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by sanitycheck 24d ago
Sure, I've been part of "in-sourcing" failing projects too, but it was always a sign of management incompetence rather than anything else. It's easy to shift the blame to an outsourcer when it's been GIGO; constantl
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by sanitycheck 24d ago
They're right about everything, but at the same time it actually has become useful. Sensible not to depend on it and create a vibe-coded mess, but keep everything modular & review the generated code closely and you can go back to h
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by sanitycheck 2mo ago
I'm simply defining serious artists as people who are serious about their art, whether they're award winning filmmakers or amateur photographers. Roughly nobody out of all those people wants to use AI. (If you want to define it as
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by sanitycheck 2mo ago
Given that all serious artists seem to be extremely anti-AI, I strongly suspect that you may be wrong. I've been trying Fable for coding in the past week and while it's incrementally better than Opus sometimes, what it's chur
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by sanitycheck 3mo ago
Great, I just tried #7, comparing against the average is definitely better, thanks
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by sanitycheck 3mo ago
I like it! #6 in 5 mins, but I have no idea if that's good or not. A percentile score at the end would be nice!
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by sanitycheck 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure more people would read it to the end if it didn't seem like AI output, yes.. At the very least you would have fewer (maybe not 0!) comments here saying it's AI slop.
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by sanitycheck 3mo ago
I think the point people are making is that when the text has an "AI smell" (it does), we immediately lose trust in the veracity of any claim being made and feel like continuing to read what is possibly a hallucinated fiction is a
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by sanitycheck 4mo ago
Well, if it looks cool and it nearly works that is totally on brand for Alessi!
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by sanitycheck 4mo ago
Yep. For years we've been telling people to 'just fucking google it', and now when they do they're getting bullshit AI answers. Worst thing is, some of these bullshit answers will be medical, some of them financial, it s
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by sanitycheck 4mo ago
In case you (or others) didn't know, Galen has his own podcast: www.gdpolitics.com It feels a lot like the 538 one, with lots of familiar contributors. The latest ep is a live show with Nate & Clare, might be to your taste.
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
They didn't say "nobody can replace the battery themselves", and "you" here was probably intended to mean "a normal consumer". Relative to items with replaceable batteries (a TV remote control, a camera, a
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have been the issue. I might try it on Linux at some point.
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
Pentax sensibly decided to add native DNG capability a long time ago, the raw files work everywhere I've tried them. (Except DaVinci, which I couldn't get to do anything without freezing for minutes at a time this morning.)
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
I thought the same when I got a Fuji, but the issue is support for the X-Trans sensor. Turns out that converting to DNG doesn't change that and software that opens the DNG still needs to understand how to use the data in it.
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
DxO PhotoLab supports RAFs these days, and does not have a subscription model. They have black friday sales, if the RRP seems a bit much. I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it at my photos from this year and so far it's been
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
I'm a naturally paranoid, very detail-oriented, man who has been a professional software developer for >25 years. Do you know anyone who read the full terms and conditions for their last car rental agreement prior to signing anythin
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
It's both, really. The companies selling us the service aren't saying "you should treat this LLM as a potentially hostile user on your machine and set up a new restricted account for it accordingly", they're just sa
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
Sure, there's "deliberate practice" and it matters - but so many people seem to think if they're playing that's what they should be doing, or it's a waste of time. In reality that often isn't much fun, and
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by sanitycheck 5mo ago
I'm only good enough to impress people who don't know what a good guitar player sounds like. My advice to people, which seems to work OK, is just to have the guitar out and ready to play wherever you're likely to be - maybe e
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
For me it was the "it's not x"/"it's y" stuff and some other structures Claude is very fond of using all the time. Perhaps humans are starting to write like LLMs!
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
Obviously if you're running Claude Code you need a token for that and an internet connection, that's kind of a given. What I'm talking about is permission (OS level, not a leaky sandbox) to access the user's files, envir
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
The user thing is what I currently do too. I've thought about containers but then it's confusing for everyone when I ask it to create and use containers itself.
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
So don't let them interact with anything external. You can push and pull to their git project folders over the local filesystem or network, they don't even need access to a remote.
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
Any sign of AI, TBH. I don't come to HN to ask Claude, I already pay Anthropic for that.
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
I'll be sticking with Lightroom 6 (non-subscription) and the old cameras it supports, until the sad but inevitable day I can no longer run it. I don't find editing takes much time, because I now have so many custom presets I can a
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
This is great, I discovered it a year or two ago - nice work! Excited to hear there might be more development happening.
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
I don't understand how they found nothing in the raid, wouldn't they normally bring drugs with them to plant? If they forgot those that's a whole new level of police incompetence.
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by sanitycheck 6mo ago
Anecdotally I know approximately zero 'normal' (non-tech) people who are intentionally using generative AI, several who have been badly misled by Google's AI summaries, and quite a few who are vehemently anti-AI (usually arti
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by sanitycheck 7mo ago
Well, and that service then inevitably being hacked and your ID being distributed and/or sold to miscreants online. I'm in the UK, I'm normally connected through a VPN these days.

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