cgriswald (u/cgriswald)

cgriswald commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

therobots927 · a day ago

Regardless this was my whole point. The original point was a fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

cgriswald · a day ago

I'd be interested in your reason for thinking so but I think you can see your supporting argument is not compelling:

> And comparing digging through the ground to human thought and creativity is an odd mix of self debasement and arrogance.

> I'm guessing there is an unspoken financial incentive guiding your point of view.

cgriswald commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

corytheboyd · a day ago

So much of the channel consisting of Hot Spicy Take content really turned me off from hearing anything else he has to say, which is unfortunate, because I liked his music theory videos when I was learning about that.

Lots of very hateful, negative content too. It didn’t take me long to find the video “why this new artist sucks.” Another find, what I assume is an overblown small quibble turned into clickbait videos, was “this record label is trying to SILENCE me.” Maybe, somehow, these two things are related.

cgriswald · a day ago

While I think he has his cranky old man moments and he isn’t for everyone, his titles are far more spicy and hateful than the actual content. He doesn’t just hate everything new because it is new. He also has plenty of videos loving on things old and new.

cgriswald commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

pessimizer · a day ago

Why, pray tell, would a similar series of events be relevant to a completely different series of events except as analogy? Let me use an extremely close analogy to illustrate:

Imagine someone shot a basketball, and it didn't go into the hoop. Why would telling a story about somebody else who once shot a basketball which failed to go into the hoop be helpful or relevant?

cgriswald · a day ago

Your extremely close analogy gets to the crux of why people are disagreeing here: It doesn’t have to be analogy. You can be pointing out an equivalence.

cgriswald commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

rollcat · a day ago

Engineering is making sure stuff works first, art distant second.

Even if the text is a simple article, a personal touch / style will go a long way to make it more pleasant to read.

LLMs are just making everything equally average, minus their own imperfections. Moving forward, they will in-breed while everything becomes progressively worse.

That's death to our culture.

cgriswald · a day ago

It’s worse. Even things not written by AI—like this comment—will slowly converge with each other in style as humans adapt by trying to avoid the appearance of having used AI. It won’t even be AI itself that causes this but human perception of what AI writing looks and feels like.

cgriswald commented on The Coming Robot Home Invasion andykessler.com/andy_kess... · Posted by u/walterbell

everdrive · 8 days ago

I strongly believe that except in edge cases, people spend so much time cleaning because they're not thinking about process and lack attention to detail. (or, potentially, they have people in their family who lack these things)

There are a number of "cleaning challenges" which are really just conscientiousness or process problems.

"It's difficult to sweep the house"

- Often, this just means that the house is too cluttered. You own too many things, they're not put away, and so each time you need to sweep the floors, you need to spend time organizing first.

"The fridge is always getting dirty."

- Only clean things should be put in the fridge. If your shelves are dirty, it's because the bottom of the items you're placing on your shelves are also dirty. Do you let ketchup run down the side of the bottle? Is your counter dirty, and you've set a clean bottle of salad dressing on a dirty counter? In both cases, you have transferred dirt and/or oil into the fridge on the shelf. And then this compounds multiple times: do you always put the ketchup in a different place? Well now you've spread around the dirt. Do you clean the fridge but bot the bottom of the ketchup bottle? Well, now your clean fridge is immediately dirty again the moment you reload it.

- etc.

So many "messes" in the house are compounding problems; the worse you let it get, the bigger the problem you've made for yourself. Didn't put away the kid's toys? Well now you can't sweep that area. Can't sweep that area? Well now you can't mop that area. etc. One solution, which people might not think about with regard to cleaning would actually just be to make sure the kid has fewer toys, or at least fewer _available_ toys. If you nail this, the clutter --> sweeping --> mopping cascade starts improving without any additional work on your end.

cgriswald · 8 days ago

Can I just spend a minute to gripe about “cleaning” by stashing stuff away in the wrong place?

+ It becomes clutter in its temporary home making the things that belong there harder to see or access.

