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by keiferski 3mo ago
How is that any different than any other profession?
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by keiferski 3mo ago
If it includes all ingredients, cooking method, and weight in exact grams, it’s probably reasonably accurate.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Key information: There’s roughly 100 firefighter arsonists convicted every year in North America and all of them are serial arsonists, which means three or more fires,” Nordskog told CBC. According to Nordskog, firefighter arsonists tend
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Sometimes it will make the title of a conversation in a random language (like Spanish) even though it has nothing to do with the language. Other times it just adds random Chinese or Russian characters.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I don't know the exact model, and I bought it 5-10+ years ago, so I don't know the current models are, but I've been really happy with my Kobo. It's as easy as drag-and-dropping files. But I do use Calibre to manage them
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I get strange little bugs like this all the time. I don't think it's an accent, just a bug.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Not by a comparable company that is trying to compete across multiple products. It's too wide of a field. I do think that someone could make a better individual phone, computer, etc. if their entire company revolved around that singula
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Exactly, so in the "dystopian" future, people just use AI to write the books they were already having a ghostwriter make. If the books are original enough to be perceived as not-AI, the mind behind it will be creative enough to ma
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I think this is much more likely than any of his predictions: "buying and reading a book" becomes even less of an isolated activity than... it already is becoming. Instead it's more and more a media product, attached to autho
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by keiferski 3mo ago
This is one of those topics that annoys me, because the reporting on it is always “how dare they!” and never a realpolitik explanation of how states attempt to interfere with each other’s power-selection mechanisms. It seems pretty obvious
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by keiferski 3mo ago
At the end of the day, if you are judging a society's moral code from 3,000 years later... it's not going to make much sense. The only logical approach IMO is to judge it from within its own context.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Translating the Odyssey is not some new thing. There are dozens of other translations in English, and yet pretty much all of them have put just as much or more effort into questions like these...and yet few are as artless and bland as &quot
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Do you have an opinion yourself? Because "anyone worth listening to" is not a comment with content. Furthermore, it's simply not true. Lattimore is generally considered to be the most authentic translation. There are plenty o
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by keiferski 3mo ago
It’s a magazine that I pay money for. I’m allowed to have an opinion on the reviews they include, and yes, some reviews are unnecessary in the sense that they are overly critical just for the sake of it. I don’t think Wilson’s translation i
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I think it was more because of the Nolan script. Damon is capable of playing that kind of character; see The Talented Mr. Ripley, for example.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
It’s a shame Michael Fassbender wasn’t in the running, as his character in The Agency is kind of exactly how I imagined Odysseus: clever, with a heart for the people he cares about but absolutely brutal against people he doesn’t need.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Except the translation is not very good and dumbs down a lot of the language to fit the translator’s worldview. I’d say Wilson did “try to do it herself,” and it’s not much better than the film. Hence this critical review is a bit unnecessa
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by keiferski 3mo ago
It’s interesting to think that the “public speaking skills” aspect of some legal jobs will probably continue to be AI-proof for the indefinite future. No one is going to present ChatGPT on an iPad as their defense attorney. On the other han
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Secondhand fashion got expensive(theguardian.com)
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by keiferski 3mo ago
By this logic, doing anything yourself is inefficient and a waste of time. However, I think that by reducing it purely to a monetary number, you are not measuring things correctly. Part of the output of doing DIY things is the knowledge, ex
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by keiferski 3mo ago
My favorite part of Gibson’s Count Zero was always the hydroponic gardens covering an entire floor of a New Jersey housing complex. Probably not as realistic as the setup in the link, but both are still very cool ideas.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I once worked for a company for 3 years, and during layoffs was offered... to work until the end of the month, and be paid for that. With no severance afterward. 4 months is not bad.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
No, that isn't what I said at all, and again – writing short, trollish comments is not really what HN is about.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I hardly think expressing some understanding of the position of a company owner makes me a fan of Ayn Rand. And just a tip: many of your comments seem to belong on reddit, not here. Different culture, where short obnoxious takes aren't
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I think this is an uncharitable take, and judging by these comments, a pretty common one today on HN – probably because there are less and less founders posting here, and more bitter employees. Patreon isn't IBM, it's not even Goo
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by keiferski 3mo ago
This is a good idea in theory, and in a lot of situations it's definitely under-used. But I don't think it's realistic to expect companies to never have to lay off employees.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Because part of being a CEO is having social skills, and doing what you suggested is extremely socially inept. Explaining why layoffs needed to happen, expressing remorse about it, and giving a good severance package is what serious adults
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I am an expat in Poland, that’s why I used it as an example. The point being that I have knowledge of that experience that is not written down in an LLM dataset.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
A camera has thoughts? An interior life? Friends?
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Is a human life, as experienced firsthand, the same as a first person camera recording it?

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