I’ve used ChatGPT as an editor and had very good results. I’ll write the whole thing myself and then feed it into ChatGPT for editing. And then review its output to manually decide which pieces I want to incorporate. The thoughts are my own, but sometimes ChatGPT is capable of finding more succinct ways of making the points.
Readit Newsrralian commented on I'd rather read the prompt claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey
rralian commented on Always go to the funeral (2005) npr.org/2005/08/08/478507... · Posted by u/NaOH
> In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.
Wow. This part really resonated with me. I will try to keep this in mind.
rralian commented on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back spectrum.ieee.org/touchsc... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Touchscreens are anti-accessibility.
Lack of tactile feedback for the sight-impaired is the obvious part but there is another thing:
Touchscreens just stop registering your touch when you get old. The older you get the less moisture there's in your skin, which at some point makes touch screens ignore you.
https://www.gabefender.com/writing/touch-screens-dont-work-f...
Interesting. I’ve noticed this happening for me but I thought it was because my fingertips are calloused from playing guitar. But I’m also in my late forties. So it’s probably a double whammy for me.
Nice work klimeryk!
rralian commented on Why World War WordPress Will End with a Zombie Fork darnell.day/why-world-war... · Posted by u/speckx
I know. I'm asking what many WordPress employees think of his erratic behavior. Because it can't be helping too much.
WordPress doesn't have employees. It's open source software. Do you mean Automattic (i.e., wordpress.com) employees or WP Engine employees? Or just anyone who is employed and working on WordPress?
rralian commented on Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer techcrunch.com/2024/10/04... · Posted by u/gniting
I suspect it was the 6 months salary rather than any major philosophical agreement.
I think this is correct. Some people were misaligned, but the majority seemed to be taking advantage of a generous severance for different personal reasons. And anyone on a pip would have a hard time turning it down.
rralian commented on Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist nautil.us/confessions-of-... · Posted by u/signa11
>We didn't bring quarks or quasars into existence, we "discovered" them as and when we extended our senses far enough using technologies
Did we? If we're in a simulation instead of base reality, it's possible that simulation have actually created them for us when we started looking, depending on the scope and paramaters of simulaiton scenario.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. The idea that the act of observation impacts an experiment (or how particles behave) is one of the most counterintuitive and surprising “truths” I’ve ever heard. I would love to hear a logical explanation of why (not just a description of it).
- I agree that something like this is necessary or the whole model of the internet will be broken, like Matthew Prince [explained in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5C9EL3C82Y).
- Their approach seems very imperfect, but I understand that you have to start somewhere.
- They are paying per crawl… but in fairness it should really be per usage. It’s like paying music artists once when they upload to Spotify rather than per-play -- even though one artist gets zero plays and another gets ten million. Sure, the idea is crawlers will bid more for the popular content author, but what if a nobody author has a one-hit-wonder piece of content. They’ll still just get a couple bips per crawl and then the cat is out of the bag.
- One solution to this would be requiring a GDPR-style forget mechanism, where the author is granting a limited-duration license for the content (say… one week), after which it must be deleted and re-licensed. This would be a huge fix for the whole thing… and the more I think about it the more I think it’s essential for this to work.
- The auction mechanics are biased to the crawler… if there is a spread between artist price and crawler max price, then the crawler pays the lower price set by the artist. It should be the average.
- They will need to provide content authors with analytics about the pricing mechanics for the bids the crawlers are making.
- If this whole thing works, then products that optimize bid mechanics on behalf of authors will be a big growth industry.
- If Cloudflare are setting themselves up as the clearing mechanism for payments, that’s far too much power and profit for one company. It’s even worse than the Google monopoly. Somehow the payment mechanics need to be democratized.