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acutesoftware commented on Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs   felixrieseberg.github.io/... · Posted by u/felixrieseberg
hosh · 4 months ago
I remember Clippy, but I don't remember why it was annoying. I am thinking that Robert Brooke's 3 laws of robotics applies here. (He had written one for AI but I think his thoughts on robotics are more relavent to AI agents).
acutesoftware · 4 months ago
I think it was the modal dialog box that forced you to stop what you were doing and click 'piss off clippy', rather than being able to ignore it.
acutesoftware commented on The hidden cost of AI coding   terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/Sharpie4679
TrackerFF · 4 months ago
Some people love programming, for the sake of programming itself. They love the CS theory, they love the tooling, they love most everything about it.

Other people see all that as an means to an end - and find no joy from the technical aspect of creating something. They're more interested in the end result / product, rather than the process itself.

I think that if you're in group A, it can be difficult to understand group B. In vice versa.

I'm a musician, so I love everything about creating music. From the theory, to the mastery of the instrument, the tens of thousands of hours I've poured into it...finally being able to play something I never thought I'd be able to, just by sheer willpower and practice. Coming up with melodies that feel something to me, or I can relate to something.

On the other hand, I know people that want to jump straight to the end result. They have some melody or idea in their head, and they just want to generate some song that revolves around that idea.

I don't really look down on those people, even though the snobs might argue that they're not "real musicians". I don't understand them, but that's not really something I have to understand either.

So I think there are a lot of devs these days, that have been honing their skills and love for the craft for years, that don't understand why people just want things to be generated, with no effort.

acutesoftware · 4 months ago
> Some people love programming, for the sake of programming itself.

And this is what is causing the friction against LLM's (which are quite useful for getting up to speed with a new concept / language ), the programming itself is the fun bit - I still want to do that bit!

acutesoftware commented on Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos   hollisbrown.github.io/ble... · Posted by u/hollisbrown
acutesoftware · a year ago
Very well done - it took me several attempts to get the hang of Blender and I still only know / used half those shortcuts. Thanks for the easy to use tips!
acutesoftware commented on Google Dataset Search Engine   datasetsearch.research.go... · Posted by u/idrisschebak
acutesoftware · a year ago
I think Google has lost all faith in terms of keeping projects around - especially when they involve data locked into a mildly complex system without a complete migration path out.

I would be wary investing time in learning / using any new products from them.

acutesoftware commented on Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project   outsiderart.substack.com/... · Posted by u/iafisher
acutesoftware · a year ago
Cyc seemed to be the best application for proper AI in my opinion - all the ML and LLM tricks are statistically really good, but you need to parse it through Cyc to check for common sense.

I am really pleased they continue to work on this - it is a lot of work, but it needs to be done and checked manually, once done the base stuff shouldn't change much and it will be a great common sense check for generated content.

acutesoftware commented on Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?    · Posted by u/sjr1
acutesoftware · 2 years ago
Our ETL process is heavily monitored so we never miss a days data, but we got a surprising error "cant build aggregates - missing data, aborting MV refresh, data will be a day old". It was the year to date (YTD) calculation - no data for 29/2/2023 to compare to today.
acutesoftware commented on Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)   getpolarized.io/2019/05/1... · Posted by u/edweis
acutesoftware · 2 years ago
> "You can't just take the CSS stylesheets and references and store them."

Yes you can - just save them locally?

acutesoftware commented on Problems with homemade billing systems   getlago.com/blog/the-4-bi... · Posted by u/thibo_skabgia
yugarinn · 2 years ago
My experience is that the scope is never kept narrow, which is exactly the same that the author is describing.
acutesoftware · 2 years ago
Well, you can - you can have a policy that forces payments from a select group. Some users will complain when "No, you cant pay with 2 chickens every 3rd full moon", but that is too bad.
acutesoftware commented on Discord is not documentation   shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/... · Posted by u/edent
xigoi · 2 years ago
Which site requires you to sign up in order to read documentation?
acutesoftware · 2 years ago
Oracle requires you to login to get access to most support documents now.
acutesoftware commented on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?    · Posted by u/revskill
acutesoftware · 2 years ago
https://www.lifepim.com/blog

Very low frequency updates mainly about information management and data.

Most popular article was "What software will you trust when you get senile?" - https://www.lifepim.com/blog/5856_What_software_will_you_tru...

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