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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
> This post seems to be haphazardly proposing that big tech will inevitably make everyone's lives miserable. Except that’s already happening. Through social media being engineered to be additive, advertising and user data collection
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
All shells do. Even alternate shells like Murex and Nushell. The problem isn’t that they can’t, it’s that writing context aware shell completions is hard because every tool does things slightly differently, and typically completions are not
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
No it's not the same thing with music latency. For one thing, music is an audio event where as UI is a visual event. We know that music and audio stimuli operate differently. And for the music latency, you can here where the latency ha
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
I'm not talking about latency (though I don't fully agree with your statement but I've covered that elsewhere). I'm talking about the GP's comparison of reactions vs musicians listening to unquantised pieces. You si
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
The redesign was part of that strategy. But they didn't have to go with Liquid Glass, as a theme , to achieve that. The choice of theme is the misstep. Not the strategy.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
You’ve fallen into the common trap of conflating reaction time with observable alignment time. Reactions are about responding to one off events. Whereas what you’re describing is about perception of events aligned to a regular interval. For
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
You’re both kind of right. On the average consumer hardware at launch, 95 and XP were slow, memory hungry bloats. In fact everything that people say about Windows 11 now was even more true of Windows back then. By the end of the life of Win
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Nobody was suggesting that models should or would talk about adult content at the dinner table. What a weird comparison to make. My point was literally that it’s a bigger industry than you give credit to because it’s a topic that isn’t ge
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
I don’t think that’s fair. But i do get how others might read into that too. Personally i read it more like “this project avoids having any political stance.” Similar to the HN guidelines on politics. However i do agree that it’s better to
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
1. ‘stop’ reads like a change of execution flow (like ‘continue’, ‘break’, and ‘return’) rather than an ASCII control code. I appreciate you’re taking that from telegraphs but I wonder if you’re better off using the control code name (LF)
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
> i'm not stating to ban it outright. there's always use in it at the long tail of society You might not have any interest in adult entertainment, but that doesn’t mean the industry only exists in the “long tail of society”. Th
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
I’m curious about some of the design choices. Having a period / full stop as the EOL punctuation rather than a semicolon is a nice idea. But personally I think the idea of a line terminator is antiquated. Using square brackets for stri
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Last time I checked, “cam girls” don’t run the country. So I don’t think you can make a comparison there. Plus the issues with JFK Jr are specific to him. It’s a bit of a stretch to imply that his view points are in any way related to his e
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Only if you demonise the adult entertainment industry, which I wasn’t.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Unfortunately that ship has already sailed and immigration wasn’t the reason. It turns out that American citizens can work in the adult industry too and it’s not just immigrants who are capable of earning money from getting naked on camera.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Why? I actually worked in the adult industry earlier in my career so have a better insight than most. and I can tell you that these models are just normal people like you an I. They aren’t interested in corrupting your children nor throwin
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
If what you’re just concerned about people “baring themselves on camera” then they can continue to do that without emigrating to America and it would still affect your culture. The internet is global after all. Also, it’s going to take more
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
That’s some politician-grade logic you’ve got there: A company can be forced into a decision because they’re scared of losing market share, but that doesn’t count as them being forced because they chose they wanted to stay in business. The
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to get at but your analogy doesn’t really work here because a new chocolate bar would be a new product. Not a different way of buying the same product.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Them having bolted on ChatGPT in the ugly way they did is evidence though. Their naff image generation tool (Playground) is further evidence. Apple are definitely panicking. And they should be too.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Code still matters in the world of LLMs because they’re not deterministic and different LLMs produce different output too. So you cannot pin specification to application output in the way the article implies. What the author actually wants
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
You’re now talking about HTML again, not XHTML! Edit 2: And I’m surprised you even needed to ask because the term “XHTML” has been used consistently. It really shouldn’t be confusing for someone of your obvious technical capabilities Ed
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
We aren’t talking about p and li tags which require data to be embedded. We are talking about self-contained tags such as br. In XHTML (and XML in general) tags absolutely can be open and closed inside the same tag via the method I describe
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
This was the approach Perl took and much as I love(d) that language, it do get pretty out of hand after a while if you wanted to adopt any newer or stricter language features.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
That’s not fully true though. There’s different types of complexity: - project requirements - requirements forced upon you due to how the business is structured - libraries available for a particular language ecosystem - paradigms / ab
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
If you cannot tell the difference between a cola and a lemonade, then that says more about the person performing the taste test than anything.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Or they could also just hire ex-Coke employees who might have been involved in some sourcing of the ingredients (eg when setting up new factories). Most trade secrets aren't really all that secret.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Thanks for the share. These do look like really nice improvements. Albeit I wouldn’t say they’re significant enough that LibreOffice would struggle to keep up. But it is nice to see that Excel is still working on basic quality of life featu
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
…and they are? I don’t doubt there’s been plenty of new features. But are they significant enough that users on older versions or non-MS suites are left longing for the latest version of Excel? I just don’t think there is much innovation le
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
> It's a constant race of keeping up with features, using mostly unpaid volunteer developers. What new features are Microsoft bringing out that are that critical for LibreOffice et al to catch up with? I can’t think of much which I

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