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drw85on Anthropic banned my thirteen 20x accounts, what now?

It was all personal use, just me, doing stuff for my business, I have no employees.

If it's for your business, it's not personal...

drw85on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

I think the biggest difference is that children don't have mental barriers about those things. They just explore and learn, without any thoughts wasted about the usefulness, pressure or excuses not to learn.

drw85on Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

I switched to linux a year ago and in that year had less problems than on Windows.

I had some minor problems after updates once or twice. On Windows i had to boot into restore mode multiple times due to Windows Update screwing something up.

The MS Store also constantly had trouble updating apps and games and i had to manage packages manually and uninstall and reinstall them so it would work again until the next update.

The times were Windows is easy to use and fire and forget are long gone. The decline in quality is noticeable.

drw85on We're Living Through the AI Utopia and Can't See It

The reason it's free is not because they want you to have it for free. It's heavily subsidized limited trial period. The limits are still generous enough to be useful, but that might change when the need for profit gets bigger.

drw85on Show HN: I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPS

It has all the signs of LLM-generated text.

drw85on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

The problem is that it's too expensive. It can technically do parts of my job for me, but at a variable cost that's higher than mine right now.

drw85on Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van

Ah, that's interesting, i had no idea. Thanks. :D

drw85on Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van

On World 6-3, if i use i.e. d3j to delete the 3 lines it deletes the current line + the 3 below. Vim generally treats commands like that as "do this X times including the current line", so it should delete the current line and the 2 lines below.

drw85on Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van

I think the reason to use and teach those keys first, is that they can be used in all the motions aswell. The arrow keys can´t and thus do not really make much sense in a vi context.

drw85on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

But those are obvious errors. What if the AI tells you to up your intake of X and it seems plausible? So you up your intake of X by taking some supplement, but upping the intake of X makes your body deplete more of Y and now you have a new or compounding problem.

A doctor might have never recommended upping X, because they would know what it does to your body. Or they might have suggested additional supplementation to avoid this.

The fact that LLMs are trained on all public knowledge is a huge red flag, because there are more wrong infos out there than right ones. Especially about health, diet, etc.

drw85on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

But for obvious cases like this, you don't need a second or first opinion.

This case is about handing a 3D imaging result to a text predictor and hoping for a valid second opinion.

drw85on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

Nightmare because the AI is just generating a random text that fits the question.

drw85on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

Gamepass was never popular enough to justify the expenses and investments on the level they did.

They just thought growth will forever be exponential until they have a billion subscribers.

drw85on GTA 6 will cost $80

I personally don't really understand the uproar here. Console games have been $80 for a while now. Most of them don't even let you play on release if you dare to just buy the "pleb-Edition" and want you to pay $120 to be allowed to play on release.

Do i like the premium paywall stuff large publishers are doing? No. But this one is comparatively minor.

Sometimes a game comes out that i would really love to play and then i check the store page and feel like if i just buy the game for $80, i'm automatically being shafted by missing out on so many things. It's weird, but it makes me not want to buy these things sometimes. It does seem to work, since all my friends usually go for the $120+ variant.

drw85on GTA 6 will cost $80

It will, but with the usual delay of 1+ year.

drw85on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators

Those are the dark patterns.

Give a player that is hesitant a good opportunity to place a pretty much guaranteed winning bet and try to get them to cross their threshold. Once crossed, it’s much harder not to cross it again for most people.

drw85on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs

I think it's a valid analogy in some contexts. Like when talking to a person that is not aware of non-determinism and hallucinations. Which happens on this website very frequently.

Many people here tell you to use AI like you use a calculator. With minimal or no oversight, with full access to production systems, etc.

To let a non deterministic tool communicate on your behalf, or give it access to critical systems is evidence enough that a good number of people are not aware of these facts.

drw85on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

I worked for some large corps and they all had one thing in common.

Tons of middle management that makes no decisions what so ever.

Everytime you ask a question, they delegate, until you end up at person 1 again and they just can't decide anything.

It's like they all have decision paralysis.

drw85on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs

Would it be a human issue, if you type something into a calculator and the calculated result is wrong?

Would anyone use a calculator confidently, if the result was randomly generated?

drw85on Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

Because you can spend your 100 billion dollars spread over 10 years.

If you build datacenters, you have to spend that money now.

They're also not paying amazon to order GPUs, they're paying for compute usage of whatever hardware they have.

drw85on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

Read a book then?

drw85on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

I don't think it is more desirable, the iPhone Air has reportedly sold way below expectations.

drw85on Why Is Sherlock Holmes English?

That's a bit like asking 'Why is Harry Potter not a middle aged white woman?'.

Because writers of fiction don't have to write about themselves and readers of fiction don't always have to read about a depiction of themselves.

drw85on Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's

It's not. This is how the free version of Outlook that comes with Windows displays ads.

drw85on Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's

I'd argue that this is much worse in a different way.

Imagine the website the ad points to is malicious and manages to install or exploit something.

Outlook happily displays and opens this without confirmation, as long as you pay them for it.

drw85on Htmx Infinite Scroll

Even worse is the back button. Scroll any store and click on an item on page 10 of infinity and then use the back button. Back to page 1 you go. That’s why I open everything in a new tab pretty much by default.

drw85on It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard

I just think there are far too many. Sometimes I just want to add a happy face and there are 500 variations. Then I find one which I think looks happy and hover over it for a second and the tooltip says “shivering anxious constipated”.

drw85on New iPad Air, powered by M4

Since there is FinalCut and Logic Pro on iPad now, larger projects absolutely benefit from this.

drw85on Microgpt

Nice ChatGPT answer. Put some real thought and data in it too.

drw85on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

That's the point. It now gets rendered in Notepad. Before these changes Notepad was just able to edit plain text and not rendered markdown etc.