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jm547ster··on What is “good taste” in software engineering?
Yeah the Linux language gets most people's goats......
jm547ster··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
Sounds like you picked some obscure tasks to test it that would obviously have low representation in the data set? That is not to say it can't be helpful augmenting some lower represented frameworks/tools - just you'll need to equip it with better context (MCPs/Docs/Instruction files)

A key skill in using an LLM agentic tool is being discerning in which tasks to delegate to it and which to take on yourself. Try develop that skill and maybe you will have better luck.

jm547ster··on Claude Integrations
The opposite may be true, the more effective the model the lazier the prompting as it can seemingly handle not being micromanaged as with earlier versions.
jm547ster··on The hidden cost of AI coding
I can guess your background (and probably age) from this comment
jm547ster··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Aider is not agentic - it is interactive by design. Copilot agent mode and Cline would better comparisons.
jm547ster··on A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports
Phase is relative, you are trying to sound intelligent
jm547ster··on Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
Seems to have been heavily downvoted also, it's flown off the front page. Times have changes for HN. Also double standard when it comes to the like of Deepseek r1 earlier this week :shrug:
jm547ster··on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19
CIA/NSA? KGB hasn't existed for more than 30 years, no doubt the FSB will be engaged in similar pursuits
jm547ster··on Open-Source Cola
If you're ever in Limerick you can pick some OG KFC recipe chicken https://www.ilovelimerick.ie/chicken-hut/
jm547ster··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Apple Music if you're in that ecosystem
jm547ster··on Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
Jira service desk to a separate backlog which is reviewed and filtered.
jm547ster··on Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls"
Reminds me of modern API layers bolted on top of crumbling legacy systems
jm547ster··on Gemini AI
Is it not already available via bard?
jm547ster··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
Is this onsite only?
jm547ster··on Midjourney v5 can do hands
Yes still discord only
jm547ster··on There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge
> https://there.oughta.be/a/submission-page-for-ideas

Domain hack innovation seems to be stifled, perhaps a victim to the specificity of the ICANN expansion

jm547ster··on Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
War crimes would generally refer to breaching international treaty and/or conventions. The "Patriot" Act rebranded torture/abduction so as to not fall foul of these. "Advanced interrogation techniques" ....
jm547ster··on Player of Games
3 years after...
jm547ster··on Ask HN: Was Your Turkey Dry?
If you want this same process to work with all the meat being ready at once, flip the temps around: Cook dark meat at 165 for 3 hours -> drop temp to 145 F (ice to hurry it) Drop in your white meat for 2 hours - remove all and crisp
jm547ster··on Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
Nice malaprop, discussing
jm547ster··on Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
It's the iTerm2 built-in status bar: https://iterm2.com/3.3/documentation-status-bar.html
jm547ster··on Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
Yeah 95% or more will need a tuning fork at a minimum to give a frame of reference. It is fairly common for strings accompanied by a piano to ask for a note from the piano to start from (G for violin say)
jm547ster··on r/wallstreetbets set to private after increased media coverage
Potent retardation
jm547ster··on r/wallstreetbets set to private after increased media coverage
HN is so bland lately. It feels like most the posters are so morose. New posts are well attended, so at least there is loyalty there.
jm547ster··on Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet
You must not have a smartphone if you need to print your boarding pass. It's fairly painless process both check-in & boarding and it's a cost-savings airline so there is no surprise that you're not getting mollycoddled through the airport.

Their cabin comfort, I will admit, leaves a lot to be desire. One gets what one pays for in that respect.

jm547ster··on AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
Topped with?
jm547ster··on Your Computer Isn't Yours
Gravit designer, Blender and Bitwig studio would come to mind as tools for multimedia production that are as good as anything on the other platforms.
jm547ster··on The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
Blinking is one that comes to mind
jm547ster··on Exercise by club swinging in the 19th century
Probably the injuries from silly unnecessary unsafe movements like this
jm547ster··on Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19
It only gets worthwhile in the last episode when he’s giving the eulogy
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