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> I hear most loudly from software engineers far removed from ordinary non-technical end users I am absolutely not far removed from non-technical end users. They are my client base…

Luckily I genuinely don't care :-)

> Are you saying AI isn’t useful? My product is painstakingly crafted and uses AI but in my opinion it uses it tastefully and with great utility. Sure. And THEIR products are just …

> For better or worse, Reddit is really the only place to go find legitimate information anymore. This is frightening and, I fear, true. But I'd also add one odd little counterpoin…

I wonder: do all the HNers who are excited about their GenAI product or wrapper or startup understand, at a fundamental level, that they are an intrinsic part of this deterioration…

> There are a finite number of poor countries. This is a bit of an imaginary solution to the problem, is it not? And there will always be poor_er_ countries, which is the thrust of…

> I'd hazard the actual problem in this picture is Ghana's GDP/capita being in 4 digit territory and not the badly disposed of waste dump. But if Ghana became a wealthy country and…

Oh dear me. I can't argue with you if this satisfies you.

It also famously published As We May Think .

> I really like this phrase: Thank you. I don't think it really explains the distinction, of course. It just makes it clear there necessarily must be one, and it can't be wished aw…

You clearly, clearly do not understand what I am saying. But sure, waste your time and money making a parrot that, unlike the author it mimics, is incapable of introspection, refle…

And it still won't produce the type of articles he produces. Because at the very least he is capable of writing new articles from something the LLM doesn't have: his brain. Serious…

> That publication has always been a bit of a whack job of an outfit This is a bizarre take about a 167-year-old, continuously published magazine.

Jobs was a sort of cracked genius and a very imperfect human who wanted to be a better human. Money didn't make him worse, or better. It didn't really change him at all on a person…

> now you can use AI to easily write the type of articles he produces and he's pissed. You really cannot.

I wonder if they will. I can't imagine anything trackpoint-like -- too expensive -- but it's not impossible they'll put a trackpad in. The Pi 400 is small because it's meant to be …

> since most people are likely not buying the keyboard form factor as a headless device A big part of the aim was simply to provide a nearly-all-in-one device for educational compu…

The presence of a GPIO connector in a keyboard format computer is basically the entire point of the Raspberry Pi 400. You can consider the Pi 400 to be a very particular love lette…

Sure, if you're writing a novel, maybe. But there's not much more important, stylistically, to writing an business email or document than clarity. It's absolutely the most importan…