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by arendtio 1y ago
Well, I think it depends on how much effort the 'writer' is going to invest. If the writer simply tells the LLM to write something, you can be fairly certain it can be identified. However, I am not sure if the 'writer' p
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by arendtio 1y ago
I wonder why they can't facilitate LLMs in the review process (like fighting fire with fire). Are even the best models not capable enough, or are the costs too high?
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by arendtio 1y ago
You are comparing 'excellent implementations' with 'crappy tool'. Technically, both can be equally good. I would not prefer email for multiple reasons: - First, you always need an account to send one, and therefore have
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by arendtio 1y ago
So the real question here is, why do you need such a feature in the first place? I mean, it is helpful, even when the LLM creates the skill files itself. But why does it make such a big difference when the knowledge can be generated from th
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by arendtio 1y ago
Since I discovered that sometimes the quality of Amazon ebooks is much inferior to the ebooks directly from the publisher, I don't give a damn about their poor DRM system (security as well as user experience) and just buy directly from
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by arendtio 1y ago
Funny, first I thought I liked the brief style. Then I thought sounds very much like an AI. And when I read the Google doc, I understood, that I would have preferred the Google doc as well :-D
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by arendtio 1y ago
If there is one thing about macOS that really sucks, it is the window management. I have been using it for three months now and still don't understand how to use it. It is not that I am inexperienced (Windows 95/98/2k/XP
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by arendtio 1y ago
It even works with a controller (steam controller) :-)
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by arendtio 1y ago
It even supports vim bindings :-)
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by arendtio 1y ago
Even though I use Nextcloud for documents, I have been using Photoprism [1] for a while now, and I like it very much. It isn't perfect, but so far it is the best solution for browsing my photos that I have been using. You can host it y
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by arendtio 1y ago
OT: Is anybody else seeing that Datadome is blocking their IP? I haven't had this in a while, but I always hate it when I'm blocked by Cloudflare/Datadome/etc.
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by arendtio 1y ago
As far as I remember, the whole 'turn off your phone on a plane' was just a precautionary measure and is not a real technical problem nowadays. The risk was that mobile networks could not handle moving many devices from one cell t
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by arendtio 1y ago
This is the post that the people at Anthropic and Cursor should read. > But what they cannot do is maintain clear mental models. The emphasis should be on maintain . At some point, the AI tends to develop a mental model, but over time,
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by arendtio 1y ago
The big question here is who defines the events. I mean, the protocol suggests that the sender should describe the event and offer a simple button for it. But in reality, the receiver knows a lot more about what he is interested in. Some pe
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by arendtio 1y ago
Well, this is a classic here at HN. So every time someone comes around with a sentence like 'but if I can whittle away at a free and open source version, why should I ever consider paying for this?', the answer will be that Dropbo
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by arendtio 1y ago
The author might enjoy my todo app: https://github.com/arendtio/witfocus Ultimately, it is simply a folder containing text files. The witfocus script helps manage those files. I don't think it is for everybody, bu
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by arendtio 1y ago
It uses automerge [1], so I strongly assume they use CRDTs. [1] https://automerge.org/
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by arendtio 1y ago
As a long-time Yakuake fan, I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that iTerm2 can also be configured to have a quake-like terminal window. It just does not look as smooth as QuakeNotch :-D
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by arendtio 1y ago
I think you need a Mac to have a smooth background animation... Just kidding, Chromium can handle it too; it just seems a bit heavy for Firefox. But sometimes you wonder why on earth you have to add such resource-hungry effects.
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by arendtio 1y ago
So what is it (in your opinion)? For clarification: yes, when I wrote 'logical,' I did not mean Boolean logic, but rather something like probabilistic/statistical logic.
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by arendtio 1y ago
The compounding error rate in long-running processes is just one side of the coin. You can also use models to catch errors, and those success rates compound as well. So, it's not like you have no options to fight against a giant failur
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by arendtio 1y ago
I tend to think of LLMs more like 'thinking' than 'knowing'. I mean, when you give an LLM good input, it seems to have a good chance of creating a good result. However, when you ask an LLM to retrieve facts, it often fai
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by arendtio 1y ago
Which are the others?
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by arendtio 1y ago
You are aware that 'local-first' does not mean 'no-network'. Having a sync mechanism that runs in the background without user notification can be quite disconcerting. I mean, I did it, I built an app with a transparent b
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by arendtio 1y ago
Agreed, my comment was meant to provoke exactly that conclusion ;-)
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by arendtio 1y ago
Regarding the no-spinners: I think it is the wrong approach to argue that just because you have data locally, you don't need any spinners. Whether you need a spinner or not should be decided by the User Experience (e.g., when the user
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by arendtio 1y ago
For me, it is a different experience. Yes, it takes time to provide the LLM with the necessary context, but overall it can save me 3-4 times the time I would have invested. Maybe I am just slower at software development myself ;-) However,
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by arendtio 1y ago
I think it is more like googling: when the search engine appeared, everybody had to learn how to write a good query, even though the expectation was that everybody could use them. With LLMs, it's quite similar: you have to learn how to
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by arendtio 1y ago
Recently, I read about the Qibya massacre [1]. Sometimes, even the end of war does not seem to bring any justice, and you wonder what kind of people manage to become prime minister... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q
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by arendtio 1y ago
Okay, and how am I going to give the user the right to wipe all software from the device and use a completely custom software? I mean, we all agree that such permissions are not required during everyday operations, but there should be a way

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