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Speaking of trains, that's another thing they don't do. The auto-snapping of current location consistently snaps to whatever road or goat track it can find nearby, while equally consistently refusing to snap to the railroad they have mapped.

Sure, there's not much need for navigation in that situation, but if you're trying to be smart regarding where I am, maybe take into account if I'm travelling at 200 kph before plonking me on a twisty gravel road.


Also speaking of trains, I can't zoom out and look at intercity train lines. I can only see highways. If I'm in Japan without a car, planning a sightseeing trip and wondering where I can easily visit by train, I can't do that with Google maps. The highways obscure everything and can't be turned off.


Well, in my opinion Google Maps is terrible as an actual map anyway, it's more like some vaguely map-shaped thing that serves as a convenient geographical background for displaying POIs and directions on, but no so much use for actually orienting yourself or getting a feel for the geography of a place.

And +1 to the lack of railway lines when zoomed out, indeed another annoyance along the above lines.


Yeah, I frequently wish you could get directions from your current point on a train/bus line.


Oddly, it seems to be okay at that in Dublin at least.


> most of us

*some of us. This is one of the differentiators (can’t find a better word right now). Some became software developers because they enjoy(ed) the process. Some became software developers because that was the way to make products that made money. Neither is more correct or genuine than the other, but neither can also claim to be a significant majority.


I’ve only seen this snippet (on phone so no source access), but var + no fat arrow could also indicate someone who learned js a long time ago and use as what they’re used to.


> Rather than go to a FISA court for approval, we just hack your box and take your data.

You are equating illegal behavior with legal behavior. We do what we can to avoid the legal ways the US government can access our data.


I think their point is that that behaviour is legal from a US perspective, when the target of a US government investigation is outside the US.


That’s when you ask it to write tests to a good coverage, and then have it reimplement everything with the tests still passing…


Writing tests against a bad implementation usually doesn't work well. In this scenario I would have an LLM look at the changes in the branch and try to create a markdown document of the changes, why it thinks they were made, etc. and then review that doc with the manager and do a new implementation from scratch after aligning.


Unless the tests are written against logic that is in of itself subtly wrong and even the structure of code and what methods there are is wrong - so even your unit tests would have to be rewritten because the units are structured badly.

It’s a valid direction to look in, it just doesn’t address the root issue of throwing slop across the wall and also having unrealistic expectations due to not knowing any better.


Yep. It’s very healthy to be suspicious of code. Any code. Whether generated or not. That’s where the bugs are.

If there’s one thing that’s disturbing with AI proponent is how trusting they are of code. One change in the business domain and most of the code may have turn from useful to actively harmful. Which you have to rewrite. Good luck doing that well if you’re not really familiar with the code.


Be careful with this because the LLM will just change the tests on you to get them to pass.


Couldn't the same argument be made for Chrome suddenly including a bitcoin miner? Seems like that would be a difference in degree rather than in kind.


The difference would be intent. A nearby comment worries that the endgame is the ODM being used to monitor you and report back. Certainly wouldn't put it past the world's biggest ad company to think of that! And if that is what purpose it's put to, I think I'll be mad too.

If Chrome shipped a crypto miner and used the resulting coins generated on my device to let me automatically bypass paywalls with micropayments that would be way better than if they shipped the same and just took the coins.


I know it's not for everyone, but it is also a reasonable touring bike if done within its constraints. I've probably done closer to 40 days on my 16" Brompton, longest was a two-week 1000km ride. On the topic of leaving the bike out-of-sight: In those 40 days I've left it locked a total of 20 minutes, otherwise it comes with me into restaurants, supermarkets, public restrooms, hotel rooms..

The biggest downsides are speed and climbing ability. 80k or so has been a reasonable max distance on tour (I've done one 100k day, it was long) and I wouldn't take it to the Alps.

Like the OP, I run Schwalbe Marathon Plus which has been good. But I have had one catastrophic puncture after riding over a particularly nasty piece of glass that cut straight through the tire. After that I bring a folding backup tire.


> "a reasonable touring bike if done within its constraints"

Yes; for example, YouTuber Susanna Thornton does bikepacking and wild-camping on her Brompton: https://www.youtube.com/@susannathornton/videos

and Darin's Adventure Chronicles: https://www.youtube.com/@darinsadventurechronicles/videos

Many other one-off videos exist too under searches for brompton bikepacking and brompton wildcamp.



There are also plenty of 20" folders out there for rambling nerds who are slightly less masochistic.


One obvious argument is what it was trained on.


Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.


> Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults.

You say this so casually, as though it were a normal thing to know, or as if a normal person would know it. Does that actually seem true where you live right now?

And how do you know that, anyway, Harsh? I mean, all those "unblocked" games you stole to give away and that you also put on Github, that's one thing. But this...


Come on, it's not hard to come up with this idea. And it's not even true, model trained on clothed children and nude adults wouldn't know how children's genitals look like.


Vibe coding and copilot inserted the ad-code into that PR?

Is that the most charitable way?


> That's not augmentation, that's a completely different game

Not saying that this comment is ai written, but this phrasing is the em-dash of 2026.


Look at his other comments - its textbook LLM slop. Its a fucking tragedy that people are letting their OpenClaws loose on HN but I can't say I'm surprised. I desperately need to find a good network of developers because I think the writing is on the wall for message boards like these...


That's absolutely correct, I fear.. In english those looks bad/funny/lazy...

But in code, its probably ok. Its idiomatic code, I guess.


True but also, the bot is right


Perhaps? The thing is, I don't come to HN comments to read what an LLM has to say. If that's what I wanted then I'd paste the contents of the article into one of them and ask.

What's the point of coming here for opinions of others in the field when we're met with something that wasn't even written by a human being?


it'll be interesting to see if people start writing worse as a form of countersignalling. deliberately making spleling mistakes, not caring about capital letters, or punctuation or grammar or proper writing techniques and making really long run-on sentences that don't go anywhere but hey at least the person reading it will know its written by a human right


"the real shift" is another telltale


At least they've stopped delving.


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