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davnicwil

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About davnicwil

Hi, I'm David Nicholas Williams.

Working on https://withdocket.com -- it's a system for active note taking in regular meetings like 1-1s.

I have a blog at https://davidnicholaswilliams.com

Email: my HN handle at google's email service. Put (HN) in the subject line to tell me you came from here!

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    but when you criticise it you don't feel obliged to point out it's of course useful. This is just obvious unstated.

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    Comment #49258539

    I agree and I think there is also a more insidious meta aspect: for every comment like this there is the worry that some X multiple more people hold that view but won't say it. Eve…

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    Comment #49258411

    I find it so interesting how many comments about AI start with a disclaimer that of course it's very useful, before pointing out a negative of any sort. I do it too so it's not a c…

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    In situations like this the answer usually comes by flipping it and assuming they do understand, and asking why it makes sense now. It's probably just the old 'fake loader' psychol…

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    Comment #49029521

    Having reflected on this I agree with you. Yes, it's annoying, and blame does lie with me for it happening because I did let friends know about the launches for this on HN, and the…

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    Comment #49029314

    > I find it amusing that people assume the worst for things they understand little about, rather than trying to learn. I don't know if you intended this to be exclusive of the oppo…

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    I heard some advice recently, I think in an article here on HN, to just use a big company registry where it's not their profit center, indeed may even be netural to loss making, to…

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    Comment #49017145

    Ha, it's an ambiguous title. Yeah the post is about not using AI in the actual note-taking process. You will be unsurprised to learn though that I largely haven't used AI to progra…

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    Comment #49016234

    It's 100% intended for use in businesses! I guess the whole point of it is that it isn't a transcription / automated summary tool :-) It's a tool for people who want to use their o…

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    Comment #49015711

    Indeed, you are probably right. My bad and I deleted my initial defensive riposte.

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    Comment #49015407

    deleted comment - I will never learn to ignore this kinda thing (referring to GP comment). It's difficult to not get defensive when you put a lot of work into something and you rec…

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    Comment #48985674

    Selling to individuals can be a hugely more robust predictable business, the problem with selling by the pallet load is spiky revenue that can also quickly fall off a cliff if larg…

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    Show HN: Docket (system for active note-taking) now self-hosted after HN asked

    6 months ago [0] I did a Show HN for Docket - it’s a system for active note taking in regular meetings like 1-1s, stands, all-hands, etc. On that thread a few of you asked for a se…

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    Show HN: I made my note-taking system self-hosted after HN asked

    6 months ago [0] I did a Show HN for Docket - it’s a system for active note taking in regular meetings like 1-1s, stands, all-hands, etc. On that thread a few of you asked for a se…

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    > The next time you ask the LLM for another endpoint with the same access rules, the model won't start from first principles. It'll start from the other four copies already sitting…

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    Comment #48621871

    One way I like to think about is that often abstraction is an automation for a task that doesn't need automating. You hardly ever change the thing and if you do, changing it in two…

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    Comment #48565548

    I think there's a strong chance this is a case of it creating a whole new market though. There are people whose current behaviour/situations will happen to benefit from this, and t…