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Show HN: I built a skill, grounded in research, to make your writing less boring

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1 points·by efitz·vor 2 Monaten·0 comments

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efitz
·gestern·discuss
I am not a musician but found this fascinating. Thank you for posting.
efitz
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
I’d still make the same argument- the remedy should be monetary damages, not enjoinder. Produce had a short shelf life; enjoinder has the same effect on the farmer as a loss in court, only before the trial. The other party to the contract can be made whole later, if victorious, via monetary damages.
efitz
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
Oh, and there is a special place in hell reserved for anyone involved in designing food crops that can’t reproduce.
efitz
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
Patents on food crops, even genetically engineered ones, are evil. ALL our staple food crops and most non staples are genetically engineered by millennia of cultivation and selective breeding; CRISPR is just a fancy mechanism for what we’ve always done to food.

Regulations that prevent farmers from selling food that is safe, are evil. It doesn’t matter how well intentioned the regulation is.

Any government functionary that tries to prevent a farmer from selling safe food, is doing evil. Any lawyer that tries to prevent a farmer from selling food, is doing evil. Any court that enjoins a farmer from selling safe food, is doing evil. If the farmer is found to have violated some IP claim, then the proper remedy is monetary damages after the fact, not enjoined before the fact.
efitz
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
What is the difference in functionality?
efitz
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
How are the MCP servers compared to Playwright?
efitz
·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
“Anecdotally, X works better in another country than it does in the USA- the free market is a lie!”
efitz
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
A human glancing at an ID is not creating a log or transmitting every unique identity to the government.

If you handed over your id, and the person checking it made a photocopy and handed it to a police officer who put it in a file in a briefcase they carried, you might feel differently.
efitz
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
The author put it very well (with a little ai writing help :-)

I have come to the same conclusion; I saw my own journey in the author’s story.

At work, one of the statements I make to mentees, if asked, and to colleagues, if they lament people not listening to their advice, is this:

You’re only an expert if you’re invited to be one.

This is a way of saying that unsolicited advice is always unwelcome no matter how correct it is.
efitz
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
“Stealing is a skill” is catchy but doesn’t express the underlying concept as well as your other principles. I would suggest “learn by copying good things”, or “quality work is where you find it” or something to that effect.
efitz
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
BTW sorry for my rudeness, I find your project very cool and I love calligraphic type projects. I was so excited that I wanted to share something related to you. :-)
efitz
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
You should look at some Arabic calligraphy- there is a lot of artistic Arabic calligraphy where passages from the Quran, poetry, and other text are written beautifully as art.
efitz
·vor 28 Tagen·discuss
I don’t think there’s a vendetta. I think that Dario is an ideologue who has been letting his ideology cloud his business judgment.

I don’t think he’s playing 4D chess; I think he truly believes all the “AI is going to eliminate all the jobs” crap. I think his “Claude Constitution” is wishful thinking and his attempts to exert control over what his customers lawfully do with the product he sells them have made his company untrustworthy; certainly so by the US Dept of War.

I think lately his advisors have made him tone down the doomerism noting that it might tank his IPO, and I am uncertain whether his recent pushes towards more regulation are regulatory capture attempts or ideology or both.

The man is smart but IMO shouldn’t be running the company- he should be a CTO and let a business person make the decisions.

As for the government, bureaucracies gonna do what they always do. If you scare them they regulate you. ITAR is a real thing and the government throws it at technology all the time, from the minds that brought you 40-bit SSL in the 90s.
efitz
·letzten Monat·discuss
My only concern is that AI agents won’t be good at this.

For better or worse, they “understand” and have seen a lot of message queuing code and read lots of message queue support discussions.
efitz
·letzten Monat·discuss
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efitz
·letzten Monat·discuss
> the purpose of these markets is to provide fair bets for entertainment

Pretty sure this statement is 100% wrong. You’re describing a gambling site. Is that how governments are treating them?
efitz
·letzten Monat·discuss
I’m completely failing to get outraged here.

I think that the person misused Google internal information and deserves termination or other discipline, but I’m struggling to otherwise see the harm in what they did. Is insider trading a crime on prediction markets? Doesn’t it contribute to the accuracy of the pricing of prediction contracts, and therefore is good for the prediction market?
efitz
·letzten Monat·discuss
Marketing and advertising people ruin everything they touch.
efitz
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
If you only have one AI window open, you’re doing it wrong. You task swap to another window/agent, get it working on something, rinse and repeat. I can keep 4 busy most of the time. When I task swap I also check in on what the other agents are doing to make sure they’re on track, not blocked and not struggling.
efitz
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Great article and right on point.