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by mpalmer 1y ago
You should maybe look up how paying with your phone works. And what in your mind is the thing banks will be begging Steam to be let in on? This reads like payment processing fan fiction.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
Oh it's 100% personal issues, speaking for myself
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by mpalmer 1y ago
I feel just as salty as you. I can assure you that when my projects are ready to appear in Show HN, my write-ups will read very differently from this formula. I think I've said something myself to this effect, on HN. What gnaw
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by mpalmer 1y ago
God yeah the real truth is so obvious right? All the same, why don't you say what the real truth is, just so we know we're thinking about the same thing
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by mpalmer 1y ago
What kind of American prefers their country to be like this?
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by mpalmer 1y ago
I truly, truly do not get it. it's a system prompt. Do students not understand that they could do this before? Sure, it was crafted by educational experts, but this is not a feature! It's a glorified constant !
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by mpalmer 1y ago
I dunno, we're kind of upset about it. And why are you blaming GP? They aren't the one who forced politics into science.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
No disrespect to your acquaintance, but when I heard about this, I didn't think "oh a lot of startups are gonna go under", I thought "OAI added an option to use a hard-coded system prompt and they're calling it a &#
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by mpalmer 1y ago
Yep, there's no accounting for taste. I find Rogan overrated and frankly pretty detestable. But I also find much of this list annoying. Popular things often aren't good, and good things often aren't popular.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
It mostly reads like they're exoticizing good development practice because they don't recognize it and/or haven't seen it elsewhere.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
Naming variables descriptively? Build for current requirements, not future ones? You do not have to look far to find these qualities and practices basically anywhere software is made. I am not especially inclined to see the author as an aut
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by mpalmer 1y ago
An "authentic" list would be what exactly? It's opinion, man, it's right there in the title. When you make your own list, please let me know so I can also CMD-F for my faves and declare you an inauthentic ideologue
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by mpalmer 1y ago
No it shouldn't.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
I think the better word is extremist, because choosing to brand all LLMs as "Slop Generators" is just that, an extremist position with a rather self-satisfied air about it.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
This doesn't refute the (unmade) argument that inference is cheaper than training. Inference is cheaper than training, regardless of how much of each is taking place. Not only that, both keep getting less expensive in various ways. sma
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by mpalmer 1y ago
Telling people it's a tool to edit git repos makes it sound hackier than it is; not surprising they're nervous it'll break something. Just tell them git makes mistakes easy, and jj makes them difficult.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
The point of jj is to improve on the git interface. It's kind of weird to imply that jj's purpose is a drawback. I don't want git to stay git. Nor do I want SAAS solving stacked PRs for me, "free option" or not. jj
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by mpalmer 1y ago
This is made using iroh, which aims to be a low level framework for distributed software. Involves networking but also various data structures that enable replication and consistency between networked nodes.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
They're different things, yep. I think parent comment is asking you to consider why you think young children watching violent movies is way less of a problem. E.g. "Terminator or similar" - why draw the line there?
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by mpalmer 1y ago
When Apple is dropping press releases trumpeting their "meticulously crafted" design that "makes even the simplest of interactions more fun and magical", it is not persuasive to cry "beta!" Even the screenshots
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by mpalmer 1y ago
This is an extremely credulous take. Even reading the press release it's obvious Gabbard (a massive defender of Putin's Russia) is conflating two entirely different things, namely hacking election infrastructure vs the massive pol
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by mpalmer 1y ago
Enthusiastically denouncing or promoting something is much, much easier and more rewarding in the short term for people who want to appear hip to their chosen in-group - or profit center. And then, it's likewise easy to be a reactionar
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by mpalmer 1y ago
This feels like something that's going to start well intentioned, but snowball into very strange outcomes. So it's like most technology, then.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
"I don't have to read or argue with this, it's automatically bad because uh elitism" Now that's what I call a luxury belief!
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by mpalmer 1y ago
I wasn't going to dignify your third piece of advice with further comment and I see you haven't either. For the rest I'd refer you to my other comment regarding cause/effect.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
Fine, you're sincere. But you didn't actually read my comment.
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by mpalmer 1y ago
You and the politician are making a strange yet unsurprising assumption about the direction of the causal relationships between poverty and these other socioeconomic factors. What's the rate of high school graduation from families liv
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by mpalmer 1y ago
Speaking only for myself, I have zero interest in hearing this from you, because it's clear you were eager to drop this anecdote in a thread with even minimal relevance to the topic. This is not a story about poverty. Makeda, the subje
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by mpalmer 1y ago
You'll have to forgive me for not believing that you empathize, since most of your thoughts here are about rationalizing why there's nothing be to done. There are other ways of thinking about this problem than as a zero-sum matter
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by mpalmer 1y ago
This captures a real person's experience going through a challenging time. Real life is messy, and long form writing in a documentary style doesn't need to make a point so long as it leaves you with an impression.

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