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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
This style is deliberately trained by the frontier providers, not something that occurs accidentally. It is a manipulative style that is extremely effective against the general population. It utilises countless dopamine-inducing techniques
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
Your understanding is correct, but where your understanding goes astray is thinking that that's a bug. The subjectivity is a feature. It is not possible to specify what should legally happen for all possible circumstances the entiret
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
Yes, and then responds to that degenerate case by suggesting that you never automatically retry. It's like saying "you should never drive a car/take a flight/ride public transportation because it's gone wrong so m
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by applfanboysbgon 8d ago
> The described situation is an awful user experience Sure, the worst case scenario is. 99.9999% of the time, a transient error will actually just work on the first or second auto-retry and save your users the effort of paying attention
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
This is trading a good developer experience for a bad user experience. There are situations where it makes sense to force manual retry, but there's no reason to apply one universal rule to all possible situations. Lack of considering n
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
I want the freedom to not be surveilled for daring to go out in public. Get off your high horse.
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
Building from source is nowadays writing one sentence in a chat box. Your idea of extra work is either unbelievably lazy or perhaps outdated by a few years.
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
3 clicks to disable an adblocker on a financial website seems like a trivial price to pay for mental wellbeing and tens of hours of your life not watching video ads, but you do you.
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
> 1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue If your website is going to be used by people with an adblocker, discovering that an a
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
msgpack, mold, and lld are a few other examples of exemplary software.
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
This is just my hypothesis, but I believe the language barrier is an issue. English is effectively a necessity for programming because real programming languages with ecoystems, error diagnostics, documentation, and useful articles/blo
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
The Japanese economy is not, in any sense, destroyed. It doesn't get the infinite exponential growth unhinged economists want, but life on the ground is stable, wealth inequality is low, cost of living is low, average quality of life i
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
> No, I'm not taking my father in law's perfectly good TV. I have a TV, and the one he bought was mediocre at best when it was new. Look, I'm not saying there aren't reasons for it. Obviously the economic value of a T
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
For most of human history, children very much would appreciate inheriting crafted goods. The kind of rampant, commoditized consumerism where we routinely snub our noses at and throw away perfectly useful goods is a rather recent trend.
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
Fair enough. I think there is great value to using LLMs to assist in learning new hobbies, helping lessen the friction, and doing research. I just think it's sad if you let them replace your thinking completely instead of augmenting it
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
> That said, I was not feeling much of an accomplishment, rightfully so. I used to enjoy the learning and the struggle that came with it. > Yes it does suck that the joy we had while building has been sucked out of us > For my hobb
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by applfanboysbgon 9d ago
The "pragmatists" who get excited developing a prototype for a week before they realize they will never be able to ship something anyone else will use because each trivial change becomes exponentially more difficult for the LLM to
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by applfanboysbgon 10d ago
"We don't want to take on the risk of working with a former Apple employee, who could potentially leak trade secrets and expose us to unwanted liability" is a very different statement than asserting that they were banned fo
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
A class of skill issues that never manifested a few years ago but which now manifest 30 times a day on the front page of HN. Riiiiight.
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
Can you show me one long-form investigative article from, let's say before 2020, that is nearly this dense with this BS? A single headline or a punchline here or there doesn't count; what makes it an LLM tell is that it's f
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
Your media literacy training can start with skimming headings. When every heading sounds like Buzzfeed clickbait, emphasizing and contrasting numbers with a sort of faux-punchiness to them, or overusing "the" to make things sound
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
At a certain point you need to develop your own media literacy. The article is literally dripping with Claudisms in every line.
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
I'm not saying Google doesn't have too much power, but I'm also not saying it isn't hilarious to see someone let an OpenClaw instance go wild on their main e-mail account and rightfully get banned for spam.
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
"Where are the articles about right-handed people?" Not being written, you'd wager, because normalcy isn't interesting.
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
> Supposedly the Japanese during WW2 also resorted to cannibalism. Germans and Russians did too. Most humans with a survival instinct will turn to cannibalism if it their only means to survive. This is completely unrelated to cannibalism
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by applfanboysbgon 11d ago
On an article about left-handedness, would you expect the comments to be full of people talking about how they're right-handed?
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by applfanboysbgon 12d ago
66% in Japan. Who said anything about America?
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by applfanboysbgon 12d ago
Half of modern academia, for one. Universities have turned into degree mills with the expectation that >50% of the population requires a college degree, regardless of whether they actually have any interest or need for one beyond doing i
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by applfanboysbgon 12d ago
The US itself should be sanctioned by your listed metric.
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by applfanboysbgon 12d ago
Perhaps you'd like to educate me? How many scientists from the Manhattan project were made into millionaires/billionaires owing to their ownership stake in it? When exactly did nuclear weapons go to market as a commercial product

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