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If the LLM can’t run the original code, it can’t compare to verify the translation is accurate

If you think other things are more important than writing, why would you expect anyone to take the time to read it ?

It’s just not a very efficient strategy, it might work for some readers, but as the comments show it’s a big turn off for many. Where it says “There’s one honest footnote”, that’s really grating, like the other commenter I also stopped reading there.

That’s not necessary rational, it’s just that we are social creatures that are really sensitive to those kind of surface level cues in communication, to gauge credibility. I’m sure many authors today use LLM in brainstorming, research, ask it to steelman an argument etc and no readers complain because it doesn’t impact the authorial voice.

The problem then is with letting LLM ‘fleshing out the details’: you end up having the LLM’s style and words all over your text. You can’t really do that without your authorial voice loosing credibility. I think next time, you have to go over it and edit it and make it sound like you.

If you don’t want to that, the good news is that I think people will start to get less critical of sloppy writing, as long as it sounds human. So you could sound convincing while leaving some details raw and not have the LLM have a go at it.

I read this take on hacker news all the time, but what indication do you have that this would be popular ?

All the streaming giants had ample budget and engineering talent to make interactive fiction happen, but didn’t, presumably because they know a) not everybody is creative that way and b) a big part of culture is that you can discuss it with others, which doesn’t work for personalised works.

So any interesting alternative use for the Camlink ? All I can think of is dropping framerate (some of my cameras output 50p but are 25p). Or maybe adding a LUT ?

Since dieselgate I no longer believe in German engineering. That, and that they just can’t make their trains run on time. Never have I taken an ICE train that was not delayed. How could that happen in an actual engineering culture?

You turn a dedicated camera on as you grab it, cold boot, and most of them will be functional before you manage to put your eye to the visor.

That’s a separate mechanism, and it will tell you so if it does (if the prompt is remated to cybersecurity, biology)

> your company has to wait weeks for you to return

I mean that’s the very concept of a holiday to me ?

Live has been kind to you ;)

An em dash is used without spaces in most typography manuals. But that’s for typeset books, it’s not like everybody writes that way in casual communication.

I think surrounding it with spaces comes from people using a regular dash (the em dash is not readily accessible on the keyboard), then surrounding it with spaces to make sure it’s not interpreted as a dash.

For years now all their images have this look, everything sharp at all distances. I enjoy it because it goes against the shallow depth of field trend that has been dominant, it’s refreshing. I think they achieve it by focus stacking, compositing multiple images focused at different distances.

Right, but if you were Irish, you wouldn’t have to slow it down when listening to English in an Irish accent. Your distinction to what is accented or not seems personal to you.

Accent is a subset of dialect, referring to pronunciation, where dialect also refers to vocabulary and grammar. It follows that if all English belongs to a dialect, all English has an accent.

Of course, some accents are more readily understood across the world; I imagine you are from the US, and there is the American English featured in film and TV (that I imagine synthesises different regional accents), that has a huge cultural reach, so people who learned English through media might find this particularly easy to understand.

However, outside the US, if you speak like this, you will always turn be regarded as the person with an accent, because you don’t speak like the locals. And people are going to find their local accent easier to understand.

Fwiw all English is accented, so you’d need a setting for which accent you consider easy to understand.

You’re right, the kind of cable often used is not easy to solder. This makes it hard to solder a broken cable together again, or to replace a broken / bent plug. So best replace the entire cable and its plug — it’s still an inexpensive part.

You’ll need to solder it to the contacts inside the can, but that’s quite straightforward.

In case the internal cable that goes from one can to the other breaks, you can replace it with any bit of audio cable so you can use one that’s easy to solder.

I’ve repaired many pairs of wired headphones over the years, as electronic repairs go they’re very simple. The same can’t be said for the wireless ones.

Plus, the more high end ones come with repleceable cables.