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by skort 5d ago
Is there data to show that pets actually cause more damage? I see this argument get thrown around quite frequently (often by landlords), but I don't buy that it's a major issue.
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by skort 5d ago
It reminds me of my first time in Europe as an American. You go to a cafe, look at the prices, and know exactly how much money you are going to be handing them. It felt like magic because I couldn't remember the last time I paid just t
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by skort 5d ago
In my experience, every company with more than 1000 employees absolutely has garbage project managers!
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by skort 5d ago
In my case, it would be to make sure I have a good mental model of the problem at hand instead of offloading it to a LLM. I'd also rather not put myself in a position where I'm reliable on a LLM to do my job. Oh and there are also
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by skort 5d ago
How big is your circle? What industries does it span? Maybe the people writing 0% code manually are outliers and your circle is relatively small?
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by skort 5d ago
Citation needed? Sure you can churn out more code with a LLM, but is it good code? Is it correct? If being left behind means I don't ship slop, I'll gladly bow out.
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by skort 7d ago
The point really isn't just the use of technology. People don't complain when a hand drawn poster is photocopied! The issue is that it's taken a human out of the creative process _and_ it's using the plagiarism machine t
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by skort 11d ago
Don't get me started as well on how the iCloud plans jump from 200gb to 2TB with absolutely nothing in between. Apple really knows how to extort their customers!
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by skort 1mo ago
If you're concerned about code generation, then learn how to actually write the damn code yourself!
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by skort 3mo ago
Neat, but sort of ironic their main product is an "AI clock" that takes an intrinsically human act, writing a poem, and pulls the human out of the loop. It's nice that they explained the process to a bunch of kids, helping to
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by skort 3mo ago
I also will not take any article or website seriously if it uses AI generated graphics/art.
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by skort 7mo ago
I'm not quite sure what the correct term is for this scenario, in which LLMs are being forced upon people in many places that previously had human-to-human interaction, some of it coming from YC backed companies, while HN tries to insi
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by skort 7mo ago
> but I'd say it still remains the most rock solid UNIX™ desktop OS out there That doesn't mean that they aren't still constantly making it worse. Apple themselves note that most of the new features in the OS are "des
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by skort 9mo ago
> But I think the more exciting fact is that we can probably expect LLMs to get a LOT cheaper in the next few years as the current investments in hardware begin to pay off Citation needed!
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by skort 11mo ago
Stop giving money to the ghouls who run these companies (I'm talking about all of silicon valley) and start investing in entities and services to help real people. The human cost of this mass accumulation of wealth is already too damn
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by skort 1y ago
How is an article that discusses the shortcomings of a mega corp vacuuming up competition, resulting in the majority of restaurant food being the same bland low quality stuff a union hit piece? Maybe Sysco sucks and it's easy for the u
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by skort 1y ago
This whole thing feels like a neat encapsulated example of how horrible the "Internet" has become. A bad actor with vested interest taking over a part of a website (Reddit) that is then used as a source of record (Google, LLMs), a
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by skort 1y ago
I do wonder if more people would buy a smaller phone if it had the same cameras and features as the pro? Time will tell if thinner sells better than shorter and less girthy. I for one hate how even the 17 pro is creeping up in size compared
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by skort 1y ago
So if nobody believes him, why is he a highly compensated executive? Shouldn't he be relieved of all responsibilities? Even if he owns a majority of controlling shares, that should be a red flag that the guy in charge has no clue what
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by skort 1y ago
So much of what is going on with big tech and the US government at the moment is either wildly corrupt or completely bewildering. And the response from most major press seems to be a simple shrug? What happened to holding people in power ac
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by skort 1y ago
If someone keeps choosing to use the "mechahitler chatbot" at this point, I don't think they care about what misinformation goes into their prompt.
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by skort 1y ago
Why are we letting private companies own public infrastructure?
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by skort 1y ago
They didn't even care that involvement in Iraq was based on lies.
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by skort 1y ago
> Thank you to GPT 4o and o4 for discussions, research, and drafting. Note to the author, put this up front, so I know that you did the bare minimum and I can safely ignore this article for the slop it is.
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by skort 1y ago
Right, but these companies are selling their products on the basis that you can offload a good amount of the thinking. And it seems a good deal of investment in AI is also based on this premise. I don't disagree with you, but it's
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by skort 1y ago
It's interesting that businesses can build an obviously toxic subscription model that robs consumers of both money and time, but when asked to change it now we have to consider their costs. I understand the idea behind the threshold fo
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by skort 1y ago
Yeah, my reaction to this was "Big deal? How is this news to anyone" It reads like articles put out by consultants at the height of SOA. Someone thought for a few minutes about something and figured it was worth an article.
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by skort 1y ago
How about just more third-spaces without the classist gatekeeping?
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by skort 1y ago
Believe it or not, cars stuck in traffic is not a good indicator of how well businesses are doing. https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/traffic-down-business-gover...
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by skort 1y ago
We already do. It’s called the value of your time. If there’s too much traffic, chose another route. We don’t need more tech shit trying to improve mobility when the solution is clear- fewer cars, more mass transit (and not hyperloop crap)

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