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by scrozier 7mo ago
As a boomer, I had fun trying to decode your last sentence!
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by scrozier 7mo ago
> Taste continues to be the single most important thing. The vast, vast majority of AI art out there is...not very good. It's not going to get better, because the lack of taste isn't a technical problem. This is precisely and i
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by scrozier 10mo ago
I'm sure author's company does good work, but the marketplace doesn't respond well to, "we're really, _really_ good,", "trust me," "you won't be disappointed." It not only feels despera
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by scrozier 11mo ago
Eschew abbreviations!
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by scrozier 1y ago
Absolutely. And thank you for that.
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by scrozier 1y ago
Thank you. While abbreviations are handy for those in the know, it's so helpful for general readers if one takes a moment to spell things out.
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by scrozier 1y ago
Serious question? Good literature that's not sci-fi? Hard to know where to start. For (mostly) "Western" literature, here's a good list: https://thegreatestbooks.org/ I'm sure there are others for o
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by scrozier 1y ago
Do you limit your reading to sci-fi? There is a world of amazing literature out there with much better ideas, characters, and plots.
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by scrozier 1y ago
Are you saying this is what you'd like to happen? That you would like to remove the element of human creation?
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by scrozier 2y ago
I was waiting for the author to discuss actual strategies, like subtly herding new passengers toward a seat, sitting in your own row so you can get up when the right person comes along and graciously offer them your seat, saying "I thi
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by scrozier 2y ago
The finger trick did it for me. As mentioned elsewhere, I used to do this academically (looking at protein structures), but I couldn't easily get back in the groove here without the finger.
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by scrozier 2y ago
I spent weeks doing this, looking at stereoscopic (?) images of protein structures, while a grad student in molecular biophysics. I got so that I could see the overlapped images pretty much instantly. But I'm having a hard time getting
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by scrozier 2y ago
You may or may not be aware that Andy Warhol famously quipped that, "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," back in the late 1960s. As media has gotten to be ever more ubiquitous and the cost of entry lower, he wa
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by scrozier 2y ago
Oh yes, I grew saying "quarter past four." Probably don't anymore, but it was definitely in the vernacular in the US in years past.
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by scrozier 2y ago
Volume…sorry, should have made that distinction.
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by scrozier 2y ago
You're right about the "serving" thing. But in the US, at least, a cup in a culinary context means precisely eight ounces.
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by scrozier 2y ago
Allowing that I'm simply not sophisticated enough to understand this, I think he's overthinking things. :-) I mean, B3 D4 G4 in isolation probably does sound like G/B to western ears, and maybe the overtone explanation is aco
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by scrozier 2y ago
This is one of my favorite categories of HN posts. But hey, if it engenders some interest in ______ (fill in arts category), then it's all good.
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by scrozier 2y ago
(semi-professional piano player here) That's interesting. I've never heard that...not even sure what "lowest fifth" would mean. I would think that the root and the third contribute the most, right? The fifth is sometimes
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by scrozier 2y ago
In the US, anyone can take the photo, including yourself.
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by scrozier 2y ago
I can see your point. I think I'm convinced. Thanks!
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by scrozier 2y ago
Not sure what that has to do with the point of medical care not ever being free.
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by scrozier 2y ago
You were completely justified in your botheredness.
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by scrozier 2y ago
Well, she paid nothing at the time. But she and you and your countrypersons paid for it, nonetheless. It's interesting to me that you think about it as free.
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by scrozier 2y ago
I'm generally with the author on this, but their examples are inconsistent. I think from a language perspective, the linked text should be a verb phrase. We want the user to do something (click here), and verbs are "do words.&quot
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by scrozier 2y ago
This. I've seen so much of this on Hacker News that it's almost like a game now to discover the variant of the archetype post in today's feed. People with a "nerdy" mindset want to find the structure behind everythi
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by scrozier 2y ago
To give you (Haystack authors) another datapoint, I'm a +1 to this comment. I can't think of a time when a canvas UI solved a problem I had. Usually it made navigation more difficult. But also agree that it's great that you&#
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by scrozier 2y ago
It would take the author a few seconds to type "remotely operated vehicle" (or whatever it stands for), and therefore save hours of time for people who need to look it up. Not to mention...I almost skipped the article because I di
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by scrozier 2y ago
It is my futile mission in life to help people understand that initials, acronyms, and abbreviations are real barriers to communication.
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by scrozier 3y ago
In middle age, I (a computer science grad and working programmer) went to graduate school for molecular biology. In the early days of studying biological systems, I was struck by how much they were like computer code, or at least logic cons

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