thoroughburro
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When you like something and want it to succeed, it’s discouraging to see that thing waste its resources. Especially if you contributed those resources.
I never understood how this very simple position flies over certain heads.
> I watch ten creators. I divide $10 per month between them evenly. They each get $1 per month.
No, they don’t. How are you magically sending them this money? They all signed up for that method? And it doesn’t charge a minimum transfer fee?
You’re unserious.
> Am I using Apple TV? No. Is it really true that they removed the truncation indicator?
Yes.
> I have zero experience with these
Then please realise your advice is completely unneeded and unhelpful.
Yes, but that leaves almost everything anyone cares about. Everything except rendering.
It doesn’t lose the tabs at the end of the tab list, for you? Tabs just disappearing after being opened is a daily issue, for me.
> they've been powering through the five stages of grief in coming to terms with that
If only! They trashed their reputation by lashing out at their own misapprehensions.
It’s my experience that humans are far, far, far more trustworthy about their limitations than LLMs. Obviously, this varies by human.
> Typst seems to be a cloud based solution with monthly fees?
In the exact same way that git is: it isn’t, but one easy way to use it is.
Hey guys, good news: you don’t need to put time and effort into things you don’t need.
Oh, you weren’t doing that? You usually have a reason to act instead of just making work for yourself? Then this post is useless to you.
I’m surprised your projects aren’t plagued by massive waves of scraping traffic like the rest of us. Count yourself lucky, not superior.
> inappropriately dressed
How do you think Anubis should dress?
The author’s arguments explicitly don’t dispute plausibility. It accurately states that mere plausibility is a misleading basis for this report, but that the report provides nothing
but plausibility, and thus is of low quality and dubious motivation.
Anthropic’s lack of any evidence for their claims doesn’t require any position on AI agent capability at all.
Think better.
Wikipedia is fine for that.
My point is that “encyclopaedic information” is low-quality by necessity: there is no shortcut to truly expert information on a topic.
Too many have convinced themselves they can find expertise without joining an actual discourse of experts.
My appreciation of Wikipedia has decreased as my own expertise has increased. A long way before I’m anywhere near an expert on a topic, I begin to spot misleading inaccuracies in its Wikipedia articles. Most often, information that is decades out of date — correct once, but now actively perpetuating old, inaccurate information.
If you’re relying on Wikipedia for more than discovery, be aware that you’re internalizing some amount low-quality or false information along with your layman’s view of the topic.
Your heuristic isn’t just coarse — it’s misleading.
> I thought xbox was doing well?
It very much isn’t.
In the future, this majority who love the artificial pampering will vastly out-vote and out-influence us.
I hope it won’t suck as bad as I predict it will for actual individuals.
Do you think it’s risible to avoid pulling the wings off flies?
Or if you just pass through a US Walmart! Tony’s is everywhere, now.
> That's just a manner of speaking in former British colonies, or at least the subcontinent.
Which is still a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice.
Clarifying where “optimising language to evade a responsibility” evolved does nothing to justify it, which you imply with “that’s just”.
It’s a common, if highly distasteful, euphemism used by entities which must speak out of both sides of their mouths, yes.
> How much mundane (ie, non-suicidal) coercion of this nature is happening every day, but does not make the news because nothing interesting happened as a consequence?
A lot. Have you never heard of the advertising industry?
It doesn’t work well enough for the people who use it; false assumption. I use it, and it’s a cludge that I resent every time I have no other option.
> as a Plex server
Well, Jellyfin. Plex pulled a Slymology long ago.
Synology has equivalent competition. Apple doesn’t.
So, they’re at the phase of clawing back customer value to increase their profits.
Enshittification is a bold strategy when you have solid competition.
> If you have to power it down to swap out a drive there is a chance that your small problem becomes a larger one.
What are you thinking of, here? Just a scary feeling?