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Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by alexwwang »

geek_at wrote: post #240
alexwwang wrote: post #239

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Just open a term, start opencode, and tell my idea to LLM and ask it to write a passage of given length and save it to a file for me. Then the review loop starts. This is the writing job in the new era.

honestly this explains so much about many blog posts or journalistic articles I read in the last year

What you mentioned depicts the fact that we faced. That’s absolutely not a good thing. But on the other hand, the situation we face ask for a higher critic ability of a person. I think it could be an improvement of this era.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by alexwwang »

kowbell wrote: post #247
alexwwang wrote: post #239

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Just open a term, start opencode, and tell my idea to LLM and ask it to write a passage of given length and save it to a file for me. Then the review loop starts. This is the writing job in the new era.

I'm really, really curious why though? I'm not gonna try to dig at you, I just don't understand and want to know. Is your "writing job" one where the end goal is like short random articles on some giant aggregate, or something like instructional content for businesses or something? Where a human typing things was just a means to an end, rather than what I'd assume OP's doing where they're writing for their own joy an…

Also this issue reminds me those women behind the one of the most famous statisticians, the founder of Biometrika, Karl Pearson. AFAIK, he employed a large number of female workers to do those tedious, mechanical and fragmented calculations, which supported his discoveries on statistics. How would you draw the line between his ideas and papers on statistics and those female employees? Would you like to share his honor with those great females?

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by alexwwang »

alexwwang wrote: post #260
kowbell wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm really, really curious why though? I'm not gonna try to dig at you, I just don't understand and want to know. Is your "writing job" one where the end goal is like short random articles on some giant aggregate, or something like instructional content for businesses or something? Where a human typing things was just a means to an end, rather than what I'd assume OP's doing where they're writing for their own joy an…

Actually not. I have my real idea, facts, data and all materials that support my point for a passage. I am just doing an experiment to see if I could find the line by myself. Let me ask you a question, imagine you are living in late 19th and early 20th century as a columnist and you have a secretary. You tell her your idea orally everyday and she typed down your words and revised them to be a column. Not only typing…

Great. I have some thoughts and insights go alone this topic and I’m going to write it down to discuss this issue in detail. Thank you for your initial response.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by chunkyks »

caconym_ wrote: post #194
1shooner wrote: post #113

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I was gifted a Traveler several years ago. It is overpriced and bound to the vendor data service for any connected functionality. You can read and write off of it via USB, but it doesn't actually use a true filesystem for your text files, it writes them into the main app's sqlite DB, which in the past has had data loss issues. My version uses ancient releases of Node and React for the UI for some horrible reason, and…

> bound to the vendor data service for any connected functionality. This is why I don't own a Freewrite. It should be such a simple device, but they found a way to make it complicated and lock it into their proprietary ecosystem. No thanks.

It would be a better device if I could install cfw and make it somewhat more versatile. But I haven't found anyone doing that, and haven't even found enough specs online to get started.

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Post by chungusamongus »

beej71 wrote: post #165
chungusamongus wrote: post #17

The way people are coping with the current hellscape that is 2026 is interesting to me. Somehow, it always seems to be internalization. Like, if only I can lock in using this distraction free method, if only I start buying more physical media, if only I use a dumb phone and an mp3 player for my music, etc. etc., somehow that will resolve the intractable shitstorm happening right now. And none of that is even going to…

> Only collective action has the potential to do that at this stage. Nothing resolves the shit storm, but it is absolutely possible to not be in it. Don't need collective action for that.

Sounds like reflexive impotence. It’s difficult to respect people who say things like this.

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Post by chungusamongus »

jimbokun wrote: post #185
chungusamongus wrote: post #17

The way people are coping with the current hellscape that is 2026 is interesting to me. Somehow, it always seems to be internalization. Like, if only I can lock in using this distraction free method, if only I start buying more physical media, if only I use a dumb phone and an mp3 player for my music, etc. etc., somehow that will resolve the intractable shitstorm happening right now. And none of that is even going to…

And your copium is posting to HN explaining to everyone how they are Doing It Wrong.

Maybe. Doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by bigyabai »

rglullis wrote: post #214
bigyabai wrote: post #115

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If we're all being honest, I'd rather read the Clojure/Nix templating blogpost instead of the 10,000th "why human interaction is important" bearblog essay.

There is a false dichotomy here.

I could certainly read both, but only one sounds interesting.

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Post by jcelerier »

throw10920 wrote: post #192

There's a pattern that I notice a lot on HN. "To solve this problem, I engineered an entire system from scratch." Response: "That's a cool solution. But, isn't it a lot more work than this straightforward solution?" (the user is right - the complicated solution is massively more work than the straightforward one) Response: "Yes, but it's a cool project - it's OK to not be the most efficient all the time." (also right…

> it's OK to not be the most efficient all the time

is it ? it's a non-negligible reason for the absolutely unsufferable technological world we are currently living in

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by celsius1414 »

caconym_ wrote: post #193
daoboy wrote: post #6

I'm desperately awaiting the perfect eink device for this. I've got a great writing setup on Obsidian that really works for me, a royal kludge mechanical keyboard...just waiting on the next gen of eink The Boox One Note Max was sooo close, but they almost immediately discontinued the product and probably won't be supporting it long. Suggestions are welcome

The Pomera line of devices from the Japanese company "King Jim" (yeah, I don't know) are really nice from a features point of view: limited enough to stay out of your way when you're writing, functional enough to enable the basic workflows you'd expect e.g. basic file management, SD card/USB transfers (something that many/most/all Western boutique writing devices like the Freewrite somehow didn't support well or at a…

The US version (the DM250US) is now $549, alas. I was looking at these briefly, but can’t justify the expense — might as well get a MacBook Neo if I were in the market.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by righthand »

chungusamongus wrote: post #17

The way people are coping with the current hellscape that is 2026 is interesting to me. Somehow, it always seems to be internalization. Like, if only I can lock in using this distraction free method, if only I start buying more physical media, if only I use a dumb phone and an mp3 player for my music, etc. etc., somehow that will resolve the intractable shitstorm happening right now. And none of that is even going to…

No one is trying to solve the shitstorm for everyone, they’re trying to escape it for themselves. No one can do anything about the uninformed masses addicted to the tech world that was previously propped up as great because so much money was moving around the space.

A lot of the complaining in the comments that “this doesnt solve anything for the masses” or “its too complex for the problem space” are totally missing the point. It’s not about you or the greater society. Greater society has chosen the slippery slope race to the bottom and can’t be saved because they can’t be bothered with taking on a little extra complexity or doing things to help themselves.

Non-hotswappable life improvements/tech that don’t make life faster/more efficient?! Oh the humanity!

A collective action will only improve things for the least common denominator of the collective…which isn’t that helpful to the individual who is already unable to change things for the collective. It was the collective that helped create the shitstorm why work with them?

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