+ You’ll have to go looking for it when you need it which may take orders of magnitude more time than just putting it away properly. (And if you really need it and can’t find it you might buy another one, causing more clutter and costing money.)

+ Even if you remember where you put it you have to handle it twice to get it where it belongs, reducing efficiency over time.

I’m a huge believer in having things have a place they belong and making that process efficient. Every day frequent use things get priority.

My parents have dozens of (re-usable) plastic cups that just sit precariously balanced in a cupboard. They do use them for the occasional party but mostly they’re just a menace when you want a glass of water.

Solution 1: Keep 4 (or 6 or 8) cups in the cupboard. Store the rest in a box under the stairs until you need them for a party.

Solution 2: Re-home the extras completely and use Solo cups for parties. (Even ignoring the benefit of the extra space, this might be cheaper over time unless you really can’t leverage the space the plastic cups take by, say, buying consumables in bulk on discount.)

You shouldn’t be handling (or potentially handling) things you rarely use in order to access things you use every day.

Physical space has a use besides just storing more stuff…

cgriswald commented on MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/1... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

mdaniel · 8 days ago

You're welcome to do that in print media, but on the web the proper way is the abbr element with its title attribute <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...>. Related to the distinction, I'd bet $1 there's some fancy CSS that would actually expand the definition under @media print

I can attest the abbr is also mobile friendly, although I am for sure open to each browser doing its own UI hinting that a long-press is available for the term

cgriswald · 8 days ago

From your source:

> Spelling out the acronym or abbreviation in full the first time it is used on a page is beneficial for helping people understand it, especially if the content is technical or industry jargon.

> Only include a title if expanding the abbreviation or acronym in the text is not possible. Having a difference between the announced word or phrase and what is displayed on the screen, especially if it's technical jargon the reader may not be familiar with, can be jarring.

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detourdog · 8 days ago

Web development merged with the advertising industry right after tripod starting showing ads.

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ads/

cgriswald · 8 days ago

There has to be more to it. Even services I pay for (the rare ones that don’t also spam my experience with ads) pull from a grab bag of bizarre user hostile quirks.

cgriswald commented on MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/1... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

yxhuvud · 8 days ago

First rule of writing about something that can be abbreviated: First have some explanation so people have an idea of what you are talking about. Either type out what the abbreviation stands for, have an explanation or at least a link to some other page that explain what is going on.

EDIT: This has since been fixed in link, so it is outdated.

cgriswald · 8 days ago

Just so folks who want to do this know, the proper way to introduce an initialism is to use the full term on first use and put the initialism in parentheses. Thereafter just use the initialism.

Always consider your audience, but for most non-casual writing it’s a good default for a variety of reasons.

cgriswald commented on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" · Posted by u/nextdns

phatfish · 8 days ago

Parents don't follow their child 24/7. Society has a responsibility too. There is also the possibility of minors not knowing what they are clicking or kids with shitty parents destroying your hard work.

Another non-parent with an irrelevant opinion.

cgriswald · 8 days ago

I understand being a parent is scary and stressful. I wish I could tell you that goes away, but it doesn’t. However, your children, I hope, will spend far more of their lives as adults than as children and I think you should worry a lot more about what type of world you’re helping to create for them.

Raising children is not a risk free activity. Parents shouldn’t follow their children 24/7, even if they could. Your children, by accident AND through their own curiousity are going to be exposed to things you don’t think they are ready for. You can’t stop that, even in a perfect world. Prevent and delay it as best you can, sure, but the best protection is internal. Instill in them the ability to make good choices, build trust and confidence and be someone they can talk to about it when it happens.

There’s nothing new here. Nothing special about the internet. Parents were saying the same thing about us when we were children and none of their controls were effective. We were still exposed to some things before we were ready. Those kids with shitty parents (and even the ones with good ones) are going to get around any such restrictions and expose your kids to things and your kids might expose them to things as well.

Stop denigrating non-parents’ opinions. Not only do they have a stake in the situation but you seem to forget they were also children too. And before you write off my opinion the same way, my children are adults.