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kinkrtyavimoodh commented on Bard vs. ChatGPT: Where did Google spend All the Money over the last 10 years? old.reddit.com/r/Artifici... · Posted by u/behnamoh

gundmc · 3 years ago

While it's still not as good as Chat GPT 4, Bard has gotten significantly better recently. I tried at launch and was seriously underwhelmed, but tried a few queries this week and came away pretty impressed.

I don't understand why they launched with such a hamstrung and small model. Everyone's first impression was basically "Google's AI sucks" and that is going to be tough to shake.

I mention this because the linked thread is almost a month old.

kinkrtyavimoodh · 3 years ago

Google feels like a bunch of headless chickens running around.

it's painful to see what was once such a loved and admired brand be reduced to this. :(

kinkrtyavimoodh commented on Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos initialcommit.com/blog/gi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

crispyambulance · 3 years ago

I've resigned myself to accepting git because I have to use it. But JFC, I've hated it from the first time I tried it.

We now have a large selection of tools that allow you to visualize what's going on (I use git-kraken), as well as google for help on doing something that isn't in muscle memory.

But, really, SO MUCH pain and suffering could have been resolved by refactoring the damn commands to something more coherent and consistent. Git people sometimes call this "porcelain"-- which I guess is an apt name because it makes one think of a toilet (but an improvement to a hole in the ground).

kinkrtyavimoodh · 3 years ago

i am no apologetic for the messy git UI. But i also know that any competent software engineer can be given a sufficient understanding / mental model of the basic git way of doing things in 1-2 hours, after which they can Google for the exact syntax of the commands they need (if they are doing complicated things). i feel that if they are unwilling to invest even that much time, then they are going to waste an eternity on endless tools and GUIs.

it's like tar or rsync or ffmpeg. Yes, it's hard to keep track of all the command line flags etc. but thanks to the internet we don't need to. it's far more useful to understand the underlying concepts.

kinkrtyavimoodh commented on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell · Posted by u/mbrain

joshmn · 3 years ago

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book.

Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or not they'll be able to afford feed in a month.

I got involved and we solved that problem and a few more: revamped the website (it looked and felt like it was from 2006), I whipped up a booking/reservation system to get more customers through the door, and exit surveys to make sure everything was perfect (and figure out what went wrong if it wasn't).

Bookings this month are up 490% from 2018 (according to the paper waivers they had) and that's without a single dollar spent in paid marketing. I answer a few emails every day from prospective riders and make sure everyone's happy. I get a percentage of each reservation which is cool, but the coolest part is that I get to say I am a co-owner in a Mexican horse ranch.

kinkrtyavimoodh · 3 years ago

Thanks for sharing this! i feel this is a cautionary tale for us HN-minded folks since i see a rather unusual love for the look and feel of the "old internet", and what i like to call the Craigslist style of design. As someone who remembers the internet of the 90s and early 2000s before it was taken over by ads and SEO spam, i understand the nostalgia, but as a web developer, also know that i need to do right by my clients and build things for them that make their businesses successful. An old outdated website turns away many customers.

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kinkrtyavimoodh commented on Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019) jefftk.com/p/programmers-... · Posted by u/luu

Tarsul · 3 years ago

one could also say that tech companies get an unjustified amount of the money that should go to the journalists through their capture of ad networks.

kinkrtyavimoodh · 3 years ago

It's hard to say whether it _should_ go to journalists. Even before the digital era, newspapers largely made money through advertisements, not subscriptions. They were monetizing eyeballs just as much as the Facebooks or Googles of the world do. In their case they brought in the eyeballs through their content (whether responsible journalism or tabloid-trash) and monetized them through also showing ads to the same eyeballs.

The difference is that journalism no longer has a pseudo-monopoly on the kinds of things they historically did (content, distribution, eyeballs etc.).

My grandfather read the whole newspaper every morning. In one day I think I read a LOT more content than him but it is spread over a wide variety of surfaces, print, websites (no single author) etc.

kinkrtyavimoodh commented on The type system is a programmer's best friend dusted.codes/the-type-sys... · Posted by u/dustedcodes

yellowapple · 3 years ago

> I want that data type to have helpful methods such as .Domain() or .NonAliasValue() which would return gmail.com and foo@gmail.com respectively for an input of foo+bar@gmail.com.

No the hell you don't.

Please please please do not attempt to separate the alias from an email address I submit. It's there for a reason - specifically, to hold you accountable if I experience a sudden influx of spam, and generally to keep things categorized in a world where senders can be sending things from all sorts of domains. Knowing that this is something one would even remotely consider is grounds to never touch anything one has built with a ten-foot pole, and I am now very strongly inclined to look into the author and compulsively scrub any accounts of mine from anything said author might've touched.

I am not exaggerating. The thing before the @ is meant to be opaque. Deeming otherwise for the sake of something so blatantly user-hostile as removing aliases is plain evil, and I will not sugarcoat my condemnation of such practices.

If you're sufficiently sociopathic to have no regard for the morality argument here, then at the very least take heed of RFC 5322 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322) and recognize that trying to parse any meaning from an email address' local-part is blatantly ignorant of IETF specifications and almost certainly will create bugs. Just don't do it - if not for your users' sake, then for your own.

kinkrtyavimoodh · 3 years ago

> "recognize that trying to parse any meaning from an email address' local-part is blatantly ignorant of IETF specifications and almost certainly will create bugs"

I am sorry but this makes no sense. You do realize that the only reason you are able to use aliases is because your email provider chooses to parse meaning out of the supposedly "opaque" text right? If your email provider is free to "break" the spec, so are people you give your id to.

kinkrtyavimoodh commented on Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019) jefftk.com/p/programmers-... · Posted by u/luu

disgruntledphd2 · 3 years ago

Then why are journalists not paid well?

kinkrtyavimoodh · 3 years ago

Unlike programmers, their work doesn't generate revenues as easily, otherwise every blogger would be rich.

kinkrtyavimoodh commented on Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules reuters.com/technology/pa... · Posted by u/DocFeind

jjcm · 5 years ago

Good. I'd love if we could go further and make requirements to disclaim if a photo's structure has been digitally altered. Combining these two would be very effective in increasing clarity of content online.

kinkrtyavimoodh · 5 years ago

No thanks, we don't want another Prop 65 nuisance, this time for photos.

kinkrtyavimoodh commented on The rise of never-ending job interviews bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/hhs

jimbob45 · 5 years ago

You say that and I’ve seen several companies in practice echo what you’re saying. However, I fail to understand why they don’t simply make better use of contracts and probationary periods to solve that specific problem.

kinkrtyavimoodh · 5 years ago

Contacts in what sense?

Probationary periods could work but it's a coordination problem. Such periods are the norm in Europe (coz it's very hard to fire someone) but for an at-will place like the US, given that the industry doesn't really do probationary periods in general, any employer who starts doing it would be at a disadvantage.

kinkrtyavimoodh commented on The rise of never-ending job interviews bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/hhs

sp332 · 5 years ago

Companies don't want to do job training anymore. Instead of a general background and attitude check, they need to know if the candidate has all of the individual skills that will be used on the job.

kinkrtyavimoodh · 5 years ago

Job training is not as much worth it for companies when employees can switch jobs at the drop of a hat.