I've been a paying customer for many years and can't recall the last time this happened apart from now. It's honestly been a pretty stable service and rarely encountered any issues with it.
Same here. I started describing it as the “uncanny valley” of text. It’s like a gut reaction that something is off with the text even if you can’t pinpoint it immediately.
I think there’s just a decent component of “random chance” involved. You can live a healthy life and still die too young, or you can be a lifelong smoker who lives to 90.
When thinking about the impact of behaviour on health, it talks about humans in aggregate, not on an individual level.
+1. The base price for US healthcare is entirely removed from the cost of the service provided. And you can of course just look at other countries to figure out that the cost is much higher than it should be.
I never got the appeal for these sim games. From the screenshots, it looks like a beautiful game and I guess I could enjoy the visuals for an hour or 2.
But I don't see how it'd entertain me for hours on end. If someone here is into these sim games, what's the reason you keep going back to them?
I did this but have (partly) reverted. I don't always want to read a wall of text that an AI regurgitates for search. The google AI snippet (1 short para) does seem better than the typical ChatGPT response.
+1. I’m in the exact opposite camp, I enjoy programming more than “shipping a product”. But the programming itself, coming up with solutions to tough problems, is the fun part. Shipping a product is a side-effect.
I doubt this is true. I walk to the store when I quickly need to get eggs or milk or something random I forgot. But I’ll drive to do the weekly grocery trip because I can’t carry food for a week (for a family) on my own without driving.
It’s almost like the AI answering “should I walk or drive to the nearest carwash”. Sure I can walk, I just can’t complete the grocery shopping lol.
I live in a metropolitan area and can walk to many stores within a 30 minute radius. (First supermarket is less than 5 minutes away).
But there is the added complication of weight. I can’t buy food for a week without driving there. Nor can I go and buy a TV by just walking to the hardware store.
This is kind of non-news to be honest. Reporting on _having_ the conversations is much more valuable. And reporting of absence can also just means it's absent 'as far as we know'.
A (sad/funny) anecdote. Someone told me earlier this week "Not using a coding agent today is like using Vim for development instead of an IDE, you're just lagging behind".
As someone who's been exclusively using Vim for my development (and can definitely integrate it with AI workflows), that's just an insanely silly opinion. But I guess it shows how the next generation thinks about these tools that they've heard of but never actually bothered to learn.
There have always been plenty of “9-5” programmers who will do the minimum to get by. Even just being on HN is somewhat of a bubble of people more interested in keeping up with tech than the average Joe building websites.