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ardacinar··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Parent comment was talking about "widespread adoption of social media", not anything qualitative.
ardacinar··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
They're happy that it is locked down. They're not happy that they're not the ones doing the locking down.
ardacinar··on How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
I don't think there are any pneumatic air gun "provider"s that come with an associated risk of them claiming your carpentry work.
ardacinar··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Well, for my case, I was paying $0 (Exactly, I managed to hunt down and delete every last resource in my account a few months ago). It was displaying $430 million for me. I don't think that is 0*2^30.
ardacinar··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
I hope they're not planning for that large of a cost increase.
ardacinar··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
Well if you're calling an API you host yourself to populate that said UI, not needing to host that UI as a webpage is not that much of an advantage.
ardacinar··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Yep, that's not an excuse. Claude goes down all the time, should pi also go down?

Oh wait (from another comment under this article): > https://pi.dev/models is throwing an internal server error for me.

ardacinar··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
Citation needed. Machine Learning was NOWHERE NEAR as overused as AI in user-facing communication.

The last one is a traditional nerd criticism though, it has been present on HN for the last ~20 years. Kind of ignorable.

ardacinar··on Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
Neither is your time writing that prompt. When people are talking about elaborate prompts, with a lot of detailed instructions, guardrails etc. I'm kind of assuming it takes time.
ardacinar··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
You real solution is literally the workers controlling the means of production.
ardacinar··on A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses
Well, you can just treat them like they are anybody else. So, $1000 fine plus a point on the license of Waymo. And as suggested by another commenter in the thread, if the cars in the fleet (collectively) accumulate more than 4 points within 12 months, Waymo loses its license. As in, all cars operated by Waymo.
ardacinar··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Practically; yes. MMOs have been doing this kind of thing (Preventing alteration / automation of the client) for ages now.
ardacinar··on TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components
GraphQL and SQL are about as related as Java and Javascript
ardacinar··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
Are we sure that the things listed here will not go away in a few years if Google continues to exist?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

ardacinar··on Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
Expected Value
ardacinar··on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
By the way, acquisitions are easier to defend IMO. There are definitely cases of "Business X acquires business Y" that have no anti-competitive intent or anti-competitive consequences. But at least anecdotally, I can say mergers that do not lead to anti-competitive behavior are quite rare.
ardacinar··on Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software
It is called something like chai in half of the word and something like tea in the other half :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_...

ardacinar··on Finnish as a world language?
Not Finnish, but in Turkish (another language without gendered pronouns) I'd use something like "o ne dedi bu ne dedi" (what did that say, what did this say)

I'd guess Finnish has more than one demonstrative pronoun, too :)

ardacinar··on What will a Chromium-only Web look like?
A blockchain-free protocol is not a protocol with "no you can't do anything blockchain related on this" restriction. A blockchain-free protocol is one where the protocol itself does not involve a blockchain. Like HTTP, or FTP, or Gopher, or IRC, SMTP etc.
ardacinar··on Turkey's Financial Crisis
I remember there was an instance of a soldier being beheaded on the Bosphorus bridge. Not sure about the plural though
ardacinar··on Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation
It is y/y (comparing Nov 2021 to Nov 2020). m/m 7% inflation is generally something more catastrophic.
ardacinar··on Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% in a day
More like two thirds of it, by the way.
ardacinar··on The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (2005)
Isn't that just erlang?

Snarkiness aside, that would be interesting. Not just as an educational tool, but it might be useful in the same way as erlang is (large, fault-tolerant, massively parallel systems). But with OOP instead of FP (Elixir attempts to be the "friendly"/more conventional version of erlang, but it is still very much a functional language).

ardacinar··on Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo
Kind of. I mean, that's pretty much the reason it stayed there after being the provisional capital.

Why was it the provisional capital? Well, the major cities (Istanbul, Izmir) were occupied. Ankara was * Controlled by Ataturk's government * Centrally Located * Decently Large (i.e. not a village)

ardacinar··on Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
> There needs to be some sort of institution that can verify these claims that these companies can use.

A government?

ardacinar··on YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
I guess the solution here is to not use your main Google account with youtube vanced?
ardacinar··on How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub
What about I randomly generate a number, add it to the illegal number to get a result. Is the resulting number illegal or not? (Thinking about it mathematically, the resulting number's distribution isn't really affected by the illegal number - Maybe we can practically find something by taking a lot of generated numbers and analyzing the apparent distribution)

Another idea is to generate a random number and multiply it with an illegal prime. If the illegal prime is a sufficiently large number; we can extract the original illegal prime with very high confidence by just finding its prime factors and picking the shortest one.

ardacinar··on Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France
Well, not as much of an organization. Ulku ocaklari is the successor organization. Although it shares the same ideology as with its historical counterpart, it is considered mostly harmless. Generally due to the sheer incompetence of the organization).

However, there are far too many individuals/groups (Equivalent to Mafia in Turkey, ultranationalist gangs in Europe) that sympathize/share views with said organization. And those guys are definitely not "mostly harmless".

ardacinar··on Evolving Reddit’s Workforce
For me in Turkey: Having my tied to a foreign country is kind of inconvenient (paying fees and having to wait for a swift transfer). Having it tied to an exchange rate has benefits that far outweigh the inconveniences of the transfer (With the way exchange rates have been going for the last few years, it feels more like* you get automatic raises throughout the year tied to inflation in addition to your yearly raise)

* I know it is not that, but it feels like that. Also thankfully not tied to the officially reported inflation rate in Turkey

ardacinar··on Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)
That would be a good point if the non-metric system we are discussing was based in binary. It's mostly (but not entirely) based around base-12 and uses 1/3 very commonly as a fraction (as well as 1/6). 1/3 and 1/6 does not have an exact floating point representation.
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