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by relativeadv 10d ago
for me, the killer feature of the little xteink readers is _no touchscreen_. This is important because you can hold the device as you would a paper book, thumb on the page itself without accidentally turning the page or triggering some menu
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by relativeadv 18d ago
That sentence was awkward. Maybe even a typo? The following sentences to the one you just quoted ignores that and proceeds to argue FOR blindfolded chess being like programming with LLMs. The article itself takes several paragraphs to get t
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by relativeadv 28d ago
good to see dave still out there doing his thing
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by relativeadv 1mo ago
I completely agree. I have vibe coded what i would consider to be some pretty weird things in the name of learning facilitation. Perhaps the best example has been a native macOS app that is a completely custom text editor with built-in debu
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by relativeadv 1mo ago
i'd completely forgotten about notes on camp, had to read that in modernist criticism class. good stuff. i see parallels to zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance as well, who's whole thesis if i can recall is something like, &q
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by relativeadv 2mo ago
Bob Martin has built a career on asking the wrong questions. He is doing the same here as well.
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by relativeadv 2mo ago
slop
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by relativeadv 2mo ago
Oh boy, my useless art degree is coming in handy here! This is precisely like the authorship debates that occurred when Warhol hit the scene, or Damien Hirst and many others. It goes further back than that. Duchamp and his urinal, renaissan
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by relativeadv 2mo ago
i've moved over to https://www.liftosaur.com/ and its MCP server. It has been so nice to use. Its unfortunately a PWA/Ionic app (dev has a native one coming) but i am more than happy to overlook that with the othe
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by relativeadv 2mo ago
> "Is there value in identifying the difference between reading a longer article like this one and an actual book?" I know its such a common thing to suggest, but if you haven't, I really would suggest reading Understandin
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by relativeadv 2mo ago
I didn't read the post and scrolled to a random clause. "Because you own the code. You've added variants, changed classes, threaded new props. A codemod handles the components you never touched and breaks on the ones you did.
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by relativeadv 3mo ago
The irony is that while this is all mostly true, the site itself is clearly written with AI. Clearly matters here, because although it can do all of these remarkable things the prose it writes is still completely banal.
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by relativeadv 3mo ago
cute
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by relativeadv 3mo ago
I've been writing technical documentation and architecture docs that no one ever reads for years. I now write those same documents using ai in a fraction of the time. No one reads those either but they are memorialized so that no one c
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by relativeadv 3mo ago
Bravo! Wonderful read. The comments here are a cesspool unfortunately. People bickering about pronouns used for cats, how many shots it takes for a vase to explode, or whether or not some circa-1993 software was used or mentioned.
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by relativeadv 4mo ago
this. the meetups i was a part of devolved into product pitches and people looking for jobs
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by relativeadv 4mo ago
The obviously ai generated dramatic prose. The entire site has the veneer of AI generation as well. The gradient background, the glowing header text, the monospaced fonts, the dots next to the footer subnav items that serve no purpose. If i
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by relativeadv 4mo ago
nice
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by relativeadv 4mo ago
nice
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by relativeadv 4mo ago
right? I read the kleppman post sometime ago about formal verification taking off but i could never square away who verifies the verifier.
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by relativeadv 4mo ago
slop
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by relativeadv 4mo ago
position is one thing. implementation of that position is another.
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by relativeadv 5mo ago
"Forty years later, in September of 2018, I started working on this version of Space War. It's an animated GUI driven system with a frame rate of 30fps. It is written entirely in Clojure and uses the Quil shim for the Processing G
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by relativeadv 5mo ago
I work with others who have made this same claim. For those people, when I observed their work during demo days the unmentioned thing is that they were going to the AI for system design questions as well. This was framed as "just usin
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by relativeadv 5mo ago
most (all?) models are fundamentally a regression toward the mean. Good taste is rarely, if ever, residing in the mean.
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by relativeadv 5mo ago
It definitely activates something within people. Maybe I'm just terminally online, but there is always _always_ someone who will say "Idiocracy isn't satire, its a documentary."
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by relativeadv 6mo ago
Very cool. What have you built with this method? Do you mind sharing details about the kinds of projects?
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by relativeadv 6mo ago
But you don't actually do any of that, do you? Instead, you get tired and lazy and attempt to have the LLM solve those hard problems for you too. You just don't tell others about it.
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by relativeadv 7mo ago
yes, all of the typical signs and symptoms appear to be there. Lists upon sublists of verbose overengineered plausibly thoughtful writing. If you can't be bothered to write it, why should i be bothered to read it?
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by relativeadv 7mo ago
Once again I am asking for you to please show us what you have built. Bring receipts.

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