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subarctic··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
Definitely a feature, but also ruins it for this person's use case
subarctic··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
Agreed, if there was something actually better to switch to then I'd be interested. But seems unlikely for that to happen now - it's easier than ever to build a new github, at least the app itself but i doubt someone's gonna bother with the business effort needed to actually build it up as a reliable, trustworthy option that you know will be around for a while, which is a process that takes years when you know you're going to get disrupted. It would probably have to be open source to get early adopters to use it but somehow be nicer to use than GitHub, and there's basically no money to be made
subarctic··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
That's how i feel about it too. But i haven't used it because there's no point in getting used to a new model if it's just gonna get taken away again. I wonder if they're also doing this to get some sort of signal on which types of users everyone is - for example someone else might always be chasing whatever the best model is
subarctic··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
Never been happier that i bought a kobo instead of a kindle years ago
subarctic··on Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter
"Without ai assistance" - ok, but what about with ai assistance?
subarctic··on Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Artificial AI = stuff like mechanical turk where they get humans to do stuff computers can't do and make it look like it's "AI"

Artificial Artificial Intelligence = using computers to do mechanical turk jobs

subarctic··on Road to Elm 1.0
Same, I basically assumed the community around it had died out. But i guess the sole maintainer/creator is still around.

I never used elm except for doing a tutorial, but lately I've built a full stack gleam app (using coding agents for the most part, with a lot of control in the beginning on the structure of the code) and have found that process works quite well

subarctic··on [dead]
I'm confused because this snippet implies he's doing the trading himself, whereas later in the article it says it's done by a third party on his behalf that (he says) isn't informed by his personal knowledge. So it's not as clear but insider trading as is implied here
subarctic··on FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
Definitely thought you meant claude opus but now from reading a couple other comments it sounds like you mean something else called opus?
subarctic··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
I thought codex was open source https://github.com/openai/codex
subarctic··on Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
I've re-read the comment again and I'm convinced it's not ai. It uses a pattern that ai adopted but it seems like an actual genuine comment. This is based on my spidey senses so it's not something I'm going to debate logically but it seems quite a few people agree with me. And I've seen lots of annoying ai-written stuff, and of course use Claude and Chatgpt regularly
subarctic··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Wow that sounds really dystopic... hope your joking
subarctic··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
I kind of agree with that perspective, if you're testing them on something in the exam, why isn't the course material teaching it to them? After all you're paying a lot of money for tuition. I went to a good university where the assignments were hard, but as long as you did them the final exam ended up being easy without having to study for them because you already learned everything.

But i also did a semester abroad at a German university and i found there was a different philosophy there where the assignments don't teach you much, and everyone skips class and then studies really hard for the final exam which is often 100% of your grade

subarctic··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Synopsis: professor decides to do a take-home exam because there was a shooting at the university and he wanted to make it easier for students. And a bunch of students cheated with ai
subarctic··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
They already ousted their own ceo over a political contribution so I'd imagine they'd do something here too, sadly
subarctic··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Oh no how dare they /s
subarctic··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Also investors seeing this announcement as an indicator that their margins have reduced
subarctic··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Steve seems like a cool guy, wish he was in more content!
subarctic··on Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Wouldn't that person want to have everything work well together so he has less headaches?
subarctic··on Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
The comment you're replying to doesn't sound like AI to me
subarctic··on Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
I find it very unlikely that nobody buys them, some people will definitely buy them to run giant open LLMS. But there's also not much risk to apple because those configs would probably be made to order
subarctic··on Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
Someone's making a usb hub that you can plug expansion cards into, but it's just a kickstarter last time i checked and not a very good price
subarctic··on Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more
Damn it, I was just about to buy a mac mini with 24gb ram yesterday, but waited until today to figure out some shipping logistics. Definitely didn't expect the price would go up so much in one day.
subarctic··on Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?
Curious how a couple people got >100 hits on 100 punches
subarctic··on I don't want you to summarise the page
I've been using that site a lot since it was posted on here. I loved the irony of reading the summary of this guy's rant on that page
subarctic··on Claude Tag
This looks like a great enterprise product. Lots of companies will just enable it and voila they'll have claude in slack. They already have slack and their employees are probably used to Claude. I'm sure this will kill a few existing businesses and bring both companies more revenue
subarctic··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
Sounds like Brexit #2
subarctic··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
Every event should have an IANA timezone tied to a city like America/Vancouver or Europe/Berlin, and it should ideally be settable by the user. Some apps (e.g. Discord) don't expose this but have a time zone under the hood, and it's a huge pain every time daylight savings time comes along when an event's time zone is incorrectly in Europe instead of North America
subarctic··on The frontier is open-source today
Actually i bet there were people back then who were worried about the wrong people getting access to fire for various reasons
subarctic··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
The point is, eventually not even experts will understand what it's doing
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