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by BeetleB 2mo ago
You're totally on point, but I do think you're missing my wider point: People replying with LLM responses is not really functionally different from lazily responding with a link. If the OP is astounded that LLM responses are toler
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Merriam-Webster lists cringe as adjective. MW has it as slang. Cambridge has it as informal. OED I don't have access to.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Sure - but the volume is a separate problem from the quality of comments. Even if the comments were the best possible your complaint would still stand.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
(Flexible also allows for criticism of extant usages.)
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> If that is insufficient then just about every customer of AWS, Azure, GCP, OCP, and every other managed storage provider is guilty of the same sin. Yes, they are as guilty! You say that as if it's a ridiculous assertion. Have you
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Prove that they do want them, then. Look at OpenAI revenue just over a year ago. Most of that was not for LLM coding. Loads of non-technical people I know are paid subscribers $20/mo to ChatGPT (not API, but their actual chat prod
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> I suspect that many people dislike AI but are begrudgingly using it. (Sadly,) many normal folks use ChatGPT in lieu of Google search. I'm continually surprised to, over and over, hear from personal friends that they planned their
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Companies forcing features that nobody wants Literally every day that I browse HN I hear people complain about others' use of LLMs. How can you say "nobody wants" when it's used so much to elicit endless complaint
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I am actually asking you to do your job. Pre-LLMs, if I got comments that were difficult to read in a code review, that PR isn't getting merged until they fix it. So: Review the docs. If it's that bad, just say "I don't
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> At best, you could train on millions of personal examples of style, eg historical emails, reports, etc, and you'd still never get what the person would have written. You wouldn't get it verbatim, but your mistrust in AI refle
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Yes - I would think this is obvious to HN commenters. Generally, when someone leaves a comment on HN that is nothing but a link, it gets downvoted.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> but a half dozen of these sort sorts of massive PR’s per week is basically untenable. Actually, rejecting them is precisely what will make them easy. "Sorry, the comments are so bad I'm stopping here. Please fix them and then
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> No, linking blog post and posting AI generated content is not the same. One is ok, other is not. Meet "the masses". Sorry, but no. Sending me a link as an alternative to having a conversation is totally not OK.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
So I take it you'll be fine with responses that begin with: "ChatGPT says ... "? > Everyone is free to do this, instead of using ChatGPT as a ghostwriter. I guess the bulk of folks use ChatGPT as the preferred chatbot, but
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> I'd assume the link to be to a blog post, or Wikipedia page, that articulates the idea in a clearer more succint way than the person might be able of. As with everything, it depends on who is sending it. For some people, yes. For
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Also what exactly are these 'normal means'? Normal means is throwing it in the recycle bin. Especially for stuff like a 1982 John Deere manual. I've never donated an old appliance's manual to the library. Have you?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Imagine if we had bad cookbooks, cheap popular novels and stories, tracts on diet and self help from old Rome, or old eras in China, or the equivalent from ages before that. It would be great, but it's a bit off topic here. The po
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> It's like saying it's my property I can do what I want, yet there exists designated historic homes or neighborhoods that are deemed to have cultural value where modifications do in fact need to be approved. Yes, and when you
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> The part that astonishes me is that in the year of our common era two thousand twenty-six that it's not universally offensive and reviling to post an AI-generated response to another person. Because it wasn't pre-AI. It was n
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
It's a code review, right? Give feedback that about the docs and block merging till the issue is resolved.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
You won't get anything new from Lay's book if you've done Strang. It is a basic textbook and doesn't cover anything advanced. It's just a good textbook.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> If you need to see a specialist, you regularly have to wait months, assuming you can even get a referral in the first place. Two months can be a luxury . With my insurance in the US, it usually takes longer for me to see an in-network
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Several states do that.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
For reasons that may have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> The government shouldn't be in the business of telling people what they can do, or have done, to their own bodies. But they absolutely should be in the business of licensing and controlling claims you make as a professional. If yo
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Over 6% on desktop (which is where I do the bulk of my browsing...). More than Safari.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
In the last few months, I've seen a huge upsurge of sites that simply won't work for me in Firefox. Not sure if it's the FF + Linux combination. Should probably try with a fresh profile to confirm. It sucks, but I'm in o
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
It's funny. Over 20 years ago, I got people to switch to Firefox because of the AdBlock extension. In case people don't know, Firefox was the first major browser to even have extensions.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
As I alluded to elsewhere, I've yet to see a layoff where there's no one who doesn't consider how it was done "a dick move." Your preferred way of doing a layoff will be someone else's "dick move" jud
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Shutting down is a subset of reasons for mass layoffs. Not shutting down the company, but shutting down a division. The reasons are almost always the same. > Disregarding that, it's not very different. What is the implication y

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