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by wrasee 1y ago
Only if you assume a priori that you are going to read it anyway, which misses the whole point. Because you should have read RFC 1331. Even then your argument assumes that optimising for total time (to include your own learning time) is the
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by wrasee 1y ago
I would remember the reply from the LLM, and cross references back to the particular parts of the RFC it identified as worth focusing time on. I’d argue that’s a more effective capture as to what I would remember anyway. If wanted to learn
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by wrasee 1y ago
I could also walk everywhere, but sometimes technology can help. There’s no way I could fully read that RFC in an hour. And that’s before you even know what reading to focus your attention on, so you’re just being a worse LLM at that point
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by wrasee 1y ago
The other 10% being what differentiates them in the market :)
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by wrasee 1y ago
I think you’re arguing a straw man I don’t think the point was “don’t use LLM tools”. I read the argument here as about the best way to integrate these tools into your workflow. Similar to the parent, I find interfacing with a chat window
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by wrasee 1y ago
I thought the advent of UFEI would finally put GRUB to rest. Worse, if you dual boot and each OS installs its own GRUB you can get all kinds of silly situations where one GRUB will chain load to another GRUB and then boot the OS. Why not ju
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by wrasee 1y ago
> But, once I learned that no embedded libc variants had printf just no output path Did you mean "once I learned that no, embedded libc variants have printf"? To clarify as I had to check, embedded libc variants do indeed have
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by wrasee 1y ago
> “Of course, you wouldn't get away with it now.” I say, try. Publish "Crap Towns, 20 Year Update" and ask what's changed? Revisit some of the original places, take some new photos. Plenty of scope to continue the
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by wrasee 1y ago
One problem is that one person’s hammock time is another’s overthinking time and needs the opposite advice. Of course it’s about finding that balance and that’s hard to pin down with words. But I take your point and the trend definitely se
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by wrasee 1y ago
Except when I read it it was an article on a webpage, currently linking from the front page of Hacker News. Perhaps just enough to be an accident, but somewhat fortunate.
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by wrasee 1y ago
As an aside: > Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up and vote f
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by wrasee 1y ago
Absolutely get this. And yes there's no doubt that a dedicated tool can bring features and a UX that's hard to replicate with a general purpose text editor with the same degree of polish, if at all in some cases. Some of the stu
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by wrasee 1y ago
A folder of markdown docs in your favourite text editor, ftw! + It’s all within the editor you already know really well. Uses your existing tools. + Many editors have really good support for markdown built in. Treat H1’s like notes and al
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by wrasee 2y ago
Personally I've never discovered anything on Gumroad itself. It's always been from some other source (here on HN, reddit, social media) and then followed a link to Gumroad. Payments and shipping are precisely the kinds of things t
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by wrasee 2y ago
Right. Somewhat burred the lede. My take was that the value that services like Gumroad can bring is precisely the value-add they provide over what a create could do themselves. So if the CEO has chosen to essentially automate the entire
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by wrasee 2y ago
Same. But a nice observation in conclusion > To me, I think that there is a real opportunity to take away the reins from middlemen who extract value rather than add it by leaning into things we host ourselves. Creators, for too long, ha
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by wrasee 2y ago
I'll bite. Suppose an imaginary private buyer was willing to buy the Crown Jewels for £5 billion. It's absurd to believe that the Royal Family would even entertain such an offer because (a) it's not like they would be incent
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by wrasee 2y ago
Right. And if a beholder beholds something with value that simply cannot be captured in a tradeable form (since to have a price implies it is tradable and For Sale) then no price exists for which a trade could exist. It would be literally
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by wrasee 2y ago
A price that is unknown is simply "unpriced". Every sale is between two parties, the price is simply any agreed value that would result in a sale. So it's not just what someone is willing to pay, but also what someone is wil
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by wrasee 2y ago
I considered that before posting, and I disagree. The Crown Jewels are genuinely priceless. Yes, “priceless” is common hyperbole, but the BBC claim to integrity and quality reporting just made me think that they might consider a more accur
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by wrasee 2y ago
Title: Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait Later in article: > if it were proven to be the prolific playwright, it could be worth "anywhere from £100m to £200m". Well done BBC. I still remember whe
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by wrasee 2y ago
If all these tools do is wipe out all the tedium in software then we are all laughing. Happy days to come. There are tools and then there are the people holding the tools. The problem is no-one really knows which one AI is going to be.
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by wrasee 2y ago
My dog solved it in less than 14 minutes, no pen or paper, and no fingers. Seriously though, nice work.
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by wrasee 2y ago
So in the three hours between you reading the puzzle in the parent comment, you stopped what you were doing, managed to get some other "random" person to stop what they were doing and spend half an hour of their time on a maths pu
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by wrasee 2y ago
Last comment, promise. I think there may even be an argument that a stance like this can do more damage than good. It may actually normalize the view that it's sufficient to promote on social media but ultimately take no action. Ther
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by wrasee 2y ago
I'll add that the fact that this article is already "22 hours ago" and is now largely now in the past somewhat proves the point. Attention has already moved on, actual opportunity to lead by example avoided and the cycle co
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by wrasee 2y ago
Yes, his replies in a neighbor comment is exactly to that effect and of course one has to agree. But it is also notable that if i dare summarise from his parallel comment, he would have loved to return the dishwasher too but that this has
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by wrasee 2y ago
Have to agree. The bottom line is that manufactures will continue to pull this trick as long as consumers keep buying. Even Jeff himself says that > I don't think we should let vendors get away with this stuff. But he _did_ let the
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by wrasee 2y ago
A fork? Oh my. I hesitate to install a community fork of an open-source browser. I am constantly amazed at how casually trusting people are of software. > Red light detection needs to be better I’m sure it’s fine. Yes, one has to pay att
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by wrasee 2y ago
Thanks. I guess given the target market you’re just supposed to know that, I’ll accept that. Cool that that exists. I’m actually surprised that car manufactures support opening up control like that. Or is this essentially a private interf

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