I almost can't imagine a laptop that is less for me. But for the people it is for (like my wife) it's hard to imagine one that's for them more. Really fascinating feeling—kinda glad this exists, even if not for my…
> You can disagree with the tradeoff, but if you don't acknowledge it you're just doing propaganda. I strongly agree with this statement. If a piece of public communication is intended to sway the reader's opinion…
Do you suppose that Google or Samsung are self-consciously catering to my specific use case either? I don't. But an Android tablet is open enough that I can do what I want to do with it, and an iPad is not.
Hard agree. Just this past weekend, just for fun and for recreational programming purposes, I tinkered with Termux on my Samsung S9 FE tablet until I got a full-fledged XFCE window environment running. It uses…
Sounds like your previous LTL had market headroom to be merely twice as expensive while still beating the next cheapest option. And if they'd done so who knows, they might have stayed in business.
Ok so he needs to also donate it to a third person. Let's see how long we can keep it going!
Consider this "strong" premise: So-branded "AI" models (that is, big bags of numbers and the linear algebra needed to exercise them) can be inherently or autonomously dangerous at a scale that threatens the long-term…
I think we could get a long way toward Scott's "working memory" ask by just making a smarter Clipboard Manager. Many people don't use a clipboard manager at all, and even what exists today would be a huge upgrade for…
Imagine a password, but it a) types itself for you and b) detects when it's being sent to an impostor site and blocks them from seeing itself, so it can't be phished. Tada, passkeys.
That's easy, they'll check whether there's one big fingerprint vs >10^10 little tiny fingerprints and conclude accordingly \j
Thanks for clarifying. I think we're talking about different things. Your response would make sense to me if I was making a case against AI for professional use based on "skill atrophy among professionals who use AI" or…
Are you arguing that a TI-84 has materially similar effects on development of critical thinking, writing, and reasoning skills as ChatGPT?
I'm sympathetic to the author's core position. I think LLMs as they're currently deployed are doing net societal harm so far. For example, for every React app whistled up in five hours, there's a high schooler or…
Programmers pervasively underestimate the sheer amount of manual brunt work that business users routinely do by hand and with their own eyes, mouse, and keyboard to make spreadsheet-based processes "work out." I work in…
When I and my (still fairly young) family needed to move cross-country, my wife and I accepted a credit card offer with 0% APR for the first year and put all our moving expenses on it. Then once we settled, we paid it…
In that podcast DHH was talking about how in Omarchy you can change the system settings, monitor setup, themes, window chrome, installed programs, window manager config, keyboard shortcuts, etc. using agents. This is…
EMDR is an amazing thing, you might look into it. Be well, friend.
What's amusing to me in this context is, summarizing emails and such has for a while been a supposed use case for AI—the LLM serving as the "synthesist" to explain long texts accessibly. But with this math question, a…
This is a theme in Blindsight by Peter Watts as well. In that setting, field experts working at the bleeding edge are so advanced that non-experts literally can't understand what they're saying at all. So there's a…
If it isn't still common practice 40 years from now (8/18/2066), I'll give the first person to challenge me and cite this comment $1 USD (or equivalent value in the One-World Order-issued omni-currency that we will…
This sounds roughly similar to, "If eating steak is nutritious and tastes good, why would you not eat an 8oz sirloin for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for an entire month?" "Too much of a good thing" does exist. Someone…
I do the same with mine, except that I haven't been on a flight since I got it :)
Some phones bypass the battery when plugged in, but not all do. I know it's advertised as a feature of some gaming phones because graphics-intensive gaming is one use case where you'd want to use the phone heavily while…
One way of defining Wisdom is the ability to look at a set of metrics and discern when an adjustment or adaptation to them is needed in order to better approach the true objective we are optimizing toward—since the true…
Is that generally caused by Steam, or by the game itself needing an online connection?
I almost can't imagine a laptop that is less for me. But for the people it is for (like my wife) it's hard to imagine one that's for them more. Really fascinating feeling—kinda glad this exists, even if not for my…
> You can disagree with the tradeoff, but if you don't acknowledge it you're just doing propaganda. I strongly agree with this statement. If a piece of public communication is intended to sway the reader's opinion…
Do you suppose that Google or Samsung are self-consciously catering to my specific use case either? I don't. But an Android tablet is open enough that I can do what I want to do with it, and an iPad is not.
Hard agree. Just this past weekend, just for fun and for recreational programming purposes, I tinkered with Termux on my Samsung S9 FE tablet until I got a full-fledged XFCE window environment running. It uses…
Sounds like your previous LTL had market headroom to be merely twice as expensive while still beating the next cheapest option. And if they'd done so who knows, they might have stayed in business.
Ok so he needs to also donate it to a third person. Let's see how long we can keep it going!
Consider this "strong" premise: So-branded "AI" models (that is, big bags of numbers and the linear algebra needed to exercise them) can be inherently or autonomously dangerous at a scale that threatens the long-term…
I think we could get a long way toward Scott's "working memory" ask by just making a smarter Clipboard Manager. Many people don't use a clipboard manager at all, and even what exists today would be a huge upgrade for…
Imagine a password, but it a) types itself for you and b) detects when it's being sent to an impostor site and blocks them from seeing itself, so it can't be phished. Tada, passkeys.
That's easy, they'll check whether there's one big fingerprint vs >10^10 little tiny fingerprints and conclude accordingly \j
Thanks for clarifying. I think we're talking about different things. Your response would make sense to me if I was making a case against AI for professional use based on "skill atrophy among professionals who use AI" or…
Are you arguing that a TI-84 has materially similar effects on development of critical thinking, writing, and reasoning skills as ChatGPT?
I'm sympathetic to the author's core position. I think LLMs as they're currently deployed are doing net societal harm so far. For example, for every React app whistled up in five hours, there's a high schooler or…
Programmers pervasively underestimate the sheer amount of manual brunt work that business users routinely do by hand and with their own eyes, mouse, and keyboard to make spreadsheet-based processes "work out." I work in…
When I and my (still fairly young) family needed to move cross-country, my wife and I accepted a credit card offer with 0% APR for the first year and put all our moving expenses on it. Then once we settled, we paid it…
In that podcast DHH was talking about how in Omarchy you can change the system settings, monitor setup, themes, window chrome, installed programs, window manager config, keyboard shortcuts, etc. using agents. This is…
EMDR is an amazing thing, you might look into it. Be well, friend.
What's amusing to me in this context is, summarizing emails and such has for a while been a supposed use case for AI—the LLM serving as the "synthesist" to explain long texts accessibly. But with this math question, a…
This is a theme in Blindsight by Peter Watts as well. In that setting, field experts working at the bleeding edge are so advanced that non-experts literally can't understand what they're saying at all. So there's a…
If it isn't still common practice 40 years from now (8/18/2066), I'll give the first person to challenge me and cite this comment $1 USD (or equivalent value in the One-World Order-issued omni-currency that we will…
This sounds roughly similar to, "If eating steak is nutritious and tastes good, why would you not eat an 8oz sirloin for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for an entire month?" "Too much of a good thing" does exist. Someone…
I do the same with mine, except that I haven't been on a flight since I got it :)
Some phones bypass the battery when plugged in, but not all do. I know it's advertised as a feature of some gaming phones because graphics-intensive gaming is one use case where you'd want to use the phone heavily while…
One way of defining Wisdom is the ability to look at a set of metrics and discern when an adjustment or adaptation to them is needed in order to better approach the true objective we are optimizing toward—since the true…
Is that generally caused by Steam, or by the game itself needing an online connection?