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by jraph 3mo ago
"Does this, not just that... No this. No that". I think one of the worst things that happened to information quality in recent years is slop. This is a Chrome extension, and the other "one of the worst things that happened to
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by jraph 3mo ago
The raw facts could have been conveyed more concisely. The rant would have been far less entertaining though. I laughed reading it.
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by jraph 3mo ago
It's likely not performance concerns. I suppose she just monitors her logs meticulously and notices stuff. 404 errors can be a witness of a broken link she should fix on her site or get fixed on external sites. She probably looks for t
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by jraph 3mo ago
Users of these products are also responsible. They are the ones deciding to use them. To the extent, of course, that their knowledge is obviously limited. And to the extent that they are also subject to the competition. The problem here is
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by jraph 3mo ago
I did the same thing, shouting.h, defined the uppercase version of many types and keywords. Had a good uncontrolled laugh during a team presentation with a colleague. It was a bit disrespectful for the poor presenter who had nothing to do w
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by jraph 3mo ago
Sure, but making them work doesn't usually boil the planet, exhaust all the resources and risk causing an economical crisis while stealing anything that lies around on the internet.
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by jraph 3mo ago
I did this there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898514 But others did before me in this very HN submission, we are not going to repeat everything in every comment, are we? It's not the first lies from Anthropi
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by jraph 3mo ago
> Then highlight that, don't repeatedly insult someone I wrote in my comment that I don't support him doing so.
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by jraph 3mo ago
(note that you cut the critical part of this sentence) I'm not saying Andrew was right to write bitter personal attacks.
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by jraph 3mo ago
Your comment focuses on usage. The post argues that we can't say "it's just a tool" because there are inherent traits that don't depend on usage. > if it doesn't cause too much harm. You touch something ther
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by jraph 3mo ago
> i am claiming it is not inherently good or evil This is what is being refuted. The argument is that there is, in fact, inherent badness in the tool, which doesn't quite depend on how the tool is used (or at least non neutral impli
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by jraph 3mo ago
"Everything really". This industry is still pretty much a cash and planet burning grift that hasn't figured out being profitable yet. We don't even know whether it will cost more to spend tokens or pay an actual human be
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by jraph 3mo ago
Maybe we can throw that away and focus the useful stuff that doesn't try to get you hooked all the time.
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by jraph 3mo ago
At the same time, Anthropic is still running at a loss, so should this actually be 300k? 500k? Anyway, the exact number doesn't really matter in the context of my comment anyway (which was meant to facetiously note that the marketing c
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by jraph 3mo ago
It's the "Bun is better in Rust" section which is misleading, where most things could have been done in Zig as well with a comparable amount of work (if we don't count the rewrite itself). This section can also give the
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by jraph 3mo ago
> But you can state that factually without making it into a personal attack. It would even be more convincing. I 100% agree with this. I was just saying that you are probably less at risk of triggering people if you don't politely l
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by jraph 3mo ago
If you don't intend to write misleading stuff that makes Zig look bad when you leave and if you avoid ghosting the Zig foundation in scheduled meetings you had with them, I suppose you should be good.
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by jraph 3mo ago
For what we know, probably around $200,000 to run the rewrite and rewiew it, + whatever was involved in writing the blog post and advertise it.
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by jraph 3mo ago
It's not really this though. It's about the user leaving throwing misleading shade. Politely, of course.
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by jraph 3mo ago
Andrew is bitter (or something related) about this whole situation, that's no question, he writes it in his updated post (he doesn't say "bitter", but he speaks about unprocessed emotions). People are entitled to their e
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by jraph 3mo ago
But that hit piece would be an answer to the (multi-billion dollar) studio saying how much better the result is after the rewrite to Unreal, except it's not because Unreal is better (which it could be btw, or not, or more probably it d
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by jraph 3mo ago
Polite but misleading in a way that makes zig look bad. So of course the response is sour.
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by jraph 3mo ago
I have a counter proposition: don't fall for this constant suggestion that LLMs are an unavoidable future would you leave the techbros alone now pretty please, relentlessly keep reminding that we still don't think it's accept
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by jraph 3mo ago
Don't take this personally, but I am sorry to have to inform you that it was, in fact, almost 20 years ago. Just months after Rihanna released Umbrella, and a year after Mika released Relax.
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by jraph 3mo ago
How does this compare to PrivateBin, which is free software? https://privatebin.info/
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by jraph 3mo ago
It's uniquely hard to get rid of Android (when you don't consider iOS as an option, because possibly the remedy would be worse than the issue). A degoogled Android is already a good step. I'm as little reliant on proprietary
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by jraph 3mo ago
> Apple Photos (which is also not a nice company, none of them really are) There are entities that provide services that are nice, which actually value your privacy, are possibly non profit, based on free software. Of course it's ra
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by jraph 3mo ago
Yes, actually. I got an iPad 2 found in a drawer that would be perfectly good if the software could at least be easily unlocked so you could only hope to install an alternative OS since they don't want to update it themselves. Or if th
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by jraph 3mo ago
Nice, I love this. That's pretty satisfying.
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by jraph 3mo ago
I'm quite fine with no comments but correctly named variables and functions. This can't become out of sync contrarily to "out of band" comments. I take this over commented code with poorly named stuff any day. I've

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