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New comment by cheesecakegood in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

cheesecakegood — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:35:17 +0000

I mean, News is a collection of newspapers who pretty famously have supported themselves via advertising basically since forever, so complaining about ads in News to me is like complaining that a hamburger combo on a fast food menu includes soda. If you read the news, you get ads is a pretty normal social contract.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

cheesecakegood — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:20:30 +0000

“Requires” is a strong word. Apple does have an extremely easy mouse-only solution for this and it dates back over a decade: map the fan-out selector (I forget what they call it these days, maybe Mission Control?) to a “hot corner”.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"

cheesecakegood — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:16:19 +0000

Additionally romhacks exist assuming you own the original game, which layer some quality of life tweaks on top! For the SNES version at least.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "OpenJev"

cheesecakegood — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:26:04 +0000

In theory Jev “calibrates” the probabilities, meaning a probability of 20% is optimized to happen near 20% of the time, which as you point out traditional models with schemas do NOT optimize for at all

New comment by cheesecakegood in "How to Write with an LLM"

cheesecakegood — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:59:18 +0000

Personally I think every single medium to long form piece of writing should go through an LLM grammar check at the minimum (they are great at catching stuff like correcting “reign in” to “rein in”, not to mention their/they’re and so on) although I don’t think they generally have the self control to make the corrections themselves without screwing stuff up.

I can see being lazy and skipping it, but refusing to use them even for more minimal advice purposes seems crazy to me.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

cheesecakegood — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:07:14 +0000

I wonder if a good analogy would be, they are trying to tune the “gut feeling” of a model more directly

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

cheesecakegood — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:52:33 +0000

If luck = something you didn’t choose or had no control over, sure.

If luck = it could have gone otherwise, that’s nonsensical; if you had different parents you wouldn’t exist to begin with, as you are literally a specific fusion of your biological parents. Similarly, if we take luck to mean something probabilistic, or something coincidental? Also meaningless in this case.

If luck = how your situation compares to others, I would argue “fortunate” is the better word here.

And of course there’s a parallel spiritual debate if you believe that identity to be separate (were you “assigned” to parents, was it deliberate or random, etc)

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

cheesecakegood — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:32:47 +0000

I’ve seen about 8 therapists and 3 coaches at various times in the last 15 years. 5-6/8 and 2/3 respectively were, I eventually realized, mostly in it for the money and didn’t actually care too much (if at all) about me making any positive changes permanent. It wasn’t all bad; having someone confidential to talk to is in itself valuable, but the cost/benefit ratio is not at all consistent.

With that kind of benchmark comparison, it’s not all that hard for AI to present some kind of favorable value proposition, even if also inconsistent but with a harder ceiling on the upside.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Getting your hands dirty is good for you"

cheesecakegood — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:39:03 +0000

Yeah, because sleeping directly on the ground leaches heat from your body too fast, because of said lack of insulation. Sleeping too directly on the ground is also particularly dangerous in survival scenarios, doubly so if you are cold or wet. A common mistake when assembling a temporary shelter is to spend all your time on the “roof” but very little on the “floor”.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS"

cheesecakegood — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:09:18 +0000

Yeah, I really think this should be the new universal standard. Mostly for respect reasons, but also going through and saying “what DOES my app actually do?” (which is something writing a README forces you to think about) is pretty much the minimal last line of defense attempt at quality control.

You can and probably should do more quality control than that, but it’s a reasonable assumption that if the initial landing document hasn’t been quality checked, the rest hasn’t either.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

cheesecakegood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:32:52 +0000

AI is not deeply unpopular, that’s just nonsense. The complaint ratio is just relatively high from a loud minority. Don't believe me? Just check Pew.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an...

It’s true that about half of all adults overall never use chatbots, but it’s not out of a negative perception, it’s largely just lack of interest with a side of privacy concerns and inaccuracy concerns. While people do tend to think AI will eventually be a net negative in society, this isn’t like an overwhelming feeling and opinions on the impact to themselves personally is less strong, not more.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

cheesecakegood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:23:59 +0000

I do get the sentiment for sure.

Personally though? I’ve made peace with the fact that I might have a 20/month subscription indefinitely. It’s slowly working its way towards being like a cell phone or Internet bill, although there’s reason to hope that the amount might decrease over time eventually.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Muse Spark 1.3"

cheesecakegood — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:03:39 +0000

It also works as extremely effective engagement farming, for lack of a better phrase

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

cheesecakegood — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:40:16 +0000

I’ve personally found that Google’s AI mode is surprisingly capable and almost absurdly fast, although the hallucination rate is somewhat proportionally higher too to match its seeming over-responsiveness. Which means Perplexity in effect doesn’t have anything to differentiate it.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

cheesecakegood — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:52:50 +0000

I’ve long been curious what you (and a lot of people that express this) feel the cutoff is to know how to code? Because obviously there’s a sliding scale between truly knowing very little, being able to adapt similar work, extensive modifications, coding everything from scratch, etc. on top of understanding certain programming concepts and organization.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

cheesecakegood — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:10:17 +0000

When I looked at “Claude Science” which is a beta, separate desktop app, I came away with the impression that it was mostly for biology and a bit of chemistry - presumably there’s some value it can get from consulting obscure literature and uniting disparate threads of already-known stuff, but since I don’t work in either field I can’t speak much more to it.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS"

cheesecakegood — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:13:37 +0000

So many of these apps in fact that the relevant subreddit has a literal spreadsheet to keep track of them all and if memory serves last time I checked, there were over two dozen entries.

Does no one even check the space before building an app these days? This is almost literally the MOST saturated Mac app in existence…

In fact I will go farther. It is actively bad to release something like this, because it clogs up the space and makes picking an app more difficult for everyone just by virtue of its mere existence adding to cognitive load.

New comment by cheesecakegood in "No country for mediocre mathematicians"

cheesecakegood — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:31:20 +0000

Now chemistry on the other hand…

OK there’s still no intent to deceive but almost all of the “rules” you learn have giant exceptions

New comment by cheesecakegood in "“I just chose words carefully”"

cheesecakegood — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:28:13 +0000

Fully justified text looks much better when it’s more narrow columns, especially multiple; full page width text is usually not the main use case

New comment by cheesecakegood in "Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom"

cheesecakegood — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:19:31 +0000

That’s… not really accurate. Some factions in the US flirted with taking over more or even all of Mexico for the grand total of like, a few months, and even then it never would have passed Congress. Additionally “the US elite” is a flawed and inaccurate understanding of mid-1800s politics as even the most basic of historical understanding will tell you. It’s mostly regional politics and economic constituencies, not class struggle. You’re just projecting modern thought and dynamics onto the past.