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It's a marketing video, but at 4 seconds in does that mean the glowing logo is back?!? [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/hnZI5uUSdEo?t=4

Ah. Too late to do anything about it now.

Wish I could delete.

Such a great film, too.

> I migrated all my stuff from dreamhost about 5 years ago

May I ask to where you migrated?

Apropos of nothing, you were quoted by Fireship. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/zv6B6PQOuHE?t=293

Love that this long-settled trademark dispute spawns a contemporary close-to-flamewar HN thread.

Makes me think of the old times when academia tried capturing state of the cybernetic art (even) to the extent of issuing a dead-tree tome about "Flame Wars" [0]

[0] https://www.dukeupress.edu/flame-wars

> I was watching The Rest Is Science when this 1 minute video appeared on the right side with 230k views about a macOS app??

Do you have a link to this 1-minute video?

(a little later…) I think I found it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnNkfHLdFw

I ran two experiments which require the `claude` CLI tool be installed.

For the first experiment, Claude stepped me through how to edit its settings.json to remove warnings from its configuration: a little clunky as I had to respond to Claude's CLI prompts to get it to auto run.

In the second experiment, Claude walked me through how to use Apple's Compressor.app to speed up a video. It walked me through dragging the file into compressor and clicking on the appropriate UI elements to do this.

So, one use case for the bigarrow skill enables Claude to step users through a relatively complex UI to accomplish a task.

There are likely more efficient ways to accomplish the tasks at hand (e.g. ffmpeg for the second experiment), but this use case is interesting if using a GUI tool is required.

> The resolution is literally 1 line of code that could be arrived at in about 30 minutes of patient, old school troubleshooting.

This critique (if it can be termed such) admits that the code itself has little value especially compared to the work of “30 minutes of patient, old school troubleshooting”.

In my past experience, developers who critique more-junior colleagues in this way work better in isolation than as part of a team because working as part of a team would require mentoring colleagues through the often difficult process of troubleshooting.

Giving “the team an exact solution on a silver platter” may not be helpful if implementation depends on knowledge withheld because one does not have the resources, ability, or motivation to mentor.

Something about giving a fish rather than teaching to fish comes to mind.

New Apple Polishing Cloth folds, unquestionably ultra lux.

Does it stack up to Apple Polishing Cloth 1 though? [0][1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvvyTXacSzg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpe6RdEFxk

> You’re absolutely right to be hopeful. Three honest possibilities, and I’ll be straight with you about each:

> [UGC styled humorously as LLMisms]

All joking aside, having interacted with Claude intensely for the last 8 months and about 30 hours/week in the last 3, I’ve started to notice how (for want of a better word) “readable” (“digestible” ? “comprehensible” ? “Predictable” is the wrong direction.) information chunked into LLM-shaped pieces are for me.

I can digest LLM-shaped pieces of data very easily probably because I’ve been spending too much time with Claude, sure.

But the other side of this is that the entire human species (using LLMs) is similarly being trained to digest interrelated pieces of information/data in these specific shapes, akin to how philosophical assertions can be formulated as a syllogism and, thus, become more readily understood because of familiar epistemological cadence and shape.

Many people reject such copy/prose/data because they detect AI-generated-so-not-worth-human-attention, but I do wonder if this is preparing many millions of loosely (and tightly) associated humans and their organizations to quickly exchange and digest information.

This is not to say current LLMisms are the end, only that such detectable patterns in information delivery will make comprehension and communication more efficient (as well as more limited precisely because of such structure).

/philosophical musings about the epistemological implications of LLM-shaped conversation tics

> I’m native French speaker and do not understand what you mean with “avant la lettre”. That translates to “before the letter”, what do you mean?

Metaphorical language, of which French is a rich source, often prevents native speakers from understanding. Literal translations are of no avail.

> avant la lettre : before the letter : before the (specified) word or concept existed [0]

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/avant%20la%20lett...

> I self-published a historical fiction book a couple of years ago, in French, that got a little notoriety […].

Was it bad or scandalous, or did you mean “renown” instead of “notoriety”?

> Everyone close to him, including his family, kept telling him these girls weren’t real, to stop contacting them.

Given he had family, one remedy would have been to establish a guardianship/conservatorship on the basis of mental/financial incompetence.

Seems threads about local LLMs on Apple hardware feature comments listing M3/4/5 at 48GB 64GB and not 128GB.

That is, users with M-series hardware that have less-than-max RAM share results whereas users with max RAM do not.

Speculating (not extrapolating), maybe users with machine that have max RAM are less interested in running local LLMs and are less averse to paying services for compute?

Personally, I’d love to see what output max RAM M-series Apple hardware in these threads.

> > One of them was […] a Gen Z developer who did not personally own a computer (besides a phone).

> > I was floored. Still am.

> Why?

My personal computer is how I learned to be a software developer and how I continue to improve as one. So, it astonishes me that a software developer by trade doesn't own a personal computer.

To help separate my reaction from my personal bias (yeah, not possible), think about how you might feel upon discovering a professional cyclist who did not own a personal bicycle.

> Just that fact that the company expects a candidate to even have their own machine is egregious.

In the company where I work (in recent history, the most valuable company on the planet), there are younger employees who do not own personal computers.

One of them was (with different company now) a Gen Z developer who did not personally own a computer (besides a phone).

I was floored. Still am.

The promo website is something to behold and by itself is sufficient reason to chuck a buck at the possibility of Altar II coming into existence.

Thank you, good luck, and looking forward!

> But to get these from junior and senior engineer for the areas they work in and expect someone else to read it for them? It’s crazy behavior. How can someone serious even think that’s ok.

Deciphering error messages can be a bit of an arcane art, at times impenetrable to all except the authors of a system. Understanding the patterns exposed in such messages and, thereby, deriving their meaning is not always clear even to experienced developers.

Engineers reaching out to you (humans) to explain the output of an LLM haven't fully internalized how to interact with LLMs. When an LLM's output is beyond one's immediate grasp, one can _ask the LLM_ to further break down its output, to explain the concepts and symbols that inform its response.

Personally, I have asked LLMs to draw charts and comprehensively simplify their output, often providing cognitive signposts that "I'm confused" about some aspect of what its reporting.

In other words, some people, including engineers with various lavels of experience, don't yet fully understand the implications of the open-eneded interface that language provides with LLM interaction.

> piranha: carnivorous fish

Nice callout.

Neither here nor there, but many (most?) fish are carnivorous.