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I've been working on https://game-pick.eu , a website for friends to easily decide on games to play together. It is voting-based and can show who has which game in their library to see who would yet have to buy it. I'm planning on adding features for finding new friends to play with also. It's my first real web project, so I'm excited how it will go.

The issue and update comment are also clearly generated. I'm not condemning this in general, I prefer a well written generated issue over a badly written manual one. But in this case it has just lead us off track.

From the issue author:

> Update: Root cause found — this was a bug in a tool I built that was running locally for testing, not Claude Code.

The argument is that vibrations of the wind power plants at sea disturb the whales.

Paying for the gas itself would not be an externality. Externalities are for example the worldwide damages caused by extreme weather which is caused by climate change, health problems caused by air pollution or the usage of clean water for cooling

Call me incompetent, but I don't get it.

> I switched the build to SWC, and server restarts dropped to under a second.

What is SWC? The blog assumes I know it. Is it https://swc.rs/ ? or this https://docs.nestjs.com/recipes/swc ?

The project life cycle cost: yes. The birds and whales: no. But neither do the fossil power plants.

It's a word play

Chip of Theseus

Or random telemetry, or random network usage of some anonymous service that leaves you unable to pretty much do anything internet-related until that service has done it's thing.

I use both, Windows 11 and Pop! OS (which is Ubuntu, with Cosmic).

Pop! OS is definitely not ready for the average user in my opinion. Some common work-related apps I need like Citrix Workspace straight up don't work. Audio + Camera randomly give out in the middle of video conferences, only fixable by a complete reboot. Some things are only fixable in the terminal.

I use it as much as I can, but there is still work to be done. I agree that Windows is on the wrong path.

> they know windpower and solar are not viable long term

Why?

> These days, exposing an immature brain to the raw internet is basically just handing the brain and personality over to be molded by large corporations and algorithms.

You make the case of todays internet being insuitable for young children. But has this been different, ever, maybe apart from the very first days of the internet? While access through phones has reshaped the internet fundamentally, I'd propose that it has always been dangerous. When I was 12, a single wrong click could destroy your machine, or lead to a physical bill being sent to my parents home (which has happened), or lead to most disturbing pictures and videos.

So I think it's not the case that we should allow kids completeley unsupervised access (like it always has been), but it's also naive to think that we can regulate our way out of this (on state or household-level, like it always has been).

This story has some parallels to our current usage of chatbots. We've also seen already a display of limited agency (in the sense of proactive actions) through the recent emergence of Clawdbot and alike. What would happen if a model that had direct access to the billions of private chats could give proactive decisions to governments on how to handle single citizens like in the story?

Hackers sometimes create things not to actually use them, but because they are curious how something works and to see if they can

Thats pretty cool! Some games like Gothic had dynamic composing of existing sound themes. It would be interesting to research how these could fit together

Rowling is among the last persons on earth that need help on this.

But ignoring that: I do not think that these txt files being online do any economic harm. Noone will go and say "hey, I'm going to read these un-formatted text files instead of buying the 30 year old books for little money or pirating proper epubs which are trivial to find". If at all the kaggle dataset is free publicity. So as the author I would leave them online.

The trick is that the jump goes from 20 to 100 Dollar for the Pro to Max subscription. Pro is not enough for me, Max is too much. 60 would be ideal, but currently at 100 it's worth the cost.

But this is how every subscription works. Most people lose money on their gym subscription, but the convenience takes us.

All the aerospace rules are written in blood. Lots of blood. The comparison pretty much says that we have to expect lethal accidents related to AI

When was the last time a rich and/or famous person faced actual repercussions for their bad actions? Actions that, would they be comitted by the lower 99,9% of the world, would yield at least a fine that actually hurts, or jail. Serious jail, not "house arrest" in a big mansion. Jail time that actually lasted to the end and was not prematurely lifted after 6 months? When the current systems are failing the solution is not to replace them with another system.

Microsoft seems to have thrown quality assurance overboard completely. Vibe generate everything, throw it at a wall, see what sticks. Tech bros are so afraid of regulation they even drop regulation inside their own companies. (just kidding)

Hey, bugs can happen, no problem.

But sorry, I do not believe your last sentence. German-French should be a popular pair, and you yourself claimed to speak both languages. This happened literally in the first beginner lesson. Everyone with most basic knowledge of the languages would catch that. This wouldn't even be a big deal if you'd communicate openly. This is a problem especially as you take money for the service after the free tier.

Thanks for your input neighbor! That's interesting because other sources actually start with "Salut", without going into the usage too much. Good to know.

Bonjour for good morning is correct. The problem is that the app introduced it to me like this:

"A in German means Z in French. B in German also means Z in French. Here is the word Z without any context. What's the correct word in German? You can choose between A, B, C and D. B is wrong, I wanted A".

I can imagine that they have direct mappings between the words, without checking for collisions. Even that could be fine, if the frontpage didn't claim this was "curated by experts" and it didn't happen literally in the first lesson haha.

It's always a good initiative to build something on your own.

Then again, it's also good to not lie to your users.

Your courses are AI-generated and not curated by experts.

I tried the French beginner course, using German as my base language. The very first items were:

1. Hallo (hello) > Bonjour (I think salut would be better)

2. Guten Morgen (good morning) > Bonjour

Then it asked me what Bonjour means, and selecting Guten Morgen is wrong, correcting me to Hallo. Then it asked me what Bonjour means again, this time Guten Morgen is correct.

So yeah, good initiative, but please just tell me what it is and don't lie.

The thing with notifications is that a lot of apps go so overboard with them that I generally choose to silence them completely. This has totally led to important notifications being unseen for some time, but for the peace it is a price I'm ready to pay. Being able to configure notifications with high granularity is something I still have to discover.

It's pretty easy to create your own soundpack I think

The verbose mode is, well, verbose. They removed, without any need, info and hid it in a wall of text.

Did you read the article? It's not about subjective claims, it's about a very real feature getting removed (file reads showing the filepath and numbers of lines read).

Out of curiosity: Do you use a high level language (like C#) or do you have low level optimizations on (e.g. assembly level)? I imagine that there has to be some kind of map that keeps track of which pixels are "active" and need to be updated, but I wonder how do that efficiently.

This has been a common pattern for me before LLMs, when my work required constantly rebuilding models or doing small deployments where each task/try took more than ~20ish seconds and less than say 3 minutes. It's enough to pull you out of it but not enough to make a proper break or switch tasks.

I suffered from the problems you describe, grabbing a browser window or my phone which would usually take my attention much longer than the task and it left me burned out at the end of the day.

There are some helper tools, like blocking "interesting" pages (like HN, reddit) on the browser, putting the phone in the bag at the end of the room or using a pomodoro timer so sequence proper breaks. But at the end the only thing that really helped is getting into meditation: I try to use these little interruptions of flow as a opportunity to bore myself. Try to reframe boredom from being an annoyance that needs to be fought to a chance to relax your brain for a couple of seconds and refocus.

The want to grab the phone is hard at the start, but it gets better very soon when you manage to push through the discomfort in the first days.

On Openrouter it has the same cost per token as 4.5