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by purpleflashing 4d ago
I share the sentiment as a gamer but according to preservationists the majority of games have already been lost to history.
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by purpleflashing 4d ago
What are the examples of artfully crafted software? What software can never be made with LLMs? Not a loaded question but a genuine one.
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by purpleflashing 4d ago
Google is terrible these days, I agree.
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by purpleflashing 5d ago
This is really neat, thank you for sharing.
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by purpleflashing 5d ago
I have, and it has never been good for my purposes. In English, I just can't find things I need, in Russian, I find things I wish to never see again, tbh. What is your experience with it? Edit: The best search for my purposes historica
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by purpleflashing 2mo ago
Sure. The models are still not open source and should not be called open source.
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by purpleflashing 2mo ago
As I said, for non-technical people, software en masse has always been difficult to learn and use. I don’t think it’s getting “worse” or that it was “good” back in my day.
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by purpleflashing 2mo ago
I am adjacent to UX as a field, and, IMO, it’s in deep crisis itself. I don’t know when or how “ergonomics” in tech became “how to sit in front of a computer” and “design” became “creating visual assets” but even people who work in the fiel
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by purpleflashing 2mo ago
As a non-technical person compared to the rest of HN, I think this has always been the problem of software made for non-technical audiences. The design was driven by programmers’ heuristics and trends in technology stack (e.g. if a company
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
There platforms like this. I subscribe to Nebula, for example.
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Can you share how AI helps here? I am learning a bit of 3D modeling in Blender so I can mod games that I like (just for private use), I do get stuck sometimes on the silliest things and Blender docs don’t help, but neither did LLMs tbf when
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
I see. Well, I already outlined why I thought the situation was happening — if you were trying to teach, I think you did it poorly and oscillated in your messaging from “this just works for me, personally” to “this my unorthodox method of
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
I did, I didn’t have a problem understanding your goals as I said in one of the comments in the beginning: > I understand you were writing about your own process of filling the gaps (btw, I also find it easier, or at least more fun, to
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
>I wouldn’t blink an eye to that And I said that, in my opinion, this is where your post failed to communicate what you intended to communicate and you have a crowd of “aktshually, this is wrong” in the comments. Seriously, without any s
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
No, that’s just rigorous writing. Rigorous pedagogical approach implies helping other minds to solve problems and obstacles with acquiring knowledge. Your approach results in coincidental learning because you don’t care about the mind of yo
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
As I said in the comment above, I do enjoy it as well, what I am pushing back is calling it pedagogical approach or teaching. If you taught, you know that you and your mind don’t matter much in the process of teaching, your student’s mind i
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Well, if it’s teaching, it’s not very good then as you don’t seem to know much about your supposed students struggles with learning this concept. You only know your own. E.g. the visualization you’re proud of — what problem does it solve fo
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Someone learning from your journey is not you teaching them. Teaching is a very particular skillset and craft, especially teaching languages. It should be grounded in a teacher’s own experience learning something as it helps them to empathi
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
You don’t explain conjunction in such details as as well and it is not universally present feature in all the languages though. Writing about learning languages is tricky because you cannot write for a universal audience, you have to write
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
As an unrelated tangent, I love seeing it when the “thinking” in a native language leaks into the writing in another, I find it so endearing and intriguing. My French colleagues sometimes produce the weirdest English sentences (perfectly un
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
I wonder what the author’s native language is as they seem to struggle with the concept of alternation. For me, the first half of the article could be removed and the learning could simply start with “there are two types of verbs in Japanes
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
I can image that because of motivation to sell his ideas and writing, he is in incentivized to sensationalize the research he refers too. Not that the author claims to be a scientific writer but many people find it intellectually dishonest
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Oh god I love how quiet European trains are. I used to take trains a lot in my childhood and until my 20s in Ukraine. Sometimes trains were buzzing with voices during the day, especially if someone was drinking. Not all rides were like this
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
I am autistic. I can’t even count the number of times I got into dangerous situations because of my crappy social skills when strangers chatted me up. I don’t know, maybe strangers are well-meaning and kind to neurotypical people, or maybe
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Ah, I see, sort of like figuring out the boundaries of your knowledge base and seeing if you have missed any connections between concepts? I suppose it might be useful for learning/ideation. I should try something like that — it could
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Thank you for sharing! I don’t personally use Zettelkasten but I can see how it benefits from the visualization — the system itself is basically building a graph (cards are nodes and links are edges), it makes sense to have a tool that lets
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
> Aren't you curious what this KB contains and how it has evolved over time? Can you give a more specific example of what you have found in this data? I already know what KB contains and how it evolved — I was the one who put things
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Because modern tech and modern tech support has a terrible UX in general built by engineers around their engineering heuristics. By the time a non-tech user reaches the point of seeing an error they are cognitively overloaded and since the
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by purpleflashing 3mo ago
Security and safety are two different things.

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