balder1991

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by balder1991 1y ago
> Wikipedia is my default search engine https://paste.sr.ht/~awal/2310cfca431e9f723df281d02558eaebd7...
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by balder1991 1y ago
> Scientists realized there is no "Truth", only a series of better and better models approximating it. But philosophers still talk about Truth, they didn't get the message. When philosophers talk about 'Truth', t
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by balder1991 1y ago
I must have written somewhere that I’m believing these claims once Linux UI becomes as polished as MacOS. Surely if LLMs are outputting this much quality code that shouldn’t take long, right? Meanwhile I see WhatsApp sunsetting their native
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by balder1991 1y ago
The argument isn’t only applied to creating new todo apps. If the speed up was true, we’d be existing open source tools with more and more features, more polished than ever etc. Instead I’m not waiting for something like Linux on smartphone
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by balder1991 1y ago
Also when vou create a product you can’t speed up the iterative process of seeing how users want it, fixing edge cases that you only realized later etc. these are the things that make a product good and why there’s that article about softwa
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by balder1991 1y ago
You’re right, but I suspect that it became this hostile to beginners because of the constant flood of repetitive questions. It’s possible that with LLMs doing this filtering, the community loosen up the hostility when new more and more new
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by balder1991 1y ago
Also weirdly LLMs like ChatGPT can give good sources that usually wouldn’t be at the top of a Google query.
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by balder1991 1y ago
The thing is, a lot of questions user have aren’t unique, maybe just with a slightly different context and LLMs are good at adapting answers to other contexts. But it only works for stuff that is already consolidated. For example, something
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by balder1991 1y ago
Besides the issue of repetitive beginner questions, which today could be answered with an LLM, was a significant driver of low-quality content, requiring substantial intervention from StackOverflow. However, your point stands: as new techno
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by balder1991 1y ago
I’m quite sure it was common, because Google optimized for that over time, that’s why they switched to a semantic search instead of actual “contains” (remember they had a few questions and answers at the top way before ChatGPT). Also if you
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by balder1991 1y ago
Or you’re just different in a society that doesn’t tolerate differences.
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by balder1991 1y ago
He knows authoritarian countries will order what they want and that’s it, so he simply comply. But for democracies where power is more diffuse, he can afford to make a show and try to shift public opinion to whatever he wants, defying the S
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by balder1991 1y ago
Gotta also access the case of whether you need this kind of “breaking news” with incomplete, speculative and often wrong facts.
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by balder1991 1y ago
I think the micro transactions thing would be ideal, and should be something between the LLM providers and the websites, the users should pay solely for the subscription of LLMs being able to search. But this is a huge simplification of cou
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by balder1991 1y ago
What I notice here in Brazil is that most local news channels get the bulk of their money from TV ads. They all have a badly done website-blog with news that are very superficial (like 2 paragraphs) just to fill them with ads up and down an
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by balder1991 1y ago
“the last one will turn your brain upside down”
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by balder1991 1y ago
Actually the “market” won’t prioritize anything that won’t give returns as soon as possible (except for the weird situation of VC money being poured in).
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by balder1991 1y ago
My company literally built its own ChatGPT Enterprise wrapper and forced us all to make X prompts in it per week. If we don’t meet that quota, our immediate leader will “strongly suggest” we do it or we might get a bad performance review ev
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by balder1991 1y ago
Yeah, as much as I don’t like to use AI to write large portions of code, I’m using it to help me learn web development and it can feel like a following a tutorial, but tailored to the exact project I want. My current approach is creating so
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by balder1991 1y ago
Unfortunately. As an example, so many people recommend Handbrake, which doesn’t even have the option to simply copy the audio stream.
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by balder1991 1y ago
Handbrake can’t even reencode a video keeping the audio intact.
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by balder1991 1y ago
Yeah, if you go to a subreddit like ClaudeAI, you convince yourself there’s something you don’t know because they keep telling people it’s all their prompt faults if the LLM isn’t turning them into billionaires. But then you read more of th
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by balder1991 1y ago
Also possibly reported: https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
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by balder1991 1y ago
Something you might find useful: https://askwwdc.com/
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by balder1991 1y ago
Like… you’d expect a company to evaluate the potential for competition, right? But these AI companies are obviously not actual companies with any business model, most are just trying to grab some investors money while they can surf the hype
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by balder1991 1y ago
I always assumed Topaz AI would do a more sophisticated upscaling while FFMpeg only has simpler algorithms. Isn’t that the case?
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by balder1991 1y ago
And on Mac things like TextEdit and Apple’s own office tools save them on iCloud by default.
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by balder1991 1y ago
The problem is moves like this will keep happening, since people don’t have much choice. Unless we bring up a societal trend of dumb phones.
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by balder1991 1y ago
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an open source project that uses email as an encrypted chat app in the last months. Edit: this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335065
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by balder1991 1y ago
“Good catch!” Damn, I hate that.

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