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I'm simply defining serious artists as people who are serious about their art, whether they're award winning filmmakers or amateur photographers. Roughly nobody out of all those pe…

Given that all serious artists seem to be extremely anti-AI, I strongly suspect that you may be wrong. I've been trying Fable for coding in the past week and while it's incremental…

Great, I just tried #7, comparing against the average is definitely better, thanks

I like it! #6 in 5 mins, but I have no idea if that's good or not. A percentile score at the end would be nice!

I'm pretty sure more people would read it to the end if it didn't seem like AI output, yes.. At the very least you would have fewer (maybe not 0!) comments here saying it's AI slop…

I think the point people are making is that when the text has an "AI smell" (it does), we immediately lose trust in the veracity of any claim being made and feel like continuing to…

Well, if it looks cool and it nearly works that is totally on brand for Alessi!

Yep. For years we've been telling people to 'just fucking google it', and now when they do they're getting bullshit AI answers. Worst thing is, some of these bullshit answers will …

In case you (or others) didn't know, Galen has his own podcast: www.gdpolitics.com It feels a lot like the 538 one, with lots of familiar contributors. The latest ep is a live show…

They didn't say "nobody can replace the battery themselves", and "you" here was probably intended to mean "a normal consumer". Relative to items with replaceable batteries (a TV re…

That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have be…

Pentax sensibly decided to add native DNG capability a long time ago, the raw files work everywhere I've tried them. (Except DaVinci, which I couldn't get to do anything without fr…

I thought the same when I got a Fuji, but the issue is support for the X-Trans sensor. Turns out that converting to DNG doesn't change that and software that opens the DNG still ne…

DxO PhotoLab supports RAFs these days, and does not have a subscription model. They have black friday sales, if the RRP seems a bit much. I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it…

I'm a naturally paranoid, very detail-oriented, man who has been a professional software developer for >25 years. Do you know anyone who read the full terms and conditions for thei…

It's both, really. The companies selling us the service aren't saying "you should treat this LLM as a potentially hostile user on your machine and set up a new restricted account f…

Sure, there's "deliberate practice" and it matters - but so many people seem to think if they're playing that's what they should be doing, or it's a waste of time. In reality that …

I'm only good enough to impress people who don't know what a good guitar player sounds like. My advice to people, which seems to work OK, is just to have the guitar out and ready t…

For me it was the "it's not x"/"it's y" stuff and some other structures Claude is very fond of using all the time. Perhaps humans are starting to write like LLMs!

Obviously if you're running Claude Code you need a token for that and an internet connection, that's kind of a given. What I'm talking about is permission (OS level, not a leaky sa…

The user thing is what I currently do too. I've thought about containers but then it's confusing for everyone when I ask it to create and use containers itself.

So don't let them interact with anything external. You can push and pull to their git project folders over the local filesystem or network, they don't even need access to a remote.…

Any sign of AI, TBH. I don't come to HN to ask Claude, I already pay Anthropic for that.

I'll be sticking with Lightroom 6 (non-subscription) and the old cameras it supports, until the sad but inevitable day I can no longer run it. I don't find editing takes much time,…

This is great, I discovered it a year or two ago - nice work! Excited to hear there might be more development happening.