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rho4
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- I like the AI-disclaimer :). This might become a thing for blog and news articles: (c) all words written by <editor> on <date> without AI. And then there will be a robots.txt directive that allows collection of this self-declared human material for AI training. And a google search option: "ai:no" :)
- This. Speed determines whether I (like to) use a piece of software.
Imagine waiting for a minute until Google spits out the first 10 results.
My prediction: All AI models of the future will give an immediate result, with more and more innovation in mechanisms and UX to drill down further on request.
Edit: After reading my reply I realize that this is also true for interactions with other people. I like interacting with people who give me a 1 sentence response to my question, and only start elaborating and going on tangents and down rabbit holes upon request.
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- Not caring about formatting also signals to me that:
- they have probably never worked on a codebase where files are edited by more than 1 person
- they have never done any significant amount of merging between branches
- they have never maintained a large codebase
- they have never had to refactor a large codebase
- they don't use diff/comparison tools to read the history of their codebase
- they have never written any tooling for their codebase
- they are not good team-players and/or only care about their own stuff
- I have a colleague at work who also has to get within 6" of the screen.
2 years ago I switched to a 55" 8k TV as my primary monitor.
While everyone was giving me the usual crap about it, this guy, when I showed him what it would look like with 400% Zoom, he went and bought one for himself at home.
He thanks me every few weeks, but still didn't dare to set one up in the office.
(ps I have mine standing on a normal height-adjustable table, so you wouldn't have to hunch at all)
- I feel the author. Very often when I report issues to open source projects, the first response is "why don't you submit a patch?", followed by subtle hints that I am a leech profiting off the backs of volunteers. I am also at the point where I seriously ask myself whether I should invest the time to report and provide minimal examples for reproduction.
- I've decided not to worry anymore about privacy/security/ethics/politics-related problems with stuff I use. For me, it's just not worth the time and emotional stress anymore.
My most important criteria is: What does my social circle use.
About once a year I try to cancel all subscriptions, and then resubscribe to those that I miss.
I think this person would be very satisfying to work with, because decisions would be based on a discussion of tradeoffs, and an awareness of similar technologies and approaches throughout computing history.