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by dimal 5mo ago
I think I must be an AI. I’ve written those types of phrases a lot long before the advent of LLMs and I love em dashes. LLMs were trained on human text. Where do you think they got these patterns from? Looking at the rest of the text, I don
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by dimal 9mo ago
As someone who has been debugging their own chronic illnesses for the past ten years (and doing better than my doctors), I wouldn’t consider the medical diagnostic process to be “debugging” at all. And that is exactly the problem. Doctors s
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by dimal 9mo ago
> It's self-evidently a terrible idea Maybe you’re comparing it to some idealized view of what human therapy is like? There’s no benchmark for it, but humans struggle in real mental health care. They make terrible mistakes all th
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by dimal 9mo ago
I've actually gone in the other direction. A year ago, I had that feeling, but since then I've gotten more certain that LLMs are never going to be able to handle complexity. And complexity is still the real problem of developing s
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by dimal 9mo ago
That's a misunderstanding. I argue elsewhere in this thread that these categories aren't real, yet I identify as neurodivergent. One problem is that the language we've been given is one of defects (ADHD, ASD) and often people
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by dimal 9mo ago
That tend to hold "on average" for a population but often don't hold for the individual within a population. This is the ecological fallacy [0], just one of the fallacies underlying psychiatry. My argument isn't that psy
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by dimal 9mo ago
> Autism exists, to the extent that any psychiatric disorder exists. Which is to say, not really. I say this as someone who has been diagnosed as autistic, and identifies as autistic. All of these diagnoses are presented as clear, well d
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by dimal 9mo ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. HTML is good enough. Let’s get this done. And as another commenter has pointed out, HTML does exactly what you ask for. If it’s done correctly, it doesn’t contain font sizes or layout. Users can style HTML diff
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by dimal 10mo ago
I went through the same pain with React Router. I would never consider using Remix or anything else from this team. It doesn't matter how great it might be or how much I might agree with the architectural principles. Who knows what shi
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by dimal 10mo ago
> I had to read this over a few times to believe that I was seeing it. If it didn’t include the word “literally” I’d assume some poetic license on the part of whoever, or whatever, wrote this. Unfortunately, the meaning of the word “lite
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by dimal 10mo ago
Hmm. This was on the front page, generating lots of discussion. Now it’s hidden. What’s up HN? How is this not a relevant article here?
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by dimal 10mo ago
We have a culture where we’ve been told for decades that market forces and the profit motive are sufficient for running a society. That the market will find a way to give everyone what they need efficiently without problems. We’ve dispensed
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by dimal 10mo ago
Were they a coop when they went bankrupt? According to the article, they only became a coop recently, so having a CEO capable of firing everyone didn’t work out for them. They took investors, who agreed to the rate of return on their invest
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by dimal 10mo ago
Why? Most large corporations I’ve dealt with are highly bureaucratic and resistant to change. Good ideas get lost in silos or bogged down in bureaucracy. Whether it works or not seems entirely dependent on whether the company has a moat aro
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by dimal 10mo ago
> He views revision of beliefs as the hallmark of rationality, a perspective that’s consistent with our best knowledge in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. Hmm. By this measure, most Americans today are not capable of ration
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by dimal 10mo ago
Most people here are reading the headline and thinking that they’re pushing to make the census voluntary. The article actually says that they’re pushing to make the American Community Survey (ACS) voluntary. These are different things. Acco
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by dimal 10mo ago
> every time I see news about it is because its developers are trying to push something that users dislike Don't blame developers for management decisions.
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by dimal 10mo ago
Ok, I'll bite. Off the top of my head: Fire 80% of the C-level employees (make them justify their positions, DOGE-style); investigate and publicize the internal decision-making processes that lead to Mozilla becoming a de facto subsidi
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by dimal 10mo ago
Betrayal has that effect. They're supposed to be the good side. They abandoned that, and now they're just like any other unsuccessful tech company, desperately clinging to relevance while discarding all the ideals that made some o
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by dimal 11mo ago
Crashed Safari on my iPad multiple times. For what should be a static text page. Pretty bad look for a software development tool.
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by dimal 11mo ago
“Move fast and break things” is taking on a very literal meaning.
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by dimal 11mo ago
I don’t think this is new. I haven’t upgraded and I’ve regularly gotten similarly incomprehensible typos for a while. What the hell is going on inside Apple right now? They are printing money, they have thousands of employees, but basic fun
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by dimal 11mo ago
We don’t need a full rewrite. Despite the divisions in this country, there are a couple things that most people agree on: - Corporate money should be out of politics - Gerrymandering should be stopped If we had amendments for these two thin
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by dimal 11mo ago
I dislike all gambling except poker. Anything that is purely chance and not within my control at all (roulette, sports betting) is dull and stressful. The odds are always against you. Poker has a big element of chance of course, but it’s re
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by dimal 11mo ago
Oh man. One of my favorite songs is Sex Dwarf [0]. It’s completely ridiculous and over the top, and so fucking catchy. Such a perfect snapshot of 80s synth decadence. RIP. [0] https://youtu.be/wGfZhkBgR9Q?si=VpMmpKPvGyjkCE6C
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by dimal 11mo ago
> that is politically infeasible in a capitalist democracy. It’s more accurate to say it it’s politically infeasible in our capitalist oligarchy . Just because this is the way our society works now, we shouldn’t be duped into thinking t
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by dimal 11mo ago
Seems like the software teams are there to simply squander the extra processing power that the hardware teams provide, thus ensuring recurring revenue. I see no good reason to upgrade to Tahoe. I’d have to buy a new computer just so I could
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by dimal 11mo ago
How are we so certain that they had no social hierarchy at all? I thought that that was the main theory but that very little is certain at this point.
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by dimal 11mo ago
> Hudson had no interest in resuming his role of pet or clown and let it be known he would suffer no more jokes or insults. There is no record of the precise offence offered, but in October 1644, Hudson challenged the brother of William
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by dimal 11mo ago
I was all gung ho on XHTML back in the day until I realized that a single unclosed tag in an ad or another portion of our app that I had no control over would cause the entire page to fail. The user would see nothing except a giant ugly e

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