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by wtetzner 8mo ago
I wonder if there's a psychological benefit though. If someone states up front that they know something is just a nitpick, the author might be less likely to push back, and therefore it's less likely to end up in a bike shedding b
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Ideally you wouldn't need to make them care. Just give them enough information up front for them to determine if they care.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
> Starting with the point (a.k.a. the inverted pyramid) is actually a pretty good way of finding readers that care[1]. I think this is an important distinction. I would argue that it's better to make the point clear to find readers
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
Do you have an example of this? I'm not sure I follow it exactly.
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by wtetzner 8mo ago
For most people quality of life stuff will probably rank higher than "not owned by Meta". I wouldn't be surprised if a large percentage of WhatsApp users don't even know (or care) it's owned by Meta.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
It just means the app isn't signed.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
I just turn auto correct off completely, as it's just plain worse than just typing it myself. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about the terrible text selection.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
I think LLMs can be great for learning, but not if you're using them to do work for you. I find them most valuable for explaining concepts I've been trying to learn, but have gotten stuck and am struggling to find good resources f
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Common sense tells me not to extrapolate when I only have two points. https://xkcd.com/605/ I have no doubt LLMs will continue to improve, but no idea at what rate and what the limit will be.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
My point is that you can plan as much as you want in advance, but until the rubber meets the road you will have details that you don't realize are wrong. Those might be small things, or fundamental problems you didn't realize you
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Unfortunately it's rendering ASCII characters as sprites using SDL, so it's not really a text interface.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
In my experience translating requirements into a formal language (programming language) is where a lot of the important details are actually worked out. The process of taking the "squishy" thoughts/ideas and translating them
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
> The trendline is clear. Just as early aviation was dangerous but steadily improved, this technology is getting better month by month. I'm yet to be convinced of this. I keep hearing it, but every time I look at the results they&#x
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
So you don't have to put up with constantly changing UIs that don't improve anything, but require effort to relearn?
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
I guess that would be fine if the icon for a given app didn't keep changing.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Is it clear though? It looks like an icon for a drawing app, not a word processor.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Sure, but it's not clear they're unrelated. Maybe interesting is necessary (but not sufficient) for usability? Also, the newer icons don't really indicate a word processing application. If anything, they're look like the
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Both querySelector and querySelectorAll came well after jquery. I remember it being a big deal when browsers added support for them.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
> because it’s a stolen product This is funny coming from Jobs.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
It's not, the crawler would use the LLM to read the contents of the first page to dynamically determine the best way to capture the data (e.g. the zip file from TFA).
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
If the loose collection of simple pages is updated relatively infrequently, you could simply manually update the RSS file as well, so people can still track updates easily.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Except the output coming from an LLM is the LLM's take on it, not the original source material. It's not the same thing. Not all writing is simply a collection of facts.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Isn't the point of AI that it's good at understanding content written for humans? Why can't the scrapers run the homepage through an LLM to detect that? I'm also not sure why we should be prioritizing the needs of scrape
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Why should someone need to set aside time to do research and come up with a plan to make a brand new (very expensive) computer do what it should do out of the box? Isn't Apple's big selling point that it "just works"?
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
I've had a good multi monitor experience in Pop!_OS with the COSMIC desktop. Not sure exactly how it compares to other desktop environments though.
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
So if you don't play popular multiplayer games you're a recluse? Plenty of people play single player games, and simply socialize outside of games...
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
Wasn't Wordpad the rich text editor on Windows?
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
> But does any junior want to learn C++ Win32? I'm pretty sure Microsoft can pay them enough to be happy to learn it. > You want to learn something that leads to a long-term career development path, not a sunsetting technology. T
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by wtetzner 9mo ago
There are still plenty of C++ jobs available.

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