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There are some good points here, but I think the take away is incorrect. Don't stop arguing with people... change your strategy away from winning. Much of the advice given still ho…

Maybe a low value comment in the context of the article, but structurally I think it's a great comment that strikes a nice balance between curiosity, doubt, hope, and concern. I th…

“Engaging in” isn’t the same thing as doing. It was meant to imply a degree of separation from the act itself. Statements like “I will murder your family unless” are exactly that. …

Except... stating who is a better person is exactly what you just did. I've never attempted to compare myself to others. I've stated that I think negative behavior inhibits growth,…

No, I don’t think it’s going to make you a meaner, more negative person. There is no tangible harm being done. I genuinely believe it’s preventing you from becoming a better person…

"Treating a machine like a human" is a two-party interaction. Of course the layers of matrix multiplication is unaffected by this, but I think that we are not. It's a great opportu…

Gotta plug nightride.fm as an online station that is fully fueled by artist-submitted, non-AI music. It's all 80s/synth-inspired with one main channel, but there are more niche cha…

This is very reminiscence of the whole LMGTFY (let me google that for you) phase of things. At a job in a while back, when front-level support reached out to senior staff for help …

Here is my beef. I'm pro-VPN. The ability to gain more control over who can track your online communication is a net-positive to me, personally and philosophically. However, I can'…

Let me add more! PIPES. It's a bit more abstract and useful than "character-selectable" when viewed at the byte-level abstraction. The ability to chain together utilities with no c…

Hard disagree. Maybe there is a time for difficult outreach, but recommending someone to celebrate a person (and one of the most significant people in their life) whose primary emo…

True that, and therein lies the difficulty in generalizing. No clue what the exact situation is here (Vietnam, perhaps?), but at the human-to-human level I'm glad for it and hope i…

Rather than try to score points for team X (or against team Y), I'll quote one of my favs. Please generalize as needed to suite your perspective. "I don't get all choked up about y…

My pet theory is that network protocols will evolve to require some kind of certificate-based signing to uniquely identify individuals and groups. Hardware and operating systems wi…

Ha, I also have this happen all the time in response to mouse clicks. When playing with Apple Foundation Models + Whisper I noticed that it happens so often that I had to explicitl…

Only in my dreams! erm... The closest I've come since is involuntary obsessions with playing video games in my dreams. Not something I'd ever want to seed. Quite the opposite, in f…

I was at my first real software job and we had an in-house system to provide automated installers for common open-source applications for our end-users. After I started getting fam…

The python ecosystem will never permit this, but I sure wish this topic was better understood and appreciated within it. I hate to generalize, but the AI dev community in particula…

My guess is that if the database is subject to auditing then LLM access (obviously writes in particular, but even reads come with exfiltration risks) will be a hard "no" and instan…

It's a game. The VPN marketplace is huge so it's wack-a-mole. Big companies don't hide their VPN ASNs. Obscure, for sure, but getting a good list isn't hard. Usually they get block…

I think this is a great analogy. I read quite a bit of the site and it's wildly blown out of proportion and severely lacking in context. How many phone apps do you think are trying…

I've spent a fair amount of time contracting -- this issue is even more relevant here. While I wasn't spending very much on AI tools, what I did spent was worth every penny... for …

> I'm going to play with getting Gemini to look at the photo of the receipt and categorize and add up the categories for me. FWIW, I have a pet project for a family recipe book. I …

Much appreciated. I find is that referencing code in conversation is hard -- e.g. "underscore foo bar" vs `_fooBar`, "this dot Ls" vs `this.els`, etc happens often. Lower-powered m…

The fact that you are engaging in this thread shows me you have considered my opinions, even if you reject them. I think thats great, even in the face of being told I advocate for …