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by sevenseacat 2mo ago
I remember when Twitter used to be the place where news broke, because checkmarked accounts actually meant something and news stories were important. Now it's all just slop and AI junk. And that was only a few years ago, it's al
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by sevenseacat 2mo ago
I really wish there was a way to tell all of the algorithms like "I found the info I needed on <niche topic X>, STOP SHOWING IT TO ME". You want to buy a new dishwasher, you look up dishwashers, you buy one. You'll stil
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
Because Obsidian is so barebones out of the box, people look for tools to help them organize things, hence looking for plugins. I have to admit I'm one of those people that just doesn't "get" Obsidian. Every now and then
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
LLMs have not currently "solved" _anything_. Not coding, not writing, not anything.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I've done enough of those trick tests where you're supposed to read the whole thing first and the last step is 'ignore all the other steps'. If I saw that in a test, I would do it.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I received two 15,000-line PRs the other day, from the same person. I am currently ignoring them.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
To my mind, it encourages more reports because that way you're more likely to have some of them slip through and get approved, meaning your future reports are worth more.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I can look at a project I worked with others on a decade ago, and pick out which parts I wrote, which parts others wrote, remember pitfalls from this part, a struggle we had in that part, even if I have no memory of actually doing them. I c
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I have the opposite problem, I can't keep a notebook neat. They all turn out just being odd random phrases in corners or at weird angles or sometimes so messy I can't read what they said because I scrawled it while listening to pe
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
Songwriters do this! Write the songs, give them to others to perform
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I know a few people who unironically call themselves that. They sound awesome, but scratch beneath the surface of what they say... there's nothing there.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I mean, that's literally what the site was designed for. It was not designed to be a community. It was designed to be a Q&A site.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I mean in the dead of winter, yes. For six months of the year? Definitely not.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
And I'm not conceited enough to claim that it is
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
> I don't understand how even today software engineers are calling LLM written code slop? It's objectively much better than what most of the engineers write, and it's not stopping to get better. If you still believe this,
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
Yay for the RFDS. If only ground ambulances were as universally awesome
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
> That’s why America is the Greatest Country on Earth, ever. hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahhaahah
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
I mean I'm also in Australia and given how few Costcos we have over here, it pretty much is an event because it's not on your way anywhere, you generally have to make a special trip of a decent distance so you want to make it wort
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
As a non-American, all of these threads are utterly fascinating.
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by sevenseacat 3mo ago
They went from 20-30 merged PRs a week to 150! What's in them? Who knows, no-one has read any of them
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
you think the PS6 will have physical backwards compatibility? oh you sweet summer child
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
Looks like the PS5 will be the last Sony console I buy.
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
That's basically sun up to sun down, here. It's been completely grey, overcast, and raining here all day and the UV index sat between 3 and 5.
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
Coming from the skin cancer capital of the world (Australia) - no, no it is not
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
We did, that's why we're so skeptical of your claim. The burden of proof here is on you, not on us.
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
I'm in the boat of wondering how so many people run into session limits so often. I have never hit one, except once when Claude Design came out and I had fun generating a bunch of random things to see what it could do (not with the int
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
source: just trust me bro
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
In my experience, your first dev will have four thousand ideas and experiments on the go, and leave an absolute mess in their wake. And your second will be struggling to clean up that mess while also getting their own work done. Of course,
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
I remember discovering this in about 2010, and thought it was hilarious
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by sevenseacat 4mo ago
Not by themselves - its the result of weight loss that can make your skin sag a bit.

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