It's as easy to say that this will poison the context and produce worse results. Do you have any actual examples? Without any sort of an example this sounds like some software voodoo.
Readit NewsManlyBread commented on Stop squashing your commits. You're squashing your AI too · Posted by u/jannesblobel
Apples and oranges. Blacklist→allowlist is 2010s social justice virtue signalling thing. Sideloading→installing is about a word that is scary to normies vs a word that's completely normal and neutral.
See the history of words such as "jaywalking" or "carbon footprint" and how their usage cements the respective ideas.
It's not an apples and oranges thing, it's the same practice of changing one term to an another because someone out there chose to believe that these words are somehow so powerful that they're pushing away swaths of people. You have no way of proving that "side loading" somehow scares away people because such proof does not exist.
This certainly won't solve the problem, but I would at least like to banish the term "side load", which is a kind of Orwellian word that takes something everyone used to do all the time and makes it sound obscure and a bit nefarious. Maybe we, the tech literate, can start calling sideloading a "free install" or something. When asked, we can clarify that the 'free' stands for both freedom, and not paying middlemen 30%.
I really don't understand this war on language that is so prevalent in tech circles. There's a bunch of these like switching git branches from "master" to "main" or "blacklist"/"whitelist" to "allowlist"/"denylist" and I have yet to see a single problem that all of this term shuffling has actually solved.
The end result is people just buy iPhones and perceive them to be more secure.
Who cares? It's their choice.
ManlyBread commented on We put a coding agent in a while loop github.com/repomirrorhq/r... · Posted by u/sfarshid
Seems like the agent takes a lot of liberties when it comes to porting stuff: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Arepomirrorhq%2Fbetter-use...
None of these issues seem to be documented outside these files.
That's a 12 week window though. Foolish to use that as a long-term viability measure. I'd be willing to wager usage could come up again as the U.S. midterms ramp up in 2026.
I'll buy that narrative if you can demonstrate that an another big service lost 11.5% users in the last three months.
Bluesky is constantly bleeding users so even if this is true it won't be relevant for long.
ManlyBread commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
I was looking forward towards the Classic Offensive mod but then Valve DMCA'd it just a few days before the release. Awful move considering that not only they've okayed it before but also completely ignored the developers when they were trying to contact them. 8 years of development for nothing.
Have you used the Pro version? Its incredible
>229 EUR a month
LOL
I have used GPT-5 a few times and I genuinely can't think of a single improvement. You could stealthy deploy it in place of GPT-4 and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.