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nlarew commented on States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option pew.org/en/research-and-a... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

xwkd · 19 days ago

Yes, let's bring these back. In fact, why don't we just build Khrushchevkas and skip the whole proletarian revolution step? We can even start wearing the funny little hats with flaps and drink until we forget about freedom or dignity. We're beyond that anyway, aren't we?

With this level of wealth inequality and these seeming like a good idea, I'd say we're gearing up for a bloody good time, to say the least.

nlarew · 19 days ago

It's hard to imagine that abundant housing led to the truly adverse economic conditions in the USSR. Rather than offering a cheeky strawman perhaps you could give some real thought to alternative solutions you'd like to see?

nlarew commented on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds thenextweb.com/news/chatg... · Posted by u/ohjeez

whoknowsidont · a month ago

I like how there's not even an actual women involved here yet we get mansplaining right in the wild, unprompted (pun intended).

nlarew · a month ago

How do you know GP isn't a woman?

More broadly, can a comment on a forum thread that isn't directed at anyone in particular really be considered "mansplaining"? I consider that term to mean something like "a man explaining something to a woman because he assumes she doesn't know".

Just because the topic is about women doesn't mean a man can't post a thought that is relevant and (mildly) thought provoking.

nlarew commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri

bob1029 · a month ago

Very impressive work.

I've been on an unbroken rowing streak (Concept2) since December last year. Half hour per day mandatory, no rest days. Typical distance rowed is 6.5-8km. There are days where I "take it easy" but I still force a minimum distance of 6.5km regardless of how long it takes. My rationale for using the C2 is the lower impact and the fact that it resides inside a climate controlled building. These factors help reduce the possibility of excuse making.

I found that taking even one day off is all it takes to throw my discipline into a death spiral. Making it a required thing no matter what changes the psychology and game theory. It has become entirely a background concern after day 90 or so. There are days where I have to row and then do hours of yard work. The first two weeks of Texas summer almost got to me. But, this too has become a background concern. I can wake up, row 30 minutes, landscape for 2 hours, and then write code or post on HN until the sun goes down. No naps, stimulants or motivational speeches required.

nlarew · a month ago

What do you do if you're out of town for a vacation, work trip, family event, etc? I could see making a daily habit work for running since your feet work anywhere but if you physically don't have access to a rowing machine do you find some alternative?

nlarew commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri

bovermyer · a month ago

I started "running" a mile a week ago. I use quotes because I walk the first couple blocks to warm up and walk the last several blocks to cool down, and the entire route is just over a mile. On day 1, I jogged for a couple blocks at a time, walking for rest in between. I definitely walked more than I jogged.

This morning, I jogged more than I walked, and almost jogged the entire distance between warm up and cool down.

I haven't decided yet if I will then move to doing a second lap or if I will instead work on speed.

Either way, the daily habit has been surprisingly enjoyable, even if I'm very out of shape. The progress is addicting.

nlarew · a month ago

If you have the time I recommend working on distance first. Running farther is great for fat loss & cardio training and speed only really matters if you're trying to be competitive in races or have to squeeze your run into a confined time slot.

I also find that adding distance makes it easier to improve time. If I can only run 1 mile, it's pretty hard to run that same mile but faster. BUT if I can run 3 miles, it's a bit easier to run 1/3 of my normal distance but focusing on pushing the pace.

nlarew commented on Grok 4 Launch [video] twitter.com/xai/status/19... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

sudo-i · 2 months ago

The problem is that code as a 1-off is excellent, but as a maintainable piece of code that needs to be in source control, shared across teams, follow standard SLDC, be immutable, and track changes in some state - it's just not there.

If an intern handed me code like this to deploy an EC2 instance in production, I would need to have a long discussion about their decisions.

nlarew · 2 months ago

How do you know? Have you seen the code GP generated?

nlarew commented on Writing documentation for AI: best practices docs.kapa.ai/improving/wr... · Posted by u/mooreds

remram · 2 months ago

AI will make it easy to get your documentation up for your users!

> Step one, write the documentation yourself.

> Step two, bots hit your website hundreds of times per minute.

> Step three, users never come to your site, they use OpenAI's site.

> Step four, ??? openAI profits

nlarew · 2 months ago

If your software business relies on people coming to your site to read docs then you were cooked from the start. It's about enabling your users whether they're on your site, ChatGPT, or anywhere else.

nlarew commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

surgical_fire · 3 months ago

> Do you really think that Apple, of all companies, did a cross-platform UI refresh based entirely on vibes without considering user taste, usability, accessibility, etc?

We are talking about the same company that to make a the MCP a little bit thinner released that crap with only two USBC ports, forcing everyone to carry fucking dongles everywhere.

And let's not forget that awful butterfly keyboard.

So much usability, so much accessibility. No vibes, no sir.

nlarew · 3 months ago

Perhaps they learned something from that? Look at modern MBP models which have MagSafe, HDMI, and SD card slots.

nlarew commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

cosmotic · 3 months ago

Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Using this new design language as an example, things are now harder to read, identify, and understand. That's a huge loss to productivity and ease of use.

nlarew · 3 months ago

> things are now harder to read, identify, and understand

What makes you think that? Do you have a specific example from the keynote in mind?

There must be something since you've never actually used this design system yourself. Or is this just your pre-judgement?

nlarew commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

andrepd · 3 months ago

It is, once again, designing interfaces based on "vibes" instead of science or principles or used feedback, optimising for looking good on screenshots and marketing materials and not for actual usability or user friendly was. With "vibes" here standing for whatever some SV asshole thinks it's cool and modern.

Alegria, flat design, pastel colors, or unholy amounts of whitespace. It's been the story of the last 15 years of UI design at least.

nlarew · 3 months ago

Do you really think that Apple, of all companies, did a cross-platform UI refresh based entirely on vibes without considering user taste, usability, accessibility, etc?

You've already judged the system as only good for "looking good on screenshots and marketing materials" when you haven't even seen anything other than the announcement.

nlarew commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

woodrowbarlow · 4 months ago

it's adapting the world (well, internet) to suit the model rather than the other way around -- to the point where there is a growing amount of content on the internet designed exclusively for machine consumption at the expense of direct human consumption.

it's like self-driving cars -- if we had a dedicated separate road network just for self-driving cars, and required that they all communicate with standard protocols, then we'd have self-driving cars by now -- but that's not actually the goal of FSD. the goal is to have cars that can use existing infrastructure and co-exist with human drivers.

nlarew · 4 months ago

A major distinction here is that it is very cheap to host content on the internet and VERY EXPENSIVE to build things like a separate road network in the real world.

Who is actually hurt if I publish an llms.txt or MCP in addition to my existing content?