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It’s also very shortsighted to stiff a customer like that. Why would I trust them with my data and ideas?

I think that’s what we’re all talking about here, you shouldn’t.

Yes. It’s all about consistency and user expectations.

Apple guidelines for example, which have been in place for 40ish years:

> Best practices: Support the default system-defined menus and their ordering. People expect to find menus and menu items in an order they’re familiar with. In many cases, the system implements the functionality of standard menu items so you don’t have to. For example, when people select text in a standard text field, the system makes the Edit > Copy menu item available.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...


To me, the surprise is the other way around: why does a probabilistic process result in such a deterministic result? Not just for ChatGPT, but also for others (see my other comment)?


Got 17 too, with Opus 5, Sonnet 5, GPT5.6 Terra, and Deepsek v4 pro. So it must be the right answer.


can't argue with that logic. But jokes aside, if even a consensus of multiple AIs can be this biased, I wonder how many actually important topics are mistakenly treated as settled truth because different AIs aggree on that but it's actually simply because of statistical biases in the training data.


The game is very nice: https://bisecto.com/


Thank you


Arghh.

What’s the chance that they told an AI to refresh the design? Since flossing is a fourth choice it doesn’t fit into the three-is-good raster. But of course it remains tracked because the task was to redesign the front.


Who knows? It's really weird. They made is so much worse... they even removed the red/blue colour coding for the yes/no buttons which made so much sense.


This article from 2018 claims the same (and that Danish sounding names are rugs and floormats): https://www.worldnomads.com/in-the-news/the-hidden-message-i...


I wasn’t so lucky with my attempt for a Windows 11 driver for an old emaguc MT4 MIDI interface. It works on Macs, but no longer on PCs.

Claude worked for a while and then spun itself into a loop of making a mistake, correcting it, then making it again.

That was 9 months ago so perhaps I should try again.


Neat. Long Train photos from a still camera here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127920


I've further improved my long trains scanning setup with:

* portable battery-powered enclosure with display: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-06-12-standalone-cnc-li...

* fine-grained distortion correction by manual annotation: https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2026-08-02-line-scan-camera-...

Here's a recent Caltrain photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caltrain_Stadler_KIS...


Nice. Reminds me of Apple's OpenDoc (which seemed promising at the time, but a bit incomplete, and then discontinued when Jobs came back to Apple).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc


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