Yeah, I hated the keyboard but really did like the touchbar. Apple really dropped the ball there though. We shouldn't have needed Better Touch Tool to make it useful.

I've had much more luck with perplexity. Still not perfect but at least works better.

> It might be that with precision, readability is lost

The poster you replied to just wrote a comment on HN that is meant to be read by an audience, is clear, well written and well structured. Given that, why ever would you assume that the documentation that same poster produced would be too terse to serve the job?

Ding ding ding, correct answer! OP's target audience was people who are supposed to be using an API endpoint. It's self-evident OP can write clearly enough to communicate with the target audience.

I really hate that change, it's now regularly picking bad interpretation instead of asking.

Yeah, that really feels like a choice that should be user preference.

So TikTok is for b2c. What's the equivalent for b2b product targeting developers or opensource software? Stars on github?

Or are there a lot of adtroturfing hn accounts to influence the narrative?

It reminds me of pg's article on submarine and the pr industry

I regularly see instagram ads for chinese factories taking massive wholesale volume orders.

From a quick tests, it seems to hallucinate a lot more than opus 4.6. I like to ask random knowledge questions like "What are the best chinese rpgs with a decent translations for someone who is not familiar with them? The classics one should not miss?" and 4.6 gave accurate answers, 4.7 hallucinated the name of games, gave wrong information on how to run them etc...

Seems common for any type of slightly obscure knowledge.

So far my flow with llm is spec, get the llm to develop it, it kinda works as a proof of concept. Then I look at the code, the structure and architecture makes me want to vomit. So I initiate a refactoring round where I tell it exactly what I want to refactor it to. It kind of follows but I still need to make manual changes

At the end of that process I get something that's not too terrible.

So for producing production ready code I'm not sure it's ready yet since the handholding is a significant investment.

For producing quick prototypes/proof of concept. It's great

And to be completely fair, working as a consultant I've seen my fair share of production code that was even more of a mess than what claude generates by default

Thinking before you start implementing the entire project is doomed to fail. Thinking before you implement each features/user story is usually rather important.

A waterfall model with short feedback loops iterating on small tasks is not the worst thing in the world

I'd argue that back in the visual basic/Delphi day, there was a minimum level of competence needed AND, more importantly, apps didn't have as much surface area because they weren't exposed to internet

Having lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German.

Alas, the tendency to overgeneralize from isolated samples over whole populations is universally human.

Everyone does it.

The Deutsche Bahn rather cancel trains completely instead of them being late - which also says something.

People love to parrot this, but it's not true and makes no sense for them to try and game the system this way. The mandatory compensation and bad press from cancelled trains is way more costly on them than having poor punctuality statistics.

The reason that a late train can sometimes be cancelled is to try and stop a cascade of delays from happening. Tracks only have so much capacity, and if train gets delayed into a time-frame that is highly congested, trying to fit the delayed train into that time-frame will result in delaying other trains, which could then cause further problems down the lines and throw the entire network out of order.

They accept a certain number of cascading delays like this, but sometimes it's just known that a certain delayed train will just be too disruptive to the network, so they're forced to just cancel a train to try and save the network's stability.

You are absolutely correct and the context is also right. My comment was a little bit out of frustration (happend several times). I only heard about it from an amazing ccc talk (https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit...).

By the time a train is delayed enough to be canceled the mandatory compensation applies anyway, and I'm not sure how much DB cares about bad press.

I can see the cancellations as a means of stopping a cascade of delays, but it's also true that doing so means the train won't count in the delay statistics for the remaining stops. If DB doesn't want people to accuse them of gaming the statistics, perhaps they should calculate said statistics in a way that doesn't directly benefit them when they inconvenience their delayed passengers even more?

This. Put another way, if it's harder to solve the problem than the statistic, then change the statistics.

Obvious in many ways once you've lived there

Sometimes, the Deutsche Bahn is so late, that it's early. Wrapping around. The previous train in the schedule sometimes was so late, that it was just a bit before the next one was supposed to depart. So the next one is cancelled or delayed. I experienced this a few times. But with the cheap Deutschland Ticket, I couldn't really complain at the time. Tho, Arnhem to Hamburg, even 8h late, was not the most enjoyable of experiences (again, Deutchland Ticket, around 2023 IIRC. so no IC trains, which didn't suffer to the same degree).

>"Having lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German."

This is relative. In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late.

> In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late.

You think people don't complain when the train is late in other countries? That's hardly a uniquely German thing

To be honest, I complain more often when the train is on time.

IIRC DB currently has a worse punctuality record than the UK rail network. That takes some doing.

The Swiss nervously check the time when a train is 2-3 minutes late. When a train is late, the situation is basically on the brink of a national emergency.

In my experience this is often commiserate with an announcement that the service is late due to it’s arrival from [Germany, Italy, France].

I am currently living abroad, but I come from northern Italy. Rest assured that we complain a lot about our trains being late.

I mean I've regularly seen trains in germany arriving AFTER the next train. Statistically they are worse than pretty much any european country.

And outside of trains, my german friends run the gamut of being always on time to systematically being 30 minutes late. Don't really see much of a correlation between being German and punctual.

Japan on the other hand I do associate with punctuality, when I worked there I was made to sit in the seiza postion for the m9rniny meeting if I was late by even 3 minutes. My friends there were overwhelmingly ontime except (and proving my point) for a German coworker I had there :)

This is not true, people complain a lot in France when the trains are late.

Most of the German stereotypes are not just untrue, reality is actually the opposite. Germans are not efficient as an example, they love layers of formality and documentation for its own shake at the cost of getting stuff done.

As a German, after encountering Russian bureaucracy once, I commented to my wife that the main difference between Russian and German bureaucracy is that in Russia at least you can pay your way out.

As a student of German (80 on DuoLingo) I'm fascinated by the definite articles.

If we're going to manage gender and case across nouns appearing in sentences, why not make them more distinct, please?

We've got 'die' owning far too much real estate here, in my opinion.

> If we're going to manage gender and case across nouns appearing in sentences, why not make them more distinct, please?

> We've got 'die' owning far too much real estate here, in my opinion.

German has a relatively simple case inflection system, one that mostly applies to particles. Fully inflected languages often apply case and gender to the nouns and adjectives themselves, in many cases with overlap between cases only distinguishable via context.

Oh, don't drop a pfennig in me about the arbitrary genders.

I'm contending that enumerating the article variations should spare us the ambiguous overlaps.

Millions of Germans are all: "Deal with it".

> Millions of Germans are all: "Deal with it".

Yeah because it makes perfect sense to them, just like it doesn't confuse us that the pronoun "them" in English can refer to either a singular non-gender-specified individual as a verb object or plural individuals of any genders (or even non persons) as objects.

That's three distinct meanings of "them" in standard English, and there are even more in dialectical speech.

It's also not as clean as the stereotypes would suggest.

You would associate it with punctuality if you had experienced the timeliness of long distance trains in the US.

same goes with car quality, long gone are the times when German engineering was synonym of quality, if I had to choose something German or Japanese in the last at least 15-20 years the choice would be easy...