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somebehemoth commented on Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter sixstepstobetterhealth.co... · Posted by u/colinbartlett
Littered across this website are countless gems and gotchas to make you think about the consequences of your purchases and actions. In particular the treasures he has found are quite surprising, 100 phones?! Just from looking for trash? The author is 47 I think and he's been doing stuff for 17 years. I have some of my own cool found trash collections too. The trash you find revels the personality of the place.
10 bibles for another example. I have seen bibles a lot of places, but never as trash. He describes his giant ashtray and the tale of the tens of thousands of other pieces of trash he picked up on his way to one million cigarette butts. I love this guy and his website. This is what we gray beards mean when we speak of the Internet of old.
somebehemoth commented on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension rockoder.com/beyondthecod... · Posted by u/pagade
Just read every line of the generated code and make sure it is as clear and good as possible. If you can't understand it when it's new you won't tomorrow, either. This verification process places a natural limit on the rate at which you can safely generate code. I suppose you could reduce that to spot checks and achieve probabilistic correctness but I would not venture there for things that matter.
Because lines of code interact with each other. Understanding what one line does in isolation does not always show the rough edges that are found when code interacts. The challenge is seeing the forest instead of individual trees.
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I'm one of the developers of Mister Keyboard. If you want, you can give it a try! Everything essential is completely free, maybe it works out for you.
For something that is as personal as a keyboard, it would be good to know what "Usage data" you are collecting and how it is used. I am eager to switch away from ios keyboard, but I do not trust most developers to have access to what I type. I understand it is "not linked to me", but this is an area where heavy skepticism is warranted.
somebehemoth commented on Hacker News Alternative Where People Are Positive About AI · Posted by u/dunk010
I see many positive posts about AI. It is true some sentiment is negative, but I prefer a mixture of opinions to an echo chamber. I hear LinkedIn is very pro AI in sentiment so you should look there.
somebehemoth commented on Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw github.com/HKUDS/nanobot... · Posted by u/ms7892
>There's people saying AI isn't living up its hype / valuation, I don't see many saying "utterly useless".
There's more people saying AI doesn't live up to the hype. The people who are saying it's utterly useless is still quite large on HN. It's just that most of them are midway through changing their story because reality is smashing them in the face.
>And there's plenty who worship at the altar of Claude.
I mean who doesn't use it? No one claims it's perfect or a god of code. But if you're not using it you're behind.
> There's more people saying AI doesn't live up to the hype.
It is possible they are correct and nothing you have written suggests otherwise.
> The people who are saying it's utterly useless is still quite large on HN.
Are these people's opinions less valid than your own? Are you angry your opinion might be a minority on this one website?
> It's just that most of them are midway through changing their story because reality is smashing them in the face.
You made this up.
> But if you're not using it you're behind.
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man
wholehearted agreement
If anything, I see this moment as one where we can unshackle ourselves from the oligarchs and corporate overlords. The two technologies are AI and ATProto, I work on both now to give sovereignty back to we the people
> I see this moment as one where we can unshackle ourselves from the oligarchs and corporate overlords.
For me, modern AI appears to be controlled entirely by oligarchs and corporate overlords already. Some of them are the same who already shackled us. This time will not be different, in my opinion.
I like your optimism.
How significant are AI contributions to this project?