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by palmotea 8mo ago
> So: once it's not "hard" any more, does IP even make sense at all? Why grant monopoly rights to something that required little to no investment in the first place? Even with vestigial IP law - let's say, patents: it
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The technical people were never wordsmithing, they just didn't hire a technical writer. Instead of freeing up someone to do more design work, it freed someone to interview for a new job. I hope they get it. Do technical writers wo
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> you've just wasted all your time if you were talking to a bot. > Not really. If the person I was responding to was a bot, it doesn't mean that humans can't read the thread and engage similarly. Ok, so you've
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by palmotea 8mo ago
The only way they should be enforceable is if they use that scrolling trick, then quiz you on all the terms (with at least multiple choice), every time the TOS is updated.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I'm vaguely surprised so many people who don't stand to benefit in any way shape or form, or who will even potentially starve if it works out, are so keen on it. But there are always bootlickers. I've been getting more a
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I have seen people suggest that the problem is that LLMs let you express any of your ideas, but the number of people with ideas worth expressing is limited. It doesn't just have to be one problem. 1. Laundering your "ideas&qu
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If I feed an LLM my own raw research notes and technical observations and use it to help structure those thoughts into a readable essay, I haven't "avoided writing". > The "why would I read what nobody bothered t
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If only someone could invent some kind of educational institution to teach people new skills! > People could learn things and join the workforce! > /s The point is to always, always blame the individuals being harmed for t
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Too bad, I believed the booth was piece of "americana" that should have been kept for future generations. It was owned and operated by a for profit-corporation, and the more they control the less will be "kept for future
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Right? A “contract” that only one party needs to abide by is not a contract… it’s an abusive relationship. I think you're absolutely right morally, but I think you've made a pretty important technical error: they're not
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The rest will be left with food and water. Why? That's wasteful. The money for that should go to the shareholders, and the moocher problem will solve itself in a couple of weeks.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I'd argue this entire HN discussion is proof that whether or not content is LLM generated, people can engage and have a meaningful discussion. I see lots of viewpoints in this discussion. People can talk to themselves too. The que
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> ...simply because I find the whole “this looks like LLM” to be a tiresome comment. Engage with (or dismiss) the material, not the pen. No. Engagement isn't free, and people need heuristics to figure out what's worth engaging
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> People believe for some reason that the AI is 99.99% correct and the warning not to trust it too much is just legalese. That "some reason" is science fiction plus some modern-day hype. The sci-fi trope of AI is that it's
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I’m ready to retire. ... Fast forward decades and Claude Code is giving me that same energy and drive. I love it. It feels like it did back then. I’m chasing the midnight hour and not getting any sleep. Of course you love it, you don&#
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Counterpoint: I've been desperately trying to code myself out of a job for almost 4 decades now. I inevitably ended up (and keep ending up) getting more responsibilities instead. What exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean you
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> But LLMs are already doing this for us supposedly... Exactly my point. Encourage LLM adoption, faster, faster. Be excited about your homeless future, software engineers!
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I've seen this in myself and colleagues of mine, where LLM use leads to faster burnout and higher cognitive load. This needs more attention. There's a lot of inhumanity in the modern workplace and modern economy, and that nee
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by palmotea 8mo ago
The ideal software engineer will code himself out of a job and be happy about it. Be that ideal. The shareholders are counting on you!
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If I ever turn uBO off, the ads I get are mostly for funeral plans or incontinence products, with a smattering of "126 year old mom lost 30 lbs of belly fat - click to see how!" (yeah, decomposition's a bitch...) And, fo
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> It is not entirely true that no one cares about quality. I'd like to stay optimistic and believe that those who are demanding on the quality of their production will acquire sufficient market differentiation to prevail. Maybe, but
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> No doubt Russia paid for it, but probably not as much as Iran wish they had. 300 extra Shaheds would have made the interception math ugly even last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136#Operators : &g
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> Unpopular opinion around here, but no company should have the ability to stop the military from its core mission: killing its adevarsaries through any means necessary. > The actual military is not evil. Your conception of it is.
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> These smell like the kind of metrics that cause someone to feel informed and then to miss the forest for the trees. The kind of data for a "data driven" decision maker who will just invent a narrative to explain the numbers,
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Cool. However, one still need CPU to send commands to GPU in order to let GPU do CPU things. Doesn't the Raspberry Pi's GPU boot up first, and then the GPU initializes the CPU? With this technology, we've eliminated the
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> https://www.ice.gov/detention-facilities Don't forget federal death row! They detain people and kill them there with poison, which is exactly what the Nazis did in their death camps. Under Trump, the US has beco
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> What if your CEO went politically rogue and started openly supporting Trump? Would you quit? I doubt that. > Yes. I would. Trump is a uniquely dangerous president with uniquely unrestrained power. Even if it meant you could lose
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by palmotea 8mo ago
Especially for those very large numbers in the top ten (like 166884362531608099236779 with 6779 searches), and the relatively small number of total "votes" (probably less than a million), I think the only likely explanation for th
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> This is an incredibly nonsensical rationale. For some people, including myself, abortion is going to be a hard line. I don't care if you think compromise is a better option, if that line is crossed they are losing my vote. If abor
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I know for a fact that Democrats have lost senate races in red states because the candidate took a clear pro-life position. Your arguments are not going to work on me, considering I've lived in Texas and have seen what happens whe

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