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by 65 4d ago
This feels a bit hyperbolic to me. AI seems to me to be similar in "revolutionary" terms as the web, which made information widely available for free if you had an internet connection.
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by 65 6d ago
Like the author says, AI does help you get there via experimentation. I wanted to mod a Casio watch with a custom crystal and screen that had not been done before. I needed a 3D model of the crystal for prototyping. Claude was able to get t
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by 65 10d ago
Margaret Mitchell got me to read a thousand pages of Gone With The Wind because she placed a juicy hook in the first chapter (Ashley) which gave me the motivation to read the entire book to see what happens. Why more novels do not have cent
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by 65 21d ago
And how did we create the law against giving children crystal meth in the first place? At a certain point in time, there was no law against it.
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by 65 21d ago
I agree, I should be allowed to give children my amazing crystal meth, it's such an untapped market.
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by 65 21d ago
All those smart Stanford grads got to make the world a better place by psychologically damaging millions of children.
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by 65 23d ago
And who is going to fix the robots when they break down?
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by 65 23d ago
It makes me question if we are starting to approach maximum entropy with software startups, and so deception and morally questionable "startups" are what's left. Software now costs nothing to build, and most of the obvious id
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by 65 24d ago
Mid 2000s I remember the -ify and -ly startups.
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by 65 24d ago
You can very easily replace "dichotomy" with "difference" or "contrast", and if you have to, expand the sentence further given the context of that difference/contrast. I will wager most people do not know
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by 65 25d ago
I know what all of these words mean. My point is that these are esoteric words that don't fit into the article's purpose or for the article's audience. The author would have gotten his point across far easier if he were to ha
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by 65 26d ago
I don't particularly disagree with what the author has written about, but the jargon and complex wording is really annoying to read. If this were written on a single subject, like engineering philosophy, then fine. But writing a multi-
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by 65 27d ago
Ah right, so it would be far better if the Ocean Cleanup did not exist, technology were to not have been tested for cleaning up ocean plastic, and people would not have known about plastic in the ocean via the Ocean Cleanup's social me
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by 65 1mo ago
Makes me even more excited for Ladybird to be released.
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by 65 2mo ago
We're developers, we can solve our own problems. I have a userscript to make it so every click on a YouTube video from the home page requires a 30 second wait. Dramatically decreased my mindless YouTube consumption. You can write one f
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by 65 2mo ago
Axios has had this style for years and years, before ChatGPT came out.
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by 65 2mo ago
But how can I make Gemini stop using "It's not this, it's that" every other sentence?
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by 65 2mo ago
I like this article because it feels so pre-AI. This is what people were arguing about on HackerNews back in the day! How so very nostalgic it makes me feel. But in response to the article: no, vanilla JS is a nightmare to keep your code or
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by 65 2mo ago
I've found my reading picked dramatically since I started using LLMs for programming. Waiting for a prompt to finish is a great time to read.
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by 65 3mo ago
If we are moved emotionally by slop, does it matter? If AI can produce something to make you think and feel, does it matter? It made you think and feel.
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by 65 3mo ago
This is copying, not stealing. Stealing means taking someone else's ideas, not their final output. Copying creates trends, where everything looks and feels the same. Stealing an idea and creating something of your own, AKA remixing, is
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by 65 3mo ago
I have been experimenting with methods of reading books and creating software for these methods. For example, I was inspired by the activeness of typelit.io when reading - typing out an entire book helped keep my mind from wandering when re
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by 65 3mo ago
If it was invariably going to be acquired, Cloudflare is certainly better than Microsoft, Anthropic, or private equity.
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by 65 4mo ago
If you use the broswer verison of apps you can also inject custom scripts. I have one for Instagram that completely removes the recommendation feed. Works great.
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by 65 4mo ago
I do judge people for using AI. Especially engineers. Oh, you're not smart enough to know how to write your own code? You need your hand to be held? You need to write your little prompts because reading documentation is too hard? I&#x2
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by 65 4mo ago
There is a difference between a run of the mill CRUD React app and solving specific, complex UI problems. I have been a programmer for a long time and CSS is still the hardest language to master. There are countless quirks and APIs most peo
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by 65 4mo ago
Funny how few companies are rebranding themselves as Blockchain companies anymore. Tech trends crack me up. Greed is shameless.
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by 65 4mo ago
No. Nondeterministic output is not revolutionary. Technology forced down our throats by a few companies and executives who are licking their lips at the idea of laying off people, even if laying those people off means garbage products, is n
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Why College Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers(nytimes.com)
8 points by 65 4mo ago|2 comments
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by 65 5mo ago
I do this too. I generally skim PRs just to make sure the person isn't doing anything too crazy. I trust my team to write good code. Pulling a branch and testing the code is usually a waste of time unless it's a critical bug or fe

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