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·7 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Got a firsthand experience with this. I was dropping off my girlfriend and we stopped to talk in the car, with all the windows up. Over the course of the conversation we got more and more agitated at each other until I had a thought and pulled my Aranet out from my backpack. It was >3000ppm CO2. We opened windows and within 2 minutes all the agitation went away.
npunt
·13 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
oh say more?
npunt
·15 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It’s very obviously AI, several tells:

‘isn’t just / it’s also’ AI-ism should at least turn your AI radar on, then you get this weirdly formal structure that sounds like a trying-to-be-relatable press release:

“This shift eliminates A, thereby enhancing B, improving C, and facilitating D. The benefits? Better U, smoother V (hello, W), improved X, and potentially Y—freeing up Z.”

Question to self interjection, chipper ‘(hello, W)’ aside, topped off with a zero spaced emdash. 10000% AI, stylistically this isn’t text tuned to an HN audience, comments never sound like this. What’s funny is the paragraph it’s quoting has nearly the same style, the LLM probably picked that up.

Not trying to call anyone out, just pointing out the stylistic tells we should all be aware of.
npunt
·15 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
A kind request - please try to write HN replies without AI, but if you're going to, please at least edit out any "it's not X its Y" or "isn't just X, but also Y" AI tics. A lot of us come here to get away from talking to AIs all day.
npunt
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Bingo. Cook is the heat shield now
npunt
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Phone screens are larger, higher res, pinch zoomable, and have backlighting that creates uniform contrast and readability in nearly all lighting conditions.
npunt
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yea the context I usually lead with is the problem and the intended or likely trajectory of the feature, not the noise like you say. I think different folks just like different things.
npunt
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Funny, I always try to lead with context when handing off product/design work, but I've often experienced devs saying 'please just tell me what to do'. No such issue with AI coding tho, it works great there.
npunt
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yep, I was surprised to learn that too.
npunt
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Was just looking at this. What keeps me from buying is the screen is just too small. I'd love to slap this magnetically on the back of my iPhone and have it on the go as a focused reading device but eyes after 40 aren't so happy about reading super tiny characters.

My two wishes are: to size it up so it is roughly the width of a modern smartphone (2.72" -> 2.8") and decrease bezel size. At these small sizes, even 1/2 to 3/4" screen size increase is a big deal in area gained, which leads to more comfort reading and less line scanning.

Hope they'll ship one with the size up 4.7" ED047TC1 display [1] instead.

[1] https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-EPD47/blob/esp32s3/...
npunt
·17 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Can we all band together and agree to flag articles that are so obviously AI written to be engagement bait and devoid of anything meaningful to discuss?

To use an AI-ism: HN isn't an AI blog dump, it's a community.
npunt
·18 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Just want to say I appreciate the effort that you put into this. I know HN sometimes doesn't vote up the big posts but if they're well researched and follow a thought through to a conclusion, I think they're a valuable addition to the discussion. cheers
npunt
·18 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Important subject

> Uses slop AI art

Fastest way to make something into a farce.
npunt
·20 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This is cool! Is there an index of these ported games / OSS ports?
npunt
·21 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Even has a wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_astronaut

Joel's post was the genesis https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

Salient indeed!
npunt
·23 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
If it's a constant offset like you say, and given academia publishes and industry often doesn't, that might suggest it's dependent on the rate of advancement in academic research. Not in this field so I may be wildly off.
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·29 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I feel like AI coding is accelerating everyone's work toward greater solution complexity and I think it's pushing people to build defenses and be more averse to someone else's complexity rather than being impressed by it. Bigco's are probably well behind the curve on this and are still impressed by complexity, but for people on the receiving end of AI stuff either directly via your own hand or indirectly via others, it seems like complexity is not as impressive as it once was.
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·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
This argument at its logical extreme would be that we should grow slop in vats because that takes less land to feed people.

Agree that climate and biodiversity are two very important factors, but there's others. Health effects (e.g. quality-adjusted life years) being one, soil health & resilience another. Monocropping pesticide-laden foods is not some ideal state.
npunt
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Cracks in the voice are so visceral. One I love is in the Rolling Stone's Gimme Shelter, Merry Clayton is just about screaming and her voice cracks and they kept the band's cheering reaction to it on the record [1]. Truly a case of the subject matter trying to break out of the medium.

Related is that a lot of cultures embrace intentional imperfections in art for spiritual reasons, as it conveys authenticity and humility in the face of perfection. E.g. Persian flaw [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme_Shelter

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_carpet#cite_note-68
npunt
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Sure the first first ones, but hedonic adaptation happens pretty quickly. If you watched a movie in the theaters and then got a VHS copy to watch on your TV at home, you'd notice the difference, especially if it was a well-worn copy. I remember being so excited about laserdiscs because they overcame the VHS noise.