Insanity

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by Insanity 5mo ago
I’m in Toronto, my doctor always asks me if they can use the AI note taker, which I accept. At the end of the consultation she goes over the notes and corrects it, often complaining to me about having to talk more to the computer than to me
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Yeah, if you now check for 'pc is stuck' by wiggling your mouse, you suddenly eat up more resources if it actually was getting stuck, making matters worse. But at least your AI can then tell you it will all be okay eventually.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Agreed, Pixelbook does sound better that Googlebook. But maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Take this with a bucket of salt because I haven't read much on this topic. But just reasoning 'rationally', I assume the argument is that the Iliad / Oddysey were told in cultures of predominantly oral tradition? So like
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by Insanity 5mo ago
IMO if you show an error to end users it needs to be actionable. Tell them what to do instead (e.g retry or wait, use other input file, etc etc). So don't say "InvalidArgumentException xyz", say "Expected a number but go
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by Insanity 5mo ago
If you wouldn’t let AI run your nuclear power plant, you need to drink more of the AI kool-aid.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Yeah coding speed was almost never the bottleneck I found. AI now does the typing and (some) of the thinking. It doesn’t figure out what needs to be built and how it all plays together (yet).
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Same experience here, hosting some small projects on LightSail. It was pretty smooth to set up and get running, and no real complaints so far.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
If I understood you correctly, I think I'm less extreme than that. Most code written by humans is also not provably correct. But I'm assuming you mean provably correct like Lean: https://lean-lang.org/ , and not ju
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by Insanity 5mo ago
I'm also experimenting with it more and more. Now I'm trying to create a 2D side-scrolling shooter with it, running in the browser. When it was relatively small, it did a good job. As the codebase and docs/ files that I'
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by Insanity 5mo ago
At this point, "GH is down" posts are competing with "Newest LLM Hype" for the HN front-page week over week. For my personal project, I've been considering moving everything over to Codeberg. Stability of GH being o
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by Insanity 5mo ago
_Usually_ the blast radius isn't "GH is down globally across all functionality". So it can work for you while still being either down for other regions, or at least degraded.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Seems like they should have raised the driving age. Also, having taken a driving exam in NA and EU, NA is laughably easy. So not a surprise that drivers are unprepared, especially young ones.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
That’s just a US quirk. In many countries you can buy alcohol when you’re 18+. It’s odd that you can do everything but drink. Like you can go to work, drive home to your wife and kids, but can’t have a beer lol.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Sure, but the other angle is time investment. I only listen to podcasts sporadically but I can definitely see why people like it. Not as a substitute to reading but _in addition_ to reading. Listening to a podcast can be done while driving,
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Did you even check the link? It's a podcast from Cal Newport, a quite known figure (at least in software engineering / compsci circles). So it's not exactly a random shitty podcast. And, it's also (obviously) not my cont
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by Insanity 6mo ago
I understand not everyone has the interest or time to sit through an hour long podcast. But last I checked this is HN, and I think that podcast is right up the alley for many of us here. Cal Newport is not exactly a 'random podcaster&#
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Paywalled so I can't read the article. However, is this exclusive to young people? I'm a millenial (early 90s) and I share their sentiment. I might not share it for the same reason though. Personally, I'm concerned about what
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by Insanity 6mo ago
They have better PR than OpenAI but they are not a more ethical company. They do a bunch of shady stuff and are just as much involved in military applications. Cal Newport’s recent podcast had a good discussion about this: https:/&#x2
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Compared to other countries I've lived in, Belgium doesn't do too bad of a job in promoting 'green energy'. Although I've not lived there for some years, they used to subsidize things like solar panels on roofs (at
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by Insanity 6mo ago
It was declining since 1990s, not since 2020s.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Students score lower on standardized tests in the 2020s than those in the 1990s. So your stance feels misguided. Although I don’t think Google and Calculators are the main culprits, I do think it’s due to larger technology/internet lan
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Yeah what a strange “guard” to put in place. No clue why they’d do it this way. I first thought it’d be a “I’m 18+ pop-up” lol.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
If you’re making this change now, I wonder how the technical leadership evaluated GitHub and its competitors.. and then still landed on GH. What made it better than e.g GitLab?
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Would be cool to see a gender distribution. Women perceive more colours than men, wonder how it impacts this.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Same for me, I classify it as blue.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
'boredom' is how I'd call it but it has a negative connotation. Being bored is useful, it lets your mind wander and it's where real creativity can happen. I read "Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld" recently
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by Insanity 6mo ago
I went from a single monitor setup to triple monitor a decade ago, and then back down to single monitor. It helps me focus to have just one active “feed”. And I put my phone away when I work to eliminate that screen as potential distraction
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Too simplistic of a hot take. People have families and other reasons _not_ to emigrate. I also know people who moved to big tech companies in the states, worked there for a number of years and then went back home to “emerging countries” to
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by Insanity 6mo ago
SHTF?

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