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by bambax 8mo ago
Yes. I quit over a year ago. I don't miss it. It's a useless and toxic platform.
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by bambax 8mo ago
"Don't move -- call the service station to have someone sent over to your place to hand wash the car" would be a valid answer. It's a little "out of the box" but it makes more sense than walking to the car wash
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by bambax 8mo ago
We should also check the specifics of the experiment. Is it possible that humans participating simply copied and pasted the question and answer to an LLM?
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by bambax 8mo ago
I've been maintaining a fake LinkedIn profile for over 10 years (in addition to the real one). It has a significant amount of connections (people with the "open to work" badge tend to accept connection requests from total str
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by bambax 8mo ago
Agreed. The process described is much more elaborate than what I do but quite similar. I start to discuss in great details what I want to do, sometimes asking the same question to different LLMs. Then a todo list, then manual review of the
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by bambax 8mo ago
Ok, but nobody's disputing this? Tech dependency should be easier to unwind, then defense, then energy.
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by bambax 8mo ago
Good, honest write up! As users we need to make more efforts to move out of the American ecosystems. Cloudflare is just so convenient to take only one example. OT, about the finished product (hank.parts): the French translation and tone is
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by bambax 8mo ago
Yes of course they will; the CEO of Anthropic makes that argument, very openly, all the time. But it will be hard to do, I think.
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by bambax 8mo ago
Yes, my point exactly.
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by bambax 8mo ago
I too am old. Google search is free, hard to replicate, and while there used to be lots of search engines, Google was (and arguably still is) miles ahead of all the others in terms of quality and performance. A model is hard to train but it
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by bambax 8mo ago
Unstoppable monopoly will be extremely hard to pull off given the number of quality open (weights) alternatives. I only use LLMs through OpenRouter and switch somewhat randomly between frontier models; they each have some amount of personal
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by bambax 8mo ago
Yeah it did strike me too as quite funny. Pun intended or not, is the question.
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by bambax 8mo ago
The fact that the volume is exploding but the graveyard is also exploding, is a sign that the system is working, not that it's broken (the filter is working). I did 3 ShowHN in 2024 (outside of the scope of this analysis), one with 306
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by bambax 8mo ago
> What's that you're saying? Yours actually works and is higher quality, because you know about things like TTFP and INP and "not putting your Supabase god-token in the client"? Oh, you sweet summer child: I take no
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by bambax 8mo ago
Yeah that's not possible. When you're presented with the terminal the food is already in your system. Or maybe you can be like our former Ministry of Culture, Jack Lang, who just resigned from a prestigious, if useless, post in th
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by bambax 8mo ago
Your user name being a reference to Coluche you're probably French? As a French you probably know these aren't exactly comparable. Yes, the US are probably richer than France per capita -- but not twice as much.
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by bambax 8mo ago
The most shocking part of the game is the price of goods! $14, $17 dollars for one meal to be eaten standing up? Wow. Here in Paris sandwiches cost between EUR 4 and 6 (usually 5), with a "menu" option that includes a can of soda
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by bambax 8mo ago
Yes but here in France where service is included and tipping is never compulsory (or expected), payment terminals are appearing where you need to select the tip before typing your code. This is usually shoved in your face by the waiter at t
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by bambax 8mo ago
> Translators are busy No they're not. They're starving, struggling to find work and lamenting AI is eating their lunch. It's quite ironic that after complaining LLMs are plagiarism machines, the author thinks using them
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by bambax 8mo ago
> When I tell friends and family I’m working on a book, they innocently ask, “Oh, so you’re still on paternity leave?” -- No! I’m writing a book. It’s a real job! "Real job", yes and no. Writing a book is an enormous amount
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by bambax 8mo ago
I currently develop small utilities with the help of AI, but am far from vibe coding or using agents. I review every single suggestion and do some refactoring at each step, before any commit (sometimes heavy refactoring; sometimes reorgan
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by bambax 8mo ago
Yes, absolutely. I think the companies that don't understand software, don't value software and that think that all tech is fundamentally equivalent, and who will therefore always choose the cheaper option, and fire all their good
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by bambax 8mo ago
Yes! If Discord's appeal is that it's a tool/space to just have fun together in the moment, then fine! but that's exactly the opposite of a support system.
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by bambax 8mo ago
> app that helps you connect with less effort and makes every conversation count What makes things count is most often precisely the effort spent on them.
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by bambax 8mo ago
I don't understand the appeal of any of those, least of all Discord itself. It's unsearcheable, focused on immediacy, confusing and full of blinking things. The old Reddit interface (or current HN one!) are unsurpassed IMHO.
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by bambax 8mo ago
Ah yes, it's a good idea to record microphone and system audio to different files but I ruled against it for simplicity's sake. I wonder how you deal with offset, esp. when the mic comes from a Bluetooth headset? I added an offset
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by bambax 8mo ago
I'm making a suite of simple Windows tray apps that do just one thing. They often have existing equivalents but I think my version is better and/or simpler ;-) All work starting with Win7. The first three are: - miniWake: keeps th
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by bambax 8mo ago
I had no idea that SQLite performance was in fact compiler-dependent. The more you know!
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by bambax 8mo ago
The talent of Epstein was to offer to each prominent people things they cared about. To Chomsky it was "linguistics"; to Jack Lang (a very public figure, former Cultur Ministry, who just resigned from his position yesterday becaus
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by bambax 8mo ago
Not OT at all. Emojis everywere are ridiculous. And coding agents love them! They put emojis in Python log lines which inevitably break the console, and of course in web pages. Logs don't need emojis. Not sure if anything does.

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