chipotle_coyote

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by chipotle_coyote 21d ago
They don't pre-populate the feed, no. I believe they suggest users to follow (on Mastodon that's a per-instance choice based on the administrator), and have sort of generic popular feeds. If you want to see what that looks like
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by chipotle_coyote 21d ago
"The average user has never used a website"? Really? The average user has never once, ever, opened their browser and gone to a website? Never read a newspaper online? Gone to LinkedIn or Facebook, done banking, made a doctor'
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by chipotle_coyote 1mo ago
> Until the EU forced them to use USB-C I know this is the common wisdom (especially around these parts), and yes, I know the timing lines up, but I'm not convinced. Apple was actually on the USB-C steering committee, and they adopt
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by chipotle_coyote 1mo ago
The retraction post from Gruber details ways in which he tried to fact-check this, including confirming that his understanding was correct with Mr. Godier and even running a draft of the post by him to make sure he'd stated the "f
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by chipotle_coyote 1mo ago
I've seen a few people complain that the first trailer for the Neuromancer TV show looks "too bright" or "too clean." I think the real difference is that they're consciously trying to avoid that Blade Runner
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by chipotle_coyote 1mo ago
This is actually still a reasonable concern to have. Coincidentally, just yesterday I came across a reference to the book Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen, speculating on how a global thermonuclear war could start in modern times
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by chipotle_coyote 1mo ago
I remember mostly ignoring Kermit back in my BBSing days; by the time "SuperKermit" came along, which could get performance competitive with ZMODEM, it alreayd seemed ancient. Then, around 1991, a friend gave me access to his coll
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by chipotle_coyote 2mo ago
When people who are rich and/or influential loudly and publicly share their political stances, and especially when they put their money toward those ends, it is not unreasonable to expect that to influence the opinions others have of
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by chipotle_coyote 2mo ago
While I get the joke, as a technical writer, you might be surprised how often I've found myself as a defacto QA engineer: Me: This is what you said it does, and this is what it actually seems to do. Which one is right? Engineer: Shit.
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by chipotle_coyote 3mo ago
It's become de rigueur on HN to accuse any article one thinks is trite, obvious, or simply disagreeable of being AI-written. ("That comment has three items in a list! No human would ever put three items in a list! Checkmate, b
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by chipotle_coyote 3mo ago
I'm getting pretty good with Emacs, but I find its Treesitter handling a bit obtuse, and the auto-installation package I found slowed the editor down a lot for reasons I can't determine. (I mean, everything slowed down, and it
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If AI is sentient, then so is "Age of Empires II"(404media.co)
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by chipotle_coyote 3mo ago
I certainly wouldn't mind being able to block ads on the Apple TV for certain services (by which I mean YouTube), but for services which aren't as aggressively terrible as ad-supported YouTube is, I'm generally fine just maki
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by chipotle_coyote 3mo ago
What if -- bear with me here -- it's possible for bright, motivated founders to create startups that your kids can work in, but those founders could be content with merely making a hundred million dollars? Because, and I don't kno
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by chipotle_coyote 3mo ago
"I did not like your answer, therefore I will use the 100% reliable, bullet-proof method of having an algorithm generate the statistically most likely words that form a plausible answer to my question."
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
I'll just quote from the article, which no one claimed was God and that's really a weird way to dismiss it, but you do you: "We create a culture of self-censorship and AI-detector-pressured rewriting and paraphrasing as peopl
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
Except that the entire point of the article is that they're not AI idioms. They're not "watermarks for text." They're legitimate language constructions that LLMs tend to overuse, but that real humans also use . R
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
Man, if only Anthropic hadn't invented the em dash in 2023, it wouldn't be so easy to use that as such a surefire way to distinguish AI writing!
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
I mean, a company that loses money on every widget they sell might technically have found "product-market fit." :) It seems quite possible to me that developer tooling is going to end up being the biggest win from LLMs because t
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
Congratulations to last.fm on this, although I'm not sure what I can do that actually "scrobbles" at this point. I went to their download page for the Mac desktop app, which somewhat forebodingly referred to "what you&#x
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
I've tried to switch to Spotify from Apple Music a few times because the common wisdom seems to be that Spotify has better algorithmic recommendations. But Apple Music "knows" what I like already, and Spotify never grabs me s
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
There seems to be a "spot the LLM" game happening on HN in particular in which literally every damn linked post has a comment accusing it of being written by an AI. Do we not understand that definitionally every AI "tell&qu
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
This seems to be willfully eliding that proposed wealth taxes tend to either be taxes on wealth above a certain amount, or (such as California’s) a one-time tax on people with wealth over a certain amount. If I were a mere millionaire -
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
I admit I have recently moved, on my Mac, from BBEdit to Emacs for most things, although Emacs has also taken over from Ulysses and Day One for me. But there are still some things that I end up doing in BBEdit, because it's kind of a m
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
It seems to me (entirely anecdotal, YMMV, etc. etc.) that Ed Zitron’s blog posts started getting both longer and considerably more histrionic when he started moving most of them behind a paywall. I’m definitely in the “AI skeptic” camp and
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
Apple's history with accessibility is, on the whole, pretty good. I strongly suspect that the "coming soon" part of this means "after we integrate Google Gemini models into the system," so I don't think you sho
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
Xanadu was a terrible movie, but the soundtrack was a critical and commercial success -- it went to number one in 11 countries, was certified double platinum in the US and had six charting singles, some of which still get radio airplay ov
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
Actually, the part of the article that made me prick my ears up was this paragraph: In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michae
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by chipotle_coyote 4mo ago
I think the "nerds (like me)" part of your observation is something that a lot of AI-enthusiast nerds seriously underestimate. For as long as there's been personal computing, there's been a narrative that everyone would
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by chipotle_coyote 5mo ago
I think it's more a concern about the company one keeps; Ladybird's Andreas Kling has certainly ruffled feathers over the past couple of years by doubling down on anti-inclusionary language takes ("I'm not against gender

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