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Really? No.

That’s like saying generative AI is not real AI.

It’s open enough that a poor person working freelance for $5 per hour on the other side of the world can use it for free to enhance their work. Sure you can bleat on and on that it…

When their careers is something that is suitable for 18 years and older I would agree with you. Otherwise you’re deliberately ignoring the elephants in the room.

People keep saying I’m “anti woke and anti tran$”. But it’s things like this that give me pause. Why not just not read the books you don’t like?? I love to re-read books I like eve…

Yeah it’s sucks how he was let go. But he will get paid. But for the first time I’m using Twitter more than HN , which has jumped the shark. Elon’s accomplishments? - helped start …

Cough, cough... HN? "Keep body text at 16px or above 16px is the default text size in most browsers. Text below this size gets harder to read, so it’s safest to avoid it for body t…

Makes HUGE difference. All the front-end work is another complete app with all the work that entails.

Hustle bros were there since the beginning of time. Think about that. Every new thing for thousands of years someone always jumped on it for short term $$$ gain. The hustle bros ha…

This article reminds me of some guy on Twitter who says nothing in AI space has changed since 2020. Maybe so. But you know what’s changed? Someone decided to get their a$$ out of t…

Most SPA is totally unnecessary and a big waste of time. People are worrying about the speed of SSR when they should be worrying about the developer time on the client which is sev…

Visited Japan and loved it. BUT. The rest of the world treats Japan as something "special". All the media/manga/anime/pr0n/temples/culture and people. What I've learned traveling t…

Sometimes capitalism works!

The point is to get the list quickly. Then the next point is to summarize each item. Then I can go in and validate the info from other sources and clean up the writing to my style.…

Ugh I’m not.

I Clearly said we use google to confirm the AI output. And we also do not do medical stuff. I just used that as an example.

A lot of my reason for googling was to find facts or answers for what I’m writing or coding. Now I use ChatGPT as an “assistant” to do a lot of tasks that I would have normally don…

Default Vim is best. Actually just editing/copy/paste/delete is more than enough for 99% of uses cases. I been using vi since 1982 and vim now. No need for anything else. No plugin…

“Open protocols” is all well and good. Onboarding is important. However what will cause Mastodon to remain as a niche network is that the networks you want are not over there. Ask …

Me: ChatGPT please write 500 words for todays essay on the importance of writing 500 words each day. ChatGPT: Ok, here is an essay…

I do online marketing for many small websites in my portfolio. Yesterday I had to write some fairly boilerplate landing page content for 13 types of sub-services. In each case I as…

Was a vegan for 15 years. Then switched to carnivore abruptly. Changed my life for the better. Would never eat any plant based fake meat products.

Joe Haldeman's The Forever War and Forever Peace series of novels chronicle this with pretty decent speculation. He goes from war, to loneliness, to very low birth rates in society…

Slightly off topic... Back before my Phoenix/Elixir days, we used to have to cache almost everything. Now we don't cache anything -- even with more traffic and less servers. Now, t…