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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Similar to Altman saying "we should slow down."
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Also agree, but unfortunately the powers that be--in their infinite wisdom--say that without unpredictability, we don't have artificial intelligence. This would really hurt their wallets, er, I mean, their chances of benefiting humani
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Hey, I only learned this a few years ago myself when I was reading a book about my dog's breed! And I realize I wasn't super specific (although probably obvious) that they stare at you while they go to make sure you are on the lo
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
The article says they installed their own servers, though. What am I missing here?
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I assumed you meant parents and I was saying, "but also sometimes the kids!"
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
What is better about it? I switched back to FireFox several years ago (with a very brief stint on Arc in there) after using Chrome for years and I couldn't describe a single hit I took in QOL. I remember, at the time at least, that F
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
It had a pretty annoying bug on Mac (which I ass-u-me was a memory leak) up until a couple of years ago. Every time you'd try and tab back to it, there would be a delay that would very, very slowly get longer over time until you close
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Or, "tell me your family is bearable to be around without telling me."
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Dogs also figured this out, and it goes both ways. This is why they stare at you when they're going, especially when they're puppies.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
If that's how it was, most people would be too terrified to use, let alone pay for, software that boasts unpredictability as a main feature. I 100% agree with you, of course.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Ya, I've been doing this almost 20 years and never even thought about a manager position. I always tell everyone in interviews that I'm "IC for life."
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I'm not calling you bad programmer, but one always has to take into account that our industry has no accreditation.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Like what?
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> Boilerplate is a sign of a bad language (not a bad engineer). It's also a sign of refusal to learn an editor or IDE deeply. Most of the ones I know have mechanisms (or plugins) for generating the boilerplate. Although back to the
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Oh really? I always assumed as I never thought horizontally centring was ever a huge problem. Vertical was the actual hard thing for a long time (which is something table cells could easily do since the beginning). You caught me in that I
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I've had enough of Google and I don't even work there.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> and that can be incredibly annoying One thing you have to be careful of, mostly when working on internal tools, is that you don't end up building around the idiosyncrasies of one particular person. This is something that actually
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
That's fine but it only centres horizontally. Usually when people talk about "the div centring problem" they mean x and y, dead centre (as this article is).
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
My time spent commenting on HN is decompressing time, engaging with (hopefully) humans. Committing to reading a blog post or article is a whole other category.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Oh ffs, I knew it was a mistake to engage with you but couldn't help myself. Have fun.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> Plot twist, 100% likely you've read and shared humanized AI content. I'm sure this has happened. If the author can speak with authority about everything that has written, then ya, I have to concede that is fine. It's o
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
LOL, TF are you talking about? It's neither a political nor ethical, it's practical. It's about not wasting your previous time on earth reading garbage the author doesn't understand themselves.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Yes, stock photography is also lame, but at least their creators gave permission. It's my dream that "AI" is going to make us look back and reconsider some of the pre-era slop we've accepted in the name of convenience.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> People have the ability to make terrible paint images for decades and they’ve never caught anyone’s attention in a positive way Citation needed for this one. It could be because people don't do it very much? I think a very good
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
No idea why anyone would downvote this, it's true. As someone else pointed out "b = basic." And does anyone think it will adjust with inflation?
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Everything you're saying is oddly simultaneously specific and hand-wavy at the same time. I say this because I'm not sure a lot of these things are solvable or, if they are, it's going to take lifetimes. For example: > H
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Wish I'd thought of this one, lol.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I'm hoping something of the opposite happens. I still see airbrushing, along with things like music quantization, auto-tune (and manual tuning), "perfect" design, etc etc, as hugely problematic (well, airbrushing is the worst
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> I find the idea of loving an LLM like in this post very creepy and unsettling. Even more so for one of them to do it back. Ya, this was all I could comment on but decided to keep quiet. I guess I'm not now. I find it plain gross
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by sodapopcan 3mo ago
Ya, I have an .st domain with is <my-first-name>@<first-three-letters-of-last-name>.st and I've had a few people have a lot of trouble with it. With one, it took about 6 or 7 tries to explain it to him before I just took o

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