Your comment is so bloody weird. It gives off vibes of those dudes who one day shave their heads and then spend the rest of their lives telling you you should get rid of anger and embrace the light and all that rubbish. Or of Christian assholes wailing on repeat "Jesus still loves you" whenever you disagree with them.
I've too often found that weird is an indirect way of casting aspersions on something. For example, most people are unlikely to say...
> "That idea is unfamiliar to me, therefore I reject it."
... but many would be comfortable saying ...
> That idea is weird.
Shifting the language in that way isn't genuine; it obscures the core reasoning behind a rather vague word ("weird").
Of course, lots of other things can be happening when people use the word "weird"; they might select it carefully for some particular meaning. That's fine.
I sometimes suggest that people be more aware of how their writing comes across. If that is "weird" (definition below), then maybe we need more weird.
A comment gets read by many people, but it is only written by one. So if an author wants to communicate well, the author should be aware of the audience.
weird
suggesting something supernatural; uncanny:
the weird crying of a seal.
(informal) very strange; bizarre:
a weird coincidence |
all sorts of weird and wonderful characters.
Applying LLMs or AI to our schedules isn't an unreasonable idea. If it could improve our own productivity even just slightly, I would consider that a win. It would be democratizing the effects of value add from traditional assistants to everyone.
I think good ideas sometimes come from connecting two concepts that seem unrelated, and we shouldn't really silence any of these ideas.
Whilst that's true regards the word of the law in terms of HN guidelines, it's arguably not in the spirit, which is "curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest". In that light, LLM / GPT solutionism is rapidly converging with blockchain / bitcoin / NFT as exceedingly stale and not conducive to productive discussion.
That's not to say that there's nothing meriting discussion on these topics. But noting that X is "a problem that LLM could help with" ... without detailing the specific advantage over alternatives ... isn't especially enlightening.
Its a thread titled "List one task, do it, cross it out"
The words LLM, AI, Sam Altman or OpenAI appear nowhere. I don't mind hypebros discussing LLMs somewhere meant for it. I hate that they do it every bloody where. It's like the crypto bros from a few years ago. "Uhhhh, this would be a great candidate for blockchain bro".
Indeed I am. It's not an AI topic, so a comment of the "use an LLM for this" variety is no more enlightening than a "here's how blockchain can help" comment on a non-blockchain topic was 5 years ago.
I think what the parent meant is that, once Apple decided that the Mac Pro should have the M2 chips, they must have targetted feature parity with the intel versions, aka in the amount of RAM. But presumably, they couldn't get there despite the extra year.
Cars are 'less noisy' vs all the things that you mentioned simply because they are omnipresent. They wear you down, grind away at your tranquility, but because they're always there, they do so without you even noticing. A peaceful evening walk is made wearisome by the constant trickle of cars intruding into your hearing. Particularly so in the USA, because the cars there (just like everything else) are vast. Car use in city is a blot on humanity. I wish they would all just go away and be saved for the weekend road trip, or moving house, but not for groceries or commuting.
I have hyperacusis (hypersensitive to noise) and insomnia and I wish all noisy things would go away. I’m one of those people who’s health is severely impacted by noise and I spend a lot of money trying to get away from it. I know that most people don’t have these conditions so they don’t understand how inconsiderate they’re being. It is unrealistic of me to expect others to be more accommodating. If anything people are getting much noisier. I would be exceedingly happy to live in a place where electric cars are the biggest generators of noise pollution. I’ve lived in Europe in walkable cities with little car traffic and it’s worse with drunk revealers singing at the top of their lungs at all hours, parties going until late at night and barking dogs in the early morning. Makes me pine for a HOA controlled gated city suburbia with strict noise controls. Most traffic noise, and especially electric car noise, can be covered up by a noise generator. One place I lived installed an artwork that lit up to different levels depending on the noise pollution, instead of encourage people to be quieter it did the opposite as they competed on who could make the most noise.
That book is life changing, if it's 'How To Win Friends'. Maybe for an older person, this stuff is trivial, but for a younger me, it taught me just how much we as a species think only of ourselves, how you can never win an argument, how you cannot browbeat someone into submission. You can at best hope to make the other person want to do something. Look at things from their perspective.
Stephen Covey seemed to hate Carnegie's book too, as if the book was written by a moustache-twirling supervillain. It's not. It's just a very lovely look into human psyche, beautifully illustrated by tonnes of examples (rather than the platitude-filled bullshit that is inside modern books by Ryan Holiday and company).
Maybe I was too biased when I skimmed through it. I understand that people all have complex psychologies and being aware of the recurrent traits is useful. But to me it lacks real warmth.. I'll try reading it again.
Is this what counts for discourse nowadays? Vacuous, lazy, teenage stream-of-consciousness spewed out into a world already inundated by attention-grabs and staggering under the burden of too much information. What a bullshit directionless diatribe. What an infuriating 'hook' to remove all capital letters. What, the author is too cool to use them? Or is taking a principled stance against, what, the English language? Crikey, maybe I spend way too much time on the internet, but I wish more fucking people would ask "Does it improve upon the silence"? Idiotic.
> I wish more fucking people would ask "Does it improve upon the silence"?
Consider taking your own advice. The original post, at least, might be a prompt for someone to helpfully reconsider their own relationship with attention-hijacking notifications. And, yes, admittedly yours might prompt a reader to reconsider and improve their writing style - but it certainly doesn't pass the "third gate"[0]
It's a pretty average Medium post submitted to HN by the person who wrote it. What do you expect? Most of what gets posted on Twitter or even HN is lacking in substance too.
Be the change you want to see in the world. What's your blog URL?
i'm sorry this post bothered you so! we're both clearly bothered by attention grabs -- it's what motivated me to write this post to begin with, and for you to write your comment.
My god, thank you! Why don't people talk more about key travel? I've had many types of keyboards. Split, tented, columnar layout. The one that does the best for me is a keychron low profile ten-keyless. Just because of the lower travel distance.
Hundred percent agree with the rest of your comment too. 'Vary it up' is the key to avoiding RSI. Almost a tautological point.
It is the best monospace font ever. I've tried a whole host of programming fonts, but nothing is hinted as well for Windows as Jetbrains Mono. It made me move off of Consolas, despite a decade of having gotten used to it.
I tried all of these out, still prefer Lucida Console for the command prompt. It seems to be the most compact despite staying readable. All the rest require a bigger font for some reason, otherwise they are hard to read. Was that different from your experience?
First, the font that we are used to has an outsize impact on what we prefer. So, if neither of these 'sit right', don't worry.
Digital font designers have to start out by choosing something called the em-height. This is a nonsense holdover from print days, and is especially infuriating because no one agrees on a standard em-height. Therefore, fonts look different despite being set to the same size. Here is a great rant on this: [1]
Lucida Console has a large x-height, which is generally considered helpful in small-size legibility. But it has that in common with both Consolas and Jetbrains Mono.
For me, I can use Consolas, Lucida Console and Jetbrains Mono all down to Size 10 in Git Bash on a shitty 13" 1080p laptop screen. Hence my comment that the ClearType hinting is glorious.
Not what your point is, but I'm all for it. I love Cascadia Code, Jetbrains Mono, JuliaMono. I love IBM Plex Sans, I love Source Serif and Source Sans. I love Cooper Hewitt. We live in truly the golden age of reading text on screen.
