lumpysnake

There are a whole lot of people (in tech) who truly hate AI and want nothing to do with it. Those people will flock to projects who take a stand against it.

They can't. Nor can OpenAI or Anthropic. If they could create real economic value using their models, they would. Replacing coders is the best they got. Or solving super niche mathematical conjectures.

Then you're totally right. In this case, it's a poor usage of AI because we are able to tell it's slop.

Odds are very high at this point that I've come across a piece of content I enjoyed that was at least partly written by an LLM without having detected it.

> if the content is being hosted via AWS vs some non-magacorp

> power being used by the data center is renewable

That doesn't change anything about the content itself. AI writing is a disservice to the reader. Why should I even care to read an article you didn't even care about writing yourself? At this point a 300-character tweet would've achieved the same effect.

Because I would've completely avoided the article if I knew that I would be served slop. I was interested in the content, but I was immediately thrown off by the writing style, which closely resembles what I've been getting from Opus 4.8 lately in my dev work. Filler language and useless metaphors everywhere.

> Booleans look tidy until somebody adds a third case and exhaustiveness silently doesn’t kick in. Strings narrow honestly.

Like, nobody truly writes like that. It wouldn't get past any competent editor.

Strings narrow honestly? What does that even mean? This kind of 3-word precision is useless and they appear everywhere in the article. We get the point with in the first sentence, no need to add more.

We should make authors disclose how much AI was used to write an article. This reeks of Opus 4.8.

These are private companies and you better believe they have a say in what they make available on their own platform.

They do not have to host your game that they don’t like and that doesn’t make it censorship.

This has got to be the worst learn x in y minutes that I've ever read. Whitespaces, anyone? Every example is compacted and very hard to read. Comments should document each line instead of a huge wall of text before the function.

Naming everything ExampleX is very difficult to see what is being talked about in this particular function.

I'm lucky to know enough about Dart already, because this is a very bad representation of it, IMO.

I'm on week 2 of Functional Programming Principles in Scala, at Coursera, and so far it's been a very pleasing experience. Lectures are of very high quality, and assignements are well built. I can't talk for any other MOOC, because that's the first one I've been on, but I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

Nobody said it was gonna be easy.

Most of your explanation does not translate really well outside of javascript. Where did you get that the OP is using javascript?

The problem is not with the ads themselves. What you described here screams ADWARE at me. Somehow, your grandpa got an adware installed on his machine (maybe by clicking on every ad that says "boost your computer speed by 10x!"). That's what is causing him such a painful browsing experience.

Speed Cubing

That's the strategy I use all the time but never won a single game (out of 10).

Amen to the more technical part.

That's good work! However the user experience is not the best. I would rather have the chatrooms stacked on the left, instead of inside a dropdown. That way we can quickly see the available rooms. And I'd like to have a list of users currently in the same room as me.

Also, a personal preference of mine is having the new message text box on the bottom.

Keep it up!

Actually, Pi day is next year on March 14th, 2015. It may also work today if you take into account only the first 2 digits after the decimal point, but it kind of defeats the purpose.

> but it's hard to scan and the design looks amateurish

What about Hacker News' design? I guess everybody agrees it's ugly, but it gets the job done. I think your just being over-picky for nothing.

I actually find the new design to be more pleasing to the eye and a lot cleaner. And my search results are still as good as before, so who cares.

Clickable: https://github.com/KitchenPC/core

In-app purchases are not the problem, people paying for them are.

Link?

OO programming is a mess if you make a mess out of it. There is very good OO code out there, and there is also very bad code.

Also, functional programming is such a mess.

I think you get my point.

What's the point of writing code in a functional way to end up with something that is completely unreadable?

I'd rather have code written in simple, well factored functions and classes and easy to reason about, than having to deal with such a mess of functional code.

Don't get me wrong, functional code can be very elegant and clear, but the example provided here is a huge turn off to me.