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721.
by oytis 1y ago
Yeah, today's open source combines the worst from corporate jobs and social media. Typst looks nice though, but is indeed developed in a logic of a business
722.
by oytis 1y ago
To be fair - there is a big "View on Github" button on the very first page
723.
by oytis 1y ago
I don't think so. None of them seemed to be a tech enthusiast before, if you don't consider using social media a trait of a tech enthusiast. I think people who are interested in how things work and AI users are two entirely differ
724.
by oytis 2y ago
Growth phase aka market capture via price dumping. People wouldn't be using AI that much if it costed like what it takes to build and run one.
725.
by oytis 2y ago
Anectodally all of my non-tech friends seem to be using ChatGPT much more than I do.
726.
by oytis 2y ago
A lot of people seem to want it. At least they want it more than dealing with a human to cover their needs.
727.
by oytis 2y ago
I mean, if it really works in the end, we just redefine levels humans need to deal with. There are lots of problems with AI, but I can't see one here.
728.
by oytis 2y ago
What's the alternative here? Apart from well-known, but not so useful useful advice to have a ton of friends who can hire you or be so famous as to not need an introduction.
729.
by oytis 2y ago
You can only see if it's a cusp of a new era or a fad at a distance, and the distance is not there yet
730.
by oytis 2y ago
At least in a liberal society humans matter. Their opinions, judgements, tastes matter. Why should "opinion" (which is not even a real opinion) of a machine matter? Not to say that we validate whether to trust an opinion of a huma
731.
by oytis 2y ago
Sounds like what people would do in a consultancy / project company. Or a conservative industry like automotive.
732.
by oytis 2y ago
So it's not doing well in things that we can verify/measure, but sure it's doing much better in things we can't measure - except we can't measure them, so we have no idea about how well it is doing actually. The mos
733.
by oytis 2y ago
Might be because you are an expert in what you ask it to do, and actually care about the result. E.g. I'm not sure what a marketing or otherwise business professional would say about the work it did on the cheese business. What has cau
734.
by oytis 2y ago
> Why? Because I can trust it to be objective - not inject its own political or career goals into its answers. And that is basically why humanity is doomed.
735.
by oytis 2y ago
When should we expect to see the amazing products these super-competitive businesses are developing?
736.
by oytis 2y ago
High density is supposed to be good isn't it? And density of European cities is still nowhere near what people have in East Asia
737.
by oytis 2y ago
Don't you dare to remind me that children exist! Children are their parents' business, normal people are entitled to a world for normal people only. That's how I read it at least
738.
by oytis 2y ago
Well, that one actually makes sense
739.
by oytis 2y ago
> No amount of "federation" or technobabble or artificial complexity is going to solve this fundamental problem Yeah, it's not solved by federation, but by running on donations and volunteer work. 9 years uptime, looks goo
740.
by oytis 2y ago
Oh, that's a (n anti-) social game I've missed somehow, everything is civil in my bubble. Only have one blocked account in my profile that looks like a bot that followed me for no reason.
741.
by oytis 2y ago
I dunno, I'm pretty old and am used to an Internet without walled gardens and super apps, using different tools for different tasks, so seems fine to me. But I agree it would be convenient.
742.
by oytis 2y ago
What's anti-social about it? You can follow people, you can talk to other people, you can write things for others to read and discuss. It's not advertisement-oriented, and thus doesn't try to keep the engagement high. But tho
743.
by oytis 2y ago
Deliberate choices to avoid being addictive is exactly why I use Mastodon. I do agree that private messages don't quite work - probably it's best to use a third-party messenger for that. There is also an annoying corollary to anti
744.
by oytis 2y ago
> you just need to understand when a calculator is not giving you what you expected How do you do that if you can't do arithmetic by hand though? At most, when working with integers, you can count digits to check if the order of mag
745.
by oytis 2y ago
That's exactly why you need the study, to measure the effects, understand whether it works as expected, and make an informed decision on whether to prolong the program.
746.
by oytis 2y ago
The government decided to introduce Deutschlandticket to, among other things, reduce CO2 emissions. The government financed a study to quantify the effect. I don't really see a conflict of interests here, or how it compromises the inte
747.
by oytis 2y ago
> Maybe software engineering should have some sort of "Hall of Ideas That Definitely Don't Work", so that young people entering the field could save their time on implementing one more incarnation of an already known not g
748.
by oytis 2y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but - is it just me or do other people notice too, that whenever a major university publishes course materials online, the instructors there are normally very young? It wasn't like that a while ago, e.g. when Course
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by oytis 2y ago
Cause ultra-wealthy are not the top of Chinese society? In a socialist society the wealthy are only wealthy by Party's grace - should they decide to revert Deng Xiaoping reforms, and all their wealth will evaporate, and they will be lu
750.
by oytis 2y ago
Did it answer correctly though?

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