I just wish the new CEO decides to do a snow leopard release. Also change the macos release to when it's done instead of yearly

And mostly reduced creativity.

I'm addicted to reading, I take my kindle and phone everywhere, so will grab them when I'm walking, taking a shower, waiting in line, going to the restroom... Between my kindle and my phone, I read a lot more books than I ever did but I don't digest the information as much as I used to. I also don't make as much associations between what I read and things going on in my own life. So, in a way, despite reading a lot more, I don't think I benefit as much from it.

Now, I'm purposefully forcing myself not to reach to my kindle when taking a walk so that my mind can wander as much as I do.

This is a bit outside the point, but how do you actually read while taking a walk, logistically speaking? Do you mean you take a walk somewhere, sit down on a bench, then take your kindle out? Or actually read WHILE walking?

I do this all the time. Hold your kindle or book far enough away that you have good peripheral vision of your surroundings. Practice widening your view so you can use your peripheral vision to guide your steps while you walk. Look up at intersections.

I can only do this with books. With my phone I am too focused on the phone to work in two visual modes at the same time, which I guess supports the claims.

For a while, I programmed while walking on a mini-laptop. Nice walking paths where I lived. I was on a hobby project and wanted to spend any minute on it. It wasn't pretty. I kept trying to design a contraption I could wear on my shoulders that worked like a laptop desk.

I also attached a laptop to a treadmill at home, but the static electricity from the rubber mat kept zapping the laptop.

The best result was a laptop on an exercise bike. But the bike couldn't have a high resistance or I would lose concentration.

I have an under-desk bike (just pedals really). Being able to just move my feet while working is nice. But yeah once it turns into an actual workout then I'd be focusing on pedaling and not work.

> kept trying to design a contraption I could wear on my shoulders that worked like a laptop desk

Nathan Fielder wears something like this in The Rehearsal. Google tells me it is called Connect-A-Desk.

In my city, if the area is so crowded I can pick a stranger to follow to the common destination or if it's so empty that I don't have to worry about walking into someone, I can confidently read even the most engrossing novel on my phone. I won't dare doing that with any bigger screen because I won't be able to see the upcoming obstacle.

Aside from what everyone else has mentioned, I wonder if Meta's Raybans or something similar could be useful in this sense (kindle app in your HUD).

Still have complete awareness of your surroundings but still be able to read.

I'd argue that's a much more useful "killer app" than recording everyone around you without their consent.

An early stage iPhone app has you covered for typing ;) https://www.type-n-walk.com/

Read while walking, I live in a walkable city. The pedestrian way is safe. I stop reading when I arrive at any intersection then start again once I cross. Even as a kid, I'd rush to open any magazine I bought before I got back home and would read them while walking.

I live in a walkable city, am safe, but others dont appreciate me bumping onto them. And I want to reach the destination without bumping into walls. Or stepping into bike lane or car lane.

See the above comment by pfooty who explains it better than I did. I don't bump into people nor bump into walls. I use my peripheral vision to see what's happening while reading my kindle.

Honestly, it's never seemed hard to me and I don't remember a time when I was not able to walk while reading without bumping into things. Even as a student when studying for exams, I'd walk around in circle in my room reading my textbooks, for some reason walking helped to better remember...

Reading while walking is possible. I used to do this. But with physical books

I used to do it walking to school when I was about 10. Nearly got hit by cars quite a bit.

That does seem to depend on countries and universities.

I do have to say I was appalled by some of the tests I had as an exchange student in the US (will not name the Uni in question but ranked around 60 in us rank). I remember a computer graphics test where a lot of questions were of the type "Which companies created the consortium maintaining the opengl specification?"... it was fully possible to obtain a passing grade just by rote memorization of facts. So I have no trouble believing that in the US it's possible in some unis to get a software engineering degree without understanding or critical thining

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