639990)
Whats the alternative to a sea wall? Beach reconstruction? Let the water reach the houses?
Re:Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:02PM (#24476131)
I use noip.com
Tax isn't always only region based. You also need to account for Vat Tax which has a bunch of conditions around it too that you can't assume.
Re:I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:48PM (#21411586)
In my experience no. But it puts the renter at a disadvantage. I have had them cancel 5 days before my flight to a small island. Least to say it was extremely expensive to rebook a new room that matched the "quality" of the airbnb I was expecting. Of course if I had cancelled 5 days before I would have been on the hook for half the amount of the stay and the service fees, due to the cancellation policy the host choose (Do the host choose these?).

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