NotAnOtter

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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Bad faith argument
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Not gonna keep going back and forth when you seem to agree but are choosing to be difficult. We agree SO was falling before LLM's hit the market. We agree LLM's accelerated SO's demise. You seem to think they weren't fai
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
It's pretty wild. Meanwhile bot farms just shuffle all identifiers. They are actively harming human users in defense of their toxic mods & botters. Site is dying and they are the murderer.
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Then explain the usage chart declining since ~2015? As I said in my original post, LLM was the final nail in the coffin. I'm not arguing they aren't related. I'm saying they SO was falling long before LLM's took over. Th
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
IMO the community will fracture in two directions. Reddit's differentiator over Instragram, twitter etc. is that it's community based rather than individual based (with the algo making psuedo communities) I feel some users will l
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
> I think Stack Overflow went dead because of AI specifically This doesn't hold up when looking at usage charts. There is a clear peak around ~2015 with a steady decline through to now. LLM's came to market in their current for
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I feel Quora gave up years ago though. When you load a random content page, the top 50% of the page is a question, the bottom 50% is an ad that is designed to look like a comment, and the entire right panel is ads. Quora is more ads than co
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Ask HN: Is Reddit going the way of Stack Overflow?
13 points by NotAnOtter 1y ago|26 comments
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
How are concerns about ecological impact misplaced when discussing solutions to ecological problems. It feels pretty relevant to me. And from everything I've seen/heard, tidal based solutions are just fundamentally incompatible wi
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
It's a massive stretch to think one poorly placed meltdown somewhere in the UK would lead to the UK collapsing. I suspect it would be visible on a 10 year GDP chart but not "trending towards 0" levels of economic fallout. Als
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
People are broadly misinformed. Nuclear plants release significantly less radiation than coal based plants, as an example. They do create a lot of waste that we currently don't know how to process, but the quantity is actually shocking
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Yes, lifecycle analysis is the holy grail. And I'm not qualified to say the tidal based solutions will never beat out Geo/Solar/Win + Batteries. In my informed but non-professional opinion, it seems like this avenue will neve
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I used to throw loads of parties. At somepoint I realized.. 1. It's expensive. I never once got a reasonable contribution from my friends. I knew this at the time, but eventually I was over it. Paying $100-250 per event just to deal wi
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
As cool as this sounds, I'm not sure I'm as enthused with stuff our oceans full of more tech, which inevitably will wear down, break, and pollute. It's better than oil (duh), and something that provides power when solar/
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I do not need to know if AI therapy is as good as Real Life therapy. It almost certainly is not. I need to know if using it as AI therapy is actively harmful for some significant percentage of the population, and should be avoided. This arx
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
If the thing gating your from creating a great product was the engineering, then I would call you a great product designer and not an engineer. If you suddenly can create products with a new tool - you didn't change, the tools did. You
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
>You should remain open to new things in this industry I'm open to new things. I've seen demo's, attended presentations, and spent a long time toying around with it myself. I have not been convinced there is any meat ther
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Rip
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Words have meaning. I'm not a prescriptivist but when you have an army of formerly PM's, Designers, etc all at once exclaiming "I'm an engineer too!" that should signal that maybe the thing they're doing isn&#x
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
To claim AI is useless is ignorant. To claim AI is as good as 99% of people claim it to be, is also ignorant. A lot of people have drank the 'exponential growth' kool aid but don't have enough understanding of the underlying
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Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?
82 points by NotAnOtter 1y ago|94 comments
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
My definition of science is something like "a methodical approach to reach some truth" whereas engineering is something like "a methodical approach to reach some functionality". And I think some version of that is pretty
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
If one wished, could they do something like `save adults to "adults.json" as XML` The expected output would be a file with the name "adults.json" containing XML data. I don't see much benefit in this specific use ca
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
But is it real empathy? Did they actually pause and feel bad and convert their emotional response to some written message? Or did they just short circuit. "Dead relative -> Say sorry for your loss". Like an AI bot. It's th
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I'm cynical in general, but this type of stuff always sticks out. "I'm sorry for your loss" from one nameless headless stranger to a different nameless headless stranger feels as sincere as an AI bot, and that's to
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Great iteration on the -dle format. Bug: My word happened to be "will". When I typed "w", "i", "l", "l", the input area showed "wi". Since the second "l" was interpreted
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
What's your long term revenue model? Enterprise licensing? Donation based? Hosting fees with value-add mark up?
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Sooooooo mixed drinks..? It's wild to me how you jumped down my throat about not looking into his product enough when you did read my entire comment.
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Poked at it for a few minutes. And yes, it's clear how very little I get about air defense. I would consider adding a tutorial or a toy version that's simplified a bit.
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Why not just a barcode scanner? And a standard lookup for mixed drinks. I don't feel like this needed an AI solution.

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