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I've found the assistant, particularly the android app, to be buggy as all hell. Perhaps it's fine in the browser but as a heavy phone user I couldn't make it work anymore.

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I think it's completely fair game. This is the singular document that gets put in front of employers. Ostensibly the person has put a lot of effort into it, and they haven't even run it through spell check? What are they going to do for our company once they get comfortable?

It's a buyer's market - he should spend the hour with an LLM iterating on his resume.

I also ran into the eBay application being blocked just recently. Other than that I've had no issues, but I imagine this is going to become more and more common as time goes on.

This has also been my experience. I like that it's a small community but their toxicity is much more towards AI or anything to the right of RMS.

> As it happens, the daily practice of medicine does not require interpretation of p-values. Indeed, medicine existed before the p-value.

What are you talking about? Doctors refer people based on test results every single day. From what I've seen, hardly any of them understand the precision/recall of the tests that they then use to refer you (or not) to screening procedures (which are not all harmless).

> I agree. Expecting perfection from humans, even experts, is not reasonable and is frankly counterproductive.

There's a big difference between perfection and "Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance"[1]. I don't think their intentions are bad, but they are woefully incompetent at many basic things.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/17/statistical-literacy-a...

Or at least give us the discord feature of "Mute channel for ..." with some fixed set of durations.

I've made heavy use of emdashes my whole life. It feels like I have to eliminate them now :(

Are you worried about being sherlocked at all? I know "multiplayer" is on their official roadmap.

I think it's a matter of time until we see a notable plugin in the obsidian space get caught exfiltrating data. I imagine then, after significant reputational harm, the team will start introducing safe guards. At a minimum, create some sort of verified publisher system.

It's *significantly* worse than vscode. vscode is at least attempting to grapple the problem: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/extensions/exte....

Will the secure backups also be incremental? I've gotten to the point where the backup takes quite a while to generate.

> Using an LLM is not just ridiculous here but totally the wrong fit and a waste of resources.

Time and labor are resources too. There's a whole host of problems where "good enough" is tremendously valuable.

> I'm not proposing that we all just try harder to be altruistic, but rather that we craft some institution for rewarding people who have solved problems for many without encumbering those solutions with a monetization scheme.

> I'm sure somebody has a better idea than mine, lets get creative.

Every creative scheme I've seen someone try to come up with fails to do what charging money for a product can. Charge money for stuff, have a free tier, enjoy sustainable software.

> there aren’t a ton of good options for workers seeking shorter hours.

Is that true? Most trades can work fewer hours, medical workers like nurses can, hairdressers, plenty of writers are freelance, the entire gig economy.

It seems like big companies don't provide the option, for software at least. I always chocked that up to more bureaucratic processes which add some fixed cost for each employed person.

Also tariffs on cane sugar.

90% of the people here wouldn't pay $3/mo for a browser. Who do you think is going to raise the money?

> I don’t know if it’s the nature of the products themselves

Isn't this what you were just arguing it was not 10 minutes earlier?

I don't see what the big deal is - Governments don't change hands or selectively prosecute.

> the stated target of the law but the least likely to be affected by it

The least likely to be negatively affected. This will absolutely be good for them in that it just adds another item to the list of things that prevents new entrants from competing with them.

Why not raise it to $50/hr? While we're printing money without side effects we might as well go big.

Interesting. I usually don't complain about prices because I wish more products charged, but I always found the publish pricing to just be too high altogether. I have a blog that's a few simple markdown files and it's easily worth the pain of setting up GitHub pages instead of paying $8/mo. Maybe I'm not the target market though.

Oh god. Didn't they try to do something like this in Mexico City and it resulted in no change? Clever policy is always rife with unintended consequences; prices are good.

It sounds like they're not yet at the stage where they need to worry about it, though I've heard Charlie mention making an easy to host package registry as one offering.

An alternative framing. "This software could be so fast, but it's bogged down by having to support every single workflow it's ever once even accidentally supported."

Don't forget that this emboldens the government to define what is and isn't healthy. Something that's worked out super well in the US.

Why?

But didn't you know that social media is causing all of the problems we have right now? Haven't you seen the graph that shows society with no problems until social media, and now we have all the problems?

I haven't used it, but I think this is well targeted by https://github.com/dabapps/django-zen-queries.