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by disqard 2y ago
It might be a bit of a "Prisoner's Dilemma" situation, and by being the first (among hype hawkers) to point out the Emperor's lack of clothing, they're hoping to come out ahead by throwing their competitors under th
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by disqard 2y ago
This looks pretty polished. Does anyone else here use MessageEase?
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by disqard 2y ago
> "freeing us up as a species from needing to do a bunch of artistic and creative chores." Would you please clarify something? You're saying that we need to be freed from "artistic and creative chores" -- so that
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by disqard 2y ago
It's low-effort, and, once enough time has passed, it'll be this decade's equivalent of those trivial-to-add "blink" or "marquee" tags from the geocities times. Fast-forward 5 years, and our attitude might
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by disqard 2y ago
Adding on to this thread, because there are definitely more than "dozens of us"! IME, it's been a way to get the best of both worlds: * job pays the bills by leveraging some of my technical background * hobbies replenish my e
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by disqard 2y ago
I love your username -- it's a terrific reference, and ties into what you do for work as well!
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by disqard 2y ago
> "...a critical safety gap between drivers’ expectations of the [...] system’s operating capabilities and the system’s true capabilities" Just s/driver/user/g and it sounds like a lot of contemporary LLM hype. I
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by disqard 2y ago
This is probably endemic to Big Tech now -- the chorus of AI, AI, AI is still growing, and that's all the execs want more of.
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by disqard 2y ago
Screen recording is Data. Being able to perform text-search queries on those is Information. Having pie charts of "what % of the time did my minions spend on work-related tasks today?" is Knowledge. What's lacking IMHO, is th
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by disqard 2y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is Microsoft's enshittification, which crossed a personal threshold for me -- "don't worry, everything's right where it was", but subtle nudges to accept furth
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by disqard 2y ago
Your comment (and several others in this discussion) really resonated with me. I'd like to add onto this particular comment, the mantra "think small". The process of focusing on the smaller-scale things that are within your s
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by disqard 2y ago
Is GenAI more like cigarettes ("cool factor", but harmful in the long run), or is it more like cars (noisy and creates pollution, but super-convenient and therefore something most people should adopt)? I still struggle with this e
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by disqard 2y ago
A bit meta, but your response is part of boosting that SNR, in the best way possible. We already saw the front-page discussion about "slop", but we don't have to let it wash over all of us, all of the time. Thank you (and G
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by disqard 2y ago
If it's a somewhat-successful YouTuber, then you missed the 60-second shout-out to their sponsor.
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by disqard 2y ago
If you happen to use kagi, you can "ban" Pinterest from your SERP. For me, it's one of those "quality of life" things that really improves my search experience (and is therefore worth paying for).
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by disqard 2y ago
I'll take a shot (not at MS, so I have no inside info). GenAI is hotter than anything else right now. As Satya publicly stated, "we made them dance" -- which shows how high-priority it is to maximize "AI innovation"
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by disqard 2y ago
Yes, call them out -- all of these "amazing AI innovations" are bollocks. If they're that essential for our existence, then go ahead and sell it to consumers. As the Rabbit (and Humane) before it demonstrated, none of these
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by disqard 2y ago
Like you, I'm a paid Kagi user. I also endorse all of the points you wrote above. However, there is the uncomfortable truth that Kagi relies on Google search results to power its own infra.
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by disqard 2y ago
I used to use Evernote for a while, and like you, was a fan of its handwriting OCR. Sadly, it is no longer software I would recommend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641
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by disqard 2y ago
These stood out for me: > No snacks, only lunch + maybe dinner. As someone in their 40s who writes code for a living, I've discovered that eating three reasonable-sized meals is actually way too many calories for me. These days, I
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by disqard 2y ago
That is lovely to hear! You brightened my day a little more. Keep doing it, and maybe share a blog post about your work? I know there are dozens (!) of us who would read it closely :)
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by disqard 2y ago
1. Search for "TWSBI Eco" at https://www.jetpens.com and buy the color you like best. 2. Fill it with the ink you like best. In general, you can't go wrong with Pilot Iroshizuku (again, jetpens) 3. When you'r
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by disqard 2y ago
Does this contain a JS interpreter, or is it a cross-platform wrapper around OS-provided browser libraries?
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by disqard 2y ago
Thank you for sharing the text-only link! Is there a "known" / easier / automated way to figure out such content urls? ... i.e., short of manually inspecting webpages by hand. Thanks!
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by disqard 2y ago
It looks like he made a bunch of people dance, not just Google...
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by disqard 2y ago
Shhhh, Satya is making Google dance... watch and enjoy. It's the "put Social into everything" FOMO -- and it's going just as well.
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by disqard 2y ago
There's a way to get "the best of both worlds" (tbh, works most of the time): print to pdf.
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by disqard 2y ago
This is also true of tech companies. Witness how the "GenAI" hammer is being used right now at MS, Google, Meta, etc.
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by disqard 2y ago
IMO, it's just raw greed. Avarice devoid of shame.
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by disqard 2y ago
Excellent point! Shah and Bender have explicitly called this out: > Contrast this with posing the query as a question to a dialogue agent and receiving a single answer, possibly synthesized from multiple sources, and presented from a dis

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