ileonichwiesz

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by ileonichwiesz 12d ago
I think the inertia of familiar input devices is way too high for something like that to gain any sort of traction. For better or for worse, the mainstream user is probably not leaving his QWERTY keyboard and his touchscreen, even in use ca
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by ileonichwiesz 12d ago
That’s the more likely hypothesis, but I also wonder if different land management practices could be influencing a map like this. Agriculture in Poland is much more fragmented than in Germany - smaller fields of different crops, often separ
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by ileonichwiesz 1mo ago
If it was a touchscreen, then the whole project could just be replaced by googling Conway’s game of life on an iPad. The physicality is the point.
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by ileonichwiesz 1mo ago
The scale of this would need to be unfathomable. Doesn’t YouTube get something like 100 years of video uploads every day? You’d need hundreds of thousands of people working full time to review that much footage manually.
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by ileonichwiesz 1mo ago
They don’t actually give a shit whether you find what you were looking for, they heavily optimize for their time-on-site metric. If the search results were terrible, and you had to refine your terms and try again, that’s more time on site!
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by ileonichwiesz 2mo ago
I like to avoid the risks of processed foods by simply not being hungry.
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by ileonichwiesz 2mo ago
Aren’t birth rates already at a historical low in most parts of the world?
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by ileonichwiesz 2mo ago
Isn’t that the plot of an episode of Always Sunny?
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by ileonichwiesz 2mo ago
That’s a solved problem, you just add another agent to check if the tests are any good, and one more to oversee the test-checker, and one more…
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by ileonichwiesz 2mo ago
If I did have kids, I probably wouldn’t want them to run around a big heavy robot with very little spatial awareness.
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by ileonichwiesz 3mo ago
Very interesting topic, but a strange choice of source. I'd recommend these instead: Coller foundation press release: https://www.jeremycollerfoundation.org/news-and-insights/pre... The actual publication in Scien
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by ileonichwiesz 3mo ago
A point mutation is very unlikely to produce “the next Einstein”, it’ll just produce someone with one slightly different protein in their gut.
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by ileonichwiesz 3mo ago
> For example, in the old days, the internet was scarce, so people had the sense that their online self and their real-life self were the same. I’d argue the opposite. On the old internet we all used nicknames, and everyone knew not to
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by ileonichwiesz 4mo ago
I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?
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by ileonichwiesz 4mo ago
I’m at a large Fortune 500 company. On a recent call, a mandate came from the CEO himself - “we have to use more agentic AI”. And I found it really funny, because for what? Use it for what? It’s a tool. Imagine a guy coming down to a constr
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by ileonichwiesz 4mo ago
Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.
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by ileonichwiesz 5mo ago
What I’m seeing in that link is that the organization pays 16 people a total of $3.6 million.
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by ileonichwiesz 5mo ago
> There’s almost always a better alternative for those who value having something better. That alternative comes with a $60/year subscription these days, though.
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by ileonichwiesz 5mo ago
Similarly, I sometimes daydream about those ancient law systems that were so simple that they could be engraved on a stone pillar and placed in a public area. Could you imagine a legal system that can be read and understood in minutes inste
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
Isn’t this just something that any IDE has built-in these days? Maybe I’m missing something, but how is this fundamentally different from the built-in git timeline view from something like VSCode or Jetbrains?
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
This might be an unkind reading, but to me this just sounds like an attempt to reinvent the very same kind of mysticism that it mentions in the first paragraph. “No need to study the world around you and wonder about its rules, peasant - it
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
> How would a touchscreen MacBook improve on something? It won’t, but there’s now an entire generation of users who get confused and angry if any kind of display doesn’t react when you poke it with your finger.
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
That’s not OCD, it’s just paying attention to detail.
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
It’s not that much higher, actually. I just looked at some unskilled production line job offers, and looks like they start at 15-18€ per hour. Scale that to full time, and it’s less than 30k€/year - and of course without the free food
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
True, but muscle memory and a couple keyboard shortcuts (or heck, even using the mouse to select and drag the block) is always going to be faster then describing the changes you want and reviewing the output, at least for simple stuff.
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
Of course it’s important to remember that the ability of an LLM to answer an obscure riddle like that has nothing to do with its reasoning abilities, but rather depends on whether the answer was included in its training dataset.
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
Have you been using the same foldable phone for those 5 years? It’s the price, but it’s also a question of durability.
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
That really hits home. I spent a couple weeks in primary school sketching my own blueprints for great inventions. Nothing that could've ever worked (I didn't know what a transistor actually was, but my machine certainly had a lot
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
I think you’re confusing mastery with marketability. “Other people want to hear it” is at best adjacent to someone’s skill at composing or playing music. There’s plenty of mediocre musicians who became world-famous, and plenty of great musi
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by ileonichwiesz 7mo ago
> Would you ever be tempted to make such a claim (that everyone is close to the same in ability and effort is the main determiner of success) about athletes? Well yes, absolutely. People don’t do quadruple axels on the ice because they w

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