BeetleB

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841.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
They make a lot of not-top-tier products. The products are usually quite good, but not the best. They're often the best value . (Very happy with my $60 Anker earbuds).
842.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
Ignoring the Stever Jobs quip, I agree - I really don't think we should care of his opinions on Apple (or on most things).
843.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> The "99%" tends to be either: 1. Pointless throwaway content which we can just ignore as a new source of noise, 2. Something that could have ended up being a $5 commission[^1] to a kid somewhere out there but now never will b
844.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> The person (singular) that is actually getting "shafted" at each use is the artist you didn't hire to do the job of making your new work, because it is their skill that got replaced. 1% Yes, and 99% No. Over 99% of uses
845.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
And in some workplaces, that actually is the way to go! I once worked in a manufacturing environment where mistakes could be quite expensive. We had our annual org survey and one of the questions asked was "Risk taking is encouraged.&q
846.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
So, you're saying if I work at a factory, I should be able to use the factory equipment to build my stuff?
847.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> I insulted him in my mandatory Exit Interview form from HR when I resigned. How can they legally mandate an exit interview when you resigned? Is it part of the employment contract? What would have happened if you showed them the fing
848.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> You’d no longer be able to disent, or discuss anything non-work related with even the slightest expectation of privacy. When I joined the workforce a long time ago, I went in with the mindset that: Their property, their equipment, thei
849.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
I think some context is missing. What exactly are the EU folks requiring?
850.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> What law do you want to write to make it so that knowledge can't be transferred to other countries? Actually, this is fairly standard via export control laws. When a certain technology is deemed critical, it can be put under expor
851.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
I believe the idea was either his or Steve Jobs's. I don't know how much of the details were his, but taking the risk and seeing it through deserves a lot of credit. For most companies (even now), the idea of JIT manufacturing is
852.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
Whatever the rationale: People will pay what people are willing to pay. If the price is too high, competition should bring it down. The price clearly wasn't too high. When I purchase a book, I decide how much I'll pay based on wha
853.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
As a jujutsu user, I don't disagree. I can see the appeal of doing a megamerge, but routinely working on the megamerged version and then moving the commits to the appropriate branch would be the exception, not the norm. I gather one
854.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
All those links are cringe. And Less Wrong is, well, only for a certain crowd :-)
855.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
The bulk of the anti-AI sentiment I see is from people who spend a huge amount of time online (or on HN). Not regular folks. Most people don't care if something is written by an AI as long as it is reasonable, and reflects the intent o
856.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
What is tragic is that LLMs are learning how to use the word "cringe" improperly. If we're going to have AI overlords, it'd be great if they spoke with proper grammar.
857.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
I, too, was once naive and thought that the price of goods is largely determined by the cost of production. But as anyone who has taken Econ 101 knows, the price is based on what people are willing to pay for it. The cost of production mere
858.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> that ebooks are sold at par with at a premium to physical books still bothers me, and I think is responsible for the fact that the Kindle is dying Ebooks have always been priced this way. How can it contribute to its dying when it was
859.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
I've said it a couple times in the past: That's so cringe!
860.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
There was another submission just a few days ago that analyzed em dashes in HN comments pre and post LLMs. The amount of em dashes has not even doubled (i.e. a comment with an em-dash is still more likely to have been written by a human tha
861.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
Many editing tools support double or triple hyphen that convert automatically to em dashes. On Android it's trivial to write an em dash (easier than say the percent symbol). I even have a plug-in that converts some hyphens to em dashes
862.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> saying "just" dismisses its influence on the genre as a whole. Well, it was meant to be parsed as: Star Trek is speculative fiction and space opera. Star Wars is just space opera. Some space opera is also speculative fiction,
863.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
That may be true, and had you asked me half a lifetime ago, I would have likely said "The old days were better". But: I would have still said I enjoyed using computers. And I wouldn't have said "Today's interface su
864.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
> I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there. I think that's a convenient post hoc justification. I could as easily say the LLM wrote it that way because
865.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
I'm literally one of those people who almost gave up on the game because I didn't understand that dying is normal. The fact that the game would start all over each time made me think I hadn't progressed enough to save the gam
866.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
Please don't change your writing style just because random humbugs on the Internet associate it with an LLM.
867.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
What did I spoil? That you keep dying? They'll encounter that very early in the game. And if you look around, you'll see that quite a few quit the game because they didn't understand that dying is normal. The lack of knowledg
868.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
I miss the days when there was no "standard visual appearance" for the OS (e.g. DOS). I liked the diversity of interfaces. Years ago, I remarked to a friend that I'd spent half of my (computing) life post-high speed Internet,
869.
by BeetleB 6mo ago
As a Trekkie, fair point. I think Star Trek does fall into the "speculative fiction" category, but Star Wars doesn't. It's just "space opera".
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Not much in many of Heinlein's either. Or in Star Wars.

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