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by nicbou 6mo ago
> when we introduced tractors they were able to find other jobs Coincidentally, I am reading Grapes of Wrath. Chapter 5 is my favourite, and it's about how the big banks tractor people off the land. The whole damn book is as relevan
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It's a collective achievement. It was trained on humanity's creative output. The value, however, is being captured by a very small segment of the population, at the expense of everyone else. These tools are a very explicit threate
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I track wait times at the Berlin immigration office. I just added a graph that shows how wait times improve/worsen over time. I generate the SVG without any external dependencies. It was a fun exercise. https://allaboutberli
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Brilliant! I definitely felt the lack of appropriate solutions.
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I only speak for myself, but an AI-generated hero image is an indicator that the rest of the article might also be AI-generated.
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I think it's an inherently hard problem. The one I fear the most is not the toxic dirtbag; they just get banned. I'm more afraid of those who follow the rules but reliably kill the vibe. The internet has no equivalent to the whole
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This works if the goal is to create a funnel for making friends. I aim for something closer to Stack Overflow, where people gather to solve shared problems and help each other. The closest analog I can think of is community-run bike repair
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I agree with you. It’s the problem I can’t crack and it’s why I am letting the idea simmer for so long. In the end, you need to filter people at the door. You need to keep unpleasant people out and shut down bad behaviour. I figured that a
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This is a domain that always gets a click from me. I love his writing. I have started making time for flaneuring in Berlin. I visit a random area and walk around, visiting shops and lingering in cafés. I usually carry my notebook, watercolo
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We are trying to make new immigrants feel at home. This is the purpose we gather around.
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What are you on about
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Then how can you have a community that is welcoming to people who are not part of the ingroup? I want to create a community for immigrants. How would I make it welcoming to recent immigrants for whom no one can vouch? A web of trust is a wo
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Very rarely. AI traffic is a tiny tiny fraction of total traffic. ChatGPT and Gemini mostly spit out unattributed information, except when queries trigger a web search. I notice many 404s from ChatGPT to hallucinated URLs on my website. Som
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Thank you for mise! I started adding it to my projects, because it removes a lot of the mental overhead of moving between them. I just cd to a project and everything just works. The documentation is a little difficult, but LLMs seem pretty
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I am building a bit of that infrastructure for All About Berlin. There is a linter that regularly updates constants from information found on other websites. I want to keep expanding it to cover more facts, and include more elaborate source
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I feed all my svgs to svgomg before out using them on the web. It works wonders.
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Yes. It caused a major drop in CTR for search. Google Zero is the term for it. It’s murderous for information websites. On my side, traffic is down roughly 70% on the website I live from. It’s still part of the training data though. Not tha
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by nicbou 6mo ago
> No pull requests, no issues, even no stars This is the standard for most projects What is your objective?
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What a pretty website!
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I've read an earlier draft and loved it. Every chapter of that book is excellent.
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Neat! It's unfortunate that the rendering is so different between browsers. Have you tried the same thing with shadows? They can also be stacked, I believe.
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That was not my experience. I tell it roughly what I would tell a subordinate developer to do, then make changes to suit my taste. Every line is accounted for, but I spend less time on tedious things like remembering how to parse yaml with
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Pretty accurate
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There might be an overlap between people who use AI enough to write such posts, and people who don’t respect craftsmanship. The output looks fine to them because they never trained their eye to look closer. They vaguely hear music but never
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I had to dismiss 5 different modals to access slop. The web is so frustrating.
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Meeting a few redditors in real life shows you who you're interacting with. It's a very mixed bag.
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That was not my experience. I devoted more of my work to less productive tasks. Call it craftsmanship. I made a LOT more art, wrote more code, biked more. It is crazy what you can do with more energy. If anything I wasted less time because
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I would like to know about your ADHD tricks and which ones had the most impact. When the mind exhaustion hits, the day ends. I go ride my bicycle. I stopped pretending I can be productive on another person’s schedule. This is good if your j
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Leasure is a skill! It must be trained like any other. You should ideally have some hobbies lined up. I had a few years of relaxed work, and I had to learn to fill the extra time. It was not so hard for me, but it was lonelier than I expect
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Same experience here. It produces code that I would not accept if it was written by a human, but it also produces a lot of completely fine code. It made me clear tasks that I had been procrastinating for a long time.

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