stavros

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2101.
by stavros 10mo ago
No, you'd have something like UPnP open a port on the firewall, I imagine. It depends on the setup, which can now be much more flexible, since the firewall can run on the machine itself. You also have the benefit that multiple machines
2102.
by stavros 10mo ago
Exactly, it really did feel like the wild west, and in the best way. All the sites were quirky and personal, not a company in sight. It really felt amazing to discover someone's little personalized corner on every single site .
2103.
by stavros 10mo ago
Oh man, the nostalgia of buying magazines that came with shareware CDs (we didn't have the internet back then where I lived) and going to a net cafe for half an hour to download cracks, because we obviously didn't have any way to
2104.
by stavros 10mo ago
You can't stretch it until it breaks and then say "see? It broke, it wasn't perfect". It works for the purpose it was made, and that's all it needed to work for.
2105.
by stavros 10mo ago
I don't think people use an LLM and say "I wrote some code", but they do say "I made a thing", which is true. Even if I use an LLM to make a library, and I decide the interfaces, abstractions, and algorithms, it was
2106.
by stavros 10mo ago
I see these arguments time and time again, and the two sides fail to see one simple thing: different people enjoy different things. The person who would hire a plumber would pay to not have to do plumbing, the person who'd do it themse
2107.
by stavros 10mo ago
I should have said "the people who like to create don't use LLMs for the parts they like creating". I like making products that are easy to use and useful, I have LLMs write 100% of the code but I still do all the UX by hand,
2108.
by stavros 10mo ago
It's to give others a sense of how many people can hold a completely indefensible opinion based purely on feels.
2109.
by stavros 10mo ago
You mention a thousand ways the analogy breaks when you take it too far, but you didn't address the actual (correct) point the analogy was making: Some people don't enjoy certain parts of the creative process, and let an LLM handl
2110.
by stavros 10mo ago
The people who like creating don't use LLMs to do it, any more than the people who like cooking order takeout.
2111.
by stavros 10mo ago
This is comparing LLMs to the best humans, and concludes that LLM output is "nonsense". Well, LLM output is better than the average human's output, and there are a many of humans at and below the average. For four billion p
2112.
by stavros 10mo ago
This is comparing LLMs to the best humans, and concludes that LLM output is "nonsense". Well, LLM output is better than the average human's output, and there are a many of humans at and below the average. For four billion p
2113.
by stavros 10mo ago
Maybe the Gatsby-themed party was meant to be one where nobody was having fun but kept taking posed photos to post on Instagram.
2114.
by stavros 10mo ago
Doesn't help when the ads are a layer above the model.
2115.
by stavros 10mo ago
People ask me where I find the time to make so many things, and I like to say "we all have the same 24 hours in a day, I just like to spend many of them making things". I guess what they're really have in their mind when they
2116.
by stavros 10mo ago
How do you think this works, exactly?
2117.
by stavros 10mo ago
I do see your point, but I doubt this probability analysis was done by the people who say "what? The numbers will never be drawn in a sequence like that". It's not that they want to avoid common numbers.
2118.
by stavros 10mo ago
> There is really no reason for most devices to be publicly reachable. Everyone keeps holding this up as a positive, but it's absolutely not. Most devices aren't servers. Ever tried to call someone over the internet? Well, now
2119.
by stavros 10mo ago
Given how much people are avoiding 1 through 6, I think you'd probably be better off picking that.
2120.
by stavros 10mo ago
If anything, I imagine everyone would actively avoid 123456, thus making it the better pick.
2121.
by stavros 10mo ago
Sure, I'll grant you that. But then explain this: Why is it that, whenever I tell people who are about to play the lottery, to pick the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, they say "that's crazy, the numbers will never come out in a ro
2122.
by stavros 10mo ago
Yeah, I guess this was just pretty high on my "willy nilly" scale.
2123.
by stavros 10mo ago
I certainly didn't expect a "well if you can depose a country's president, feel free", especially combined with a "once it's a dictatorship" cop out, as if there's the Worldwide Department of Dictator
2124.
by stavros 10mo ago
My country is not a fan of Trump, is it morally right to send a bunch of covert soldiers to capture him and throw him out of the country? We'd be saving the US from a dictatorship.
2125.
by stavros 10mo ago
Yeah, similarly, my DSLR makes some huge video files, but they aren't that much better quality than my phone's. Of course, the sensor is massively better, and that makes a difference, but I don't know why the files are so muc
2126.
by stavros 10mo ago
I think the GP means because the game is a time sink, but you raise an interesting point. I wanted to say "that'll never happen", but someone could fork Linux, add DRM, and then that becomes massively popular and we're d
2127.
by stavros 10mo ago
I mean, of course he'll regret it, as he probably regrets learning LoL. But yes, DotA is the better game of the two, according to my objective opinion.
2128.
by stavros 10mo ago
Can you elaborate on this?
2129.
by stavros 10mo ago
The title should be "setting up Windows used to be fun". Which yes, I agree, but luckily it has never been a better time for Linux usability. Even ~100% of games work.
2130.
by stavros 10mo ago
Agreed about never having a problem with this, but our cars either have the arrow, or the hose in the icon is on the side of the car that has the tank cover. This has been true for all cars I've seen here.

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