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by tkgally 6mo ago
Here is one sign: “... the most uncomfortable question here is not whether ChatGPT is making teenagers worse at thinking. It is whether the education system ...” “This is not cognitive dissonance in any simple sense. It is something more st
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Learning formal music theory helped me a lot when I was a teenager playing guitar and piano, and having absorbed all that theory more than fifty years ago helps me to continue enjoy playing and improvising music now. But over the years I re
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by tkgally 7mo ago
When I show people personal projects I’ve vibe-coded with Claude Code, they often seem impressed and envious. They come up with ideas for things that they would like to do, too. But they have full-time jobs outside of IT, and when I menti
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by tkgally 7mo ago
Nice observation about AI-generated content: > I’ve had the idea that from a social perspective it’d be regarded like plastic surgery, in that it only looks weird when its over-done, or done badly.
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by tkgally 7mo ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I didn’t know about forgejo.org. The main convenience of Github for me is the ability to send preprepared prompts to Claude through its web interface or the mobile app and have it write or revise a batch of di
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by tkgally 7mo ago
Thanks! The dictionary should be more or less finished in a few months. If you or anyone else might find it helpful for studying Japanese, feel free to use it, copy it, and adapt it however you like.
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by tkgally 7mo ago
It looks like my one-star repository [1] came close to making this person's leaderboard for number of commits (currently 5,524 since January, all by Claude Code). I'm not sure what that means, though. Only a small percentage of th
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Claude auto-dream [video](youtube.com)
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by tkgally 7mo ago
I haven't tried it with receipts, but I've gotten excellent OCR results with Gemini 3.0 and now 3.1 on some challenging texts: handwritten letters I couldn't fully decipher myself, vertically printed Japanese texts with tiny
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by tkgally 7mo ago
Input: I am starting a new job at Google next Monday. I will work as a contractor cleaning toilets. Output: I’m thrilled to announce that I’m starting a new chapter at Google this coming Monday! I’ll be joining the team as a specialized Env
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They don’t explain the downvotes, but here are some discussions of the expression: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-l... https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa&#
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Interesting question. My impression from afar (I live in Japan) is that “Asian Indians” and “East Indians” are both used but that just “Indians” is increasingly common, partly because of the growth in the number of people in the U.S. from I
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by tkgally 7mo ago
Thanks for clarifying that. Considering HN's worldwide readership, I should have anticipated that misunderstanding when I posted the quotation. I have now added "[= indigenous Americans]" above.
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“Most Indians [= indigenous Americans] did not know how old they were. They measured time in days, moons, and winters, but they had no weeks, hours, or minutes. On the eve of an important event, when they were afraid they might oversleep in
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by tkgally 7mo ago
> Nobody cares about your grammar skill One thing that impressed me about HN when I started participating is how rarely people remark on others' spelling or grammatical mistakes. I myself have been an obsessive stickler about such i
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Thanks! The strength of my dictionary, I hope, is how the information on each word is chosen and presented with the needs of English-speaking learners in mind, especially the explanations of meanings, usages, and nuances. Dictionaries that
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by tkgally 7mo ago
Very similar here. I am 68. While I have never developed software professionally, in the four decades I have been using computers I have often written scripts and done other simple programming for my own purposes. When I was in my thirties
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by tkgally 7mo ago
I suspect it depends partly on how locked each individual is into a particular type of work, both skill-wise and temperamentally. To give an example from a field where LLMs started causing employment worries earlier than software developmen
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by tkgally 7mo ago
Thanks for posting that link. Interesting reading, especially the closing: “I think this attempted spin/gaslighting is not working very well on the general public or the media, where people mostly see OpenAI’s deal with DoW as sketchy
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by tkgally 8mo ago
That’s one reason the abacus hasn’t been completely replaced by calculators: some abacus users become able to calculate very quickly in their heads by visualizing the changing bead positions. In Japanese the skill is called 暗算 anzan , lite
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by tkgally 9mo ago
I don't, but I sometimes see them used here in Japan. Some small-shop operators use them to add up charges and show the total to the customer. I was recently in the office of a small company, and I noticed that the bookkeeper had a cal
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by tkgally 9mo ago
Lately high-rise buildings made of wood have been going up in Japan, too: https://metropolisjapan.com/why-wooden-architecture-is-makin... https://www.decn.co.jp/?p=167777 https://www.obayashi.co.
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by tkgally 9mo ago
Great advice. > Tell the agent your spec, as clearly as possible. I have recently added a step before that when beginning a project with Claude Code: invoke the AskUserQuestionTool and have it ask me questions about what I want to do and
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> the presumably high % of their business that came from tourists That's only in the areas frequented by tourists. The vast majority of such tiny bars cater mainly to locals. Lately I've been taking pictures of bar signs in Ja
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The article should have at least mentioned the contradiction between publicizing places whose business model is based on meaningful conversation and repeat customers to foreign tourists, who generally do not speak the local language and who
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https://www.gally.net/
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You released it at just the right time for me. When I saw your announcement, I had two tasks that I was about to start working on: revising and expanding a project proposal in .docx format and adapting some slides (.pptx) from a past presen
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I used Claude Code just yesterday in a similar way: to solve a computer problem that I previously would have tried googling. I had a 30-year-old file on my Mac that I wanted to read the content of. I had created it in some kind of word proc
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> I feel like I'm the only person on this site that doesn't use AI for coding. I’m surprised by that. One reason I follow discussions here about AI and coding is that strong opinions are expressed by professionals both for and
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by tkgally 9mo ago
> Too many negative comments here. I wonder if the author’s use of “you” rubbed some people the wrong way: “You are alone and powerless. You encounter a deep challenge,” “When you let your thoughts wander, they take you on a journey you’

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