Nothing notable here.
Very reasonable.
Very reasonable to have a list of banned features longer than the spec of most languages.
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Nothing notable here.
Very reasonable.
Very reasonable to have a list of banned features longer than the spec of most languages.
Like the aqueducts it’s moved past the state where its disrepair is even noteworthy. Most people have only ever known it like this. They don't ask for it to be fixed, because to them the crumbling walls aren't a "condition,” they're just *what it is*.
Trying to use drag-and-drop feels like being a medieval peasant looking at the ruins of the Roman aqueducts, incapable of doing what they were built to do, instead only serving as a persistent reminder of a more technologically advanced past.
One of the places AI has arguably been most widely deployed is law enforcement, yet no one has pointed to this as evidence of a coming “end to police jobs” like they do for all other fields. What a fascinating discrepancy.
Mar-a-Lago Face is the Liquid Glass of cosmetic surgery.
I always figured that MongoDB was nothing but exploits that when put together experienced the emergent behavior of roughly (and I do want to emphasize *roughly*) approximating database-like behavior. It’s to software what a retro-virus is to life.
Liquid Glass has now transcended to Universal Allegorical Status in iOS 26.1, somehow managing to serve as an example of every possible bad design pattern. Fitting that the final puzzle piece was where all bad design eventually ends up: “If all else fails, make it a setting!”
You'd think 3 movies in people would understand by now that "Tron" is not the name of the main character, that's "Link." "Tron" is the name of the *princess*.
"I’m sure I’ll get used to it over time" has become the unofficial creed of the Mac user.
The fact that we are three versions into AirPods Pro and the case *still* doesn't have a latch is fairly conclusive proof that Apple executives do not use AirPods Pro.
I hit “Download All” to prepare for my flight, and Disney+ helpfully prioritized them in the most logical and obvious download order: 3, 2, 1, 4.
*Perfect number* to make H1Bs a tool that is out of reach for startups but still meaningful for large entrenched corporations. Nailed it. Maybe they can even waive the fee if you give the US government 10% of your company.
I was vaguely aware that there was a nihilism epidemic in Gen Z but this is ridiculous.
For everyone who was thinking to themselves “The world is too stable these days. Too predictable. Boring." Apple just dropped a little gift for you in the form of macOS/iOS 26.
I do like that LLMs are making em dashes go out of style. Never liked them or their spacing rules. Looks wrong to have it touch both words around it, and probably breaks a bunch of word-splitting code. Imagine if the correct use of colons was no spaces:like this. Do you like that? Of course not.
It sort of feels like Apple is taking the same approach to macOS as Trump is taking with the US. Trump is bizarrely jealous of 3rd world countries and is lighting everything on fire to unlock “sweatshop mode.” Apple seems jealous of Windows and is lighting everything on fire to unlock “Vista mode.”
I happen to agree, but I was just trying to make clear that this point is independent of any "LLM worldview," and thus hopefully avoid a knee-jerk reaction to some perceived "deep critique" of LLMs. I just want them to realize the practical issues maintainers are dealing with right now.
Rest of the thread.
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Here is an attempt at making my LLM thread screenshot more legible (previous paragraph of each portion is included in each successive image to hopefully ease context). Original bsky thread below, and I'll also just quote second in the next post. Wish I could just edit...
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Apologies, I forgot that I normally screenshot my phone, which leads to much more readable font sizes and line widths. Going to try to remedy it in the original, but meanwhile here is a direct link: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521...
It feels like complaining about how you broke your foot, only for them to sigh and (condescendingly) share with you their tips and tricks for how to best manage your Spotify playlists.
More worrying is how common it is to have someone “argue” by sharing how useful it was in their *totally unrelated scenario*. Is it really not common knowledge that “coding on your stuff” is very different from “managing and triaging contributions”? Their “advice” isn’t even wrong, just irrelevant.
Like many LLM topics, I’m not even necessarily opposed to the idea that *someday* LLMs could be used for this, maybe even amazing for this! But regardless of their “future potential,” I am *baffled* that people seem to sincerely not understand that they are *obviously* not ready for that *today*.
Some thoughts on "contributing” code to open source projects using LLMs.
Yes but only the MagSafe is integrated into the battery widget to show you that pitifully small amount drain away!
The MagSafe battery is so silly. It takes battery that *should be in the phone* and puts it in a *heavier* and *less efficient* (Qi) package. Look at how much of this *isn’t* battery: Qi coils, a *motherboard*, etc. Why? Just put the battery in the phone! And hey it’ll never accidentally fall off.
The Trump statue was bad enough, did they really have to *also* offer the iPhone in Trump Orange? #AppleEvent
Look at this bizarre design. Imagine if instead of *3 distinct & asymmetric levels of thickness* the back just came out to the lenses. It'd look better, not tip on a table, be easier to hold, & probably 2x the battery. But then they couldn't talk about how thin the uh... "thin" part is. #AppleEvent
Great, then why is it presented by a dude on a bike? Wouldn’t it bounce around like crazy while riding a bike? More importantly: there’s a way to design this so it doesn’t make you look like a tourist carrying around your passport.
Having more or less exhausted the marketability of “cool,” Apple is now aiming to the corner the market on “doofus”. Step aside fanny pack! #AppleEvent