mrweasel

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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Many content creators on YouTube may not have English as their first language, so they turn to AI to do the voice over. The thing is, I'd rather listen to broken English read by a human than an AI voice over. The AI voices are off putt
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Years back John C. Dvorak talked about predictions. He's was being ridiculed for his comment that there was "no evidence that computer users would want to use a mouse" (which was sort of true at the time). One of his point wa
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
In the past few years the internet have been busy trying to attribute completely normal human quirks to ADHD, ADD and various levels of autism. We see these "Only people with X will understand this" and it's something stupid
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
I'd probably reword that and ask: Why do people feel like trashing restrooms or not feel like they shouldn't clean up after themselves?
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
> and empower staff who weren't good writers. That's the part I question. You have to be a really good communicator to put yourself in the place for the reader and adjust your language to your target audience. So much of "
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
If you're good at it, which extremely few people are. It's my belief that not enough good writing exists for the tech companies to train an LLM. At least not a generally applicable on.
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Copywriting struggles with the issue that businesses know they need it, but they don't value it. It's absolutely shocking to see how poorly companies, and governments, communicate and no amount of AI/LLM usage will change it.
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Maybe someone more familiar with operating systems kernels can answer this: Is Darwin really all the exiting? It is different from both the BSD kernels and Linux, but less so than Windows. Other than the ability to run macOS applications (a
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
The G200 and G400 are two of my absolute favorit graphics cards from my early computing years, but if you needed any reasonable 3D performance or feature set, they weren't a great choice. However, if you just needed a stable graphics c
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Looking at a few old mailinglists agrees with you. Apparently the mga_drv and mga_hal_drv could just be copied to any system running XFree86, at least Linux and the BSDs, and would let you utilize dual-head support.
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Maybe I misunderstood something at the time, but the mga X11 driver was weird. My understanding, at least at the time, is that it is/was possible to provide an X11 driver that would work regardless of the underlying operating system, p
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
I was going to ask, because any latency means picking up packages at a random pick-up point. My office is in the other end of the house, and most package delivery service press the doorbell and starts working away instantly. While that&#x27
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
For many of these things we're not talking about a web app though. It's frequently just a form, disguised as something more. I agree that the browser should be stripped back, but none of those things prevent my banks website from
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
It made even sadder by the fact that often the "app" is more or less just webview. More and more I'm giving up on apps, and online self-servicing as the structures and scope of what either one can do is increasing narrowing.
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
> Facebook sucks but if your child is addicted to their phone take the phone away. I can't really disagree with that, but I still wonder why it's okay to use the same addictive methods on adults. To me it doesn't matter if
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Users are 60% bots, no reason staff shouldn't match those numbers.
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LinkedIn's 'Seems Like AI Slop' button drops views by 40%(finance.yahoo.com)
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
So ChatGPT cannot deliver you $20/month worth of productivity to offset the cost? That's at least my point, for developers, businesses and a ton of use cases, access to a good AI is worth every penny, because it easily pays for it
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
Hopefully HN is just getting more popular, but isn't a large part of the "huge onslaught of new traffic" driven by AI companies scraping the site for content or writing comments for various reasons? Fixing the problems create
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
> they all use ai all day to do their entire jobs I assure you they do not, many truly do not care and don't want to. That's just what the hype and the article and the stories tell you. The HN bubble tells you that's true,
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
It seems a bit self-reinforcing. AI makes almost zero (positive) impact on my day to day life and isn't actually something I interact with directly and the same holds true for most people I talk to. There's a few of my friends in
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
So assuming that I wanted a domain, which would be worthless on any mailing listing and pretty much any service, only good for regular emails, then letting them sit a mailinator aliases for a year or so is a good option? Sadly mailinator an
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by mrweasel 1mo ago
A friend of mine does the same. Catch-all, and buying expired domains he thinks funny or related to projects and customers he previously worked with. On multiple occasions he has received emails that truly where never meant for him, not spa
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by mrweasel 2mo ago
The idea isn't the issue, the implementation is. The EU did the same with VAT previously, where you'd have to register separate businesses in different countries, once you got large enough (which wasn't very large). Now there
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by mrweasel 2mo ago
Actually they've just handed the entire market to the few companies that will put in the effort. If Apple, Samsung and the Chinese manufacturer isn't compliant, then Fairphone just got handed a market of 500 million people with no
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by mrweasel 2mo ago
The iPad is easily Apple worst product in terms of consumer friendliness. A lot of iPads shipped with way to little storage and I'd be surprised if Apple didn't know this. The 10 year old iPad is still a perfectly capable device,
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by mrweasel 2mo ago
Is there are legal difference between you entering the duress PIN and you giving the border control officers a PIN, which may be the duress PIN, and then they enter the PIN? Does that chance from you potentially destroying evidence, to the
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by mrweasel 2mo ago
The more I think about it, the less sure I am that the model for journalism is actually broken. For some unknown reason, people do not want to subscribe to news media, but they'll happily pay for Netflix, Disney, HBO and Spotify. The c
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by mrweasel 2mo ago
> But you did read and maybe watch the movie of Det Forsømte Forår. No, we did not. To be fair the movie came out two years before I left school, so maybe there wasn't time. For some reason we didn't read the book.
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by mrweasel 2mo ago
Crazy how more code haven't really yielded better products. Who would have guess that the number of lines of code wasn't the problem. Except that very basic tools that I use daily, pretty much every piece of software has become wo

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