attheballot

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by attheballot 29d ago
Can we make a class action lawsuit target multiple storefronts? Apple and Google desperately need to be gently reminded of this less. With a power drill attached dildo. Their searches are trash, first hit is always an ad.
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by attheballot 1mo ago
This bit in particular > Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.). I stopped reading there.
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by attheballot 1mo ago
> IMO the post-mortem is more a satirical response to the HN criticism They have edited it again to be slightly more emotional. It's why their "On Taste" closure doesn't actually pertain to Taste anymore. Of course, t
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by attheballot 1mo ago
I was expecting them to state that they were doing a bit with the post-mortem, but the punchline never came. It is even more consistently AI coded than the full text. Give us a /s, give us a wink a nod, give us a markdown sygil of LOSS
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by attheballot 2mo ago
In other words, they did not even need a prompt. You could probably skip feeding the paragraph and just told "generate visuals for the opening paragraph of the LotR", and the LLM would successfully do it as it has a very good idea
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by attheballot 2mo ago
I fully agree. But I do think this was a poor demonstration of the idea for another reason: Tolkien works have a HUGE corpus of training data. It's great that random users can come in and immediately recognize what the footage is, but
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by attheballot 2mo ago
Yeah, Obsidian has allow me to create a comprehensive back and frontlog of all types of media. And that is super useful to me, and I can make this little connect information base in a way no tools before it had really accomplished. The &quo
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by attheballot 2mo ago
You know, seeing a total of 3 replies on this topic, I think the lesson here is to, from now on, with comments like this, to clearly state "Pi has * ALL* the tools, can you name one it does not".
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by attheballot 4mo ago
None will. But hide them in a box, away from where others can see, and they will happily sign a piece of paper that says they do. One so called a ballot.