Timwi

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by Timwi 5mo ago
A lot of people use AI to write things, from mundane emails over blog posts and news articles all the way to full novels and non-fiction books. I'm not saying the results are any good, I'm just saying people find use for it. Anoth
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by Timwi 5mo ago
The article spends a lot of time talking about how UIs “look” and how they all “look different”. That's not the important aspect to me. For me what makes a software usable in the long run (after initial learn) is shortcuts and keyboard
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by Timwi 5mo ago
Because by walking off the edge they will injure themselves.
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by Timwi 5mo ago
What makes WhatsApp superior to Telegram and/or Signal?
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by Timwi 5mo ago
It wasn't inherently yellow, it was the inverse of whatever it was on top of, but since the main window filling most of the screen was dark blue, it looked bright yellow most of the time.
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by Timwi 5mo ago
My needs as a user are for a UI to be consistent and predictable. Good luck.
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by Timwi 5mo ago
No. For most of human evolution, we were hunter-gatherers. Imagine trying to hunt game with the accuracy of LLMs. You'll starve. Picking edible fruits from plants also requires precision, both in terms of the hand/eye coordination
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by Timwi 5mo ago
Do you have a source for that claim? I'm curious. I genuinely thought it was the OSA.
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by Timwi 6mo ago
I believe you misunderstood them. The way I interpreted it is: 1) the development is already done, so the developers have broad consensus on how it should work; 2) the only thing that can break that consensus is a new RFC that tells them in
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by Timwi 6mo ago
Oftentimes the important data that needs restoring is in the checkout: uncommitted and unstaged changes that represent hours of work.
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by Timwi 6mo ago
Word boundaries are one way to address that, but they require you to list all the inflections (and you missed “fixing”). Another way is to say (?<!de)bug.
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by Timwi 6mo ago
I'm starting to feel that this line of reasoning has turned into pseudoscientific divination. And it's really unfair to writers who put effort into blog posts.
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by Timwi 6mo ago
You saying “bear mode activated” reminds me of Dicey Dungeons... (For those who don't know, there's a place in the game where, with a moderate amount of luck, you can trigger an item that transforms you into a bear, which changes
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by Timwi 6mo ago
I would have enjoyed a blog entry detailing how this works, regardless of its practical utility.
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by Timwi 6mo ago
I memorized that (and several other) Animaniacs songs without being familiar with the melody. Even Tom Lehrer’s The Elements reached me before Pirates of Penzance did. I think the melody just needs to be simple, then it'll become ”fa
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by Timwi 6mo ago
I'm not sure I agree with “far less specific language”. I became interested in programming precisely because it's far more specific than human language, and yet this didn't lead to me preferring assembly code over high-level
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by Timwi 6mo ago
You've added something that dims elements in years before they were officially discovered; but this is not “what the periodic table looked like at the time”. When I was a child, the periodic table had element names hahnium and kurchato
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by Timwi 6mo ago
(in no small part due to copyright law)
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by Timwi 6mo ago
On a purely philosophical level, what does it even mean for a law to be “public” or “on the book” if access to it is restricted by something like copyright? This seems very backward to me.
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by Timwi 6mo ago
Large language model models
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by Timwi 6mo ago
> Where were LITERALLY ALL OF YOU whenever the topic of docs as code came up? Docs as code is still writing and not coding. Those are simply different skills. As programmers, we find coding to be fun and glamorous and writing to be diffi
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by Timwi 7mo ago
Ironically, for me it was the “Weebil toy” that isn't part of my lexicon. (I've looked it up now. They're actually called Weebles and we don't seem to have that in Germany.)
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by Timwi 7mo ago
You have it exactly right. I read the title the way it was intended and I think the complaint was pedantic.
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by Timwi 7mo ago
I'm genuinely curious: I'm sure you know about the existence of ad blockers. They're not exactly new technology. I'm sure you also know that everyone here knows about ad blockers. So I'm genuinely wondering: what do
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by Timwi 7mo ago
Question: does it actually deprive them of revenue even if I was never going to click on an ad anyway?
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by Timwi 7mo ago
I'm confused. Your second to last paragraph implies an anti-capitalist stance, and yet the rest of your post reiterates capitalist propaganda. All of your “has to”s/“needs to”s fall under this. Needs to for what? For the grass to
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by Timwi 7mo ago
Although I agree with your sentiment, it should be remembered that the fixation on breeding is fundamentally baked into our psychology by evolution. We can argue against it logically, but we can't tell people to just stop feeling a cer
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by Timwi 7mo ago
That is a good point, although if that is the case the story should have mentioned it for perspective.
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by Timwi 7mo ago
I found it very comfortable to read on mobile. You only press a Next button (and occasionally a pop-up link for extra info). No scrolling and certainly no fighting.
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by Timwi 7mo ago
> I swear some people are using some other tech than I'm using the past few months. I'm curious about this discrepancy too. I assume that you're being facetious and the discrepancy is with people's perceptions of AI’s

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