vehemenz

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by vehemenz 6mo ago
I haven't played in years, and this was an excellent refresher. OP, can you please include Beijing rules?
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
How does your example warrant such moral righteousness? The stakes of a late news notification seem strikingly low.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
No natural language is inherently imprecise. Every language has its own system to resolve vagueness or ambiguity and elaborate on the supposedly "missing" features of the language. This issue is relatively settled in linguistics.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Now you know what it feels like to be British reading practically any other English source on the Internet.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Depends entirely on the stakes and whether personal data is involved
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Believe me, plenty of "day jobs" are already stretching to pay for $20/mo for their users. Others in non-tech sectors are forced to use Copilot. Who knows what I would pay for a usable LLM out of my own pocket. Probably more
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
For $20, it seems like a no-brainer to switch to Codex. However, if you think you'll need the extra capacity of Max, it's $100, not $200.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
The dabbler/serious user distinction isn't the only framing here. Assuming this limitation applies to team seats in the same way, at $20/mo, businesses could afford to have everybody on the plan. Plenty of folks write only a
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
I agree about the leverage point, but it was definitely possible to be a coding customer at $20/mo before, especially with Sonnet.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
I agree with the overall thrust of your comment, but you’re overstating it a bit. Removable batteries bring benefits, and the tradeoffs aren’t as dire as you make them seem. It’s ridiculous that regulators are forcing Apple’s hand with desi
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
It’s not that much of a presumption if we already know that UFOs aren’t aliens.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
Beyond the usual discussions of atheism and agnosticism, some would maintain none of these positions are possible to hold because they require a prior commitment to realism about ontological questions, and the arguments for realism are un
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
What do you mean by “slop?” This word is thrown around a lot for relatively competent outputs. It’s not 2023 anymore.
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by vehemenz 6mo ago
My experience is mostly the opposite. Provided the right context and prompt, CC will generally produce code, even in domains I know, 10-20x faster. Quality is a different issue, sure.
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by vehemenz 7mo ago
> FreeBSD is a bit like Linux was in the early 2000s, it mostly works but you often have to dive into a shell for some magic. Which, ironically, is what Linux users have been saying for ages with respect to Windows, but the market share
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by vehemenz 7mo ago
If you're going to say Apple's reputational hit from Tahoe, and Tahoe's many problems, are merely narrative-driven, you need to at least provide support for that. For example: - why the added transparency effects don't p
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by vehemenz 7mo ago
It’s relevant because most commenters here hold moral standards that are completely self-undermining because they choose to not apply them to the “oppressed” group. Consider that it doesn’t matter how genocidal Israel’s Islamicist neighbors
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by vehemenz 7mo ago
I'm somewhat relieved. I didn't invest much effort into my community, but I had an amazing, top-level name and over 1000 members. Moderation was really hard. We didn't have AI posters, but there were persistent posters who we
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by vehemenz 7mo ago
I'm always amused when people say things like this. Any criteria that determine what constitutes "political" talk is inherently political.
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by vehemenz 8mo ago
No one disagrees that the Gazans feel the way they do. But your position is a stronger one. You seem to be excusing or justifying the moral behavior of Gazans in a way that looks self-undermining. It’s not morally credible to focus on the
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by vehemenz 8mo ago
Huh? In English orthography, quotes can serve multiple purposes. Most native English speakers wouldn’t see the parent’s use of quotes (quotation marks) as merely mention.
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by vehemenz 8mo ago
Can you provide some support for your moral position? You’ve also put “insane horror” in scare quotes, which honestly I find troubling. Does your moral account provide some justificatory, non-antisemitic framework based on colonialism or op
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by vehemenz 9mo ago
I don't think there's that much of a distinction. The real difference is that a "true professional" already has the software—purchased at full price by themselves or by their employer—and doesn't need a subscription
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by vehemenz 9mo ago
Many people that use professional tools are genuinely doing hobbyist stuff. Especially if they haven't already bought their tools outright. But besides, this subscription works with Family Sharing and is only $12, so it looks easy to g
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by vehemenz 10mo ago
This is a weird one. I think their reasoning was that most people don't use Launchpad, so they integrated it into Spotlight to eliminate redundancy. I much prefer the new app launcher in Tahoe, but it was created at the expense of Laun
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by vehemenz 10mo ago
And yet, sometimes the criticism is warranted, and sometimes it's not. That's why it's good not to overgeneralize about patterns.
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by vehemenz 10mo ago
Shortcuts.app and AppleScript works for this.
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by vehemenz 10mo ago
Tailwind is almost too simple to bother using an LLM for. There’s no reason to introduce high-level abstractions (your “real” CSS, I imagine) that make the code more complicated, unless you have some clever methodology.
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by vehemenz 10mo ago
Can you explain? Tailwind massively reduces overhead for abstraction, classing, documentation, and maintenance.
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by vehemenz 10mo ago
Here are a few perfectly acceptable explanations. 1. Computer users were generally well-educated, unlike today. 2. UX designers didn’t inherit any mess and could operate from first principles. 3. The “experience” of modern users—phones, tab

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