Cyan488's comments

On: Dream Recorder AI – a portal to your subconscious

[Cyan488]

I think it's meant as an art piece, not a product. I liked that the call to action is "BUILD YOUR OWN" instead of "BUY NOW ($599)".

On: How close are we to a vision for 2010?

[Cyan488]

I use a TCL Flip for this purpose. Phone calls and texting work well enough, the web browser is painful on the small non-touch screen but works in a pinch, and the phone can create an LTE hotspot.

Sometimes I also carry my smartphone but I don't /need/ to. I've told my family and trusted contacts that any emergency should be a phone call.

On: ai;dr

[Cyan488]

Some people legitimately have no idea that others recognize and are offput by llm output.

Also, i know a lot of non-native English speakers that use AI tools to "correct things". Because of the language barrier these people especially are less likely to ever be able to recognize the specific llm tone that precipitates.

[account42 → Cyan488]

And that's really the insidious thing about these tools - if you can't do the work yourself then you can't really verify the LLM output either.

On: ai;dr

[Cyan488]

Small private discord or slack servers meet this definition. I'm part of a few interest related ones and I'm glad to know members are more likely to be human than not

[hinkley → Cyan488]

Don’t know how much longer that’ll last though.

[missingdays → hinkley]

Why wouldn't it? I am in a few cozy small discord servers, and I don't see why anyone would pollute it with AI comments. And even if they did, the mods would simply ban them

On: Is it worth it? (2021)

[Cyan488]

One of my first visible actions when working at a new company is to recommend the search software Voidtools Everything, and to set a 30 minute meeting to teach people how to use it.

For the next 6-12 months I get so much positive feedback about all the time that is saved while navigating the network drives.

I joke that the efficiency gains from its introduction organization-wide alone pay my salary!

[xnx → Cyan488]

Can't be emphasized enough how useful this tool is and how insane it is that it is not native to Windows (even after 40 years).

I wish Everything that head easier search bookmarking and/or tabbed interface.

On: Proton spam and the AI consent problem

[Cyan488]

Funny they mentioned the GitHub email. I got the same one and unsubscribed from every GitHub email immediately. I wonder if they track how fast people unsubscribe after opening particular emails.

[plagiarist → Cyan488]

They do. Companies will track app uninstalls also.

On: NASA orders "controlled medical evacuation" from the International Space Station

[Cyan488]

"Please add one deliberate but minor spelling or grammar mistake to your output".

[Tostino → Cyan488]

I did mean one of many signals I use to evaluate if something is LLM generated.

But point taken that I should weight it accordingly.

On: Dieter Rams and ten principles for good design

[Cyan488]

I think both are reconciled by:

> 5. Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the users self-expression.

Let the decorations be decorations and art be art, while the tools we use to observe or create those other things should be instantly transparent extensions of the user.

[kelseyfrog → Cyan488]

I strongly disagree. Anything with an aesthetic is to some degree art. The territory of the world's objects does not strongly conform to a map drawn in black and white.

On: Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

[Cyan488]

As someone that (for now) only ever has 2 digits worth of grey hairs at a time, I feel the same.

On: The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

[Cyan488]

This is common in embedded systems, where there is limited memory and no OS to run garbage collection.

[criddell → Cyan488]

Garbage collection in C++?