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by yoz-y 2mo ago
It’s not even a hypothetical. That’s what was happening (at least towards the end) during socialism in Eastern Europe. Since everybody had to have a job, the over-employment produced a lot of slackers. Same thing was also happening in Gulag
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by yoz-y 2mo ago
A camera with a gun on it can go a long way though.
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by yoz-y 2mo ago
If you stop doing something right, because of fear, then the terrorists win.
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by yoz-y 2mo ago
Yeah. This is something that existed in pro software forever. You can have unlimited toolbars and all the buttons you want. But don’t have to. Web and mobile apps just removed the UI customization altogether.
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by yoz-y 2mo ago
There is no good middle. Either have no options, or have many and make them configurable. I use 4 of those 5 options all the time. But there are other places where options make me slow because I need to was through them.
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by yoz-y 2mo ago
I think this is a good practice anyway. Putting as much code as possible into silos with guarded permissions. Historically plugins have been kind of crappy because they were constantly breaking with updates. However if they only live as a s
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by yoz-y 2mo ago
Eh. The useful LLM usage I see is in internal tools (bugs don’t matter because the output or UI is the only thing that counts and they are throw away) or personal projects that otherwise wouldn’t exist. Both of these can be quite invisible.
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by yoz-y 2mo ago
To me the biggest gotcha with AI code is that the bugs are not “normal”. When reviewing human code I focus on specific parts because I know that there are parts where a person will just not make a bug (unless very junior). AI on the other h
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Yup. Lit element is much more accessible if you want “just” web components, but with a sane syntax.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Every time I needed to do charts at work I had a conundrum. Libraries are aplenty but basically only plotly does everything, but it’s not the prettiest. I’d much rather developers contributed new features into existing libraries.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
This (fixing bugs, making code better, refactoring), is the best fit for AI. I think a lot of us were excited that we will finally be able to polish our old software. Many of us were never given the opportunity and were tasked to produce ne
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
LLMs by themselves are but most applications built on top of them are not. If the code/data separation can not be solved then the whole approach need to be scrapped.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Only in systems that need to be themselves super generalist. Which is almost never the case.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
It’s the good old white text on white background. Not really a way to defend against this, except having a no-style or high contrast mode that people actually use. Maybe some warning that would trigger if text is too small, off page or has
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Ideally the manager would have windows and containers. Containers can be nested and can be floating windows, splits and tabs. There is no reason why tabs inside a window should belong to one application. All that being said, navigation in s
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
It most probably wasn’t though, because that would mean doing only the tedious part of writing. Another thing though. How many times does it happen to you to start writing after having an idea, but scrapping it because you realize it’s wron
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Also the drive to innovate goes down. It took weeks for the creator of 2048 to make a low quality clone of Threes. Now people can make relatively high quality ripoffs in days, even hours.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
30 years ago was the 90’s, when just about everything peaked. The things I’d be truly missing from today 30 years ago, would be the advances in medicine really and the fact that we don’t have the ozone layer threat. Most other things have p
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Working with AI has been way more tiring than just working. Sure the productivity is up, at the cost of having to keep up many thought threads, having no calm moments, and needing to consistently dig into large unknown code cases to find we
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Yes. When I write cursive and want to be able to read after myself I need to write very slowly and deliberately. All my childhood I optimized my cursive writing for speed. Most teachers I had only valued note taking, not thinking about what
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Everybody needs cloud backups for their photos at least. Most people don’t have computers, those who do, do not regularly backup their photos on them. In both family and extended family many a cry would be avoided if people paid the 5 bucks
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Three different groups of people, with some overlap between the first two: - people with their own websites - privacy activists and /or anti-capitalists - almost everybody on the planet The second group is especially
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
IndieWeb is pretty large. And by its own design the majority of users (lurkers) is hidden behind a page views metric that most people don’t even look at.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Meh. “Won” who? For a long time I was sad about the lost web, but it turns out most people on social media that has replaced the web have nothing interesting to say. I am sad about local groups and forums, but that is not something that Ind
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Well, for one we know that screens and social media had disastrous effect on children all the while the physical world was getting much safer.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
And we mostly get neither. Some stores do offer drm free ebooks and audiobooks. My comment was mostly about the “steam for books” being lauded better as physical books. To me it would only be strictly better if you could sell and lend (whic
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
I love ebooks and audiobooks. But the fact that I can’t legally lend or sell them (same with steam btw) means that it’s at best a lateral step.
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
Indeed. The platform is severely underused due to the economics. From more recent games I played Alien Isolation (works great, but I didn’t finish it), Monkey Island (iPad is perfect for point and clicks), X-Com was also perfect. The power
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
If only mobile devices had better external monitor support. It’s funny that iOS / macOS has by far the best controller experience from all devices pairing wise (even getting an Xbox controller to work properly on windows requires a don
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by yoz-y 3mo ago
I think by now we have enough evidence to support that point of view. Not everybody up top is a crook, but not having morals or abandoning them along the way certainly makes it easier to ascend.

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