notpachet (u/notpachet)

notpachet commented on Books will soon be obsolete in school shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/edent

smitty1e · 15 days ago

Maybe the word "public" deserves more attention.

Taxing people to fund education seems to be reducing the product to glorified day care.

Those with means (and I would be one) send their kids to private schools for a variety of reasons.

This deserves more analysis.

notpachet · 15 days ago

> Those with means (and I would be one) send their kids to private schools for a variety of reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

notpachet commented on The Rise of Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/th... · Posted by u/cratermoon

resonious · 2 months ago

I agree with a lot of this at the outset, but don't really like the gloomy outlook. I don't think there's much to gain by writing off all this unfortunate stuff as people being stupid and greedy. I mean sure, that may be true, but you can flip it around and say that it's impressive that we have it as good as we do despite having to co-exist with stupidity and greed. Better yet, you can see it as a challenge to overcome.

And I'm not the only one saying this but - the bit about LLMs is likely throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Yes the "AI-ification" of everything is horrible and people are shoehorning it into places where it's not useful. But to say that every single LLM interaction is wrong/not useful is just not true (though it might be true if you limit yourself to only freely available models!). Using LLMs effectively is a skill in itself, and not one to be underestimated. Just because you failed to get it to do something it's not well-suited to doesn't mean it can't do anything at all.

Though the conclusion (do things, make things) I do agree with anyway.

notpachet · 2 months ago

> you can flip it around and say that it's impressive that we have it as good as we do despite having to co-exist with stupidity and greed

I have a feeling that line of thinking is going to be of diminishing consolation as the world veers further into systemic and environmental collapse.

notpachet commented on How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps kibty.town/blog/todesktop... · Posted by u/xyzeva

cdmyrm · 6 months ago

I'm sorry, but when will we hold the writers of crappy code responsible for their own bad decisions? Let's start there.

notpachet · 6 months ago

I don't know but we're in a thread about Cursor... I don't think anyone is writing significantly better code using Cursor.

notpachet commented on The Generative AI Con wheresyoured.at/longcon/... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40

stuckkeys · 6 months ago

Honestyl. It has its drawbacks but I am usually at 50x with few different agents running side by side. What we need is better GPU competition with tons of ram.

notpachet · 6 months ago

Doesn't that just scream "bad design" at you? Shouldn't we be aiming for agents that require less GPU? And agents that are good enough that we don't have to shop around for "competing prices" on answers?

notpachet commented on Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning github.com/abus-aikorea/v... · Posted by u/abuskorea

botanical76 · 9 months ago

I've been thinking a lot about this possibility. I think people will have to come up with family passwords eventually. A word or phrase that is regularly practised, but strictly private, for verification in times of crisis.

For example, my family's passphrase is- just kidding.

notpachet · 9 months ago

My family already does this.

notpachet commented on Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning github.com/abus-aikorea/v... · Posted by u/abuskorea

chefandy · 9 months ago

Of course there are legitimate uses, which means everyone should have completely unfettered access and nobody selling it should be responsible for irresponsible users. Personally, I’m sick of the government limiting my artistic freedom because the mediums I use might be misused by a tiny group of bad actors. For example, it’s unnecessarily difficult to source pineapple grenades for my large scale abstract punched tin crafts. The other people who live in my apartment building haven’t complained when I asked if they had a problem with it, so what’s the problem? And when I can get ahold of it, white phosphorous makes a great addition to my annual deep-woods pyrotechnic light shows. I just don’t understand this nanny state garbage.

notpachet · 9 months ago

Take my upvote you greedy bastard.

notpachet commented on React 19 almost made the internet slower blog.codeminer42.com/how-... · Posted by u/henriqueinonhe

breadwinner · a year ago

The first problem here is putting a UI widget in charge of fetching data. React was originally designed to be the V in MVC. Had we left it as the V in MVC we'd be loading data in controllers, like we do in every other framework. Having a React component be the model, view and controller is a mistake, and we can still reverse course.

notpachet · a year ago

Some of us are still shipping Redux apps with React as the V and life is good.

notpachet commented on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/terramex

skilled · a year ago

I wonder if Apple ever approached Google about using Gemini as the flagship integration. I say that because during the keynote I kept thinking to myself, this could be the moment that Google realises it needs to stick to what it knows best - Search - and all they have to do is sit back and watch the hype fade away.

But that’s in a perfect world.

Even to this day, post ChatGPT, I still can’t imagine how I would ever use this AI stuff in a way that really makes me want to use it. Maybe I am too simple of a mind?

Maybe the problem is in the way that it is presented. Too much all at once, with too many areas of where and how it can be used. Rewriting emails or changing invitations to be “poems” instead of text is exactly the type of cringe that companies want to push but it’s really just smoke and mirrors.

Companies telling you to use features that you wouldn’t otherwise need. If you look at the email that Apple rewrote in the keynote - the rewritten version was immediately distinguishable as robotic AI slop.

notpachet · a year ago

> this could be the moment that Google realises it needs to stick to what it knows best - Search

You misspelled "ads"