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$100? So, like 4 aspirin tablets US hospital billing prices?

It can be both (and in my opinion is).

There are groups that would love to be in full control of visible information and parents rightly concerned about social media use by kids.

I like Kdenlive, but for the simple video editing I do (cuts, splices, remove/replace audio, freeze frame etc) the fastest thing is ffmpeg.

I just give an LLM a list of files, a set of steps and timestamps, a directory to work in and have it write a bash script that calls ffmpeg. I just view the source videos with VLC and get the timestamps I want.

I mostly use this to edit my YouTube videos and this really beats importing files, dragging things around and all that and it only takes a few minutes to edit now.

Many of their military assets are underground out of reach of bombers. And you need somewhere to stage out of. Probably not the Gulf bases that are being wiped by missiles and drones at the moment. The aircraft carriers have been having issues and are being pushed back out of missile range. So it becomes more difficult and expensive to keep the bombing up.

I live remotely in a very isolated area and work remotely (no slack, just email). I live with my partner but she is in town for work during the day. I go to town a couple of times a month. Before COVID I had an office in town but realized I don't need it. I've lived here for about 15 years.

Initially I was lonely occasionally during the day but it went away. I'm now perfectly comfortable with no human contact except comments (like this) on the internet for very long stretches. My girlfriend went on a 3 week trip to visit family last year and I visited town twice and saw a friend once during that time and had one long phone conversation with a brother. It was a perfectly comfortable 3 weeks. I don't play video games.

I'm not recommending this way of life. It's probably more psychologically healthy to have people around and so I have to recommend trying to rebuild social connections as you can, but the point is for your situation, it gets much more comfortable as time passes. I don't want to say "it's all in your head" but something along the lines of that sentiment is kind of how it works I think. You do need something to do, a reason to get up in the morning. I garden and keep animals.

Namecheap does the same thing though, at least they did with an .online domain I have.

You may be correct about many US programmers not keeping up, but the H1Bs I've seen in action, other than being more compliant, didn't seem to be much better and often worse.

"Top Talent". Ya, no not generally. Not from H1B. May get OK talent from time to time.

I used to do things like that with about 10 lines of jQuery.

What are we resisting?

They have replaced them with exclamation marks! Every sentence must end with an exclamation mark, or you aren't excited and positive enough!

How will they know who wrote the code?

Exactly. I never saw a reason for that to be a paid service in the first place.

I guess I'd rather just complete one tiny part at a time with Claude and understand the output then do all that. It seems like less effort and infrastructure. And a lot more certain in outcome.

Hahah I'll fail!

I'm starting cold weather veggies indoors for my spring garden and preparing the soil.

I've been playing with various mineral amendments for years and produce some extremely tasty produce I have yet to see matched in stores (even the organic section).

That is one of the best comments I've seen on HN to date!

It seriously got me laughing. Thanks.

I'm in the opposite position. Been a Linux user exclusively for 16+ years.

But I wanted to build some desktop apps and look at arcGIS so I finally installed Windows 11 on a laptop my first Windows in nearly 2 decades.

This was a month ago and I haven't opened the laptop since. But I'm going to soon maybe!

It's something they say in sociology 101 at colleges in the US and some people occasionally believe it.

Ya I saw a comment a few weeks ago about "leaving productivity on the table!". I'm generating 3 long files at a prompt now, how much more productivity do I need? Any more and I'll have zero idea what is going on.

I haven't (yet) tried Claude but have good experiences with Codex CLI the last few weeks.

Previously I tried to use Aider and openAI about 6 or 7 months ago and it was terrible mess. I went back to pasting snippets in the browser chat window until a few weeks ago and thought agents were mostly hype (was wrong).

I keep a browser chat window open to talk about the project at a higher level. I'll post command line output like `ls` and `cat` to the higher level chat and use Codex strictly for coding. I haven't tried to one shot anything. I just give it a smallish piece of work at a time and check as it goes in a separate terminal window. I make the commits and delete files (if needed) and anything administrative. I don't have any special agent instructions. I do give Codex good hints on where to look or how to handle things.

It's probably a bit slower than what some people are doing but it's still very fast and so far has worked well. I'm a bit cautious because of my previous experience with Aider which was like roller skating drunk while juggling open straight razors and which did nothing but make a huge mess (to be fair I didn't spend much time trying to tame it).

I'm not sold on Codex or openAI compared to other models and will likely try other agents later, but so far it's been good.

The LLM providers got paid.

Reminds me of an offshore project I was involved with at one point. It had something like 7 managers and 4 years and over 30 developers had worked on it. The billing had reached into the millions. It was full of never ending bugs. The amount of "extra" code and abstractions and interfaces was stuff of legends.

It was actually a month or three simple crud project for a 2 man development team.

well as long as it's you logging in, they know you are minimum 20 years old!

It's going well for coding. I just knocked out a mapping project that would have been a week+ of work (with docs and stackoverflow opened in the background) in a few hours.

And yes, I do understand the code and what is happening and did have to make a couple of adjustments manually.

I don't know that reducing coding work justifies the current valuations, but I wouldn't say it's "not going all that well".

"Supply shock" might not be the only, or even primary cause. As far as I know fentanyl is still widely available and inexpensive.

My guess is only a subset of the population is willing to both A) Use a substance like street fentanyl with known lethality. and B) Do so in a risky and unsafe manner (alone, no narcan, shooting instead of smoking, etc. etc.).

That subset of the population has already been decimated to the point we are seeing a decrease, and survivors have become more educated on how to use without dying.

I just asked chatGPT.

"do llms give wrong information often?"

"Yes. Large language models produce incorrect information at a non-trivial rate, and the rate is highly task-dependent."

But wait, it could be lying and they actually don't give false information often! But if that were the case, it would then verify they give false information at a non trivial rate because I don't ask it that much stuff.

"Often" is relative but they do give false information. Perhaps of greater concern is their confirmation bias.

That being said, I do agree with your general point. These tools are useful for exploring topics and answers, we just need to stay realistic about the current accuracy and bias (eager to agree).

That brought back some memories.

If milk if unhealthy in any quantity how did we all survive infancy?

Geeze that's bad! Can we just show the pyramid and some text?

We didn't have the internet back in the 80's and 90's to doom scroll all day. We read the events in the newspaper and watched it on on the news at 6pm and that was it. This might be partially why things seem darker.