Readit Newslab14 commented on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey... · Posted by u/matthieu_bl
WELL, THE CAPITAL LETTER FORMS WERE THE ORIGINAL ONES, THEN LOWERCASE ONES WERE CREATED BECAUSE THEY WERE FASTER FOR THE MONKS TO WRITE WHO WERE COPYING BOOKS. SOURCE: ROMAN RUINS. WE'RE NOT MONKS SO DEF COMPLETELY OBSOLETE. SO IF YOU WANT TO THROW OUT THE CAPITALIZATION RULES ENTIRELY, DO IT RIGHT AND USE ALL CAPS. THIS WOULD DEFINITELY MAKE IDEAS EASIER TO TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE.
my point wasn't about using the "original rules", on the contrary it was about discarding uneeded ones. totally missed the point, but hey thanks for your contribution.
lab14 commented on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey... · Posted by u/matthieu_bl
THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD GO BACK TO ALL CAPS SO WE HAVE LESS SYMBOLS TO WORRY AVOUT MAYBE GO BACK TO IGNORE DIACRITICS CUZ THEY ARE WIRD
IT IS THE WAY OF OUR FOUNCERS
totally missed the point, but you do you.
lab14 commented on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey... · Posted by u/matthieu_bl
It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text. But leaving that aside:
Capitalization makes it easy for the reader to know where a concept ends and a new one begins. Without capitalization, your comment reads like a run-on sentence - a period in my display is 2px tall while a comma is 3.5px tall, the lack of capitalization makes my brain read them all as commas, and therefore your text is harder for me to parse. So I'd say yes, removing capitals did change the landing of your ideas for the worse.
> It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text.
right, because i couldn't have adopted this writing style in the past few weeks.
to address your second point, i could probably make better use of punctuation, but the original message is still delivered without all the fluff IMO.
lab14 commented on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey... · Posted by u/matthieu_bl
to me, the goal of written text is to put an idea or a concept in the mind of another person. _capitalization_ is one of those "arbitrary rules" that add absolutely nothing to this process unless you're using an obscure acronym.
in my mind, it's one of those ancient rules that are completely obsolete in the modern world. its only purpose is to allow others to say "i am better than you because i use this ancient rule that someone came up with a thousand years ago, so i'm smart and you're dumb".
being a non-native english speaker, removing capitalization from my writing removed a ton of anxiety when writing text and didn't change at all the landing of my messages or my ideas.
lab14 commented on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks z.ai/blog/glm-5... · Posted by u/CuriouslyC
- meh, i asked what happened to Virginia Guiffre and it told me that she's alive and well living with her husband and children in australia
- i pointed out that she died on 2025 and then it told me that my question was a prank with a gaslighting tone because that date is 11 months into the future
- it never tried to search the internet for updated knowledge even though the toggle was ON.
- all other AI competitors get this right
lab14 commented on DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data blog.quintarelli.it/2026/... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
The NSA, state and local police departments have been improperly accessing my data for years. The only reason people care about this is because of the (justified) general anger of DOGE. Yet there are far worse offenders, with far more intrusive access.
"why do you get mad at me when I do bad things? don't you see others are doing bad things too?! is it because you hate me?"
lab14 commented on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup twitter.com/bcherny/statu... · Posted by u/KothuRoti
But eventually people will catch up you can basically create a working product alone with the help of AI.
My prediction is that this will lead to a margin free-fall for many software products where the main moat is the software itself. And a lot of SaaS companies will also become redundant when the AI can code up a tailored solution in an hour for free.
Perhaps for extremely basic products. Most non-engineers can barely write and untangle their messy thoughts and you think they can just build a spec for an AI to build a product? Hopefully I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
lab14 commented on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres planetscale.com/blog/50-d... · Posted by u/ksec
lab14 commented on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres planetscale.com/blog/50-d... · Posted by u/ksec
I had the same latency concerns when I heard about this PaaS DB trend, but you’ll note that this runs in the AWS (soon GCP) region of your choice, so if you’re hosted there, it should be about the same latency as using their managed DB service.
If you aren’t hosting the app in the same AWS/GCP region then I still have the same question.
> so if you’re hosted there, it should be about the same latency as using their managed DB service.
yes and no. In my AWS account I can explicitly pick an AZ (us-east-2a, us-east-2b or us-east-2c) but Availability Zones are not consistent between AWS accounts.
See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...