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catach commented on Gaslight-driven development tonsky.me/blog/gaslight-d... · Posted by u/theodorejb

Waterluvian · a month ago

Is there a general name and framing we could apply to these “AI” that is equally as accurate but sheds all of the human biases associated with the terms?

Like… it’s just a really, really, really good autocomplete and sometimes I find thinking of it that way cleans up my whole mental model for its use.

catach · a month ago

It's really difficult because many of the task types we use AI for are those that are linguistically tied to concepts of human actions and cognition. Most of our convenient language use implies that AI are thinking people.

catach commented on I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft vitalik.eth.limo/general/... · Posted by u/bpierre

happymellon · a month ago

That's not the only reason it would become the defacto standard, and it's naive to claim so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

Users can get a bundled version that slowly breaks compatibility forcing vendors to align with the closed source version.

catach · a month ago

It would indeed be naive to make that claim, so it's a good thing that's not what I did.

catach commented on I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft vitalik.eth.limo/general/... · Posted by u/bpierre

dedup · a month ago

> Even if some company were to make a closed source fork, who cares?

They can add sufficiently popular functionality to said closed source fork and make the open source original a) obsolete and b) incompatible with the combined ecosystem, and thus deprive the users of a feasible free option.

catach · a month ago

If the closed fork functionality is superior enough to make the original de facto obsolete then the users have already collectively decided that the tradeoff is worth it.

And if the original can't compete it means the additional functionality was only going to exist because the financial model of the closed fork could pay for it.

catach commented on Everything is Ghibli carly.substack.com/p/ever... · Posted by u/ghuntley

iszomer · 5 months ago

Yeah but humans aren't exactly fast at replicating any particular art style.

catach · 5 months ago

Speed of replication isn't a part of copyright law, is it?

catach commented on A look at Firefox forks lwn.net/Articles/1012453/... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

Pesopes · 5 months ago

I use Sidebery a lot and I'd like to know what exactly you mean by "close multiple tabs"? I currently drag with right click in Sidebery and then click close tabs in the popup menu, however I don't really like doing this way. How is it done in Tree Style Tabs?

catach · 5 months ago

I have TST set up thus: closing a tab will close all its child tabs, if that branch is collapsed. Pretty sure Sidebery can be configured the same way.

catach commented on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome wired.com/story/the-doj-s... · Posted by u/hydrolox

qwerty456127 · 6 months ago

> The Justice Department also kept a Biden-era proposal that seeks to ban Google from paying companies like Apple, other smartphone manufacturers and Mozilla to make its search engine the default on their phones and browsers.

RIP Firefox?

catach · 6 months ago

I recall it being claimed that Mozilla has the warchest to survive at typical spending levels for quite some time, without Google.

catach commented on Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2 macrumors.com/2024/12/06/... · Posted by u/HatchedLake721

ksec · 8 months ago

This is sad consider they have been doing research on this for 15 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4

catach · 8 months ago

Indicating that they could make it amazing if they wanted to, they just don't want to. Likely due to cost.

catach commented on Why monotonous repetition is unsatisfying patterns.architexturez.ne... · Posted by u/rzk

catach · a year ago

Incrementals tend to rely on a drip-feed of new mechanics and capabilities at the introductory phase, extensive automation in the middle phase, and marathon-like competition against other high-ranked players in the elite phase.

I don't think it's a particularly good counter-example.

catach commented on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore howtogeek.com/my-windows-... · Posted by u/doctorshady

kjkjadksj · a year ago

The unfortunate side effect of valve supporting linux better is they seemingly gave up on mac os.

catach · a year ago

I suspect that the x86-64 to ARM transition had more to do with it.

catach commented on We gotta stop ignoring AI's hallucination problem theverge.com/2024/5/15/24... · Posted by u/rntn

HKH2 · a year ago

> We won't, because the machine results people want will be those that appeal to their biases.

When you see an idea pushed/accelerated to an absurd conclusion, you might more easily see what's wrong with it.

catach · a year ago

Possibly, possibly. But those extremes are not what you get from an effective bias appeal.

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