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by anonymous908213 1y ago
> best approximation of the rational mind attempting to figure out an escape from a consistently negative situation under conditions of very limited information about alternatives I dislike this phrasing, because it implies things can al
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
This is a solved problem. It's called a "demo". What it entails is giving a small sample of your product completely for free, with no monetization at all, in order to entice a prospective buyer for more. It may be less lucrat
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
> Your users want the file-dialog, window-chrome, menus etc consistent too. But for them consistent means consistent with the 20+ other applications they use on a daily base. So native. I don't think what you posit is true at all, a
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
This is irrelevant to consumer adoption. The Chinese government uses their own Linux-based OS, which should be a common-sense national security policy, and it would certainly be a good idea for the rest of the world's governments to ca
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
> As much as I approve of sanctions in the general case as a tool for projecting political pressure Can I ask you why you approve of them? The only people they hurt are the average everyday citizens, the working poor in the target countr
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
No, it's perfectly apt. One comment is stating that using LLMs allows them to gloss over the details. The responding comment is saying that glossing over details is not a great idea, actually. I think that statement holds up very well
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
For my case, and probably the case of many such people, that's closer to 90%. The 10%, however, is a big deal. When you need to take it somewhere, you need to take it somewhere, and a device you can use in that 10% of the time is bette
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
I see, that was my mistake then. I was unaware that services like FedEx were still accepting packages. My personal experience was that I have been unable to ship to the US for months because the carrier I use stopped accepting packages, and
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
Your mental faculties are not very well developed, it seems. Card counting is a skill. You gain an edge by being good at a simple game. You have direct influence over the outcome. Ditto the usage of credit cards. It is in no way comparable
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Travel insurance is -EV. For the average person who uses it, they will spend more than they recoup. Otherwise the insuring company holding their policy would, you know, not be in business. I don't think there's very much skill in
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
Most countries, including Japan, India, Canada, and nearly the entire EU, have completely stopped shipping packages to US consumers. This is not because of the tariffs themselves, but because the US apparently has no system in place for act
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
I think you overstate how bad said situation was, and to the extent it was a problem I doubt it had any meaningful impact on PC usage rates, and I have not the slightest doubt that such a situation would have had minimal bearing on smartpho
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
For now, but that isn't immutable. Canada can build relationships with other nations instead. That's the neat thing about free trade.
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It's fundamentally insane that the conclusion you come to is blaming Doug Ford and not the toddler who would sabotage his own country's international negotiations over a benign advertisement. The US is going to feel significantly
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
No shit. That's completely different from what you claimed, though, which was specifically that people were giving up PCs to become smartphone users because they appreciated the lack of choice that smartphones gave them. The phenomenon
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
In 2024, computer software generated around $373b in revenue while mobile apps generated around $522b. Given that smartphone usage is significantly higher worldwide than computer usage (around 2 to 1 ratio), the stats do not really support
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
Better title: "Clueless humans use AI to plagiarise an algorithm they didn't know existed, assume they discovered it". We are in the absolute worst timeline.
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
"Nearly impossible" is quite a stretch. While it was certainly shameful that it ever became as mainstream as it did, it was a matter of unticking checkboxes in the adware installers, and there was plenty of software out there that
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
If you have a citation that droves of people are abandoning PCs for phones specifically because PCs allow them to install software of their choice, rather than other reasons like the convenience of a computer that fits in their hand, I&#x27
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
Sideloading, AKA "installing software on your device", is something PCs have been handling just fine for decades. It's fine to warn the user when they're going off the beaten trail, but do not lock them in a cage to prev
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
If it were simply that, it would have been fine, sure. I didn't especially hate the LOTR crossover either. There was absolutely room for Magic to have, say, one crossover set a year with a fitting fantasy franchise. I'm not saying
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
I've lately become a pretty big proponent of gatekeeping. On Reddit I saw a comment that security flaws are simply unavoidable, that they're inevitable because as a web developer they must have 1000 dependencies and cannot verif
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
I do love the irony of reading a headline "Administrative court: Cookie banner must contain "Reject all" button" on a website that does a completely blocking cookie banner with no such option. I suppose if I lived in Ger
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
Sure, but you'd still expect people to know from seeing LLM outputs in their own language that it's not going to be "too good to be human". An LLM will write a better Chinese essay than I could because I don't speak
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
Sycophancy was actually buffed again a week after GPT-5 released. It was rather ham-fisted, as it will now obsessively reply with "Good question!" as though it will get the hose again if it does not. "August 15, 2025 GPT-5 Up
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by anonymous908213 1y ago
The poster is using the LLMisms they're calling out in the process of calling them out, for the purpose of irony.
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My impression was that it was likely LLM-written, human-reviewed. Due to a lack of knowledge on the subject/field, I can't comment on the substance of the technical details, which often reveal the shortcomings of LLM blabble, but