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by massysett 18d ago
I don’t see why it is interesting to claim that a piece is AI generated, especially in light of the concession in your last paragraph that you liked the article. AI is a tool. It outputs things only when asked to. Asking it requires skill.
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by massysett 22d ago
My cable internet is 2.5G. So it’s nice to get that full speed when I have a wired connection. To be honest though, my usage does not benefit from the speed. The only benefit is to the reptile part of my brain that says “speed. Must have th
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by massysett 29d ago
The expansion cards always seemed a gimmick to me: it's just a USB-C port, loaded down with the extra plastic necessary to claim it's an expansion port. I guess some folks find it more convenient than a dongle, but when I'm
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by massysett 29d ago
I’m surprised that anyone would love Amazon so much that they resort to using third-party search so they can continue buying from Amazon. Rather than just shopping elsewhere! There are many product categories where I know that shopping on A
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by massysett 1mo ago
This all supposes that the sports team owners really are that: independent owners. Sure that’s what we call them, but it’s more accurate to say they are equity partners in a common enterprise. It’s not interesting to say that a sports leagu
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by massysett 1mo ago
In case the author is, like so many people, sensitive to this kind of criticism, I will say this: Thank you for giving the world your free software. Feel no compunction to undertake extra work to please people who criticize your work. They
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by massysett 1mo ago
? I’ve done hiring and we review all undergrad and graduate transcripts every single time, so I am hardly grasping at straws.
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by massysett 1mo ago
But will an LLM write dense Common Lisp? A lot of that density comes from well-designed domain-specific macros. An LLM will have no incentive to write these on its own, though it could if a human prods it sufficiently.
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by massysett 1mo ago
> You really think and employer is going to look at UofM and say "Oh, they gave their students a 1 semester reprieve, obviously they are of lower quality"? Yes. This will be evident on the transcript. It won’t reduce a student
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by massysett 1mo ago
I read NYT. Perfectly usable with ads.
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by massysett 1mo ago
Meh. My tinnitus is a result of high-frequency hearing loss. The hearing loss is not noticeable - maybe I can't hear something just below what dogs can hear? - but the tinnitus is noticeable. I have no idea how it happened - I never
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by massysett 1mo ago
I read your link and still don’t agree that these ads are “bad”. I think these ads built brand awareness. The point of the MidWest Micro “Clue” ad was not necessarily to spur you to buy a MidWest Micro system today. The purpose was so that
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by massysett 1mo ago
So random youtuber gave you something of value - something that saved you hundreds of dollars from not having to get a professional repair - yet you have something against random YouTuber getting paid?
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by massysett 1mo ago
Or you could not consume the content.
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by massysett 1mo ago
YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit.
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by massysett 1mo ago
I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it.
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by massysett 1mo ago
> I would love for something to force a speed and power rating on USB-C plugs. This already exists. Cable makers can certify their cables and mark them with their data speed and wattage. I buy only certified, marked cables. If I see an u
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by massysett 1mo ago
How do the cars do when breaking a rule is necessary? For instance, a car is broken down in the one forward lane of a two-lane road, requiring the waymo to cross the double-yellow line to get around it. Or, a signal is red for so long that
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by massysett 1mo ago
The whole point is that the friend wouldn’t know what an agent is. The friend would have heard that AI is changing the world and she would have went into ChatGPT or maybe Claude or Gemini. Presuming that the ideal is that anyone should be
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by massysett 2mo ago
Some people want a new car all the time. Leasing is not a bad way to do that. Wanting a new car all the time is the expensive decision, not leasing, which is merely a manifestation of that decision. As someone who drives a ten-year-old car
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by massysett 2mo ago
Heh, I saw the title and the domain, and I thought it was referring to wealth transferred from poor to rich by all the credit card fees that merchants pay that are refunded to well-off cardholders through rebates. Poorer customers do not ge
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by massysett 2mo ago
I had what I thought was a completely ridiculous prompt: “Build me a replacement for Microsoft Word.” ChatGPT did what I thought was the right thing: it responded asking along the lines of “you don’t really want that do you?” and explaine
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by massysett 2mo ago
“You need to look up Oneplus to see how many people were using their devices till they announced exit from Western markets.” The final part of this sentence shows why there is absolutely no need to look up Oneplus.
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by massysett 2mo ago
I am always very polite with my chat bots. Mostly because the interface does mimic human conversation and I’m afraid that if I’m rude to the bot, I’ll get used to being rude and then I’ll start being rude to people.
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by massysett 3mo ago
Don't they also need plentiful water?
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by massysett 3mo ago
This is a good point, but CarPlay is not open interoperability. Open is DisplayPort. Open is 3.5mm jack. Open is Bluetooth. The car has two proprietary tie-ins to two dominant mobile operating systems. That’s another reason this feels like
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by massysett 3mo ago
I think CarPlay is evidence of failure. My aim is device independence. In the old days, to print I had to hook up my printer to a computer. To print from a computer on the network, I needed a print server. I had to administer that. Now the
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by massysett 3mo ago
The “2026: Logging on today” section is way off the mark. It says that if you want to read the headlines, you turn on your Windows PC, get nagged for updates, etc. No. You get your phone out of your pocket and it lights up instantly.
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by massysett 3mo ago
This article is but one example of a tiresome genre: the paean to the supposed glory days of aviation. Passengers dressed up, dined on caviar, and smoked cigarettes. Stewardesses were sexy, and liquor flowed in the expansive 747 lounge. The
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by massysett 3mo ago
OpenTTD and 0ad are open-source games that have been under development for many years, which tickles the hacker sensibility. I think these two games fit into the HN mindset much more than Factorio, which is a newer, proprietary game.

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