tanseydavid

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by tanseydavid 5d ago
Now do Amazon deliveries. I'm only half-joking.
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by tanseydavid 6d ago
<well-played>
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by tanseydavid 8d ago
Thank you for writing this piece. It was completely worth the length and amount of ground/time covered.
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by tanseydavid 12d ago
Heading: "OAI-HF Incident" First sentence: "This incident has Dario shook, there ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks."
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by tanseydavid 12d ago
Additionally they likely never were "hobby programmers", so the specific generation (Gen-X) may be a match, the question was defined more specific.
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by tanseydavid 13d ago
TIL that 911 (Emergency Services) is how one should report a stolen bicycle.
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by tanseydavid 15d ago
Twice an hour is not even Hughesian level of compulsiveness IIRC.
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by tanseydavid 16d ago
Could not have said it better. I feel like the author is a mind-reader and somehow read my mind.
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by tanseydavid 18d ago
Her incredibly low-rate of eye blinks is extremely off-putting/disturbing for me. Anyone else get the same vibe?
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by tanseydavid 18d ago
Forgive me for whining, but this is exactly the sort of situation that makes me lament that "I hate this timeline we're living in."
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by tanseydavid 18d ago
Define soul.
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by tanseydavid 21d ago
Well played! <golf clap>
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by tanseydavid 24d ago
"Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark."
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by tanseydavid 26d ago
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine...uhhhm... !?
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by tanseydavid 1mo ago
They are conditioning us for the soon-to-come electricity brown-outs. </only half joking>
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by tanseydavid 1mo ago
QB desktop will nag you to death to get the latest but it is still a pay once arrangement. BTW QB desktop has also been seriously enshittified.
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by tanseydavid 1mo ago
A game of Linguistic Jenga.
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by tanseydavid 1mo ago
Conway's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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by tanseydavid 1mo ago
I will continue to use em-dashes as I always have. When someone uses the presence of em-dash as the only signal for AI-generated then they are simply lazy.
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by tanseydavid 1mo ago
Another standing reminder: LONG position: potential losses (FIXED), potential gains (INFINITE) SHORT position: potential losses (INFINITE) , potential gains (FIXED)
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by tanseydavid 1mo ago
If one accused them of being "a bunch of jerk-offs", what argument could they possibly have in their own defense?
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
"Defund the police/abolish prisons" is a good example IMHO.
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
>> is your Weather app important enough to waste 1GB on your users' PCs? I agree. I don't want or need a weather app on my machine. Did not ask for it and I do not use it. Why should it be using any of my RAM?
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
And check the @#$% calendar in MS Teams or Outlook.
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
Emdashes as the sole signal is just wrongheaded. Read a piece (a least a little bit of it) to determine if it is slop before calling it AI-slop. Slop is slop but you have to digest at least some of it before the determination can be made.
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
Consider yourself lucky. This happens very frequently these days.
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
Amazing. I really like this. Anduril will probably your steal design next week for military use.
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
> With two left feet ...and about two feet left before the can hits the wall.
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
It does not even have to be slop, the compulsion to call out AI-involvement in writing is out of control, esp. on HN. Em-dashes as the signal is the most-upsetting for me. I have been using them properly and frequently for decades. Slop is
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by tanseydavid 2mo ago
> I agree with all of this, but the inverse is just as bad. The inverse would be "The Religion of Slow". I have never seen or experienced anything remotely like this in the real world. Have you?

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