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I had the honor of briefly being in the same demogroup as BeRo long ago, and he's absolutely one of the most incredible developers I ever met!

Random anecdote: There was Video Cd, but also CD Video. CD video had both an (inner) CD part with audio, as well as a Laserdisc part which would usually contain a music video. Very weird format, but cool to have both analog and digital storage in one medium.

You summarize it well. Are you on the Fediverse by any chance? If not, you might enjoy it you'll find lots of people there who still make art, write code and are interested in learning.

Honest opinion: Really charming on first look, but nothing where you can get lost in the details, because once you look closer, the soullessness of the generated imagery comes through. So I spent about 5 minutes looking at it, then moved on, and likely won't ever go back there. With other things, like Floor796 that other people pointed out, I can spend so much time looking at all the labor of love that went in there, but making something to look at too closely likely wasn't the point here.

The issue with Whisper is that it messes up both names of both products and guests. What we aim to do is make new subs, but including all the product names and guest names as hints, so Whisper will get them right.

It's so refreshing to see a proper website these days, no js, no cookie banners, just hypertext. Your part about still enjoying programming really resonated with me. I still get so much joy out of programming after 20 years of doing it, it's still just as exciting to learn new things, and I am definitely not running out of new things to learn.

I would absolutely love to teach programming to non-programmers. I have also been offered a job at the technical school where I graduated. But remembering how uninterested the vast majority of my classmates were back then discouraged me from even trying. I guess what I'd want is a teach a room full of people excited to learn about programming.

Great project, I had some fun playing around :)

This really makes clear how boring web design has become. 99% of websites use the same standard layout, there's almost nothing distinct or exciting about any of the designs. I remember web design being an art form, with books being printed with the best designs... I'd visit brand websites just to look at the design itself, even if I wasn't interested in what they were selling.

Of course not all is bad, but I'd love to see some creativity again, it seems like almost no one dares to break the norm anymore.

In Eindhoven, NL, there is a similar system without app. At night traffic lights are red by default, if sensors in the pavement detect an approaching car they turn green in time. If there are no other cars you never have to stop. Great system and has been there for a decade at least.

To be honest: not a fan. It creates a completely new image based on a photo, rather than fix it. The Einstein photo shows particularity well how pretty obvious facial features just get removed. The results look nice, but they are definitely not a restoration, but a generated image.

I recently tried looking up something about local tax law in ChatGPT. It confidently told me a completely wrong rule. There are lots of sources for this, but since some probably unknowingly spread misinformation, ChatGPT just treated it as correct. Since I always verify what ChatGPT spits out, it wasn't a big deal for me, just a reminder that it's garbage in, garbage out.

Writing a complete API client for the Internet Archive in Typescript, with proper documentation, proper typing, unit tests and integration tests, so people can have a proper library for both front-end and back-end applications.

Just because your site uses cookies does not mean you need a consent banner to be GDPR compliant

Unless you're tracking people or sharing visitor data with third party services, you're likely not doing anything that requires consent. See here: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

I would say a big difference of the Internet around 2000 and the internet now is that most people shared information in good faith back then, which is not the case anymore. Maybe back then people were just as uncritical of information, but now we really see the impact of people being not critical.

My take: While AI tools can help with learning, the vast majority of students use it to avoid learning

I never really trusted dentists, and I was validated when I went to a new dentist my brother recommended. It turned out that dentist had an accident and had a temporary substitute.

He took x-rays and showed me on the x-rays that I had 4 separate cavities under fillings that needed to be replaced on 4(!) different appointments.

I have dentist anxiety, so I went to a different dentist in hoped of doing it all at once. He did another x-ray and told me there was no sign of cavities and that I should come back in 6 months.

In retrospect I should have reported that first dentist for fraud or something.

Look up WinJS sometime! It was a really neat idea that MS sadly abandoned.

Quality writing and sloppy ML-genrated thumbnails really don't fit together, but I saw you already announced that you will replace them with proper images, so this will be a nice resource overall!

I say go for it. Most websites are bland and forgettable. Every startup site looks the same these days.

I'm not saying we need to go back to the absolutely wild early 2000s designs, but I feel like there is a need for beautifully designed websites that don't look like the standard responsive page layout of the past 10 years.

This, not nearly as bad in the US, but a mess of private insurances.

Artists should be able to choose whether their work gets used to train machine learning algorithms.

Not a single line saying anything about training data.

This is fantastic, the 3 different interfaces make a lot of sense, and having a cli makes it a breeze to plug other stuff in! I'll give this a try soon! Is there json output for the cli by any chance?

What's the deal with all the generated images that add absolutely nothing to the articles, that's such a cringy trend.

Congrats, this looks fantastic and will be useful for many!

Yeah, Javascript/ECMAscript history is actually very interesting, this contains barely any information.

May I say that it's refreshing to see a well-written blog post on HN that doesn't use uncanny ML generated imagery? Nice post!

As a senior developer: Experience. The output from ChatGPT isn't perfect, but it's good enough to point one in the right direction. The code it outputs is mostly garbage that a good developer would never put into production, but what it does fairly well is finding the relevant bits of documentation.

Example: Using a small part of a new, big, unfamiliar library. Rather than digging through the library docs, I can ask ChatGPT about it, which often points me to the relevant parts, which I then can still confirm in the official docs.

Anyone else tired of blogs trying to make their content more interesting by slapping loads of generated images into each post?

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