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by allenu 10mo ago
I think a lot of times, people are here just to have a conversation. I wouldn't go so far as to say someone who is pontificating and could have done a web search to verify their thoughts and opinions is being lazy. This might be a case
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by allenu 11mo ago
Exactly, it was the first thing you'd do when you launched Word. Nowadays, the only option available would be "See less of Clippy" and he'd be back in the next session.
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by allenu 11mo ago
This is a lot of fun. The vibe is so perfect. "Ask HN: Do I exist?" > This feels like a $10 solution to a 10¢ problem. Just pinch yourself and move on to shipping something useful. https://news.ysimulator.run/it
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by allenu 11mo ago
I don't think this is a serious test. It's just an art piece to contrast different LLMs taking on the same task, and against themselves since it updates every minute. One minute one of the results was really good for me and the ne
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by allenu 11mo ago
I bet we could draw a throughline of the overly-dramatic writing style to TED Talks and all the way back to Steve Jobs' presentation style. The pregnant pauses. The short sentences. The holding back on making point for effect. All trac
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by allenu 11mo ago
> I’ve never even able to make a mobile app before. My skillset was just a bit too far off and my background more in the backend. > Now I have a complete app thanks to AI. And I do feel a sense of accomplishment. AI is such an existen
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by allenu 11mo ago
Programming really is fascinating as a skill because it can bring so much joy to the practitioner on a day-to-day problem-solving level while also providing much value to companies that are using it to generate profit. How many other profes
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by allenu 11mo ago
Ooh yeah, the DMC must've been used in the Super Mario 3 soundtrack. I remember the steel drums (?) in that sounded so good for an 8-bit game.
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by allenu 11mo ago
I agree. I had an SMS growing up and always noticed the music sounded "cheaper" than the NES, almost childish. I think it really was just the square waves making everything sound the same. The NES had more interesting output with
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by allenu 11mo ago
Yeah, super shady. Perhaps they're collecting data points for a product or else generating content for a blog post about how lonely building solo is.
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by allenu 11mo ago
I asked it this in a conversation where it referenced my city (I never mentioned it) and it conveniently left out the location in the metadata response, which was shrewd. I started a new conversation and asked the same thing and this time
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by allenu 11mo ago
I just tried this and it definitely knows your general location. I asked it for the "best fried chicken near me" and it used my city. Gaslit me as well when I told it it had access to my location and its response that it used Goog
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by allenu 11mo ago
It's disappointing to see their responses. All obviously LLM. I'm assuming there's a real person behind the original post as that doesn't feel like LLM and maybe they're just not sure how to respond. For the OP, if
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by allenu 11mo ago
Yes, definitely. It's something you do just have to get used to, though, if you want to work on something solo for a long period of time. Bouncing ideas off others and getting excited by someone seeing my work and seeing someone else c
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by allenu 11mo ago
> Would this have worked just as well if a person was the one doing this? I'm not sure how you want to quantify "just as well" considering the AI has boundless energy and is generally designed to be agreeable to whatever t
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by allenu 1y ago
It's a bunch of things. In the old days, if you bought software in a box for your OS (let's say DOS), you didn't expect it to need to be updated. It also continued to work just fine and maybe you didn't update your OS th
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by allenu 1y ago
I don't think it's quite social media as most people think of it. I treat it more like a message forum. To me, social media is a broadcast type of media where people are posting for their specific followers and people are followin
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by allenu 1y ago
It's probably just aesthetics. Those colors are more commonly used in illustration and design, so they tend to get labeled. There might be some perception involved in there as well as it's easier for our eyes to pick apart the mor
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by allenu 1y ago
I suspect some of this is due to the fact that the programmers consenting to do free work already have well-paying jobs, so they have the freedom and time to pursue coding as a hobby for fun as well. Graphic designers and UX designers are a
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by allenu 1y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say it was "never" about the graphics. There was definitely a sense of wonder when I first saw Wolfenstein 3D, then Doom, and later Quake. It was the graphics that got you first and made you think,
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by allenu 1y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't use LLMs for everything and do still copy-paste a lot from existing projects where I have an established pattern. LLMs can be a lot faster if you're tossing together an initial prototype with a l
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by allenu 1y ago
This is how I feel about it too. I got into programming because I liked making software that did interesting things for me. I enjoyed learning new languages and techniques to improve my programming skills to make software better, larger, fa
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by allenu 1y ago
I wrote my own app (Minders) and use it to write long and short entries here and there. I made the UI look like Twitter (replies, likes, hashtags, media, link previews), so I kind of use it as a dumping ground for bookmarks and images too.
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by allenu 1y ago
You're right, I forgot about the Pi 500 which was already that price. Still, it doesn't answer my question about who this is for. Is their strategy to branch out to more premium prices? Did they see enough uptake of the Pi 500 tha
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by allenu 1y ago
I'm confused as to why they decided to build this when they already previously built the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard all-in-one for under $100. As a casual observer, I don't know who they've built this $200 machine for. A cheap
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by allenu 1y ago
It's frustrating because the content here looks like it could be good. It feels like it was thrown together quickly. If you click the "Chapter 1" it just takes you a page with just the chapter title on it. Seems like they spl
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by allenu 1y ago
Agreed. I think it's worth posting on it but the right attitude is just treat it as any other outlet to post your product. Don't fret too much about it or spend too much time prepping and trying to game the timing. When I've
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by allenu 1y ago
That's true. I used to think I was mentally modeling the input as dragging a joystick on the back of the character's head, but it doesn't quite work if you are looking left and right. Now I wonder if it's a lot more subc
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by allenu 1y ago
That's an interesting idea. If, for instance, there was a window of time for people interested in a show to come together to discuss the latest episode (assuming the episodes aren't just dropped all at once), then I think it would
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by allenu 1y ago
Similarly, in Seattle, a bronze statue was sawed off at the base and stolen about a year ago: https://southseattleemerald.org/news/2024/08/01/healing-hate...

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