HappMacDonald

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by HappMacDonald 5d ago
Or, they care but they lack the vocabulary to express what they care about. You can get a new laptop to run software A or competing software B. You can pay $1000 for the laptop with 4GB of RAM, and software A either can't run on that o
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by HappMacDonald 5d ago
Resource constraints have historically been a bastion of quality engineering, though. The relationship is not directly causal, but any time an engineer must not only solve a problem but _fit it within some kind of a budget_ vs having an unl
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by HappMacDonald 6d ago
So, like learning Chinese then
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by HappMacDonald 6d ago
> a template is still done with the caring eye of a professional .. except when those are also AI generated
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by HappMacDonald 6d ago
Why would you ask them to search for you if you knew they wouldn't get the same images you would get? Claim: A vast majority of human-made clip art that involves flags as tertiary elements will fail to render them in a vexillologically
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by HappMacDonald 6d ago
Can you delegate to the AI to use WordArt for you? (One reason I ask is because it _might_ be nice to have more well trained AI gen _vector_ art options..)
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by HappMacDonald 6d ago
Pay a lot for a human artist who just turns around and gens the output anyway? xD
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by HappMacDonald 7d ago
I would rate using LLM for tasks more specific ML can handle as a lot like using one's smartphone to snap photos, listen to music, set alarms, and play video games in preference to carrying around a fun cam, ipod, watch, and switch 2 e
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by HappMacDonald 7d ago
> Account recovery works the same with ... Huh, that is a really funny way to spell "the primary login method used by every not-tech-savvy person I have ever met before".
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by HappMacDonald 8d ago
I mean tbf I will take whatever improvement I can get at this stage xD
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by HappMacDonald 13d ago
This sounds like motte and bailey.. why bother calling something an autocomplete if not as a means to try to undermine its utility? This is a https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Dissimile
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by HappMacDonald 13d ago
> If your axioms are wrong then of course your logic will be wrong. Equally, even if your axioms are right your logical execution can still fail. Neither individual humans nor LLMs get either of those steps right as a default. Just as
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by HappMacDonald 13d ago
I would rate anything that is a sufficiently immersion-challenging distraction to be a problem. Would the game be more fun if we just chop off all the character's legs and make them float like apparitions instead? That needn't act
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by HappMacDonald 14d ago
Well obviously the real solution is for the owner of the company to 1. Fire everyone else 2. prompt the AI "make me more money than you cost" (that's a short prompt, innit?) 3. Retire to Aruba
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by HappMacDonald 14d ago
Nobody is hired for a job if the person hiring thinks that the employee will murder them. So I guess that makes the most salient job description "refraining from murdering your boss"? Or it might be that any baseline expectation w
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by HappMacDonald 14d ago
Better at predicting real world consequences from priors than we are :)
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by HappMacDonald 14d ago
Doesn't this just describe AMP?
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by HappMacDonald 16d ago
Given that the abundance will be predictably hoarded by those in power — leaving everyone else even fewer table scraps than we already get — should however remain a concern. After all, its not like some benevolent super-AGI will be deciding
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by HappMacDonald 17d ago
While that may be true in reality no such externality consequences appear to be baked into the game theory of the experiment. It's like having people or neural networks choose door 1 from door 2 without clear advantage to either of the
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by HappMacDonald 19d ago
This one is my favorite: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2025/ncw1/pr...
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by HappMacDonald 24d ago
Dear Hackernews: It is not good security practice to publish your random word passphrases as the title of an article. Thank you for your time
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by HappMacDonald 26d ago
On the other end of that spectrum I cannot _stand_ back button on the mouse and always disable the feature immediately because it is often too easy for me to click those fiddly side buttons without meaning to (either while grabbing or while
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by HappMacDonald 26d ago
There exists a floor to how "idiot-proof" Motor vehicles are since they do require a skill test and a licensing protocol to legally operate that do weed out some number of humans not competent enough to operate them (and even be
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by HappMacDonald 26d ago
I can't pop outside to check, I'm too busy filling Russel's Teapot from this von Neumann Kettle.
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by HappMacDonald 26d ago
Perhaps this archive.org snapshot will work for ye? https://web.archive.org/web/20250329043544/https://invention... Interestingly all of the snapshots newer than this one appear to be blocked by cloudf
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by HappMacDonald 27d ago
You replied to: "The most cost efficient new-build grid is 90-98% solar/wind/battery depending on your locales insolation & wind coverage. (Source Ember Energy)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by HappMacDonald 27d ago
I have been lead to believe that blue scrub jays have a lot of different vocalizations but the only sounds I've caught out of them over the past 15ish years of paying attention have been the raucous shouting shrieks they seem so fond o
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by HappMacDonald 27d ago
I prefer to believe that the building-climber was happy :D
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by HappMacDonald 28d ago
Is alt-left to go back a bad keyboard shortcut for you? It's what I use. It's also far less likely to be accidentally typed while trying to fill in a form and fumbling the tab navigation.
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by HappMacDonald 28d ago
Nono, that should close the window xD

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