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grassmudhorseon A Reddit bot drove me insane

what is stopping hackernews from following closely behind?

grassmudhorseon Figma suspends designers account. He cannot access his work. No reply from Figma

Mainly agree, but defining "open format" seems problematic, and isn't always practical if you have some feature that the competition doesn't have

grassmudhorseon OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

> You'd think ... people would be just a wee bit less credulous.

Like the Crypto scams - irrelevant.

As long as the publicity is bringing in users, investors WILL throw in more money.

grassmudhorseon OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

feels like a very clever marketing ploy

any publicity…

and just following some major feature releases

premium service has been v slow since the news began. suggesting a massive influx of users

well played(?) Sam

grassmudhorseon Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

feedback: - I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice. - Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the initial useful section. My attention span struggles with this. - I want it for Chinese!!! I would pay for this.

Great app, thanks!

grassmudhorseon How Microsoft names threat actors

someone at msft has way too much time on their hands

grassmudhorseon How Microsoft names threat actors

why

grassmudhorseon Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?

You're looking at the wrong metrics. The risk of using a solo-dev product is them losing interest and stopping support (or as someone else pointed out, not being able to deliver the required level of support).

Both types of products also have a chance of being bought for cheap when they are failing, and at least kept alive on life support.

grassmudhorseon Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL-E is praised for art?

Are you allowed to look at it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to remember it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to use similar patterns / naming conventions / algorithms when your are trying to solve your own unique problems?

…I hope so, or you won’t be much value to your employer.

That’s all an AI does. Same thing as you, it’s just more efficient (in some ways).

grassmudhorseon Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL-E is praised for art?

I take it you write all of your code in notepad with no linting, formatting, or any of the other cheater plugins that incompetent devs use?

grassmudhorseon GitHub Copilot is generally available

At worst, it helps me type fast by finishing my lines of code for me, as pressing `tab` is faster than typing boilerplate.

At best, it is scary in it's ability to pre-emptively suggest context-specific implementations of functions before I have even considered what I might need to do. It probably helps that I am very particular about how I name variables, which seems to help copilot infer my needs.

But at least a couple of times a day, I am blown away by it.

grassmudhorseon WordPress’ market share is shrinking

> this is, after all, a zero sum game.

No it isn't. Lost me here.

grassmudhorseon Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance

> currently federal law enforcement can hack online accounts, remove, add, or modify data

Terrifying -- we are trusting officers who are incentivised to make convictions with the power to remove, add and modify data which could be used as evidence in determining the outcome of criminal cases.

Would love for someone to tell me that I am missing something here that makes this acceptable.

grassmudhorseon Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product)

>You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time

Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocomplete options (on a Mac at the moment but PowerShell does this too IIRC)?

> Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words after the command).

If I understood correctly: I'm imagining something similar to many code editors when you type `someFunction(` a popup appears with the arguments, their types, and a docstring if the function has one.

grassmudhorseon Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product)

Anything you want to, do it Want to change the world? There's nothing to it

grassmudhorseon Hacker News Disease

> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites.

Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article:

> In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News. It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of smart people meet general tech industry discussion. I’m sure there are plenty of places that suffer from Hacker News Disease (and they probably had it first, have a terminal case of it, and are much less civil about it too) but HN is just the only one I’ve participated in, so they have the misfortune of being the community I’ve named it after.

grassmudhorseon Back Orifice (1998)

Isolde?

grassmudhorseon Mastershot – Web based video editor

similar origins https://app.clipchamp.com/

grassmudhorseon An argument that nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse

Complete crap. Anyone who makes statements about solar energy costing 2c a kwhr is either a fool or a liar. I'd suggest the latter in this case.

There's nothing independent about this clown

grassmudhorseon If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2015)

I don't know what it means to define self-awareness without consciousness. Sounds like just emergent behaviors.

grassmudhorseon If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2015)

Or, from an insects perspective:

"The swarm doesn't think humans are swarm-aware. Swarm still thinks they have some form of consciousness"

grassmudhorseon Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels

Excellent tool. How is WPM calculated? There are a few things to consider -- time spent not typing when taking a mid-chapter break, number of characters in a word (unless a words are counted literally by splitting at space characters), or if characters are counted instead of words, average number of characters per word...

grassmudhorseon How I submit my startup website here?

I see what you did there. I like it.

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