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I assume there is enough variation to be aware of -- seasons change, constructions, car crashes, so you need to alter the route a bit. Today you have the maps with navigation, but …

The thing about taxi drivers is that they have something at stake, while video games have no fail state effectively. You can be punished in-game, but overall it does not matter. Al…

The argument basically boils down that in non-component approach (so not a modern web framework) it is harder to reason if you use tailwind classes. The rest is some serious bikesh…

But software has been lucrative for very long time at this point. Can you say that the quality went downhill more than a decade ago? I personally do agree that when I see an update…

I have a sizeable collection of CDs and during last year wrote my own CD reader and a ripper CLI. As ridiculous as it sounds, but there is some intent in doing all of that and list…

> the underlying infra isn't strong enough to ward off the many competitors that will embrace AI at the heart of the engine Who are the competitors? Something lower level like bevv…

Yes, this is the direction I am observing. Ironically, I don't think anybody is happy about it and we keep saying that it is a tool and you need to verify everything, etc, but this…

VLC does have atrocious UI but it works great, while macOS stuff both looks bad and does not work well, so I would take VLC easily.

Developers at big companies need to pay per token, they don't have subscription available. So in case you use that, you likely spend way more than $20 in tokens. As for how to spen…

I agree with your message but not sure about the conclusion. Cars themselves are commodified luxury available (in the US pretty much required) to everyone, and they do need to be s…

You can't uninstall Apple Music as far as I am aware, so it is not just a "music player" but a specific app, which I personally don't use. For the play button I at least see the po…

I thought about "poisoning" in this context as well. Even if there is not that much AI, if there is enough that you start second guessing every other comment, I start thinking what…

Could be just the team culture. The meeting thing is pretty weird, but what happens if you just show up and tap them on the shoulder? Do they get annoyed or overall happy to chat? …

I suppose the issue is that they will simply ask their LLM to summarize and to reply, so if anything, it might just normalize and justify it a bit more.

Turning people down when they ask questions is such a short-sighted perspective. When you answer, you can tailor it to them, you can give extra context, you can elaborate, you can …

I've seen people on reddit having entire conversations with clearly bots, often on a post clearly written by a bot itself. I am sure some people are disgusted by that (I am certain…

Every other post too. At this point it is quite challenging to find a genuine human interaction on popular online sites.

All you need is to invest into the index funds tracking some sort of the total market and you are golden. Not sure if I would describe that as aggressive. But I fully agree that mo…

The biggest advantage of buying a house is that it forces people to actually put money into a giant savings account which is not easily accessible. Otherwise people just spend the …

HOAs can be very tricky, the money comes to maintain some shared amenities. Usually it is not too bad, but in case of condos HOAs maintain much more and sometimes the board makes v…

> If you take the money you'd use for a down payment and mortgage and invest it instead (after paying rent) you end up in about the same place. You'd actually end up in a much bett…

I love to walk and think through things, but I honestly think walking itself is just a tool. It just allows your mind to wander as long as you are not busy (not alone, listening to…

I have lots of audio CDs and last year I did some systems programming, so I figured it would be cool to rip audio CDs using my own software. I used LLMs to understand how it is don…

The biggest issue is that there is no native component support for that. So everyone implements their own and it is both brittle and introduces some issues like: - "ctrl + f" searc…

It's about the same as talking to yourself, LLMs simply agree with anything you say unless it is directly harmful. Definitely agree about talking to an abuser, though. Sometimes pe…