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631.
by xigoi 9mo ago
Technical terms need to be more precise about their definition than regular words.
632.
by xigoi 9mo ago
This only works with kilobytes, not megabytes and gigabytes.
633.
by xigoi 9mo ago
LLM services have pretty much flawless OCR for printed text.
634.
by xigoi 9mo ago
The true penalty of Java is that product types have to be heap-allocated, as there is no mechanism for stack-allocated product types.
635.
by xigoi 9mo ago
If you’re using an iPad, the implicit assumption is that Apple knows better than you what you want to do.
636.
by xigoi 9mo ago
Maybe creating videos should be a hobby, not a job.
637.
by xigoi 9mo ago
If someone generates sexually explicit images of non-existent children, who exactly does that harm?
638.
by xigoi 9mo ago
It’s possible to write malware in C. Does that mean that C is designed to write malware?
639.
by xigoi 9mo ago
Obviously there is more interest in generating images of naked women, since naked women look better than naked men. It’s not some kind of patriarchal conspiracy.
640.
by xigoi 9mo ago
Not all pictures of naked people are porn.
641.
by xigoi 9mo ago
The output format is weird. I recommend `units --one-line` (or `units -1` for short).
642.
by xigoi 9mo ago
Not everyone has a spherical monitor.
643.
by xigoi 9mo ago
Although the word is overused, hindsight can be a huge advantage in design.
644.
by xigoi 9mo ago
Nostr could be great if it wasn’t tightly integrated with cryptocurrency, to the point of using Bitcoin payments as upvotes.
645.
by xigoi 9mo ago
On Linux, it’s [Compose]--- (or [Compose]--. for an en dash)
646.
by xigoi 9mo ago
While an LLM with a fixed seed is technically deterministic, it’s still unpredictable. > And also, it is interesting that you think modern compilers are deterministic. A compiler, unless it has a bug, will always produce output matching
647.
by xigoi 9mo ago
You’re implying that YouTube being limiteZ to creators that don’t care about getting paid would be a bad thing.
648.
by xigoi 9mo ago
> I know people have a lot of complaints, but things on the iPhone really do “just work”. Recently on HN: https://www.bugsappleloves.com/
649.
by xigoi 9mo ago
It used to be that you had to buy a premium version of software to get more features, now you have to buy the premium version to disable features you don’t want…
650.
by xigoi 9mo ago
The marketing spam, as mentioned in the article.
651.
by xigoi 9mo ago
I made something in a similar spirit: https://i.postimg.cc/HnHV5xZK/microsoft-consent.png
652.
by xigoi 9mo ago
LLMs are also moderately useful.
653.
by xigoi 9mo ago
“I was just following orders” is not an excuse. If your job requires you to do immoral things, it is your responsibility to quit.
654.
by xigoi 9mo ago
The Collatz conjecture can be stated using basic arithmetic, yet LLMs have not been able to solve it.
655.
by xigoi 9mo ago
> If your monitor is so bright that a white rectangle hurts your eyes, you need to turn it down. Can’t turn down the minimum brightness.
656.
by xigoi 10mo ago
They’re making a prediction, not a value judgement.
657.
by xigoi 10mo ago
I use Neovim with the yanky plugin. https://github.com/gbprod/yanky.nvim
658.
by xigoi 10mo ago
I’d rather understand what my computer is doing than hope that fancy autocomplete happens to do the right thing.
659.
by xigoi 10mo ago
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660.
by xigoi 10mo ago
Given that APL was punished for using a non-ASCII character set, this would presumably also affect 05AB1E.

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