TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
It's not about the logo. It's about abusing a platform feature that arguably shouldn't exist in the first place.
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
> I've yet to see someone saying "oh, I'm so glad my screenshot was blacked-out because I didn't realize I was in a banking app". It feels patronizing. Yes, this. Payment apps, government apps, IM communication
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Reading between the lines: Oh, so you can take screenshots of the content that tries to avoid it if you do it mid-switch? If it's reliable and WONTFIX, that's almost enough to get me to switch away from Android. Screenshot taking
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Don't pin that on LLMs, it has nothing to do with them. Shitty chatbots became a thing a few years before LLMs. The LLM variant is an improvement for users - it's more typo-tolerant, and more likely to understand what the user act
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
OpenCV is no longer hard to use, it just takes longer. Still, a little more complicated than asking LLM to count. To use an LLM, you just prompt it with an image + text saying "count the pills in this image". To use OpenCV, ... yo
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Alternative hypothesis: people do gradually use these features, but HN became a weird anti-AI bubble for some reason. I mean, many of the features had previous pre-AI attempts. They all sucked much more. This is the first time they have a r
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
We've long been there. Most technology markets are supply driven. People buy what's made available on the market and learn to cope with it. That's big part of why people hate computers so much, and why feigning ignorance abou
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
The second answer is far more revealing than the first: OP: > do you think you did a good job there ChatGPT: > I spent 15 minutes, emitted several fake-sounding “tracing the puzzle” progress updates, and then gave a confident permu
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
There's a lot of objective principles and decisions that go into subjective quality; if you don't know the field well, asking LLM for assessment is a good way to discover all that.
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
You're not: - Continuously parsing and writing and reparsing text, 90% of which is useless (that's the JSON/S-expressions vs XML argument) - Forcing a diverse relational structure to fit a tree hierarchy, hand-writing all the
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Same reason that you don't just replace your rand() implementation with "return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll". If you need randomness for whatever reason, biasing the generator is compromising quality. ( https:&#
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
It's exactly the same problem as with humans, though. It's part of why we sign NDAs, and why their duration is measured in years (and that's not even targeting the human retention - just duration after which information ages
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Image data is just binary blobs. You aren't splitting that into channel columns or anything. But an image file for an editor like Gimp isn't one image blob. It's dozens or hundreds of them - one or more per layer - alon
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Except MoPaQ weren't zips IIRC, they had their own clever format here - at least the OG StarCraft / SCBW MoPaQs were, playing with that is what I learned binary data handling on :). The idea of zipping data files applies, of cours
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
A "ksceef"? But yeah, in my mind, it's always been "ex see eff", so an XCF.
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Images are the red herring. Pixel data is best read in hot loops in C, but that would be stored as blobs in SQLite anyway. It's all the metadata around the image that's interesting. Images have layers, dozens or hundreds of them
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
There is no "Chinese capitalism" or "Western capitalism" - capitalism is applied thermodynamics, once you remove the limiting factors (both material and political), it's the same everywhere. Like the 10th Rule of Ac
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
> You never need to run any sort of complex SQL query on an image file format for instance. Sure you will. Plenty of features that don't exist, or are implemented badly, because you can't easily do it. Quick mental translatio
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
There are speed thresholds that open up new use cases. Imagine speeding up current agents 10x, you switch from directing agents to pair-vibing on the fly. Speed them up 10x more, and you get a SOTA model capable of analyzing and rethinking
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
> What the user wants to do with it is almost totally at odds with what the company is selling. Alexii are mostly kitchen timers, song players, and light switches. No one is a "power user" constantly installing skills and usin
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
There are two sides to it. The other side is: what people consider current "balance of nature" is just a transient state. Species die off all the time, ecosystems last millenia and then suddenly collapse, then rebound and look com
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
GP might be right though. It'll ship with and advertise a few components that do require a degree of dynamics that Wix/Squarespace can't do as easily, and people will jump. Why do I think that? Because that's exactly wh
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Presumably they'll aim for IPO or getting acquihired before then. Most startups these days aren't meant to build anything lasting, they're designed to line up an exit from day zero. It's an established, mature business m
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
The thing in TFA looks like it can draw trees. Can it do DAGs? Can it do directed graphs with loops ? This is, to me, what sinks most of those services like Zapier and n8n in power-user market, and dooms them to become marketing platform f
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Vibe Kanban was fun when it was only about one humans PMing many agents. But then it IIRC went in some weird directions. Haven't thought about it since, does it still exist?
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
> Like a shared game of Factorio. Which is another thing that just does not compute in my mind as a concept, much like pair programming. Probably for the same reasons. That said, it's obviously very situational and personality-dep
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
It's not hating coworkers. It's more that state of flow is not compatible with collaboration with other people. Getting to pair programming flow is basically like the neural "Drift" in Pacific Rim: it just doesn't w
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
And both are well compensated for their work.
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
We'll definitely need open models here, because proprietary AI services can (and I imagine will) be set to detect invisible watermarks in the ads and refuse to filter them out. (It's almost obvious extension of current AI image fi
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by TeMPOraL 2mo ago
> Something is seriously broken with computers and we can't seem to face it. It's not computers that are the problem, it's people. We've normalized (and even embraced) the situation where relationship between busine

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