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by chefandy 2y ago
I do feel bad for the amateurs. I went to art school where we received and administered constant daily critique where frankness matters. Genuinely mean spirited comments obviously still sucked, but we couldn't hesitate to say things li
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Ha-- Yeah... nobody that sits down and listens to a whole Portsmouth Sinfonia album can plug anything into my stereo, ever.
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As an aside, that site's cookie policy sucks. You can opt out of some, but others, like "combine and link data from other sources", "identify devices based on information transmitted automatically", "link diffe
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Not who you're replying to, but from my vantage point, marketing folks seem to be pushing LLM products as replacements for traditional search products. I think what the post is proposing makes perfect sense from a technical perspective
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I don't have a dev answer, but in case its relevant, I've seen commercial services that I imagine are doing something similar on the back end-- ground news is one of them. I wish they had monthly subs for their top tier plan rathe
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Additionally: > Everyone takes many of the interfaces they use for granted. For example, I've seen many people in the HN comments over the years cite the HN interface as evidence that interfaces are better without designers involved
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by chefandy 2y ago
I'm curious: what about the italics, specifically, bothers you? Those are important points or modifiers and italics are a way I draw attention to them. Everyone takes many of the interfaces they use for granted. I certainly do-- I regu
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> But I still bemoan such things as the awful keyboard handling of the current GTK file dialog, when compared with the old GTK1.2 file dialog. The old one was truly hideous to look at, but handled filtering files by keystroke far better
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Yeah-- it's genuinely hard. I went to culinary school where we discussed this topic at length and one of my classmates (who already had an English degree) is now the managing editor for a household name recipe website, I worked profess
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Discoverability is a huge problem in lots of FOSS interfaces. Most end users will read exactly zero lines of dedicated software documentation in their entire lives because they don’t have to, and that is a good thing for end users. I fi
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by chefandy 2y ago
Yes. You’ll have a hard time finding a full-time professional photographer that hasn’t tried Gimp, and an even harder time finding one that still uses it. That’s not even getting into graphic designers— Gimp’s typography tools are awful. Op
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If your primary use case is displaying individual recipes that makes good sense. Less-so if you need reliable calculations at a larger scale. For example, if I was making planning software for a catering company, they’d want to know how man
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I know— I work in film. The distinction is meaningless in this analogy.
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That just changes the parameters of negligence. On a country road in the middle of a bunch of farm land where you can see for miles, it doesn’t change a thing.
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Ok… so because config outages do happen, that invalidates the points I made? No. So, to use your rhetorical technique, that argument is hilarious given the overwhelming number of outages caused by coding errors. I’ve been writing code for a
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Drinking and right turns are unethical if they’re negligent. They’re not unethical if they’re not negligent. The government is trying to reduce negligence by enacting preventative measures to stop ALL right turns and ALL drinking in certain
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by chefandy 2y ago
I see the value in using xml for simple markup and standardized entities/references but the flexibility makes navigating whole documents more cumbersome. I think that using it inline is a good idea, but above the paragraph level I don’
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It brings a new layer of complexity, which means more surface area for bugs and vulnerabilities. It’s often easier for developers to write a script using standardized tooling than dig into deep configuration docs for a complex application y
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by chefandy 2y ago
I'm not dev-ops-familiar with Docker, so you might be more familiar with the problem space, but it seems like "You can just write a Python script to do what you want" is the sort of thing people say to justify not giving peop
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by chefandy 2y ago
That's great for writing recipes for someone to read as recipes, but it's not very useful if you're trying to create a collection of structured data from recipes.
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As someone that's written a whole lot of code parsing both complex XML and JSON, I'd go with a more restrictive JSON format over a more idiomatically correct and elegant (from the data perspective) XML format any day. Complex XML
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by chefandy 2y ago
The tough thing is that for the vast majority of end users, the interface that they see is the software or service. So if their instance has a bunch of disgusting pornography, as far as they’re concerned, mastodon has a bunch of disgustin
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by chefandy 2y ago
That use— to define IRC channels— seems distinctly different than Twitter hashtags to tag individual posts. I wouldn’t be surprised if hash tags started as a nod to that, perhaps even jokingly, but I don’t think you could consider them a de
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’m specifically talking about non-text-based games. You’re still limited by the game assets, animations (including hair, clothes, weapon movements, etc,) environments, and characters that are the waypoints for the plot— so you’ve already g
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confirmed.
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"Sandbox games are probably where they will shine. Imagine being able to play Minecraft, and tell a prompt to generate a world that resembles Tatooine, or a vampire-themed mansion." "The problem is what it takes to implement
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To automatically generate a freeform 3D sandbox environment based on a prompt? Do you have a specific criticism or counterpoint?
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Well, logos are a mode of communication that tell people what your brand is. Your brand should represent what you are, and to whom. Startups need to have "branding" in place to solicit investment, and they don't really have a
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The problem is what it takes to implement that. I've seen companies currently trying to do exactly that, and their demos go like this "ok, give me a prompt for the environment" and if they're lucky, they can cherry pick
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Yeah, same. Epic's Matrix demo implemented it and even without a plot, the interactions were so heavily guided that the distinction was pointless. So you can find out what that NPCs spous's name is and their favorite color. It&#x2

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