Readit Newshelmholtz commented on List one task, do it, cross it out oliverburkeman.com/onethi... · Posted by u/Tomte
I think you might be in the wrong place. You're annoyed that people are discussing a 6-month old promising technology on _hacker_ news?
Its a thread titled "List one task, do it, cross it out"
The words LLM, AI, Sam Altman or OpenAI appear nowhere. I don't mind hypebros discussing LLMs somewhere meant for it. I hate that they do it every bloody where. It's like the crypto bros from a few years ago. "Uhhhh, this would be a great candidate for blockchain bro".
Agree. Theres alot of factors involved in buying anything.
So we need to stop acting like we have great wisdom for "Paying more for quality" when in reality status and fashion had as much to do with the purchase as well.
No, I think we need to stop contriving obviously skewed examples like Aldens vs Crocs. Boots vs shitty holey rubber sandals isn't a good comparison.
Maybe compare backpack, or suits, or something along those lines.
helmholtz commented on List one task, do it, cross it out oliverburkeman.com/onethi... · Posted by u/Tomte
I think this a problem that LLMs can help with. If you feed them your goals, they can give you a program back, and adjust that program based on changing circumstances.
Oh my god can we just have radio silence from fucking LLMs on one thread please!
helmholtz commented on Apple Announces Apple Silicon Mac Pro Powered by M2 Ultra 9to5mac.com/2023/06/05/ap... · Posted by u/mikece
You said:
> So Apple wasn't able to increase performance (or even ram capacity)
You were simply wrong. Why not just admit that?
I think what the parent meant is that, once Apple decided that the Mac Pro should have the M2 chips, they must have targetted feature parity with the intel versions, aka in the amount of RAM. But presumably, they couldn't get there despite the extra year.
helmholtz commented on The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated understandingai.org/p/the... · Posted by u/tim_sw
Noise pollution for me is dominated by barking dogs, engine braking, and motorbikes. Making very quite cars less quiet would be comparatively trivial.
Cars are 'less noisy' vs all the things that you mentioned simply because they are omnipresent. They wear you down, grind away at your tranquility, but because they're always there, they do so without you even noticing. A peaceful evening walk is made wearisome by the constant trickle of cars intruding into your hearing. Particularly so in the USA, because the cars there (just like everything else) are vast. Car use in city is a blot on humanity. I wish they would all just go away and be saved for the weekend road trip, or moving house, but not for groceries or commuting.
helmholtz commented on Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit hbr.org/2016/01/trick-you... · Posted by u/ingve
Reminds me of books about knowing how to have power over people. Inversion of values to me to think that manipulating people is grand.
That book is life changing, if it's 'How To Win Friends'. Maybe for an older person, this stuff is trivial, but for a younger me, it taught me just how much we as a species think only of ourselves, how you can never win an argument, how you cannot browbeat someone into submission. You can at best hope to make the other person want to do something. Look at things from their perspective.
Stephen Covey seemed to hate Carnegie's book too, as if the book was written by a moustache-twirling supervillain. It's not. It's just a very lovely look into human psyche, beautifully illustrated by tonnes of examples (rather than the platitude-filled bullshit that is inside modern books by Ryan Holiday and company).
Is this what counts for discourse nowadays? Vacuous, lazy, teenage stream-of-consciousness spewed out into a world already inundated by attention-grabs and staggering under the burden of too much information. What a bullshit directionless diatribe. What an infuriating 'hook' to remove all capital letters. What, the author is too cool to use them? Or is taking a principled stance against, what, the English language? Crikey, maybe I spend way too much time on the internet, but I wish more fucking people would ask "Does it improve upon the silence"? Idiotic.
helmholtz commented on Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse nickbusey.com/article/202... · Posted by u/NickBusey
It's funny he mentions RSI, using a mechanical keyboard with greater key travel distance is worse for RSI than a flat low travel keyboard. The mouse is also much more efficient than the keyboard for many tasks, including in Vim. Reaching for the mouse doesn't affect the muscles related to RSI. In fact, for RSI, I'd say ditch Vim to avoid having to type constantly, since it's just a text editor, and use an IDE which gives you more powerful and automatic coding abilities.
My god, thank you! Why don't people talk more about key travel? I've had many types of keyboards. Split, tented, columnar layout. The one that does the best for me is a keychron low profile ten-keyless. Just because of the lower travel distance.
Hundred percent agree with the rest of your comment too. 'Vary it up' is the key to avoiding RSI. Almost a tautological point.
Oh?… I like weird! (I don’t care for how you use the word though.)
Stylistically, semantically, and philosophically I think you’ll get more mileage by avoiding your negative, constrained, unfamiliar-is-bad usage of “weird”. And now my unsolicited advice comes to a close.