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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> I hear most loudly from software engineers far removed from ordinary non-technical end users I am absolutely not far removed from non-technical end users. They are my client base, ultimately. As a freelancer I focus on building real
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
Luckily I genuinely don't care :-)
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> Are you saying AI isn’t useful? My product is painstakingly crafted and uses AI but in my opinion it uses it tastefully and with great utility. Sure. And THEIR products are just thoughtless slop generators.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> For better or worse, Reddit is really the only place to go find legitimate information anymore. This is frightening and, I fear, true. But I'd also add one odd little counterpoint: some of the most useful discussions and learning
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
I wonder: do all the HNers who are excited about their GenAI product or wrapper or startup understand, at a fundamental level, that they are an intrinsic part of this deterioration? Or is this one of those fundamental attribution error thin
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> There are a finite number of poor countries. This is a bit of an imaginary solution to the problem, is it not? And there will always be poor_er_ countries, which is the thrust of my point. The economic incentive does not go away. Not l
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> I'd hazard the actual problem in this picture is Ghana's GDP/capita being in 4 digit territory and not the badly disposed of waste dump. But if Ghana became a wealthy country and chose not to accept this waste, it will e
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
Oh dear me. I can't argue with you if this satisfies you.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
It also famously published As We May Think .
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> I really like this phrase: Thank you. I don't think it really explains the distinction, of course. It just makes it clear there necessarily must be one, and it can't be wished away by discussions of larger training sets, more
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
You clearly, clearly do not understand what I am saying. But sure, waste your time and money making a parrot that, unlike the author it mimics, is incapable of introspection, reflection, intellectual evolution or simply changing its mind. W
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
And it still won't produce the type of articles he produces. Because at the very least he is capable of writing new articles from something the LLM doesn't have: his brain. Seriously. This is just the parrot thing again. The fact
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> That publication has always been a bit of a whack job of an outfit This is a bizarre take about a 167-year-old, continuously published magazine.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
Jobs was a sort of cracked genius and a very imperfect human who wanted to be a better human. Money didn't make him worse, or better. It didn't really change him at all on a personal level. It didn't even make him more confid
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> now you can use AI to easily write the type of articles he produces and he's pissed. You really cannot.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
I wonder if they will. I can't imagine anything trackpoint-like -- too expensive -- but it's not impossible they'll put a trackpad in. The Pi 400 is small because it's meant to be aimed at the young. But young children a
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> since most people are likely not buying the keyboard form factor as a headless device A big part of the aim was simply to provide a nearly-all-in-one device for educational computing. Physical computing is part of the school curriculum
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
The presence of a GPIO connector in a keyboard format computer is basically the entire point of the Raspberry Pi 400. You can consider the Pi 400 to be a very particular love letter to the BBC model B, with the GPIO port providing the kin
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
Sure, if you're writing a novel, maybe. But there's not much more important, stylistically, to writing an business email or document than clarity. It's absolutely the most important thing. Especially in customer communication
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
But it does favour _clarity_, rather than tropes.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
It does now, perhaps, for complete rewrites. I've not looked recently. But its suggestion system, where it spots wordy patterns and suggests clearer alternatives, was available long before LLMs were the new hotness, and is considerably
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
Thanks. 2018 would tie in with about when I first got the impression he was not a fan of WP Engine. I'm sure there was fuss once before (about them not being on the "recommended hosting" page?)
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
Neal Katyal though. Someone you hire if you expect to go the distance.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
Where is it documented Automattic (or Mr Mullenweg) owns any of WP Engine? (ETA: Not saying it's impossible he or they have an interest -- I've just never seen this suggested. WP Engine is in many ways a competitor to wordpress.co
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
No. But then all of these products are marketed to people who are, at some domain-specific level, still towards the "but I wore the juice!" end of the scale, right? Unskilled and unaware of it. Or rather, unskilled and unaware of
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
"Please say this, but in more sentences"
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> Part of the issue is that people who are experts at creating ML models aren’t experts at all the downstream tasks those models are asked to do. Yep. CAD, music, poetry, comedy. Same pattern in each. But it's more than not being ex
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
> For lots of East Asian researchers it's really embarrassing for them to send an email riddled with typos, so they spend a LOT of time making their emails nice. OK -- I can see this. But I think Grammarly would be better than this.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
It's not, is it? It's meant to be the draft it created from the notes.
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by throwgfgfd25 2y ago
:-)

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