karaterobot

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by karaterobot 8mo ago
When we're looking to the actors guilds for direction, you know the future of our industry might be in trouble.
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by karaterobot 9mo ago
I've been quoting von Tiesenhausen's Law of Engineering Design for over a decade, since it is a great summary of why I switched from engineering to product design mid-career. That law is the one that says engineers always wind up
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by karaterobot 9mo ago
I'm sometimes asked to produce meaningless 30-page documents that nobody ever reads. I mean literally nobody, since I can see the history of who has accessed it. Me and a proof-reader, and occasionally someone will open it up to check
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by karaterobot 10mo ago
Some programmers are engineers, but not all programmers are engineers. A lot of us are plumbers, basically. We connect together things other people have engineered. There's nothing wrong with plumbing; it's an important, honorable
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by karaterobot 11mo ago
I bought all the Affinity programs after ditching Adobe, which I'd used for 20 years or so. I'm a professional designer, and even though most of my work is in Figma these days, it's nice having dedicated bitmap editing and do
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by karaterobot 11mo ago
The headline is incorrect, it should say " A Browser That's Anti-Web". Many other browsers are also trying to destroy the web for their own benefit, including some you may have heard of.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
The ideal scenario isn't the government forcing a sale of TikTok for political reasons. The ideal is that people stop using TikTok because they realize it's not good for them, but I guess I don't see that happening. Instead w
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I guess I disagree that it's a good thing. As a developer, I think most documentation is terrible both for developers and non-developers alike. And if you write your documentation so that it is useful to non-developers, it's still
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by karaterobot 1y ago
You'd think so, but I've been hosting MM for about 6 years, and it's definitely gotten more user- and admin-hostile in that time. They've restricted really vital improvements to paying customers (basic stuff, like having
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by karaterobot 1y ago
If it turns out the dip is caused by a lag between the implementation of new tariff rules and the implementation of processes to handle them, and that in a short time traffic to the U.S. goes back to essentially its prior levels, what will
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Jobs, who died in 2011, may very well have had some new or updated opinions himself by now.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> Precisely one reason comes to mind to have ROBOTS.TXT, and it is, incidentally, stupid - to prevent robots from triggering processes on the website that should not be run automatically Counter-point: I have a blog I don't want to
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Check out the first 1 minute of the linked video for answers to both of these questions.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
You know, I used to bullseye small thermal exhaust ports in my T16 back home, they're not much smaller than womp rats.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Here's how little I understand business: $45 million in revenue, earned by taking a totally fair 10% of subscriptions that other people do all the work to get, seems like it ought to be enough. If leadership is trying to scale up to be
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> Hill said that the X300 is the favorite ThinkPad he worked on, not only because of its thinness, but also because it proved that, under Lenovo, he could build an even better product than he had for IBM. > "There was a giant sca
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Does what it says on the label.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I don't think it has to be ADHD. I don't have ADHD, and none of my friends have it that I know of. We all start things we don't finish, though. I was going to post some of the more ridiculous domain names I've purchased
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by karaterobot 1y ago
What are some subjects that ChatGPT has given only shallow instruction on? I'll tell you that I recently found it the best resource on the web for teaching me about the 30 Years War. I was reading a collection of primary source docum
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by karaterobot 1y ago
It's got to be a good agenda, too. It can't just be "discuss delivery of project X" or "sync on status of feature Y". Those are too generic. The agenda needs to make it clear what the outcome of the meeting is,
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by karaterobot 1y ago
It's a reference to Wernher von Braun. I think it's a really pointless thing to say, since it adds nothing to the conversation and just sort of makes an unrelated, uninformative reference. But here we are nonetheless.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I don't think the results of the last two decades of mass information dissemination have been all that great. People didn't trust anything on the internet before GPT, and the internet was already a cacophony of screeching voices t
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> Younger Americans (millennials and Gen Zers) owned $1.35 for every $1 of wealth owned by baby boomers at the same age. https://www.stlouisfed.org/community-development/publication...
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by karaterobot 1y ago
A lot of people are responding with other technical considerations that may lead you to consider using an SPA pattern. But, note that the article is about responding to the stakeholder's request that it should 'feel like an app&#x
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by karaterobot 1y ago
The title made me think this was going to be about the mental consequences of outsourcing writing to AI. In fact, the article is completely about people not reading documents. Corporate documents to be exact. His examples are from the 00s
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> The fact is that if you’re worried about privacy, you should be far, far more concerned about all the data that various companies are hoovering up about you based on your online activity. This tired canard makes me mad. It's not e
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I didn't find it to be defending the CIA's failures in any way. The CIA didn't call Trump its adversary, the reviewer of the book did. They also said that Trump was the Agency's adversary, not the other way around. It is
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Typically LLMs don't put spaces between em dashes and the words that surround them—which is the correct orthography, I should point out. Humans often put spaces around them when they shouldn't, like in the example you quoted. I do
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Proving that AI is not just parroting back what it reads on the web, ChatGPT manages to correct my programming mistakes without making me feel bad. If it learned from Substack, I'm glad it learned selectively!
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by karaterobot 1y ago
The linked article said the vaccine was still in pre-clinical trials, which means it hasn't been tested on humans yet. Mouse models are a stepping stone toward that. When you hear 'pre-clinical' think 'alpha testing&#x27

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