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811.
by tempodox 1y ago
I've said before that by the time Trump is through America will lie in ruins. I may have been too optimistic, it might happen earlier.
812.
by tempodox 1y ago
That would be such a spoiler. I want to believe in miracles, oracles and omniscience!
813.
by tempodox 1y ago
It's harmful alright. To Google's revenue.
814.
by tempodox 1y ago
But that's non-adverbially.
815.
by tempodox 1y ago
Did I detect a hint of adverbialism in this title?
816.
by tempodox 1y ago
Indeed. “Prompt guessing” is the word, but it doesn't make you look like you know what you're doing.
817.
by tempodox 1y ago
Great, now we have a service for prompting prompts for a prompter, so prompt guessers don't have to do the guessing themselves any more. I'm sure there will also be hallucinated prompts in there. I'm curious whether a self-
818.
by tempodox 1y ago
All those “AI works great for me” blogs and HN comments are suspiciously light on details. They could just be marketing hype for all we know. I for one don't trust them one bit.
819.
by tempodox 1y ago
Taking the title literally, it also means that computer is not yours anymore, it's a rented appliance. And only works for you as long as you pay the rent. No doubt a wet dream come true for those who rent it out to you.
820.
by tempodox 1y ago
Divine intervention sounds reasonable for an automated blessing device. Otherwise the issued blessings might be unauthorized or even in violation of copyright.
821.
by tempodox 1y ago
I didn't know sticky tape usage is a blessable act. TIL!
822.
by tempodox 1y ago
I read somewhere that the cake is a lie.
823.
by tempodox 1y ago
An uncanny reminder of the Universal Constructor in the first Deus Ex.
824.
by tempodox 1y ago
If anyone will actually bother with cleaning up.
825.
by tempodox 1y ago
A while ago I uninstalled that horribly annoying GitLens and have been using external tools ever since. I don't want ads in my IDE and I'll uninstall the whole IDE if that's what it takes. Maybe Edamagit will make me use gi
826.
by tempodox 1y ago
> LLMs give me finished thoughts, polished and convincing, but none of the intellectual growth that comes from developing them myself Even if all the wonders were true that people love to believe in about LLMs, you cannot get around this
827.
by tempodox 1y ago
You must have a very strange sense of humor.
828.
by tempodox 1y ago
I'd rather have Bluetooth audio working on my Linux box. Or full UTF-8 support in glibc.
829.
by tempodox 1y ago
It's the same enshittification trajectory as everywhere else. It starts with a product that serves its users and once the money starts flowing in, users are turned into cattle to be milked and shorn.
830.
by tempodox 1y ago
Agreed, 10 × 2 years of experience is not the same as 20 by a long shot.
831.
by tempodox 1y ago
> …incompatible with MS-DOS computers at the time… Thank goodness! The PC-98 colors are great, while the colors on DOS boxes of the time were so horrible, it's a miracle our retinas and optic nerves survived.
832.
by tempodox 1y ago
Yes, see for instance https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml-effects-tutorial .
833.
by tempodox 1y ago
“Worse is better” is still having ravaging success.
834.
by tempodox 1y ago
Gosh, those colored maps are gorgeous, apart from informative.
835.
by tempodox 1y ago
> We call it 'prompt-engineering' I prefer to call it “prompt guessing”, it's like some modern variant of alchemy.
836.
by tempodox 1y ago
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837.
by tempodox 1y ago
> …that are available in every other browser where “every other browser” == Chrome. Otherwise, agreed.
838.
by tempodox 1y ago
Erich Gamma
839.
by tempodox 1y ago
I fell for it, I thought it was καὶ σύ, τέκνον (“you too, child”), to Brutus.
840.
by tempodox 1y ago
Everyone is biased. Pushing conspiracy theories is something else entirely.

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