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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Unfortunately, you're usually working against physics and not software, because, as you allude to, playing music together requires near perfect latency (some sources say 10ms as an absolute maximum) that's physically impossible to achieve over a long distance, even if you had a perfect connection.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

I hear this often and it's such a strange view of art, like the only thing that matters is scale and speed. It's a perspective so colored by mechanization that it fails to account for other philosophies in art. Think of what, say the Arts and Crafts movement was all about!

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Northeastern held out for a long time, only switching away from Racket, despite the protest of students and professors alike, in the last year or two.

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

The post title here is extremely misleading. Per HN standards, the post should use the original title, "How to turn 'sfo-jfk' into a beautiful photo"

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Oh! I know this one! You're thinking of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage's LPs from 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urXygZXb74'

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

> Concorde burned 52% of its fuel just taxiing and taking off

and later in the article:

> Remember, Concorde burned 52% of its fuel just taxiing down the runway.

Setting aside that these are completely different claims, the author does not cite this claim at all and it fails my personal gut check. Where is this information coming from?

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Might be harder to track but what about CFR or some other metric to measure how many bugs are getting through review before versus after the introduction of your product?

You might respond that ultimately, developers need to stay in charge of the review process, but tracking that kind of thing reflects how the product is actually getting used. If you can prove it helps to ship features faster as opposed to just allowing more LOC to get past review (these are not the same thing!) then your product has a much stronger demonstrable value.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Despite worries about creeping prices, coffee in Italy averages around €1.20 for an espresso or €1.50 for a cappuccino [1]. Way different than in a major American city.

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/ccd7ef60-cef2-4b03-b4a4-63fa32854...

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Nice little article.

Another personal suggestion in this vein: The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin (trans. Sally Laird), which consists entirely of unattributed dialogue. It's challenging at first but once you get a feel for the rhythm and start recognizing characters by how they speak, it becomes a really charming read.

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Different strokes for different folks. I'm a fashion lover but a fan of cheap cars, and I could equally say something similar about people who drive new luxury cars when there's plenty of reliable functionality to be had under $10k. There's a lot of craftsmanship that goes into nice clothes, and you can get way more expensive than $500. And fashion is a form of art in a way. What makes a painting worth thousands of dollars?

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Keep using that structure. The bots use it so much, and in ways that human authors wouldn't, that it becomes self-parodying. As long as you're not using the same device over and over again in the same piece you'll be fine.

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

The giveaway is almost always an over-dependence on "Not 'x' but 'y'" structure. Even when the author changes the wording so that the phrase doesn't read exactly like that, they tend to leave the structure intact, and the bots really like to lead with the inverse of what the author wants to say to create contrast.

A human author might have used this technique once to really emphasize a strong point, but today's LLMs use it so often that it loses its emphasis, and instead becomes a distinct stylistic fingerprint.

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Looks a little like a first gen Daihatsu Copen, and I mean that as a complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Copen#First_generatio...

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> So far, the biggest way Americans have leveraged AI in politics is in self-expression.

Most people, in my experience, use LLMs to help them write stuff or just to ask questions. While it might be neat to see the little ways in which some political movements are using new tools to help them do what they were already doing, the real paradigm shifting "use" of LLMs in politics will be generating content to bias the training sets the big companies use to create their models. If you could do that successfully, you would basically have free, 24/7 propaganda bots presenting your viewpoint to millions as a "neutral observer".

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

People here are rightly pointing out that there's still room for improvement with this (and almost any) kind of surgery, and the article talks about the accessibility challenges of making procedures like these more widely available, but after reading up on the history of this procedure it's hard not to see modern surgical techniques as a kind of man-made miracle. Great read.

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vor 10 Monatendiscuss

> now you are taxed out of success

Separate from your inflation argument, aren't income tax levels lower than they used to be, even during the Reagan administration?

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vor 11 Monatendiscuss

The em dash isn't just the present state of AI slop— it's the future!

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letztes Jahrdiscuss

I'm no expert typist and I can't speak to the OP's claims that a bump in typing speed translates to a corresponding increase in productivity, but I can attest to the fact that simple time spent practicing will improve your skills in almost anything, typing included. If you included a typing run at the beginning of your day and made sure you were using proper form, I think you might be surprised at how quickly and how drastically your typing speed might improve.

The key is simply sticking with it over the long term. A general rule I find rings true is that people tend to overestimate their improvement over a month, but underestimate improvement over a year.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I don't doubt that voice recognition will continue to improve, but doesn't it seems kind of ridiculous for automotive manufacturers to pour millions of dollars into R&D (or spend millions licensing someone else's software) and add much more expensive processors to their cars at mass scale to solve an already solved problem? I can already adjust the climate control and other basic things without this sort of interface, and I don't have to look away from the road to do it.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I can’t imagine using a voice command to do something as simple as turn on a seat heater. That feels like way more effort (and honestly more distracting) than one or two button presses that I don’t have to look away from the road for. Don’t you have to hit a button to start the voice command anyway?

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