Remember learning about this from the crossover with fake "bowling alley animations" like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q6MQwsJCA4
Readit Newskapp_in_life commented on The meme-ification of the “Demon Core” doomsdaymachines.net/p/th... · Posted by u/SaberTail
kapp_in_life commented on AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point batchmon.com/blog/ai-chea... · Posted by u/thunderbong
When I read comments today I wonder if there is a human being that wrote them or an LLM.
That, to me, is the biggest difference. Previously I was mostly sure that something I read couldn’t have been generated by a computer. Now I’m fairly certain that I would be fooled quite frequently.
Sure, but for me there isn't anything fundamentally different between a LLM reply and a spammers reply / SEO-vomit. Both are low quality useless junk that gives the masquerade of resembling something worth engaging with.
In fact the really bad spammers were already re-using prompts/templates, think of how many of those recipe novellas shared the same beats. "It was my favorite childhood comfort food", "Cooked with my grandma", blah blah blah
kapp_in_life commented on Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response warandpeas.com/2024/07/09... · Posted by u/askl
You missed the point.
One of those scenarios is available. The other isn't even being worked on in any serious fashion.
And you definitely don't get to tell people that your product is just fine, they are wrong for wanting something else.
>And you definitely don't get to tell people that your product is just fine, they are wrong for wanting something else.
The original quote does that as well and I only reversed it to give the perspective of increative people :)
kapp_in_life commented on Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response warandpeas.com/2024/07/09... · Posted by u/askl
The mantra is "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes".
- Joanna Maciejewska (https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238)
Sure, but many people who are bad at art and writing would like AI to make art and writing that's tailored to their tastes and are fine doing laundry and dishes since they're good at that and we have already automated 99% of it with dishwashers and dryers.
kapp_in_life commented on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' theverge.com/2024/5/9/241... · Posted by u/linguae
no, because the ad is very deliberate about what it's trying to represent. The intention is to suggest that physical tools that have been used for thousansd of years to create culture, art, and technonolgy and that themselves are art, are gabrage. the ad suggests an apple computer that is bound by limits of it's software and harware, that cannot be further refined, cannot be repaired, and severs the human senses from experiencing the tools it claims to deprecate, is superior. it's a bad message.
they may as well have smashing the statue of david and shown that the mac's default background is a picture of it.
and because someone has a negative reaction to an ad doesn't imply they got "angry" over it or need tougher skin or are somehome so sensitive they can't function in society. it's being able to reflect how something is making you feel. and it feels like a shitty ad on many levels.
To me it says "Look at all this stuff you can do with an ipad now, and in a thinner form factor. It used to take a room full of stuff to do this. Isn't that awesome?".
You might not be angry but you're using pretty malicious language to assign intent to the ad that doesn't seem present to me.
IIRC, the qualitative (or proven quantitative) connection between exercise and improved sleep is most pronounced with morning exercise (HIIT/weight lifting).
This is interesting to me, do you know any articles about this? I feel when I put off exercise until later in the evening(after 7pm) that I often get poorer quality sleep, but I'd be surprised if working out at 6am vs. lunchtime would make that much a difference.
kapp_in_life commented on Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired twitter.com/Carnage4Life/... · Posted by u/crhulls
> unless management is totally incompetent
Sooo...how do you measure how good a programmer is? You've got to cut $200,000 from your budget. You can lay off 2 junior programmers, or 1 senior programmer.
How, exactly should management determine whether or not the senior programmer is worth twice what a junior programmer is?
This is not a rhetorical question, and generalities like "keeps the juniors unblocked" are not an answer, unless you can give some objective metric which really tracks that. And even if he "keeps the juniors unblocked"--how can a manager tell whether keeping the juniors unblocked is worth $200,000 a year?
Management doesn't agonize for months of who stays and who goes. The directive comes down from Olympus and they have to be executed quickly so that P.R. can move on to another narrative.
I mean.. thats the whole job for the manager? Through performance reviews and keeping track of the work their team is doing. If the senior is actually "unblocking projects" then it should be apparent.
Project not making progress => senior gets involved => project making progress. Or senior gets involved and some architecture decision gets changed to alleviate some risk.
If the senior is doing this but its a visibility problem, then it may suck but they also need to self-advocate if the manager isn't proactively keeping track of their team(like they are supposed to be getting paid to).
kapp_in_life commented on I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot app.y.gy/blog/honeypot... · Posted by u/y_gy
What's the benefit of a link shortener, these days?
It made sense back before Twitter had one of their own. And I know that some people use it to get link analytics. I've also occasionally seen it used for printed materials, to get pretty URLs that are easy to hand-type.
People also use it for malicious purposes, such as hiding malware, or disguising referral links, or otherwise trying to obfuscate where a link is going. (Note: I'm not calling referral links malicious, I'm calling disguised referral links malicious.)
Other than printed materials (which need pretty URLs and thus often need a dedicated first-party URL shortener) and analytics, what are people using third-party URL shorteners for today?
As someone who runs a small discussion forum its a great way for people who like to spam CSAM, malware, and other stuff I don't want in a way that gets past filters.
I think a conservative estimate of link shorteners usage is that 99% of cases are used by bad actors, and if they would all die out my life would be a lot easier. But, every week it seems some new one pops up and theres a new wave of spam to deal with.
At least thanks to this post I can add a new one to the filters before a wave of spam, so yay?
Isn't that the dream though? To be overpaid and not have to work hard?
For who? Certainly not for the person paying.
kapp_in_life commented on Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C newatlas.com/environment/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Street parking in a lot of cities in america is notoriously "free". I think somebody wrote an article about how in SF, their car pays less rent per sqft than they do.
>their car pays less rent per sqft than they do
This shouldn't be surprising though. Cars don't need heating or cooling or sewage or a roof or ...