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by karaterobot 1y ago
There's a group of people for whom AI images seem to just be a trigger, and they simply never want to see them. So having a filter to remove those images makes sense. I don't really have that issue with AI images, but I often do
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by karaterobot 1y ago
We'd also have to figure out whether children who already loved reading watched Reading Rainbow , or if children who hated reading started liking it after watching. Since nobody has that data, I'll go with the aggregate. > In
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by karaterobot 1y ago
They didn't start tracking in 1983, the numbers I linked start in 1971. The trend line is pretty much the same from 1971 to 1983 as it is from 1983 to 2006. In any case, a skeptical person would not look at that graph and say that ther
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by karaterobot 1y ago
There may be a bit of that—watching things so that you can talk about them with other people. But, when I've done that (in the last 5 years or so), it's usually because there are one or two people I know who want to talk about a
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by karaterobot 1y ago
This article lavishes well-deserved praise on the intentions behind Reading Rainbow . I know I loved the show as a kid. But it seems like childhood reading scores were pretty much flat between 1983 and 2006, when the show was on the air: t
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Search engines are getting squeezed out by AI for me. Kagi's search results are less polluted by SEO trash than Google, but there's still a non-zero amount of it. When I try to answer a question using Kagi (or any search engine th
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> In our current reading regime, summarized or altered texts are the exception, not the rule. But over the next decade or so, that polarity may well reverse Most people don't read many books as it is. That's sad, but it's
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> but it's not a full translation If it's a translation at all, then we need a new word for when you change a text from one language into another language. I think 'retelling' is a perfectly good word to use here!
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> To me it’s categorically right: Auto Layout specifically is intended to restrict the possible layout options. Except that you do not need to use Auto Layout if you don't want to mimic the flow of objects inside a flexbox containe
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> A concrete example is Auto Layout... In practice, this locks the design in place and severely limits the possible expressions. You can’t drag things around freely or try odd combinations of layouts. I'm a designer, I've used
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by karaterobot 1y ago
This project is about getting around the extremely aggressive throttling Claude applies.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
This article read like a conspiracy theory, and it offers no evidence for its position. It's not even really making a case. It's just stating that companies are putting money behind AI so that they can lay off employees and reduce
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Well, for any future archaeologists reading this, please know that This American Life was a great show that was made for a specific audience, by a specific set of creators, and it absolutely did not represent the breadth of life in Americ
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> one of the reasons I find it hard to leave a high paying job is because "underpaid" has always been the best predictor of job toxicity. Being 'underpaid' is different than being paid less, though. Describing a job a
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Keep doing whatever you've been doing for the last 24 years, it's fine.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> The way this technology works means that generative AI applied to anything is a form of slopification, of turning things into slop. However, where AI is undoubtedly successful is as a shock doctrine, as a way to further precaritise wor
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by karaterobot 1y ago
cmd-f shows one person in this thread bringing that name up, guess who it was.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I can understand you thinking it's sad (it is), but I really can't understand not thinking people would want it. Look at camera filters. There's even a "touch up" feature in Zoom. Of course people would want it. Not
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I don't understand your point. Some of those things were buzzwords, some were impossible dreams, some changed the way the web works completely. Are you just saying that the future is unknown?
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Let's not forget that online publishing was dead on its feet before ChatGPT ever showed up. What really killed their revenue was zero barrier to entry, combined with social media monopolizing the attention of users. Every publisher fig
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> Apple's designers (and those of many other companies) come back to the idea of translucency giving order and imbuing personality. I cannot for the life of me understand where this idea comes from. When multiple layers of different
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Mullvad VPN's client blocks that stuff as well. That filter prevents me from unknowingly clicking a link here on HN and getting twitter on me.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> an artist should be able to enjoy the fruits of his work in his lifetime if he wants to Not if you're an illustrator doing work for hire. It's not unreasonable or unusual for the company who commissioned the art to own the co
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Where in the article do the authors say this puts anything to rest? Here is their conclusion: > Our results complicate current disputes over copyright infringement, both by rejecting easy claims made by both sides about how models work a
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Not at all!
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by karaterobot 1y ago
It's an unexpected position to take, though. You said you had been interested in Zed until they integrated AI. The response was "the AI is completely optional", which I'd expect would make you more likely to use Zed, sin
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by karaterobot 1y ago
It's odd! The guidelines don't say anything about having to read or watch what the posts linked to, all they say is it's inappropriate to accuse someone you're responding to of not having done so. There is a community ex
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by karaterobot 1y ago
When I was young, one of the things my mentor taught me is that the older people get, the more they think about their legacy. They want to believe they made a lasting difference. So, one of the best gifts you can give them is to say &quot
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I agree they'd love to do that in theory, and it seems technically feasible. What gives me hope on that front is that marketers and advertisers (let alone the companies that pay them) have never shown the slightest capacity for that le
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by karaterobot 1y ago
This article seems like it's telling you to keep writing even though nobody is reading right now , because some day they might, and you've got to be ready for that day. I think writing is worth doing for its own sake, or not at a

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