cwillu

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by cwillu 14d ago
One problem with well performed sarcasm is a noteworthy tendency to darken the text colour on hn
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by cwillu 14d ago
Plenty of people are discussing that.
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by cwillu 14d ago
“Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.” -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by cwillu 14d ago
You (conveniently?) left out the words “across a a broad range of domains and tasks”.
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by cwillu 14d ago
When it turns out the doomers don't tell us that, will you acknowledge that you don't actually know what you're talking about?
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by cwillu 15d ago
Conveniently, there was more than a single short sentence to run it on.
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by cwillu 15d ago
It seems to me that syntax highlighting that isn't very close to 100% accurate is anti-useful.
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by cwillu 15d ago
Pangram reports 100% ai
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by cwillu 15d ago
A friend bought a rowing machine; turns out you can't use the fancy magnetic resistance element without agreeing to the app's terms and entering a credit card. I really tried to convince them to return it…
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by cwillu 15d ago
Bold of you to assume there is real information behind this.
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by cwillu 16d ago
And yet it was posted as a reply to someone saying that it still feels like oatmeal.
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by cwillu 17d ago
Yes, but what does that have to do with the article?
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by cwillu 17d ago
“Dairy” is a technical term for a category of goods that is broader than milk and milk-related products. (Yes, I know.)
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by cwillu 18d ago
Who on earth reads 2 pages of an all-text article, and decides at that point “you know what, I want to watch a video; oh good, here is the article in video form, just when I needed it!”?
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by cwillu 19d ago
“We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in ‹whatever›” is something developers love, and users fear.
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by cwillu 20d ago
I have an FP-10 keyboard 3 feet from me that requires that to generate a midi message with a velocity of 255 at the lowest sensitivity setting, and not much less than that at the middle-low setting. If I hit my computer keyboard as hard as
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by cwillu 21d ago
> it's not like velocity sensible keys are expensive or overly complex to produce Oh, my sweet summer child; music instrument keys are mechanically not the same thing as a computer keyboard. There are moving parts involved that n
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by cwillu 21d ago
A tenth of that gets you a basic but solid 88-key Roland FP-10; that's something they will sell a shit ton of and which shares components with several other pianos. It's also worth noting that a piano or piano-like keyboard will b
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by cwillu 21d ago
“Now notice that you are being watched. The image is watching you look at it. It knows what it is doing.” What in the SCP…
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by cwillu 22d ago
It's like arguing that a brain, or the information encoded into it, cannot possibly be intelligent, because it stops working if turn off the blood flow.
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by cwillu 22d ago
It can be a problem, while also not being this problem.
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by cwillu 22d ago
Saying “I'm having trouble understanding” is not the same thing as “this is trivial”.
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by cwillu 23d ago
It's impossible to tell the “it's all marketing!!11oneone” folks anything.
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by cwillu 24d ago
It's not ridiculous, and it happens regularly.
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by cwillu 24d ago
I'm calling it: if Bret Devereaux is being accused of posting slop, we have officially achieved peak unhinged claims of “this seems like AI”
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by cwillu 26d ago
I just spent an hour this morning talking with a friend who had an important saved draft email disappear after closing her laptop. Software is shit these days.
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by cwillu 26d ago
The linked sources exist, so who cares?
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by cwillu 26d ago
"@dang" doesn't do anything; email the address in the footer if you want to propose something to a mod.
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by cwillu 26d ago
I use mapbox for turn-by-turn for hours a day every day, and it's based on OSM. Bonus: when something is fucky, I can actually generally get it fixed, unlike google which continues to report an 80kph speed limit in various residential
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by cwillu 27d ago
It's not an exemption “for linux”, and claiming it is and then accusing people who point out that it's very clearly not of missing the point is something else. Good day.

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