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by activitypea 8mo ago
I didn't stretch my imagination at all, that's why I asked :)
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by activitypea 8mo ago
What were X, Y and Z? This feels like "missing missing reasons"
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by activitypea 1y ago
To be reductive about the example of a malleable task tracker (e.g. Notion), if the LLM correctly interprets the user's prompt, there's about 20-30 useful buttons in the interface, and there's a sequence of those buttons that
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by activitypea 1y ago
What do you think incentivized the mass production this "slop"? Why do you think LLMs will end the incentives to continue creating it?
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by activitypea 2y ago
> Well, can you think of any reason why those young women didn't want to consider and understand the "opposing view"? consider and understand =/= agree and support. Regardless of the Harris' or Dems' views,
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by activitypea 2y ago
I remember reading GEB and being shocked that he never mentions Lisp. He _does_ wade into CompSci topics, but it's something half-hearted about how compilers are programs that read and generate programs. This really should've been
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by activitypea 2y ago
The syntax leaves a bad first impression. I'm getting flashbacks to Java EE/JAX-RS days.
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by activitypea 2y ago
Is there any modern hardware that doesn't have privacy issues?
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by activitypea 2y ago
Shoutouts to Metal Gear Solid 2, not much else left to say here.
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by activitypea 3y ago
yaaaaawn
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by activitypea 3y ago
> I was still caught a bit off guard. What about that high-priority project I was helping to lead? What about the training I was scheduled to deliver? What about the offsite next month? This is the part that always confuses me. I underst
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by activitypea 3y ago
Almost everyone in the United States, unfortunately.
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by activitypea 3y ago
Unfortunately for Sam Altman, an LLM will never produce anything half as funny as a bunch of rich VC guys calling a "politics expert" to tell them who to vote for. The human spirit prevails.
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by activitypea 3y ago
Valve is a private company, and therefore much less susceptible to enshittification, at least in theory. That's bound to come crashing down when GabeN retires, though.
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by activitypea 3y ago
Whenever I open the Epic Store, I'm in disbelief that the company behind Unreal Engine is okay with having such a sluggish piece of software. It has a fraction of a fraction of Steam's features, and yet feels 10x bloated. The visu
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by activitypea 3y ago
I listen to this a few times year, cheers me up everytime
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by activitypea 3y ago
Might be worth taking a step back and considering how people like Peterson and Weinstein become public intellectuals in the first place.
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by activitypea 3y ago
Hey, if anyone's gonna do it, my bet is on the company that revived Battletoads ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by activitypea 3y ago
Regardless of that product, how long was he making bad decisions before he was replaced? If it's less than two years, are you hiring? :)
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by activitypea 3y ago
If by "normal" you mean "reasonable", then you're right. If you mean "common", then try working at a large publicly-traded company for a few years. I agree that this stance doesn't stand up "to t
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by activitypea 3y ago
> ES6 classes make your code look amazingly compact and clean. You can add variables, methods, getters, setters, and async methods with the cute and short syntax. Huh, I didn't know that. I still don't know that :)
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by activitypea 3y ago
I try to use open-source wherever I can, but Bitwarden's UX just can't compete with 1Password or even LastPass. The Firefox extension in particular is pretty wonky.
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by activitypea 3y ago
A good companion piece to this is Patrick H Willems' youtube essay "Everything Is Content Now". That section of the blog post brings up points in such a similar manner to the video that I'm surprised it doesn't cite
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Ask HN: What do you think about the new Slack UI?
7 points by activitypea 3y ago|3 comments
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by activitypea 3y ago
"We want your code to look like Java, not learn a new query language" combined with "we will support any persistence layer under the sun" is going to be a recipe for disaster.
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by activitypea 3y ago
You folks just fixed my iPhone 12! It was my first iPhone, and the lightning port "broke" after two months. In the years since then, I just charged wirelessly and made sure I always have a Qi pad available (battery life on the 12
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by activitypea 3y ago
If iTunes = Apple Music, then I wish more people talked about this. The UX is so-so on iPhones, and terrible on Mac, and probably irredeemable on Windows. Insane that such a cornerstone of Apple's services offerring is so bad.
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by activitypea 3y ago
Then you'll be glad to hear Apple Music is back on Windows, and almost as terrible!
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by activitypea 3y ago
Same. Also, even without the ChromeTM ExclusiveTM Enchancements, I could swear my camera looks better in Chrome than Safari, when if anything it should be other way around.
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by activitypea 3y ago
I don't think slowing down the (Google-propelled) web standards commitees is the worst thing in the world. The endless rolling release stifles browser competition. I wish we could treat the web as a protocol and say "here, this is

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