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by poszlem 2y ago
We have been through this exact scenario hundreds of times with different technologies. As usual, someone's loss is another's gain. For example, people who have ideas to express but are not native English speakers, or those who st
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by poszlem 2y ago
Posting a thread about fonts on Hacker News, to me, is a version of nerd sniping ( https://xkcd.com/356/ ) It's one of those things that absolutely ruin my productivity and makes me reconsider all the fonts I use in
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by poszlem 2y ago
More importantly - it doesn't work on anything but apple hardware.
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by poszlem 2y ago
This has a good side. Tech companies were taking most of the talented people from other jobs, making it very hard for those fields. I have taught about six people from different jobs how to do software development. Now I hear about software
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by poszlem 2y ago
Just a random "vagus nerve story". A while back, I started having weird heart flutters that turned out to be extra heartbeats (doctors call them PVCs and PACs). Sometimes I'd be fine for days or even weeks, but then they&#x27
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by poszlem 2y ago
> Flat roofs always leak. “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” - Thomas Sowell funny how that applies in other areas of life.
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White supremacy that claims that asians have the highest IQs. Makes all the sense in the world.
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FWIW this post is ChatGPT generated at least partially.
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by poszlem 2y ago
Not that interesting of a take, especially coming for a political scientist (which the author is). "When all you've got is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail." Feels like it's straight out of that "ever
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by poszlem 2y ago
It's pretty gross to see a perfectly fine post get downvoted. I bet it's just people having a knee-jerk reaction to something they don't agree with, or maybe some weird psychological thing. I see this stuff all the time, and
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by poszlem 2y ago
London's not really "the UK". It's so different from the rest of the country, it's like its own little city-state.
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by poszlem 2y ago
You are driving in your lane when suddenly, another driver decides to change lanes right in front of you without signaling or signaling at the last moment. As a result, you are forced to brake or lose your space cushion.
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To me reading his work feels often more like going through a news report than enjoying a short story.
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"Any work you do is intertwined with politics." This thought-terminating cliché is bafflingly popular on HN. It's a classic example of the motte-and-bailey fallacy, where the strong claim (the motte) is "everything is po
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by poszlem 2y ago
I'm sorry, but this is demonstrably not true. We would not have this in the year 2024 otherwise: https://boysvswomen.com/
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by poszlem 2y ago
Another example illustrating how ads are like an invasive, malignant cancer that spreads relentlessly. You can try to remove it from one platform, but it always seems to return. Isn't it ironic how we abandoned television to escape uns
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by poszlem 2y ago
We don't know, maybe it has.
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by poszlem 2y ago
Okay. Then how come other LLMs have no such issue with that question?
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by poszlem 2y ago
I think you are correct. It's a status symbol at this point. It's the digital version of "inconspicuous consumption" [1]. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/incon
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Do you compare the risk of sitting still during a long-haul flight and possibly developing a DVT to the risk of being killed by turbulence? I would argue that moving around on the plane actually reduces your chance of dying, as it lowers th
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by poszlem 2y ago
One thing that annoys me more than data collection is corporations pretending they do it for my benefit while "respecting my privacy." Stop with the gaslighting, it's absolutely insufferable. Not to mention, the way the text
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by poszlem 2y ago
What truly bothers me as a user of both an iPhone, an airtag, and a Samsung, is the seemingly nonexistent option to "ignore this AirTag forever". I usually leave my iPhone at home, carrying my AirTag in my wallet. Yet, every day,
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by poszlem 2y ago
Only tangentially related, but since this is about the retail stores. The absolute worst part of the "Apple experience" is the Apple Store. When you enter, you see a crowd of people acting like zombies (you become one too as soon
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by poszlem 2y ago
Pulleys are one of those things you never realize you need until you learn about them. Then, you suddenly understand just how useful they can be. Understanding the basics of rope rigging, pulleys, and mechanical advantage has made my life s
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by poszlem 2y ago
Funnily enough, as a non-native speaker, I always thought "nonplussed" was a kind of Orwellian newspeak (like "doubleplusgood").
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It is naive to believe that this targets the wealthy drivers of gigantic SUVs. It's really targeting the poor who need car insurance and feel pushed to give up their privacy to afford it.
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by poszlem 3y ago
Not only that, but it also beats all the Grammarly et al, and on top of that it understands all my commands - "make it less stiff", "please make it less casual", "be ironic" etc. ChatGPT is still better due to
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by poszlem 3y ago
Good for them. As a user I can much less about that though.
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Be careful with fire, you risk igniting that huge strawman of yours.
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It's also worth considering whether the concerns of previous generations were really as exaggerated as we think. We might believe that things "turned out just fine" simply because this is the world we're used to. However

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