coffeefirst

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by coffeefirst 4d ago
Yes. They will reach an agreement not to pursue RSI for “safety.” That RSI is utter nonsense in the first place will go unnoticed.
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by coffeefirst 5d ago
Yep. And the kicker is they are genuinely confused when all this lands badly.
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by coffeefirst 10d ago
Out of curiosity what book did you get burned on?
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by coffeefirst 10d ago
Wait, really? As best I can tell, the problem is contained to kindle self publishing and the like, which were always unfiltered. And we buy plenty of new books.
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by coffeefirst 10d ago
I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media. There’s a little bit of frenetic emotional dysregulation, and then they say the weirdest stuff to me. I don’t think you could have made a similar argu
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by coffeefirst 11d ago
Sure. But what’s the technical way or meet that requirement? Is there a specific method or is it just that they can but they don’t care because there’s no law?
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by coffeefirst 11d ago
Interesting. What ways? Suppose I wanted to call the governor and say “I have an answer to how to regulate these that solves the noise problem” what would we be asking for?
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by coffeefirst 12d ago
They’re not. You would see this with earlier models where after running too long (too much context) they’d start to derail. In a chatbot you’d give up. But these loops just keep going. Given they’re now reading and writing from the same pla
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by coffeefirst 16d ago
Not complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.
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by coffeefirst 18d ago
Yep. This is my policy. Use whatever tools however they serve you, the standards do not change. If someone makes a sloppy 100,000 line PR in a day the problem is not whether it was generated by Claude or frantically written using VIM and a
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by coffeefirst 24d ago
It already happened. For a lot of people, social media has been replaced entirely by group chat.
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by coffeefirst 25d ago
Or even 30 second ads that don’t look like shit. The technology is interesting as an element within the wider process of special effects, animation, and video games. The idea that you’re actually making a movie with the current products—and
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by coffeefirst 27d ago
Uh-huh. I have a little boy who just saw his first firetruck, and you can see the wheels turning in his head, because BIG RED TRUCK. He doesn't talk yet, but a seed has been planted. Some people operate like little boys. They want the
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by coffeefirst 28d ago
It’s also circumstantial. Working remote during COVID sucked and felt unmoored. Once I had a robust IRL social life and could go see some live music again, it was great. It also depends if you live in tiny apartment or if you have a house w
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
Oh yeah. I did this in 2021. I got the list out of 1Pass and just did them in small batches. I hit a few that wouldn’t let you change but nothing important. I had all the important stuff done in a week.
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
Yes, I would agree that privacy is important, that anonymity is valuable to the freedom of speech, and that OP is also right about the health of the web. Which means we have a big problem.
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
Yeah, I really dislike this “Thing is has its Other Thing Moment.” For starters, I what the hell does this mean? But it’s also a style of reporting that treats the attention cycle as the thing that must be covered rather than the thing itse
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
This doesn’t surprise me. Set up whatever online portal or app you want. I’d prefer to just sign in and click a button. If I’m picking up the phone or sending an email it’s because I have a weird problem and I need to talk to a person.
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
Well there’s a lot of middle ground between “don’t use AI” and “generate everything, exclusively.” When the bill for the latter lands with a heavy thud, moderation and common sense start to look like a pretty good idea.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Correct. If they were doing this with Gutenberg/Smithsonian/some library so there's both a public archive and training the language model, it wouldn't have the ick factor.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Thank you. Some days I feel like I’m going crazy. I use plenty of AI. As best I can tell just believing my own eyes, everything is stagnant except the prices. Which is fine… but the boosters shout “OMG EVERYTHING IS CHANGED YOU ARE BEHIND A
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Cool! Which ones? (Replacing overpriced garbageware with something I scraped together in 3 days is my jam. But the specifics matter a lot.)
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Oh 100%. On their own, browser tabs, notifications, and IM at work all make sense on their own and are not evil at all. Taken together, there are now 8 people trying to talk to me all day every day, constant alerts unless you go out of your
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
That's smart. It's also revealing. It was a choice to make technology that absolutely hammers you with information. It was not the right choice. I want to build and use stuff that promotes focus. I only have a vague inkling of w
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
If you think that’s bad casting, I’ve got some bad news: the guy who plays the cyclops has two eyes.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
It’s fast but it has just enough rough edges that I always go back to Firefox.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Yeah on second read I realize my comment was unclear; I don’t think this is okay. Fixed.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
In the 1960s Campbells Soup got in trouble with the FTC for using marbles to raise the ingredients and make the soup look fuller than it was. This was the real standard for deceptive advertising. I dont care about simulating furniture place
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
They serve different jobs. The tidy todo notebook or lab notebook is to offload working memory or keep records. The chaos notebook is for disorder.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Unless you were at a couple of obscure film festivals in the early 2010s, definitely not! We were hobbyists making features and shorts on a shoestring budget with no expectations of “making it.” It was a blast. It’s also an all-consuming ho

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