morganf

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by morganf 5d ago
"We're slowly auctioning off our sovereignty in exchange for quick shortcuts to every tech company." Slowly?
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by morganf 1mo ago
This is such a good comment I wish I could upvote you 10x. I actually laughed outloud at your comparison to religious fundamentalists haha
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by morganf 1mo ago
Hahahahahaha I appreciate the humor and musical knowledge And I'm surprised that your joke didn't get more laughs or comments on HN. There is life outside of screens ;)
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by morganf 1mo ago
I'd define it as the web until the time that Facebook truly took off and conquered the hearts and minds of so many (that was the first huge shot in the losing war of the old web). For example, a key part of the old web was what used to
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by morganf 1mo ago
I read some of his older posts and came to the same conclusion.
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by morganf 2mo ago
How so?
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by morganf 2mo ago
Yeah, growing up in New York it was the reverse of these.
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by morganf 2mo ago
Hahaha! I love the list! Lots of professions have methods to send messages that simultaneously speak to various different audiences (while the bigger audiences don't know there are also other audiences as well, who will derive other me
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by morganf 2mo ago
In my line of work, we convert words to numbers, and we have a codex that defines meanings for the numbers; that way, we can write publicly but (in making sure we choose words that, when converted to numbers, convert to numbers that have th
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by morganf 2mo ago
I agree strongly with that comment you are quoting. It means (at least in my interpretation): different people think differently; a great salesman thinks very differently than a great software developer. And the AI wave is trying to force l
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by morganf 3mo ago
I think you mean "seizing". "Ceasing opportunities" means the precise opposite of what I think you intend to say.
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by morganf 3mo ago
Oh wow I always complain about this, I didn't realize other people were also so frustrated by this. Tons and tons of cafes by my house, but I zoom in with about a six block radius, where there are at least 20 cafes or cafe-restaurants
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by morganf 3mo ago
Same for me. It is the spectral signal of LLM writing. I'm a writer and last week I re-read one of my own books, that was written a few years before LLMs appeared. And I saw I used the "It's not X; it's Y" construct
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by morganf 5mo ago
Seriously agree. I am wildly overeducated and I often think the most useful class I ever took in high school was my senior year elective for a typing class. On old IBM typewriters. And the only class I took in high school with non-honors ki
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by morganf 5mo ago
noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
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by morganf 6mo ago
Someone needs to write "Falsehoods programmers believe about zip codes" hahahaha ;) PD: if you don't get the reference, a classic: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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by morganf 7mo ago
I grew up a nerdy kid in the 80s that liked military airplanes, and on the island I grew up on, was the HQ and manufacturing facility of a local manufacturer of military aircraft, that at the time was named Grumman. They were like a local s
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by morganf 8mo ago
But did he get the message and start keeping the volume down?
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by morganf 8mo ago
Today is my 50th birthday, actually! And my website is basically a timeline of interesting projects I've been doing since I was a kid. I often think it would be cool if everyone had some public timeline of their life in a shareable way
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by morganf 8mo ago
"The person deciding to use nonstandard "GSM" as a unit instead of the proper "g/m²" needs to feel stupid..." ---> This is the sort of HN comment that I can't figure out if it's serious or a j
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by morganf 9mo ago
(PS: Because I'm a perfectionist, typo fixes that change the meaning; corrected typos: "This thread is about making new friends, after all, and it would be an honor to meet you, I know your username from your many great comments o
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by morganf 9mo ago
Actually that girl just messaged me, and a group of common friends, a moment ago to tell me she was sitting in a cafe in Palermo a moment ago and saw someone looking at a web page with a photo of her from almost 20 years ago and she got rea
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by morganf 9mo ago
OH MY GOD DANNY DOVER!!!!! I had no idea you read HN!!!! Our conversations were always so awesome! Wow long time, I'll send you a DM somewhere on some platform, let's catch up!
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by morganf 9mo ago
Hi brabel, Your words were beautiful and I appreciate them. See my long response I just wrote, a sister comment to yours now, explaining my thinking when I wrote that joke. Your analysis is consistent with mine: the times were different tha
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by morganf 9mo ago
Hi andrewl, Yeah, I wrote that 20 years ago, and I tried to be funny and more offensive than. I'm sorry, I was young and more uncouth; today I'd never even consider thinking-or-talking like that. That line was meant as a joke. Som
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by morganf 9mo ago
I did almost the identical project the OP did, for the same reasons, in the same style. Reading that article could have been (with 10% of details tweaked) about my experience. The biggest difference in how the author approached and how I di
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by morganf 1y ago
One of my main uses for LLMs is copy editing and it is incredible to me how terrible all of them are at that.
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by morganf 1y ago
It doesn't compare to that coolness you just shared, but I'm from Long Island (right outside New York City) and I and everyone from my childhood town can differentiate a Long Island accent from a New Jersey accent (very similar bu
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by morganf 2y ago
OMG. Just the name brings back memories.
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by morganf 2y ago
Ad an expat/immigrant, I'll tell you my personal working definition, based only on my experience: An immigrant is one who moves from a poorer country to a richer country. An expat is one who mixes from a richer country to a poorer

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