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Comment · 7 days ago
Comment · 7 days ago
Also all the fresh implementations using OpenGL etc have to reinvent accessibility, keyboard control and many solved UX issues, which they rarely do as well as the existing platform libraries.
Comment · 11 days ago
If you move countries and/or you are multilingual, it can be extremely frustrating to use the web.

Some sites force a language based on your system default, others based on geoIP detection, others based on Accept headers, others on who knows what. Even if I speak multiple languages, it doesn t mean I speak then equally well and it's frustrating that there's not consistency here.

I'm not even getting into the parts of the web at think that USA (I mean the EEUU) is the whole world!

Comment · 28 days ago
As opposed to the meteorgettes who are willing to use violence in support of their astronomical cause.
Comment · 1 month ago
We're all turning into pigeons in a Skinner box.
Comment · 3 months ago
This happens to me sometimes when I'm tired and it ruins my enjoyment of the book. Normally I go straight from page to imagination without much conscious awareness of each word.
Comment · 3 months ago
Great, now I can finally make an Electron.js application with code made for Firefox!
Comment · 3 months ago
Most posts on HN are ads disguised as blogs.
Comment · 4 months ago
Greybeards tend to be a declining population.
Comment · 4 months ago
schon claro
Comment · 4 months ago
Lots of interesting answers here, but I'm particularly intrigued people feel this would affect how they talk to humans.

I guess I see AI the same way I see a compiler. I've never worried that I'll end up using code syntax in human conversations.

I tend to write to the AI using language I'd use in technical documentation: concise, detailed, unambiguous as possible.

Comment · 4 months ago
You write to the AI as if it were a person. From my point of view it looks like a fair bit of extra typing and extra tokens. Is there a reason you include things like your emotional response and use a very chatty tone? Do you find this seems to alter responses?
Comment · 4 months ago
A friend uses chatGpt for self diagnosis. I warned him it was less accurate than a human doctor. He said "I know, but it has a better bedside manner!" :)

Sad but frequently true.

(He also takes its advice with large grains of salt.... metaphorically)

Comment · 4 months ago
There is no reason to think these are the actual instructions. LLMs simply try to produce statistically likely content based on your prompt.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's part of the culture where I live, but the heat keeps increasing. 45 in dry heat (unless you work outside) is fine if you get cooler nights to recover, but when you don't get a break, it's lethal. Also aircon helps you but adds significantly to the heat outside in urban areas, causing what feels like a vicious circle. Anyway, where I live aircon is not common and electricity costs are high.

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