nacozarina

“All that money and no idea what to do with it.”

Is it ‘harming democracy’, or merely exposing a system of theatrics & ceremony intended to masquerade as a ‘democracy’? I’m less convinced our democracy was ‘lost’ than I am its absence was long-obscured by clever elites.

“many people are saying this”

Software Whisperers

The need to use ‘emotionally-sterile’ language with chat prompts is under-emphasized. It is prudent for both economic and mental-health reasons.

Greek life is having a banner news week.

Yeah, I’m trying to imagine how this is superior to simply adding ZIP’d JSON support to your app.

The counter argument is an expansion of ‘no man is an island’. Everything you might try to liberate as ‘yours and yours alone’ is simply a fragment of ‘The Commons’ that many before you have created and enabled, which you are now attempting to temporarily appropriate for your personal discretion. Sovereignty of an individual is a contradiction of ‘society’, not a facet of it, and its pursuit merely an unambitious form of plundering.

I am uncomfortable with this view yet it is challenging to rigorously defend against. Well-considered attacks against it are welcomed.

More guidance is needed on how to efficiently prompt an LLM to generate a correct UI. Describing the appearance, placement and behavior of UI elements for this is quite time-consuming. The contrast with server-side code generation is stark.

There are many insect/bird/mammal species that exhibit reliably predictable behaviors. It will co-opt them.

I agree with your observations, but my conclusion from it is therefore karma isn’t worth worrying about. Not uncommon for me to see heavily upvoted material I disagree with, or vice-versa, and am resigned to the fact that bot traffic will be a significant factor on both counts. I still get to view both. Unlike reddit, it seems unpopular opinions still have a home at HN. Karma is mostly for the bots, not me.

SeaweedFS is the FOSS replacement; RIP minio. I usually end up preferring a fresh alternative over a fork anyway.

The real barrier is that Big Extinguisher’s whole revenue model is based on bottle expiration dates.

… and they proved you can still write tier-10 software with it

got me spinning like a record baby