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901.
by bmitc 2y ago
I personally dislike Apple's skeuomorphic designs and find them very distracting. I in general do not like skeuomorphism in nearly any application.
902.
by bmitc 2y ago
Skeuomorphism goes in the other extreme direction though. One doesn't need flat design or skeuomorphism. There's a nice balance of UI elements that sit in the middle. I think Windows 7 was probably a good example of just straight
903.
by bmitc 2y ago
The formula is: be white, be male (most of the time), be born middle class.
904.
by bmitc 2y ago
The scale of both time and space are the least confusing things in our universe, to me at least.
905.
by bmitc 2y ago
That's like saying anyone put on a PIP that made the decision not to improve wasn't fired.
906.
by bmitc 2y ago
I've had my eye on it for sure!
907.
by bmitc 2y ago
Paul Graham really likes hearing himself soeak, so it's weird he was quiet on this until now. One would have assumed that he was tired of hearing this way back last year. And his previous statements have indeed pointed more to it being
908.
by bmitc 2y ago
> That is not firing someone when they choose whether or not to stay. That's only true if they left on their own accord. That isn't what happened.
909.
by bmitc 2y ago
This seems revisionist, doesn't it? The articles claiming this came out last year and Graham didn't return requests for comments or make any statements then. So why now? Why wasn't there more details when Altman left Y Combin
910.
by bmitc 2y ago
I need to do something with either of these languages. I've learned Forth before but never did anything with it. I should learn Lua as well.
911.
by bmitc 2y ago
Thanks for being one of the good ones and for the discussion support.
912.
by bmitc 2y ago
> Many people are unhappy when they discover that a middle class lifestyle requires work. I'm just going to stop responding, but I have to call this out. This statement shows a complete disregard and a total lack of empathy for thos
913.
by bmitc 2y ago
> Education is run by the government in the US, as is healthcare. It's ironic that you blame capitalism for that. No it's not ironic, and it's also not completely correct. There's no point in having a conversation wit
914.
by bmitc 2y ago
That's not what I was talking about. What venture capitalists do is figure out which companies and products that they can market and sell. That doesn't say anything about what people need. People can be and are marketed and sold a
915.
by bmitc 2y ago
None of that has anything to do with anything. A person can be wrong, no matter who they are. Saying the wealthy don't have cash vaults and instead invest it in society is explicitly and intentionally manipulative of the real situation
916.
by bmitc 2y ago
None of that really has anything to do with the discussion and is completely melodramatic, as someone else mentioned. However, we have indeed ended up in a hell-hole. Again, as someone else mentioned, the U.S. in the early 20th century rose
917.
by bmitc 2y ago
That's all very generous. Who actually needs greater than 90% of the startups coming out of Silicon Valley and the surrounding areas? Their products just get hyped up and shoved down peoples' throat. And you're wrong. These
918.
by bmitc 2y ago
I suppose that would be a reasonable reason on a practical level. However, how is a board liable for that? The CEO lies and intentionally withholds information, employees strangely hold the company hostage, and yet it's the board held
919.
by bmitc 2y ago
No, I am not simply unaware. I said my understanding, which appears to be wrong. Thanks for the details. However, I am still confused on which employees of which company. There is the non-profit OpenAI and for-profit OpenAI. Are these artic
920.
by bmitc 2y ago
I answered that scenario though. I'm fine, as a board, letting employees who want to hold the company hostage over a CEO that the board fired walk. The board's major mistake was not communicating why he was let go. My guess is tha
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by bmitc 2y ago
Explicit details were never released because for some reason people seem to like watching Altman fall his way up the ladder.
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by bmitc 2y ago
What is still bizarre is how the board brought him back. I just don't understand that from any angle. It is very clear that he lied and schemed. So why was there any issue? He had no power once fired. If another company wants to hire h
923.
by bmitc 2y ago
The comment was well within the guidelines and is a viable point. When people make broad statements on Lisp like the original great-grandparent comment, they really need to clarify whether they're talking about Common Lisp or Lisp-like
924.
by bmitc 2y ago
The site is written in Arc, which is a language written in an older version of Racket.
925.
by bmitc 2y ago
> Clojure and Racket are in that category. They lack the full power of CL; so they're just Lisp-syntax languages, not an actual Lisp. That's pretty debatable that Clojure and Racket lack the "full power of Common Lisp&quot
926.
by bmitc 2y ago
It doesn't even provide the right method names for an API in my own codebase when it has access to the codebase via GitHub Copilot. It just shows how artificially unintelligent it really is.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> If it's draggable, don't make it clickable too. But that simply just doesn't work. For example, hyperlinks are both clickable and draggable. It doesn't make sense to remove one or the other because of some strange r
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by bmitc 2y ago
The models also present themselves as completely accurate until pushed on the issue. And even then, the models will say something like "I'm sorry for the confusion" and then proceed to tell you what you're doing wrong wh
929.
by bmitc 2y ago
> The models currently pose no more of a risk than someone going to the library and learning how a bomb or weapon is made. That is absolutely not true. Books in libraries do not dynamically and non-deterministically withold, distort, fal
930.
by bmitc 2y ago
He also isn't making any sense. Why would someone keep in memory all the times something did what they expected? I am absolutely certain that if all buttons were act on press, there would be quite a few painful memories. Every time I e

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