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by latexr 3mo ago
Why does the homepage mention AI over 20 times? Why does it mention AI at all ? Why is most of it absurdly long and obfuscated base 64, which looks be binary data?
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by latexr 3mo ago
Moment of the breakdown (I couldn’t find a less shitty video). https://youtu.be/CtYEm21Fhpo?t=79
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by latexr 3mo ago
> these seemingly intelligent entities that we could talk to and interact with just like we do with humans. > Now that we have that, everybody hates it. There are several reasons for it, most of them having to do with looking beyond
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The EnshAIttification of Day One(schwarztech.net)
1 points by latexr 3mo ago|0 comments
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--end-of-options (git flag)(nesbitt.io)
4 points by latexr 3mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 3mo ago
> posting this during the World Cup The World Cup is over. This tweet was the day after.
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by latexr 3mo ago
> literal conspiracy theory The strongest words they used were “marketing stunt”. Calling that a conspiracy theory is quite the stretch.
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by latexr 3mo ago
They’re both. There are finance tech bros “idea guys” whose aim is to be at the top of the company, and other tech bros who got into programming for the high salary and clout of being able to say they work at or are ex-employees of Facebook
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by latexr 3mo ago
> The field of software engineering is dominated by the smart people that do something not because they have to but out of curiosity. Emphasis mine. We wish. I think the state of tech pretty conclusively demonstrates those people aren’
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by latexr 3mo ago
> HN does something similar (…), new comments get some seconds/minutes on the top of the comments Only kind of. There’s some time/upvotes algorithm that determines that. If a submission has been live for a few hours or a day an
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by latexr 3mo ago
The thing with showing other people’s cursors and how many are looking at the page feels a bit creepy.
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by latexr 3mo ago
Quick fix for the font, which many people are (rightly) complaining about. Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("quote")).forEach(p => { p.style.marginTop = "20px"; p.classList.remove("quote", &quo
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by latexr 3mo ago
Real title of the video is “He Mined 300 Bitcoin, Then Sold the Computer for $200”.
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by latexr 3mo ago
Imagine the blogpost was on AI generated classical music. Everyone, including the authors, agrees the result is shit. You, being classically trained, can understand more than most why the results are bad. Then someone comes along and says “
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by latexr 3mo ago
Seems pretty clear that the argument isn’t “approach a random kid in college studying philosophy or economics and ask them to make a music video for $100”. You ask this of someone studying cinema or something related, which has both the kno
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by latexr 3mo ago
They are fun ny , which is the point of Weird Al. The overwhelming majority of music and music videos are not comedic.
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by latexr 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/20260715223901/https://www.theatlantic.co...
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster(theatlantic.com)
116 points by latexr 3mo ago|91 comments
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by latexr 3mo ago
Assuming the author is here (they link to the HN submission from the post), you have a typo: “laudbile” instead of “laudable”.
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by latexr 3mo ago
> Would have anyone advocated a Rust rewrite of Bun before? That’s hardly a “tech hope” or “visionary”. Dirigibles continue to be interesting and fascinating to new generations, even if just as a concept; the language used to write a Jav
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by latexr 3mo ago
Except the repo doesn’t mention “tamagotchi” even once. Even the “gotchi” in the name only appears once in the README. I’m talking about the submitted title to HN.
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by latexr 3mo ago
Calling this a tamagotchi is silly. The only thing this and tamagotchis have in common is that they’re small electronic devices with a screen (and even that tech is different). When you compare a project to something that it isn’t, you’re d
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by latexr 3mo ago
The meal demo is hilarious. — Hey, model, see this fake-ass stock photo of a variety of spices, vegetables, and spaghetti? What meal can I make with this? — Just cook everything. — I’m a complete noob. I can’t even fathom how to cook those
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by latexr 3mo ago
They do that and much worse. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/34... It’s so prevalent it even has a name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalkerware Don
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by latexr 3mo ago
> and/or try to hallucinate coherence It’s bad enough for rational reasoned discourse that we anthropomorphise LLMs, let’s please not then feed those words back into human discourse, further diluting their meaning. No one “hallucina
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by latexr 3mo ago
> Not everything written on HN can be exceptional, because by definition it wouldn't be the exception. I’m not arguing every comment on HN is exceptional, but that logic isn’t sound because exceptionalism is relative (as you alluded
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by latexr 3mo ago
> I was rather pleased with the originality of this until I remembered pg had come up with "writes and write-nots" in (…) Is Paul arguing that there will be people who can’t write because of AI ? People have been crap at writi
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by latexr 3mo ago
> There's nothing wrong with either of those things, but they're not reading. Why are you compelled to defend that (in my view) meaningless distinction? Why does it matter? I’m asking genuinely, so I can understand why we’re ha
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by latexr 3mo ago
> I dont know you about you, but the reason I read is to learn and retain Millions of people read for entertainment. If you ask the people who read Fifty Shades and other erotic novels¹, how many do you think would say they do it “to lea
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by latexr 3mo ago
What a meaningless gatekeeping distinction. Unless your sole goal is to be a poser who wants to be perceived as a literate intellectual who is oh so cultured and well-read, however you consume the book is up to you. Who the heck is thinking

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