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I really want to like the Kobo. I really do. But I've had such bad luck with their devices. For example, sometimes the pages randomly start turning, really fast, so I completely lose my place. It also never reliably syncs between devices. And the integration with Overdrive is unreliable, only working some of the time. I also read it in the bath sometimes, which supposedly is one of the features available due to the water resistance, but the steam causes random clicks on the device, which makes it not really functional.

For me, I've mostly switched to reading on my phone. Dark mode, plus OLED, works very well for my needs.

I too have noticed the shift in completely different contexts. Definitely gives me real pause. Mental acuity and sharpness is so important; it's the foundation of who we are as people...

> "People’s persistence drops."

Has anyone else noticed this, as they've scaled up their AI coding use? I've found it harder to stay on task, and it's affected a broad range of my personal activities. I'm able to make incredible things happen with AI tools, but do worry about the personal costs.

That's great!

Any chance I can pay for a license that includes one year of updates, as opposed to just doing a monthly subscription?

That looks nice! I do have to say, though, that having the contact history automatically visible in a sidebar is incredibly useful. I would consider adding it as an option to your app. Having it available at a glance, versus having to click through to a different page, makes a huge difference. Em Client also lets me hover over a message in this sidebar to pop-up a small version of it, so I can see just what it said. It's very useful when writing someone to be sure what you've recently (or distantly) said to them. Removing steps to getting this information is vital.

I really want a fast multi-email client that can easily show full contact history in a sidebar. Any options out there? Em Client does this, but it is buggy and/or slow. No such Thunderbird plugins exist, either.

We created products they want.

I have a similar story -- we peaked at around $20k USD per month for quite a while. However, when ad-rates started declining, we changed our business model, and are now earning much more without any ads at all. I have to say, I'm glad to be rid of Google Ads, as they're full of many, many scammy advertisers.

The lesson here shouldn't be that Claude Code is useless, but that it's a powerful tool in the hands of the right people.

> There is no substitute for high quality work.

That's where you get it wrong. The world is full of mediocre and low quality work in many, many fields. We all, in fact, depend on mediocre work in many ways.

Many, many people would prefer a solution with mediocre or even bad code than no solution at all while they wait for "high quality work" that never appears.

The magic of LLMs, especially as the technolgy improves, is that a truly mind boggling number of solutions to problems will be created with thoroughly mediocre (or worse!) LLM generated code. And the people benefitting from those solutions won't care! They'll be happy their problems are being solved.

You have to think about the security implications of this.

How many people had any idea this was happening? Very few, I suspect.

A malicious actor could take control of a model provider, and then use it to inject code into many, many different repos. This could lead to very bad things.

One more reason that consolidated control of AI technology is not good.

The term "Western" is often used in an equally broad sense, referring to Europe/North American culture.

Password reset emails are a real bane. Because email is unreliable, they often don't work, so I end up with customers contacting me wondering why it's not working for them.

One of our software suppliers has particularly bad software for password resets, so there's a steady stream of people needing help for one reason or another. This company seems unable to fix these problems, unfortunately. Ughh.

If someone pays for a product, and then gets support for it, that's not FREE support. That's paid support. It's not their fault if the company they're a customer of loses money when they support those they've sold a product to.

40 years from now we won't be able to boot our device until an LLM codes the software on the fly for it. (Each time it boots, of course.)

Remember, the reason the iPad doesn't do Steam is because Apple won't let it. It is perfectly capable otherwise.

I wonder if there is an enterprise market for a fully audited, fully customizable phone that can be deployed across an entire organization, giving the institution full control of the software, apps, security, usage, etc.

Companies like Burger King spend significant amounts of money on quality control, including customer service interaction. (Hence, mystery shopping being a thing.) I wouldn't be surprised if they find more ways to add AI into the loop, including analyzing photos of produced food, on top of analyzing customer service interactions, just as a cost saving measure.

Give buses signal priority and their own lanes. This would dramatically speed up bus service. However, nobody wants to slow down cars, hence buses will always be a worse option.

Programmers have always been in search of an additional layer of abstraction. LLM coding feeds exactly into this impulse.

Money laundering has always been a core feature of cryptocurrency, not an edge case.

Redistributing copyrighted content is the literal definition of copyright infringement. Using it for your own purposes, without distribution, is another story.

This link was posted with intent to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted material. The person who posted it justified posting the link by saying some people don't have a subscription.

I understand that some people think copyright shouldn't exist, but it clearly is being circumvented here.

And by making it easy for them to circumvent copyright, they have even less incentive to support the journalists who did the reporting.

> So I guess the key takeaway is basically that the better Claude gets at producing polished output, the less users bother questioning it.

This is exactly what I worry about when I use AI tools to generate code. Even if I check it, and it seems to work, it's easy to think, "oh, I'm done." However, I'll (often) later find obvious logical errors that make all of the code suspect. I don't bother, most of the time though.

I'm starting to group code in my head by code I've thoroughly thought about, and "suspect" code that, while it seems to work, is inherently not trustworthy.

Please understand that circumventing copyright makes it more difficult for journalists to make a living.

I don't know -- but I'm a paid subscriber to 4 newspapers.

You can't pay $.001 to $0.05 to get someone to do actual reporting.

News companies already have syndication, and revenue sharing based on it. A subscription to a newspaper often includes many articles written by other newspapers, distributed via syndication agreements.

You know who isn't arguing for micropayments for news articles?

Pretty much every damn publisher.

Nobody who wants to build a stable business would want to depend on micropayments.

Such a system would be a race to the bottom, just like garnering "Facebook likes" and similar "virality" is a failing proposition. (And look at what happened to companies like Buzzfeed, who were focused on just this.)

We have a huge problem in our society, of people not valuing journalism, and not wanting to pay for it. Here on HN you regularly see people attempt to actively subvert copyright (by linking to "archive sites"), in addition to the constant drip of criticism when publishers do things to try to build their business, such as collect email addresses, use paywalls, etc.

Publishers need reliable, stable, income, not the lottery type system that would come from micropayments. They need to be paid to do journalism, not write articles that convince people to spend "coins" on them.

Fortunately, publishers are actually figuring out how to build stable businesses. There's still a lot of work to do, especially in terms of local journalism, but it's clear that there is no future for micropayments, based on what seems to actually work.

And please, I beg you, set aside a budget to support journalists, and spend it.

Benchmark maxing could be interpreted as benchmarks actually being a design framework? I'm sure there are pitfalls to this, but it's not necessarily bad either.