exitb

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yesterdaydiscuss

Yes, if you use an analog indicator for an analog parameter, you can skip a „parse” step. Similarly, airplanes use analog indicators, or digital ones that either mimic their analog counterparts, or in some way incorporate visual aids that go past a number. This allows the pilot to, at a glance, check the values, see the rate of change, get a useful readout even if the value is noisy or oscillating.

2 days agodiscuss

Pushy fundamentalists, I suppose.

5 days agodiscuss

I'm happy using Codex for alternative harnesses and non-interactive usage, but it does make me wonder when OpenAI will start to squeeze their customers in the same way.

12 days agodiscuss

It's not only about trust, but also about not wanting to give money to an entity that will pass it on to a political party you don't want to support.

19 days agodiscuss

Not that strange I guess, given how iOS does that automatically for all taken pictures.

20 days agodiscuss

I have a running Windows 98 PC with P3 550MHz and SSD connected via IDE adapter. The drive is a bit out of place, but it’s legitimately the fastest booting, most responsive computer in my house. Its only speed issue is that it can really do just one thing. Any heavy task (including large file/network operations, apparently) will render the system almost unresponsive until it’s finished.

20 days agodiscuss

Notably, in programming this is actually a desirable feature for most problems. Even human programmers are taught to produce predictable and obvious code whenever possible. I wonder is ultimately this is an artifact of optimizing the models for code, that they become less creative.

22 days agodiscuss

Given it’s a website mostly for experienced computer people who, like you, don’t really need those visual cues, don’t you think adding them would be superfluous?

22 days agodiscuss

Let’s look at the very website we on. Would you prefer for every clickable element here to be a button? Or even underlined as a link? Do you ever get confused navigating this website?

25 days agodiscuss

To be fair, precedent has already been made with cold brew.

26 days agodiscuss

I'm guessing it's a BlizzCon joke.

29 days agodiscuss

The "loudness war" issue is not inherent to digital sources. Nor is it something you need to "master the record out of". It's sufficient to not break it in the first place.

29 days agodiscuss

You’ve picked an interesting example, as driving a car, even with all safety precautions, is pretty much the most dangerous activity we do on a daily basis. Yet somehow we decide that the benefits outweigh the risks.

last monthdiscuss

Many people will say it’s because of the slop. I think it’s because they have no product vision. The roadmap is pretty much a random walk, which combined with the velocity of agentic coding is like digging a moat with atomic bombs.

last monthdiscuss

Your job being automated to the point where you no longer proform it has the same adverse consequences. Whether this could work is some economic and societal setup is irrelevant, because that's not the world we live in.

last monthdiscuss

To what end? Can't you just quit and get the same result?

last monthdiscuss

Rising kids also has a time, effort and opportunity costs which are not easily offset with money. I don’t think there’s a way to frame modern parenting in a way where it „pays off” in the same sense as it did in the past. As of now, it’s essentially a hobby.

last monthdiscuss

Subagents help with costs too, as they can run on much cheaper models.

last monthdiscuss

Do you know that if you turn off saving YouTube history, you can have no front page at all?

last monthdiscuss

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