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by sublinear 5d ago
Given the tone of the blog otherwise, I think it was intended to both grab attention and subtly imply that AI is irrelevant with feigned ignorance.
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by sublinear 5d ago
The hysteresis of the phosphor makes this a non-issue in reality. 60Hz looks great on a CRT when the input is a game console or VCR from the era. Maybe you mean screen tearing, bad deinterlacing, etc. caused by software running on a PC?
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by sublinear 6d ago
I thought the whole point of this discussion is that they don't have to care if it works. All that matters is that the majority believes it does, or at least doesn't make a fuss about the continued spending. That's their ex
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by sublinear 6d ago
Neither of you is wrong? Every lived experience does produce a unique expertise, not in "being" that person, but navigating their experiences. It would be very unusual that all of someone's experiences are completely worthles
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by sublinear 6d ago
Turing was compelled to address an ongoing debate similar to the same one we're having right now. It continues to do its job as a thought experiment. It's meant to be taken about as seriously as we are right now. You either get it
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by sublinear 6d ago
Yes, and I suppose you believe the AI does this circularly? Perpetual motion with extra steps?
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by sublinear 6d ago
I think it matters a great deal that LLMs and other "AI" technology are stable within a tolerance that's acceptable. You're jumping the gun talking about "job replacement". We have not thought about it enough f
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by sublinear 6d ago
> citation needed Yes, if you insist on appeals to authority. Authority is a social construct and irrelevant to science. Thank you for proving my point.
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by sublinear 6d ago
Yes, but just because language fails to make a distinction doesn't mean there isn't one. > The only important part are observed outcomes and capabilities. That's wishful thinking. Not even an engineer would say that. The s
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by sublinear 6d ago
Oh, I didn't say Turing was intellectually lazy. :-)
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by sublinear 6d ago
The Turing test was also never meant to be taken so seriously. It's not a rigorous statement of anything. Situations like this are precisely why academics tend to avoid the spotlight. You say one slightly off thing and your perceived a
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by sublinear 7d ago
Hmm, when do you suppose HN started (ab)using the downvotes reddit-style anyway? I don't recall seeing hardly any downvotes before 2023.
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by sublinear 7d ago
I think that lack of variety is a strong signal of how much slop we already had. There's no other way for this to happen in a statistical model.
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by sublinear 7d ago
No, I won't. That's why I said that.
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by sublinear 7d ago
Generally speaking, you can't really tell what someone knows based on their words or actions. Performative behavior is not a modern phenomenon. Deceitfulness is so effective we're not going to end it by discussing Dunning-Kruger
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by sublinear 7d ago
Yes, there is a whole world out there outside of SF. As much as we'd like it to be true, arrogance itself cannot be contained by a mere city! Statistically, the asshole capital of the world really ought to be somewhere in China or Indi
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by sublinear 7d ago
For a topic that "definitely influenced web dev culture", you didn't have much to say as a web dev.
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by sublinear 7d ago
I don't think I have to speculate why comments like yours get downvoted so much. Anyway, I completely agree. Writing isn't something to be delegated. The problem is not new with LLMs. Businesses have been delegating writing to idi
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by sublinear 7d ago
I think, like a lot of other communities, HN has a poser problem. People just parrot and brigade for whatever topic gets some traction with a popular opinion. They don't question how that opinion got popular and they don't care wh
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by sublinear 8d ago
No, everyone knew what they were getting into with Android. It wasn't taken lightly by the power users of the time either. I still have a phone somewhere with Ubuntu Touch on it. I really was hoping that would be my phone OS by now. No
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by sublinear 8d ago
Why? I'm already upset enough about what the water heater water is doing to my skin and am about to go tankless under my bathroom sink! That's by far the more practical option anyway if we truly cared about the problem instead of
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by sublinear 8d ago
Who tf is breaking the bank on subscriptions and phone bills? Are all these comments like yours coming from college students or what? If anything else, a storage unit is one of the most valuable things to pay for if you just moved out on yo
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by sublinear 8d ago
Yes, and every time this narrative comes up we seem to conveniently ignore that this is highly correlated with renting instead of buying a home and people of all ages enjoying frequent travel. If you move often enough within a small radius,
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by sublinear 9d ago
Hard disagree with that faucet design, but is a neat idea. I like my bathroom faucet as low maintenance as it already is. The use case for the full unmixed hot tap is hygiene (usually washing face and shaving). I also don't want any ho
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by sublinear 9d ago
This entire situation is such a huge PR disaster that you have to wonder what the initial expectations from these founders were about a decade ago.
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by sublinear 9d ago
That's a funny (bad faith) angle you took it. I thought were talking about personal cheat sheets for general programming and tools, not work and proprietary stuff. The alternative and typical options that nobody bats an eye at for doin
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by sublinear 9d ago
I am young enough that my entire career has been markdown files, screenshots, and photos on my phone. I (a)sync everywhere by pushing git lfs commits to my home server. Seems like overkill until it saves my ass. It continues to do so almost
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by sublinear 10d ago
Milk aside, lattes and tea aren't modern enough for this attempt at sarcasm to land.
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by sublinear 10d ago
The most urgent needs in frontend web dev were components and state management. Vue and React won out, and I still don't see that changing for the foreseeable future on the vast majority of corporate web apps. This remaining split is j
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by sublinear 10d ago
To be fair, technology has never been able to completely replace humans at anything unless the job was explicitly designed (factory/assembly) rather than organically discovered. Writing software is one of those organic roles becaus

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