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1. 331.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   I'm not sure how you know you're correctly detecting LLM writing. My own writing has been "detected" because of "obvious" indicators like em-dashes, compound sentences, and even (remember 2024?) using the word
2. 332.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   Well, thanks for explaining. That sure was a super expensive message to send, for all of us. And quite an astonishingly reckless way to send it.
3. 333.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   I have to say as an “other American” I’m still having a lot of trouble reading the supposedly unambiguous message. Was it “Hold my beer?”
4. 334.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   Just stop already with the LLM witch-hunt. Your personal LLM vibes don't equate to "obviously LLM generated".
5. 335.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   Including the states that have replaced their election officials with Trump loyalists?
6. 336.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   There were already plenty of established video conferencing vendors in 2020, including giant companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and Google. Zoom was the first company to make a video conferencing product that was cheap, easy to set up (for
7. 337.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   In other words, a blog post. Welcome back to the Year 2000!
8. 338.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   I interpreted this post as being about how you get an interview in the first place, so the hope would be that the CEO forwards your mail to this senior person you're worried about.
9. 339.▲
   by wrs 9mo ago

   You're missing the point -- I don't refuse to pay a parking ticket after the court orders me to do so. I don't stand in the checkout line trying to figure out how to run out without paying. I don't threaten people on t
10. 340.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    There’s a difference between predicting the degree of inflation (an output metric of the entire complex system) and predicting that the country imposing a tariff pays most of the tariff (almost the definition of the word tariff). And if you
11. 341.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Are there any top Republican leaders left? In what way are they leading?
12. 342.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    This sounds exactly like what Google used to say about search results. Just a few ads, clearly separated from organic results, never detracting from the core mission of providing the most effective access to all the world’s information. (An
13. 343.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    I had the same question! When you open an Altair or IMSAI the giant, heavy linear power supply really stands out to modern eyes.
14. 344.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    "LLM as Socratic tutor" isn't quite right, because the LLM can't be trusted. But I have had great results with "LLM as debating partner". Basically, I try to explain the thing I'm learning and have the LLM
15. 345.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    "I don’t think you need LLMs to learn programming." What the... Are we already to the point where you have to say this to people?
16. 346.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    That would be nice. If only the agent had the ability to limit itself to your instructions.
17. 347.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Ever since the first electric guitarist who turned their amplifier input up way too high (*), artists have been ignoring the instructions that came with the technology and (mis)using it to make art, and they’ll do it with this one too. (*)
18. 348.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Yes, it's really easy to argue against AI music and find that you're making exactly the same argument that was used against DJs and sampling in the 90s. "Real musicians" thought they were being ripped off by "non-mu
19. 349.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Indeed, and considering the 14 years of free Logic upgrades I'm surprised they bothered charging the initial $199! (I do remember being a bit miffed that it was $199 regardless of my existing license for the giant $999 box that was Log
20. 350.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    These apps have provided free updates after initial purchase for many years already. It would be big news if that stopped.
21. 351.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Yes, Logic updates have been free for many years. FCP as well.
22. 352.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    “Compressors are ranked by the compressed size of enwik9 (10^9 bytes) plus the size of a zip archive containing the decompresser.” [0] [0] https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
23. 353.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Pretty much every streaming app I use (not just on AppleTV) has a hard time remembering where I left off. I now have the habit of skipping through the credits and letting the app play the last 8 seconds and close the episode itself, in the
24. 354.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Cloud computing is not some new fundamental area of computer science. It’s just virtual CPUs with networks and storage. My CS degree from 1987 is still working just fine in the cloud, because we learned about CPUs, virtualization, networks,
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    by wrs 9mo ago

    Yes, DanG has written a lengthy, nuanced piece on the subject, because he has to deal with the reality that there is in fact no bright line between discussing politics and political discussion. PaulG simply asserted that "no one ca
26. 356.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    Nor should the people who hired them.
27. 357.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    This just seems confused about how software works. If you’re operating exclusively at the level of business problems, you’ve always been “vibe coding”, by hiring developers to write code for you. The question of whether “good code” is imp
28. 358.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    I don't know what site you're thinking of that avoids politics...maybe lobste.rs? Here are some of today's top HN stories that I would certainly categorize as "discussion on politics". https://news.ycombi
29. 359.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    So can Embassy -- look at InterruptExecutor.
30. 360.▲
    by wrs 9mo ago

    AFAICT, Tailwind is largely (not entirely) a different, shorter syntax for writing inline styles. (E.g., "class: 'bg-white'" = "style: 'background-color: white'".) If you've rejected structural C