Not specifically about your case, but some people are usually just more verbose than others and tend to say the same thing more than once, or perhaps haven't found a clear way of articulating their thoughts down to fewer words.
I think the sentiment here is that the short formulation of Kant's categorical imperative is as good and easier to read than the entirety of "types of ethical theory" (J.J. Martineau).
I find LLM slop much harder to read than normal human text.
I can't really explain it, it's just a feeling.
The feeling that it draaaags and draaaaaags and keeeeeps going on and on and on before getting to the point, and by the time I'm done with all the "fluff", I don't care what is the text about anymore, I just want to lay down and rest.
The lesson there is that your writing is not fit for its audience. Whether you choose to blame the audience or adjust your writing is up to you. There's no real answer - sometimes the audience is morons and you are actually just wasting your time and other times you are being overly verbose and uninteresting. You are being given signal. Use it.
But realistically, I am not going to read every online comment carefully because the SNR is low, especially on Reddit. Make your case concisely and meaningfully.
As it happens I'm just on a train to Airbnb with large group of demoscene and fractal art friends, full week ahead of the Revision[0] demoparty! Hells yeah
My top pick for pixel art would be anything by Made of demogroup Bomb, don't have a good link to hand sorry and need to change trains etc. Also check this amazing pixel art book: https://www.themastersofpixelart.com/
I made the images in Deluxe Paint when I was 16-18 years old. It was a lovely surprise to be contacted two decades later by the author who wanted to print them in this beautiful book among many far more talented artists.
Yeah it's such a buzzkill when you have to respect the rule of law :'( Won't someone please think of those poor tech giants and their ability to push purposely addictive and radicalising social media to children?!
That's a direct lie, just read the page you ostensibly wrote. It contains several times the imperative "support us" and talk about paying your bills, which is obviously asking for money.
You know what, fuck this. It's Friday night and I'm talking to a very low capability bot, this is bullshit.
Hacker News needs to do better than allowing this trash to the front page, else I'm just done.
I hate everything about this headline and metric. As a lifelong graphics programmer from Pentium U/V pipeline assembly optimisation days: so fucking what.
I have never cared about LinkedIn or GitHub stars or any of those bullshit metrics (obviously because I don't score very highly in them), and am enjoying exploring a million things at the speed of thought; get left outside, if it suits you. Smart and flexible people have no trouble using it, and it's amazing.
Rather measure how much I've learnt and created recently compared to before, and get ready for some sobering shit because us experienced old dudes can judge good code from bad pretty well.
> Anyone building modern software depends on language registries such as Maven Central, PyPI, npm, crates.io, and others
So, who's going to tell Linus Torvalds (among many others) he's not writing modern software? I have a feeling I know exactly what the author considers "modern" software...
I assume they are talking about the "This application was downloaded from the internet" warning, which I also don't like. Requiring dollars for signing and then _still_ showing a warning when someone installs your application seems crappy to me.
Yes, I'm sure. Apple has taken a "walled garden" approach for a very long time now, and there are real, tangible benefits to this approach for end users. There are also real downsides, and if you wanted unfettered installation rights, Linux has existed for at least as long as Apple has limited software installation.
My point is that having both of these options is a good thing, as they both have pros and cons, so people can decide which of those pros and cons are most important to them, and then choose accordingly.
Some of us have watched it ratchet up since the 80’s, when there were no such restrictions. The fact that some people hit a threshold and decide to stop putting up with it isn’t surprising.
Quite often on reddit I'll write two paragraphs and get told "I'm not reading all that".
Really? Has basic reading become a Herculean task?
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