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by haswell 2y ago
As a photographer, I have a love/hate relationship with Adobe. I’m not a fan of many aspects of their business, but Lightroom is a (sometimes) excellent product. On the one hand, I don’t have much sympathy for Adobe. On the other hand,
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I avoid criticizing what I haven't read. It's possible I misunderstood the project and post. Here are the things that jumped out at me and where my reply came from. The title "Like cursor, but for blogging" primed me to
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It makes me happy to hear this about the “No AI” badges you’ve encountered. > It’s fraud, there’s no other area where we’re alright with passing off something generated as hand made. This is something that bugs me as well. One of the s
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I’m on board with your caveat. I have no issues with using AI to analyze the writing to identify potential issues. I currently use spell/grammar checking and I have no qualms about that. A more robust proofreader does seem useful. To y
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I’ve been having an internal debate with myself about whether or not to leave a comment, because I’m struggling to find anything positive to say. I love weekend projects and don't ever want to discourage people from doing them. But the
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While I know there have been plenty of scathing essays, backlash among various communities, etc. do you have some concrete examples of the clear lines being drawn and legislation that gives you this optimism? Maybe the progress you’re descr
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> If we are waiting until every human being is content and happy, and environment is perfectly stable, we'll be waiting past heat death of the universe. Do you feel that’s a good faith interpretation of my point given what we’ve d
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> Just because you perceive as such doesn't mean I meant it as that. Fully agree, nor was it my intent to imply otherwise. But once uttered, we can't control how other people interpret our words. I see clarifying these differ
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I don't think my response changes for a colony. I'm not saying ants/ant colonies don't exhibit intelligent/sophisticated behavior, but we don't have evidence to suggest they understand the higher order conseq
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This is awesome, congrats! While I spend quite a bit of time here on HN, I missed the original post but started playing daily after Paris Martineau mentioned it on the Intelligent Machines (formerly This Week in Google) podcast. I’ve been w
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> What is a "real" strawberry? Is a generically modified strawberry "real" to you? What about a strawberry grown in a greenhouse? This seems like a shift of the goalposts. Setting that aside, I have no inherent issu
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My point wasn't that there are no naturally occurring harms, but that foods which on their own are otherwise considered safe may take on a different safety profile when altered depending on the nature of that alteration. e.g. we'r
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I was primarily responding to this: > The real quest is getting multi planetar. Which when viewed as the "real" quest, has potentially problematic downstream effects. My point was that there are many people who see who see th
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To bring this back to where it started: > It reminds me of people who won't eat certain foods because it contains "too many chemicals". Maybe I misread this, but I took this to refer to the current food industry and how
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I think this is somewhat beside the point. Going back to where this started, many people feel uncomfortable consuming products that contain chemicals added by humans/corporations. Whether or not this concern is fully justified is a fai
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> So you're positing a spiritual or etherial nature for strawberries? Such that pure materialism is inadequate to address? Not in the slightest. You seemed to be placing a high degree of weight on the shared property “vat of chemi
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But surely you’d agree that “vat of chemicals” is not the only metric by which to evaluate a substance, and that not all vats of chemicals are strawberries. You can play this game with everything that exists. Everything is just a concoction
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When we have the ability to replicate strawberries at the atomic level, then I’d grant you this point. We presently do not, and the market is filled with products calling themselves one thing while in reality being in essence a vat full of
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What if the real quest is to collectively find ways to coexist without destroying the only planet we know to be fully capable of supporting human life richly? And this doesn’t have to be at odds with our space ambitions. But framed the way
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Except we know certain chemicals are harmful, and we have no idea about the long term effects of many others. We also have a history of using materials we don’t understand and only stopping after it kills or harms enough people.
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I’d define this as: we consciously understand the potential and real consequences of our actions. Ants operate on instinct and are not capable of extrapolating higher order consequences like we are.
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> The question isn't whether these tools will change visual media, but whether we'll be thoughtful enough to shape that change intentionally. Unfortunately I think the answer to this question is a resounding “no”. The time fo
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As a neutral reader, it read more like a dismissal.
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Good call on Fedora's Atomic options. My daily driver is NixOS and part of me really wants that level of predictability and rollback for them. For a brief period, I had started thinking through what it might look like to remotely manag
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I'm currently hosting this in my private homelab while I build it out, but if you shoot me an email (profile), I'd be happy to share it once it's up and running.
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I may have understated their needs somewhat. Most of what they do is browsing and document editing, but a few key use cases make a real computer necessary (or at least highly desirable): - Document scanning - Label printing (my mom buys&#x2
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Not my TIFU, but a concrete example of what AI coding can lead to when the user doesn't actually understand what the LLM is generating. At first, I was tempted to dismiss this somewhat as "the same can happen when you're usin
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TIFU by copypasting code from AI. Lost 20 years of memories(old.reddit.com)
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I've been evaluating a Lenovo ThinkCentre m920q tiny I picked up for not very much money on eBay (the m720q models are even cheaper) and they seem like perfect machines for the task. My parents use some tools and hardware that require
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A blog about burnout and recovery that chronicles my experiences going on an extended sabbatical for the last 3 years. The good, the bad, the unexpected, what I'd do differently, what I've learned along the way, etc. I started the

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