AlienRobot

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by AlienRobot 5d ago
People have a right to privacy. People should value that more, before it's all gone.
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by AlienRobot 5d ago
I'm not a heavy AI user but there are a couple of things I noticed trying to make copilot generate something for me from scratch. The first is that having a single file with everything you have in mind is very useful. So I end up writi
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by AlienRobot 7d ago
I don't think I have ever seen someone outside of tech saying this. It's always people working with the data-copying machines, never the people creating the data protected by the law, that want said laws gone.
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by AlienRobot 8d ago
LOL. I wish people could make good software that easy!
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by AlienRobot 8d ago
I don't know about recent versions, but I managed to install 18 on Linux Mint. Making it run wasn't easy, and it can't decode MP3 and some video codecs because of licensing issues. It also can't decode WebM. This is kind
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by AlienRobot 8d ago
Kind of ridiculous, isn't it? Personally I think recommendation algorithms should be more powerful, customizable, and transparent. Currently they just make too many assumptions about the user without providing mechanisms to directly as
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by AlienRobot 10d ago
"Pog"
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by AlienRobot 10d ago
The first step is to actually make a better platform. The problem with all the decentralized alternatives is that they sacrifice usability for decentralization and then almost nobody cares about decentralization so for most people it's
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by AlienRobot 11d ago
You are conflating extremely different things, and that is dangerous. Somehow we went from: 1. People can see and hear your in public 2. Therefore public places are not private 3. Therefore people can record you 4. Therefore it's okay
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by AlienRobot 11d ago
Why is it not going away?
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by AlienRobot 17d ago
I wonder what is the reasoning for this.
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by AlienRobot 17d ago
This is a reach. Children can't vote. If that was a real concern you would be banning adults from social media.
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by AlienRobot 26d ago
The conclusion is wrong. The point of using these media queries is that: 1) You can only use tiny buttons with precise pointers. 2) You can only use hover popups with pointers that can actually hover. In practice, much of this is too much w
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by AlienRobot 27d ago
When I was in school we were taught the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I haven't heard about Reduce and Reuse since.
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by AlienRobot 29d ago
Same. What I find pretty incredible is that we've had single core scheduling, then multi-core CPUs, page files, etc., all that stuff as computers progressed through the decades, just for a single app freezing the entire system in 2026.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
We'll need an archived copy of the archived copy.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
Some websites even do this for the favicon.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
Have you ever use an AI chatbot? It's basically a democratized scraper. Type something stupid, it "visits" 200 websites and regurgitates some random gibberish.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
Please understand that when you think of artists as "creative content authors" you are already off-base so any argument you make based on that is going to be incredibly wrong.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
A piece of wisdom I read here is that "install any operating system like you can with a [PC]" is something that you can only do with a PC. PC's are the exception. Every other device is controlled by the manufacturer.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
Do you think people just spawn out of nowhere the instant you interact with them or did they have a life before you met them?
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
David Revoy isn't a random artist on social media. He's a featured artist on Krita and creator of various Krita brush packs and tutorials. None of these accusers seem to have done the bare minimum of Googling the artist's nam
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
I think your assumption that HN hates X "because of wrong-think" is clouding your judgement. There is a long list of reasons to hate X. For example, paying users get top spot in replies to tweets, which instantly meant spam bots w
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
That sounds like bad design. If you get hit by a car once, that doesn't mean you want to get hit by a car more times in the future. What ends up happening with this algorithm is that the "for you" page is dominated by posts a
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
You are literally replying to a thread that has an example of a game where the position of the window matters.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
Google calls it "layout shift" in its web tools.
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
Somehow we managed to live this whole time without generative AI. Why do we need it now?
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by AlienRobot 1mo ago
I think by "disruptive" you mean "annoying" There is negative value in wasting vertical space to put an irrelevant prompt output in an article. It makes me question the sanity of whoever is doing this stuff. Doubly so if
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's incredible that an LLM can do this, and at the same time it's ridiculous to expect it to be capable of doing it, even thought it clearly can do it?
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
This is why I like python. str is a duck.

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