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Post by Cthulhu_ »

xnx wrote: post #114
padolsey wrote: post #15

The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.

"Countersignaling" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling ) might be the better word: "Countersignaling is the behavior in which agents with the highest level of a given property invest less into proving it than individuals with a medium level of the same property."

This is a great one to put in my vocabulary. It also ties into the "vocal minority" thing where people that aren't actually the best people to talk about an issue are the most visible.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #31
padolsey wrote: post #15

The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.

lowercasing everything -- just means you're literate smart... poetic; because you read e.e.cummings and william carlos williams ... fin.

I hate

this

style of

"poetry"

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Post by freehorse »

theturtletalks wrote: post #50
avaer wrote: post #29

I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it. It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.

It really comes down to first impression. Your website design is your company’s first impression. If the design is clean, people will believe the product is clean and robust as well. Similar to how people think things that cost more and probably high quality and better overall. As for this website, the best component is the ASCII animation in the hero and you can’t even copy that component. In fact, that nice ASCII h…

My first impression when entering websites with such "hero animations" is noticing my gpu usage spiking and my power consumption increasing by 20W because somebody thought it was cool to have some pointless but "cool" canvas/WebGL/CSS (or whatever it is) animation.

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

arboles wrote: post #124
MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Array language proponents also like to do this. In their case I‘ll allow it, it matches the substance.

Can you link to a genuine example?

Minimalist example: https://kona.github.io/

Extremely Minimalist example: https://k.nyc/

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Post by sgsvnk »

avaer wrote: post #29

I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it. It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.

There are 2 kinds of people- people who understand tech and people who use tech, in the ratio 1:9 (or even lower?). For the 90%+ people who like using fancy tech and feel smart/intelligent, the bling on your landing page is necessary.

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Post by port11 »

nozzlegear wrote: post #47
psadauskas wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've mostly stopped caring about using using proper capitalization, commas, grammar and spelling in my writing of comments, primarily as a signal that i'm not an llm.

If you turn on HN's "Show Dead" setting, there are tons of LLM-generated comments on stories related to AI. You can see the human(s) behind the LLM trying to fiddle with the style of comment by making them skip proper grammar, capitalization, use or avoid certain phrases, and so on. The biggest tell for LLM content, though, is just the content as a whole: it sounds fake and ungenuine, like it passed through a committ…

My big gripe with LLMs is the “high verbosity but low signal” style of their writing. Even the new 4.8 Opus writes like that, it’ll spit out a paragraph of verbiage for what could’ve been one sentence. I’m guessing… because we pay by output tokens? $-)

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Post by port11 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #182
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lowercasing everything -- just means you're literate smart... poetic; because you read e.e.cummings and william carlos williams ... fin.

I hate this style of "poetry"

  rupi.
  
  without substance,
  
  but words
  aligned —
  
  on a  
  page.
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