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Is Gruber actually against AI-built apps? He was against the unofficial Mac port of Notepad++ but that had many problems other than being AI-assisted.

The essay is more concerned with the definition of “technology” than the definition of “science fiction”. It merely points out that distinguishing between hard and soft sci-fi by t…

Have you read the article? > For years now, the testers at DoesItPlay have been documenting this trend, testing thousands of physical game releases to see which ones live up to the…

> That’s how we train Pangram: for every element of our dataset of commercially licensed human-written texts, we generate an AI double that is as close as possible to its source. T…

> I think part of the answer is that AI chat doesn't need to be general-purpose. It turned out that people really liked using a chat UI that seems to be general purpose, but you do…

It’s the “decoy text” intended to trick LLMs, from the arricle: > The decoy message serves as a final trick for a determined agent. When looking for a hidden message, it might firs…

The article mentions bronze production (thus indirectly mentioning copper and tin) not as a root cause, but rather a factor that spread the crisis from one region to another: > Wha…

> my kids love using this fantastic learning tool > The friendly interaction between the Ello character and my kids gives them a fun motivation > AI drives a love for reading I can…

> I design my code so that I always know which number will be larger than the other. That’s good discipline, but with better tooling and languages such conditions could be enforced…

There was a related article from the other side of the debate a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989154 It’s pretty sad that after all these years, dealing with f…

> Eventually someone important enough will force digital resales to become reality Honest question: why? Why would anyone important enough to hold that power actually use it to for…

The problem of false advertising is resolved but the problem of consumer freedom remains. If all digital marketplaces for a particular art only offer rents, without any option to b…

You could use separate tools for those tasks. JIRA/Bugzilla/etc. for issue tracking, Sublime Merge or equivalent for comparing a dev branch to a main branch, and CI/CD with Azure P…

With regards to interpreting the laws, I mostly agree with you, although I certainly haven’t delved as deep into the true meaning of law in society. But I still don’t understand wh…

I disagree that a spoiler warning qualifies as a “dismissal” or even a “complaint”.

> I still really don’t understand what is so entitled about asking for a level of base empathy and care from maintainers. > People now yell at you that their only obligation is wha…

> Contributions from people from identities known and consistent before the AI-age are fine Unfortunately, according to the article: > Giovannini has participated in discussions at…

And what’s stopping an AI agent from throwing in a casual NATCIOS here and there?

Read closer - Giovanni’s accounts may have been compromised.

Near the top, the page claims it’s about learning the difference between checking, saving and money market accounts. In the entire linked article, where is the explanation for what…

How exactly would BlackSmith enforce the overdue payment? By sending the user to court?

The offering in question is "A better GitHub" so you are correct. That is an actual quote from the FAQ [0] by the way. In comparison CodeBerg [1] and SourceHut [2] both offer Git h…

Point #5 seems near impossible and even furthermore undesirable. Unless we are envisioning an application with all the characteristics of a web browser, but using different layout …

Is this a trend? Do you have any other examples? And what division would a world flag generate??

Mukbangs are a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukbang