MrVandemar

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by MrVandemar 16d ago
You know what "fair use" sounds like to me? 10%. Copy 10% of anything, free, knock yourself out. Fair use. Keep it simple for some things: one chapter of a book, maybe. Copying the whole thing, building an billion dollar industry
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by MrVandemar 21d ago
> very stupid (which seems unlikely, the one thing these people don't lack is IQ) I've seen some extremely smart people do some seriously stupid things. To the point where they use their drive and intelligence to double-down on
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by MrVandemar 21d ago
> LLMs just change certain parts of the equation. For example, code writing is far less of a bottleneck than before, so "we can just try with a throwaway impl and see if this works" is suddenly economically viable. The economic
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by MrVandemar 24d ago
The solving of the mathematics problems is largely a marketing stunt. It's a great headline though. It was also deeply uneconomic, and didn't change the world, or materially advance our understanding. Mostly it's demoralised
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by MrVandemar 24d ago
"Flagged"? How is this post breaking any guidelines? How does a reasoned essay about LLM use not belong on HN? Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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by MrVandemar 24d ago
Every Summer now is going to be the hottest Summer on record. We're at the top of the hill, heading down, picking up speed. > "An emergency? Ha! It's about time the people who run this planet of yours realised that to be d
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by MrVandemar 28d ago
Because browsers, especially phone browsers, are broken. A lot of older websites will look like this on a phone, because they don't have the viewport meta tag, which wasn't a thing until mobile phones became sophisticated web brow
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by MrVandemar 29d ago
It seems every article about LaTeX is a rallying call for Typst fans to inject their opinion of how amazing Typst is into a largely unrelated discussion, instead of reading and commenting on the actual article.
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by MrVandemar 1mo ago
The point is that there are unintended consequences, a real cost to people who are already struggling. The broader disability community is already noticing, rather sourly, that accessibility for "AI" is suddenly a prime concern, w
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by MrVandemar 1mo ago
It's not "virtue ethics". It's a fact: turning accessibility testing over to "AI" will deprive a group of low-income low-agency people with skin in the game of employment. If society were perhaps more compassio
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by MrVandemar 1mo ago
No, we should not withhold accessibility features. I wrote nothing to suggest that we should. I wrote that a group of marginalised people would be further marginalised, and deprived of income and meaningful work in a sector where they are,
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by MrVandemar 1mo ago
> It is a business opportunity as well. I worked at a company that paid for an audit before LLMs. There is tremendous cost savings possible here. Do you know one of the most underemployed groups are disabled people? And do you know where
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by MrVandemar 1mo ago
Yeah, "historically". Hasn't been like that for a while now.
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by MrVandemar 1mo ago
> And it's perfectly normal that the country where the most people want to immigrate to will also have higher barriers. In my country, I've not heard a lot of people expressing the wish to visit, let alone immigrate to the US
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by MrVandemar 2mo ago
There's a lot of projection there. Among other misapprehensions, I never proposed the idea that open source projects should be "obliged" to "humour anyone with 'insight'". That said, if you have any kind o
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by MrVandemar 2mo ago
This is an extraordinary and unsubstantiated claim, and in no way resembles anything I said, nor anything I want. Development to improve software should be a conversation between skilled and knowledgeable workers across many domains. With
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by MrVandemar 2mo ago
Fundamentally, it's not. The problem was that people hyped it up as the solution for every problem and all the world's ills, so it wound up being used where it had no business being used (and therefore badly). XML was a hammer use
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by MrVandemar 2mo ago
I can guarantee that anyone turning up and contributing or forking this project will not lead to the outcome of a improved piece of software. It will lead to someone with the insight on how to make actual material improvements frustrated an
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Thimbleweed Park 2 Dev Blog(blog2.thimbleweedpark.com)
1 points by MrVandemar 2mo ago|0 comments
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by MrVandemar 2mo ago
This must be so disheartening. To take the time to create something complex and wonderful only to have a bunch of drive-by yahoos shout "LOL! AI!" out the car window. Creative work is now so devalued the instinct when most people
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by MrVandemar 2mo ago
Here's the thing you missed: "A tree gets planted ". There's no guarantee that a tree planted to "offset" a flight will grow to any kind of maturity, let alone survive three months. Some saplings just die. Or
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Markup Language Zoo(brett.coulstock.id.au)
4 points by MrVandemar 2mo ago|0 comments
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by MrVandemar 3mo ago
This book looks super interesting. I wish I was on a software team so I could justify buying it. But but my $DAY_JOB is answering phones and fixing printer-jams in a medical practice, so not a lot of application there.
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by MrVandemar 3mo ago
The Office. The IT Crowd. Red Dwarf. Coupling. Life on Mars. They even wanted to remake "Fawlty Towers" without "the tall idiot".
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Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)(danq.me)
895 points by MrVandemar 3mo ago|549 comments
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by MrVandemar 3mo ago
I find the preponderance of AI topics pretty dull myself. Doesn't interest me. Tell me about markup languages, weird science, fun games, interesting presentations, old programming languages, new programming languages, accessibility ...
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Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026(support.microsoft.com)
16 points by MrVandemar 3mo ago|6 comments
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by MrVandemar 3mo ago
Microsoft is not just no longer supporting publisher, the application will be just plain gone. It's extraordinary to me that a huge number of files representing many hours of human labour will suddenly become unopenable. I'm not s
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Observations of a Journal Editor(uq.pressbooks.pub)
3 points by MrVandemar 3mo ago|0 comments
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by MrVandemar 3mo ago
> nowadays it seems almost impossible to block everyone crazy on X/Twitter, perhaps more feasible back then 127.0.0.1 x.com Seems to block everyone crazy on Twitter-that-was.

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