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PostOnce commented on US Tech Force   techforce.gov/... · Posted by u/purple_ferret
PostOnce · a day ago
If you'll cut one corner to save money, you'll cut another.

https://techforce.gov/footer-robot.png

This is an example of a cut corner. AI slop with irregular pixels for the face, thumb melted into finger, ipad not subject to gravity.

I wonder what the next cut corner will be?

PostOnce commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?    · Posted by u/lemonlime227
PostOnce · 3 days ago
If anyone knew the answer to this question, Anthropic would be profitable.

Currently they project they might break even in 2028.

That means that right now, every time you ask an AI a question, someone loses money.

That of course means no-one knows if you can get better at AI programming, and the answer may be "you can't."

Only time will tell.

PostOnce commented on Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries   jaysbrickblog.com/news/br... · Posted by u/makeitdouble
jacquesm · 16 days ago
Make no mistake: Lego makes a great product but they are an evil corporation. They have been so from the day they started making bricks (they stole the design, the marketing content and even the boxes), they continued when they sued everybody and their dog for doing the same thing that they themselves did, only much worse, and finally they did it again when they acquired Bricklink and started merging accounts with the Lego website. And probably many times in between when they created incompatibilities between older and newer sets just to drive sales.
PostOnce · 16 days ago
Lego... incompatibilities?

Isn't compatibility a huge part of the draw of Lego?

I've never heard of incompatibilities, what are they?

The only problem I've noticed product wise is there are now mold defects after they started adding recycled plastic, only one or two minor (visual surface) imperfections per box, but before, there were none.

PostOnce commented on You can make PS2 games in JavaScript   jslegenddev.substack.com/... · Posted by u/tosh
ddingus · 25 days ago
Actually, a fair number of us will see the font change.

People are more aware of typography than you may realize.

...maybe you do!

In which case, this makes real sense: "[almost] nobody will care."

I wouldn't, but I sure would note the font change.

PostOnce · 21 days ago
If you had them side by side, or vividly remember the typography of xkcd specifically, maybe.

But most people I think would not notice a comic's handwriting font had changed, as long as it were plausibly handwriting.

Perhaps we could test it? HN will probably lock the replies due to age before I have time to... I'll see.

PostOnce commented on The Generative Burrito Test   generativist.com/notes/20... · Posted by u/pathdependent
zenoprax · 21 days ago
Hyperrealistic beans? The focal plane? You are reaching really hard here.

The table grain is the only thing that gives it away - if it weren't for that no one without advance warning is going to notice that it's not real.

PostOnce · 21 days ago
I am a huge AI skeptic, check my comment history.

I agree with you. The Nano Banana Pro burrito is almost perfect, the wood grain direction/perspective is the only questionable element.

Almost no one would ID that as being AI.

PostOnce commented on Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3   oneusefulthing.org/p/thre... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
jcheng · 23 days ago
Automatic speech recognition and speech to text models are also growing up real fast.
PostOnce · 23 days ago
But will an illiterate person be able to articulate themselves well enough to get the LLM to do what they want, even with a speech interface?

Will they possess the skills (or even the vocabulary) to understand the output?

We won't know for another 20 years, perhaps.

PostOnce commented on Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3   oneusefulthing.org/p/thre... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Herring · 23 days ago
I think the point is we’re getting there. These models are growing up real fast. Remember 54% of US adults read at or below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
PostOnce · 23 days ago
A question for the not-too-distant future:

What use is an LLM in an illiterate society?

PostOnce commented on You can make PS2 games in JavaScript   jslegenddev.substack.com/... · Posted by u/tosh
maddmann · 25 days ago
“ AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally. If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.”

This does not sound like intellectual curiosity. Closer to polarized discourse that imho is making us less human.

PostOnce · 24 days ago
When someone is not willing to even attempt to do a 30 second task, assumes they can't, asserts they can't, and people chime in to say AI is the only way they can achieve it, it seems worthwhile to point out the consequences.

Should we not be trying to do things?

Is it not in fact harmful to give up early on even such trivial tasks?

What happens when we actually need to do hard things?

PostOnce commented on You can make PS2 games in JavaScript   jslegenddev.substack.com/... · Posted by u/tosh
wiseowise · 25 days ago
> Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.

Looks line it has already started. See a therapist, please, you have an obsession.

PostOnce · 25 days ago
It's better to consider the consequences of possible futures than not to; considering the future makes us human.
PostOnce commented on You can make PS2 games in JavaScript   jslegenddev.substack.com/... · Posted by u/tosh
forgotpwd16 · 25 days ago
>no one will know the font was changed

You're underestimating the effect typography has.

>you may want to make more of an effort

You seriously saying someone should put effort in editing a comic they didn't even cared on editing until they saw someone's comment? And somehow you equate the not putting effort to editing such comic to being fucked and starving?

AI hate sometimes makes people really lose their mind. Doing pointless random shit like this is a legit AI good application. Something that needs no creativity nor intellect to do. Just time. (And, most certainly, more than 10s.)

PostOnce · 25 days ago
Two parent comments suggested that a deep level of skill is required to:

1] drag a box around the text and press Delete 2] type some new text in there in a similar handwriting font

The implication is that we're all too stupid and everything is too hard to do even tasks so simple that they take double-digit seconds to accomplish for people with rudimentary computer skill.

We can do things. Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.

u/PostOnce

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