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Misogyny in the metaverse: Mark Zuckerberg's dream world a no-go area for women?

theguardian.com
2 points·by throwaway843·năm ngoái·2 comments

Illusion of thinking: Apple research: AI models collapse, give up hard puzzles

mashable.com
1 points·by throwaway843·năm ngoái·1 comments

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throwaway843
·12 tháng trước·discuss
VPN use will increase.
throwaway843
·12 tháng trước·discuss
Just don't watch YouTube.

Everything became junk when primed for 10-12, or 26-30 minutes - a race to the bottom. AI's a further nail into what YT was.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
The world was very pious then. To have written that paragraph a century earlier may have resulted in ostracizm. To have written it like that was enough given the limited backing that ould be given. It was enough to influence those around and after Newton, it was, in that sense, remarkable.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
Dyson always struck me as scammy. All the way back to the 19990s. More proof.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
MacOS hasn't evolved. It sticks with old paradigms because it's stuck in its ways.

With keyboards, that includes mappings that give RSI and finger strain for the sake of not adding a handful of keys.

For the window manager, that includes non-windowed applications, from a UI perspective never moving on from single application views - just giving an illusion of multiple apps.

Despite the strides NextSTEP brought Apple as an OS, some of which shows through at the command line, the UI and UX just hasn't moved on.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
REGEX that's incompatible with Office doesn't win users.

> powerful spreadsheet functions like TEXTSPLIT and VSTACK...

...won't matter to almost anyone when you still can't right-click a row and press 'd' on a keyboard to delete that row. Everyday stuff like that matters, not an oblique function.

I still cannot find my way around the semi-ribbon interface, while half the options are still in menus. It seems like pot luck whether or.not the right-clicked 'format' will have the option. Perhaps it's not even 'format'.

Fancy functions to learn don't matter when ChatGPT can string together existing functions to do the job and leave an average-lay-power-user happy. 365. Meanwhile, python's python-XXXx libraries provide a superior UI, a UI that's entirely in my head, than LibreOffice.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
You seem to be chatting down some perceived tangental competition in order to chat yourself up. That kind of self-promotion's no good. Especially when picking ethereal "your writing sounds weird" ad homineming a decently detailed, reasonably hard-hitting, article.

Perhaps you don't like the conclusions it draws?

You then put words in others mouths. Then cannot leave the thread alone. You've already been called out by failing to pander some cheap anti-Electron sloganeering to the HN crowd, too.

I suggest, if you're going to talk-up your APP, to do so by focusing on positives. Perhaps read some posts by people that promote successfully, such as patio11.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
If they are not conscious, does that make them unconscious? And if so, do they snore?
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
If you want an 'in' to money and power, stay close to AI as money and power's been convinced enough to get insecure about it thus chase it with existential money and power.

To be fair, this happened a couple of years ago but continued stoking of the insecurity flames is required.

If, however, you already have an 'in' to money and power, no action needed unless one's ego wants more, is deranged, etc.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
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throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
Still, cotton underwear.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
On the one hand, there are lots of articles explaining that #000000 is not true black, and #ffffff is not true white.

On the other, there are lots of articles explaining that black on white will cause readers discomfort so recommend camouflaged light grey on dark grey, or vice versa, as better.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
AmigaOS had dictioary.library which AmigaWriter used as could any other app, such as Lemmings.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
Be more resilient.

HN pussy foots enough. That pussy footing is what causes pent-up voting - its trend followers and "i agree/disagree with this"ers not having the gall to cast first vote.

Justifying this will make it even worse, as a wall of text will be needed before anyone does anything. Then you'll get downvoted by the trend followers citing the wall of text dissenter rather than thinking still.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
Everyone's answering about using it for coding and deep knowledge work.

But what about the opposite: all the other stuff that's surface? Today I had it fill out a calendar, to generate test data meeting specs, to do some simple translation, to proof some reading, to search.

If there's a task that can be directed and it takes less time to direct than do, it's a productivity gain.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
Back in the day there was a browser plugin for ICQ that let you chat with anyone else on the same webpage.

That was ~2000. I'm convinced the web has not only gone nowhere but regressed since 2009.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
How edge.

As a human construct, prices are also entirely made up. Treating them as a positivist 'given' akin to 'facts' from natural sciences misses the wood for the trees.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
Three bars means... the exact same thing the thousands and thousands of times it's been seen before.

People have no inate understanding of 'menu'. We don't even read short words like that letter by letter, it's read as a block and is far more complex than three bars.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
I'm curious what's cognitively loading about three horizontal bars arranged in a square located in the corner of an app or website.

Screens, somewhat counterintuitively, used to be wider. Because they were not on handheld mobile devices. Then we had the menubar and nested dropdowns, suckerfish, etc. It was an exciting time to see a menu, you were never quite sure what you were going to get - I believe there are positives to learning curves for power users.

But I digress. 三 means 3 in Chinese. It doesn't take cognitive load. Why does a hamburger? I really am curious.
throwaway843
·năm ngoái·discuss
Unfortunately you were voted down for answering OP.

SSL for websies, TLS for email, tunnels, XMPP, etc.