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by xigoi 6mo ago
Not being controlled by the website owner is the point.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Not what people are talking about when complaining about algorithmic feeds.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
That could be solved by allowing users to filter by score or number of comments.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Changing the default makes a huge difference because 99% of people don’t change settings.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> Under your definition, Hacker News goes away, too. It doesn’t have to go away, just switch to chronological sorting.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
It’s not about whether there is an algorithm, but whether it’s controlled by the user.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
You’re absolutely right! I shouldn’t have launched the nukes. Would you like to learn more about nuclear safety?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> If you end up needing more of it, that is fine, the AI will just write more of it when it needs it. This kind of incremental addition without planning in advance leads to inconsistent code with lots of redundancies.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Imagine the horror of practicing a skill in order to get better at it!
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Only if viewed in a monospace font in a window wide enough to fit the entire line.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Because of the 6 people who write HN comments in Vim with hard wrapping turned on.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
How is coding “solved”? Even if you want to use an LLM, you still have to explain precisely what you want.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> but if there are reference cycles, that memory can never be freed automatically. Many garbage collection algorithms can deal with cycles.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Ah yes, the entire world outsourcing their thinking to a few rich corporations is very compatible with left-wing politics.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
I can’t remember the last time I looked for a project specifically on GitHub. I always come there via a link from another site.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Being a USA citizen is often not a choice. Being a Metaslop employee is a choice.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Because Rust syntax is ugly and overcomplicated.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
C comes to mind. Also Lua and Go, kind of.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
LLMs are fundamentally chaotic and unpredictable. They cannot do anything reliably.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> People used to drive manual. Now it’s all automatic transmission. Maybe in the USA. Here in Czechia, people generally hate automatic transmission cars. > People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace. Plent
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Or just using a language that doesn’t make it hard to iterate over arrays.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Does your saw require you to pay for each use?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Yes. Do those people want a chatbot?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
I hate AI slop, but I also hate the HN trend of “this article uses a rhetorical device, therefore it’s AI-generated.”
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Animations make a UI feel slower and less responsive than it actually is. Is that what you want?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
You could keep this ability, but not save the titles of such articles anywhere.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
People who anthropomorphize a rock don’t actually think it’s intelligent and has emotions.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Until you open your code somewhere where you can’t configure the tab size, such as on SourceHut or other forges.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> The book isn't in the LLM. An LLM is essentially a lossy compression of the training data. The book absolutely is in there, it’s just mangled to the point of unrecognizability.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
They only released the weights because someone leaked them.

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