With a good programmer, if they do multiple passes of a refactor, each pass makes the code more elegant, and the next pass easier to understand and further improve.
Claude has a bias to add lines of code to a project, rather than make it more concise. Consequently, each refactoring pass becomes more difficult to untangle, and harder to improve.
Ideally, in this experiment, only the first few passes would result in changes - mostly shrinking the project size, and from then on, Claude would change nothing - just a like a very good programmer.
This is the biggest problem with developing with Claude, by far. Anthropic should laser focus on fixing it.
Bluetooth and is nice, but it's probably a better buy to get an antique portable cassette recorder. It's really something how primitive these look in comparison to the what was on the market in the 1980s.
If you are doubting these statements of mine, how about you look up the great evils the American govt has inflicted unto Americans themselves? I'd start with MKULTRA, the Kent State massacre and go through COINTELPRO files. Then you will slowly be able to move on to US-led election frauds in Europe, and NATO-funded nazi death squads in Switzerland.
Those examples are so tame that it would be absurd to continue. Wikipedia has plenty of information on the USSR - its gulags, war crimes, repression, etc.
Oh yes, ofc, I have forgotten the 100mio who died of Communism. My bad! Funnily enough, the millions of soldiers who fought for it against nazism are counted as part of the death-by-communism. Same for the aborted babies, or the pedo and fascist filth who were rightfully imprisonned. Basically, everyone who dies under communism dies because of it, right? Unlike those who die under fascism, or of malnutrition, or of cold because they are unhoused by the West, those dont count towards death-by-capitalism, obviously.
Not just technically true, but the reality for vast areas such as the Ukraine and Kazakhstan etc which existed even then. There were numerous cities such as Vilnius or Dushanbe where most of the population did not speak Russian as a first or even native language or consider themselves Russian. It's like when people watch/read "Hunt for Red October" and call Captain Ramius a Russian... He isn't one, and it's a pretty key plot point that he isn't one, hence he defects.
Not really. I meant that America has triggered this war, like pretty much all wars on this planet since the end of the global anti fascist war. Thus, Europeans being good little servants, they will die for Washington.
Honestly, even intra commie wars were also triggered by the US Empire, and for these, Soviets were extraordinary foolish, I will give you that.
But I stand my ground; behind the vast majority of wars since WW2, there is the American architect.
Not everyone loves everything Lemay has worked on, but nobody bats 1.000 and designers love to critique each other’s work. [...] everyone I’ve spoken to is happy — if not downright giddy — at the news that Lemay is replacing Dye.
If those are the most flattering words that Gruber can compose about an Apple employee, then Lemay must be almost as bad as Dye!
I am not a Liquid Glass hater. I actually think, on the whole, iOS 26 is a better and more usable UI than iOS 18.
While someone's fondness for an OS can't really be 'wrong', Gruber is the first of many Apple commentators I have read who doesn't feel iOS 26 is a turkey. Liquid Glass is the Ford Edsel of user interface design.
I think gruber is a die-hard apple fan, a passion I would expect from someone who has written about apple for years.
That said, he is frequently an apple apologist. This gets in the way of critical thinking. Apple does not deserve a pass on poor products, bad policies or behavior, and other things that deserve being called out by journalism.
I first tried instant mashed potatoes about five years ago.
Before then, I never even knew there was such a thing!
I don't think I can tell them apart from fresh mashed potatoes.
The ones that I have tried are plain (no onion flavoring, etc), mixed with salted butter and coffee cream.
How are people who hate the instant variety preparing them? I am curious if I simply have bad taste, or if it's some other factor.
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