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by niek_pas 5mo ago
What in the world is “other native” supposed to mean? Those languages don’t have names?
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by niek_pas 5mo ago
What's even worse is that when dealing with human software teams, a vague requirement will (at least in a well-run org) receive demands for further specification. "What do you mean by 'get data'?", etc. An LLM will
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by niek_pas 5mo ago
Bit off topic but why in the world are people still posting on medium? The reading experience is abhorrent; I couldn’t even finish reading this article before a full screen popup literally blocked the sentence I was reading. Is there some i
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by niek_pas 5mo ago
And I’m sure the boundary on what constitutes ‘badness’ is something everyone can agree on!
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
My take is that music _can be_ an art but it can also be other things, the same way sequential photos played back quickly can be an art but can also be a screensaver. (I say this as a musician if that gets me extra cred somehow.)
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
> If you need to ask about what people on Twitter are talking about, Grok is really good for that obviously. Isn't that why OP was asking about racism?
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
Man, that before-after slider on the home page makes me so sad... YouTube used to just be random people sharing cool stuff, and those de-sensationalized titles really brought me back to that time for a second! Cool stuff.
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
That hasn’t gone away, so I don’t think that’s the difference that makes a difference here.
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
I will, thanks!
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
A lot of people are posting their similar projects in this thread. Is there anyone making a markdown knowledge management app that feels truly Mac-native, i.e. written in AppKit or SwiftUI rather than as a web page with an Electron/Tau
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
Hong Kong? Taiwan? Uyghurs? Tiananmen Square? Tibet?
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
Maybe I'm stupid and naive but I just don't really see how any of this is _fundamentally_ different from Photoshop. Trusting the images you're looking at on the internet has been impossible for a long time. That's why we
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
> Australians (and I presume other Commonwealth countries) default to paracetamol The same is the case in the Netherlands.
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
Or just chromebooks with a web address blocklist.
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
Does anyone know of a trustworthy third party that scrutinizes Apple's claims? I'm accusing Apple of lying, but I'd like to get more context than "100 percent recycled cobalt". That sounds great, but what about all
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
The camera and headphones are composited in, pretty sure the skyline is shopped in as well (the shadows on the desk should be much harsher given the bright sky), same with what's on screen. The displays being mirrored for no reason doe
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
I wonder why Apple doesn't 'just' delete the notification data associated with the app from the internal database when the user deletes the app? It seems like asking for problems to just keep old notification content around f
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
There’s also a causal bias here. If I practice guitar for 6 hours a day (like John Petrucci in his teenage years) while always wearing an orange hat, I’ll get pretty damn good at the guitar in a few years. I can then spread the word to ever
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
Maybe you’re being impatient, but I don’t think you’re being greedy. This is a publicly funded project. I’d say those photos belong in the public domain. Which they are.
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by niek_pas 6mo ago
Yup. The fast food philosophy has entered the software development world. Produce cheaply, don't think too much, shove it down your throat, move on.
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
Interestingly, Ireland just launched a Basic Income for the Arts scheme. Many caveats (I think it's only like 300 euros a month, for a small group of people, etc.) but an interesting development nonetheless.
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
This is really interesting to me, because it never occurred to me to feel this way. Why would I care whether my comments are ending up in some dataset somewhere that's being used to train some model? My comments are boring and mostly u
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
My point was that going from (let's say) 'employed, productive member of the workforce, with social relationships at work' to 'sitting at home collecting unemployment' with no transition, no coaching, in the scope o
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
I completely agree, and apparently in California this is already the case --- I had no idea. In most contexts, though, I'd argue governments fall down on this task completely and people are, unfortunately, still very dependent on their
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
Yeah, the "just how it is" part was the part I wasn't aware of. Sibling comment has pointed out that apparently the US is the only country in the world where this is the case. And totally agree on the latter point.
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
I did not know they got severance. In any case, I'm still not sure I'd prefer that scenario --- coming into your work to suddenly find you've been terminated and subsequently sitting on your ass for a couple months while look
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
> As a result, today is your last working day. As a European, I never realized that this is allowed under US labor law. That is absolutely insane. EDIT: some commentors have pointed out that the workers collect severance and unemployment
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
Serious answer: I don't use it that much, it's what I happened to download like 1.5 years ago, and it works fine. Happy to see what may be a speed boost, and have little interest in switching to something else (unless my situation
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
> For many businesses it will still make sense to have more powerful models and to run them centralized in a datacenter. Agree, and I think of it this way: for a lot of businesses, it already makes sense to have a bunch of more powerful
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by niek_pas 7mo ago
Can’t you just run Claude in a copy of the directory without the .git folder?

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