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eterevsky
·22 days ago·discuss
Within OS consistency is much less of thing a thing than Web design conventions. Windows by itself has had several different UI frameworks over the years, so different "native" Windows programs can look completely different from each other.
eterevsky
·last month·discuss
They are comparing it to Haiku 4.5. Not Opus, not Sonnet, but Haiku, the smallest Anthropic model, 3 versions old.
eterevsky
·2 months ago·discuss
You can absolutely negotiate to work 4 days weeks and get 80% salary. I've been working like this for the last 3-4 years.
eterevsky
·2 months ago·discuss
It was an alternative to RSS from 20 years ago that didn't catch on.
eterevsky
·4 months ago·discuss
I don't often use AI to cleanup my texts, but when I do, I fully own the output. I make a conscious decision whether to leave in every AI suggestion or not. The final text _is_ what I want to say.
eterevsky
·7 months ago·discuss
It's a good advice, if you are watching on a reference monitor in a dark room.
eterevsky
·7 months ago·discuss
James Cameron is one of the few who do this.
eterevsky
·7 months ago·discuss
I think whether any text is written with the help of AI is not the main issue. The real issue is that for texts like police reports a human still has to take full responsibility for its contents. If we preserve this understanding, than the question of which texts are generated by AI becomes moot.
eterevsky
·8 months ago·discuss
In all seriousness, XSLT looked stillborn even 25 years ago when it was introduced.
eterevsky
·8 months ago·discuss
If they are replacing a fixed cosmological constant by a model with variable dark energy, doesn't it introduce extra parameters that describe the evolution of dark energy over time? If so, wouldn't it lead to overfitting? Can overfitting alone explain better match of the new model to the data?
eterevsky
·8 months ago·discuss
Probably not for 32” monitor, but I think 8k would be noticeably better for a 43”.
eterevsky
·3 years ago·discuss
I don't think it makes any sense to apologize for beliefs that you once had since beliefs are not a matter of choice. You could only admit that your prior beliefs were wrong.
eterevsky
·3 years ago·discuss
I've been using it for a couple of years and I'm quite happy with it. What I like:

- In-browser adblocking, which is not dependent on the changes in extension API or extension policies.

- Reader view, which is comparable to that in Safari.

- Sidepanel with tabs.

I also liked the idea of distributing the payment to the websites that I'm visiting, and I'm sad that this didn't pan out.

Tangentially, I also like Brave Search, which is comparable to Google in quality, doesn't have ads and has nice AI summarization.
eterevsky
·3 years ago·discuss
Something like half of this piece is guilt by association. Literally the first argument is that 15 years ago Brendan Eich donated to some cause that the author finds repugnant, hance you shouldn't use his browser today. I also oppose Eich's views, but I believe that he has the right for his political belief, and anyway it shouldn't have any bearing on his professional contributions.

The author lists a number of crypto features, some of which failed and some turned out inconsequential. I don't see how this should have any effect on the users who use Brave for other features like adblocking or tabs sidepanel.
eterevsky
·3 years ago·discuss
That would be a valid use case, but it's hard to imagine that this headset is miles ahead of all existing ones in resolution and clarity. In all present-day headset even simple tasks involving text are a challenge. They just can't legibly render more than ~10 lines of text in your field of view. To compete with monitors for day-to-day tasks, the perceived resolution has to improve by an order of magnitude.
eterevsky
·3 years ago·discuss
I'm not talking about Autopilot specifically because it may be difficult to judge. But surely there is some statistics based solely on the car model?
eterevsky
·3 years ago·discuss
When a manufacturer is selling millions of cars, I think it's better to judge their safety using statistics rather than some qualitative reasoning.

Are Teslas measurably less safe than other cars? I.e. is the accident probability per km driven on a Tesla higher than on another car? I haven't seen any data suggesting that, but I'm happy to be corrected.
eterevsky
·4 years ago·discuss
In my experience, the best practice is to implement all the non-trivial logic in the actual program or a Python script, and use shell script only for very straight-forward stuff like handling command-line arguments, environment variables and paths.
eterevsky
·4 years ago·discuss
I'm not so sure that's an optimal solution. If you are going to use the display to show the UI, you may as well just use touch interface, as long as it is responsive enough. Physical controls make more sense when they are optimized for ergonomics so that they can be used without looking.
eterevsky
·4 years ago·discuss
What he writes about is seniority, not ageism. It's about whether to incentivize career paths in which senior engineers keep doing technical work.