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onraglanroad··on Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive
It was the topic I was discussing with the person I replied to.

If you want to discuss something else just let me know.

onraglanroad··on Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive
Sure , but that seems like you've agreeing that an AI suggestion is as good as an editor suggestion.

What do you see as the difference?

onraglanroad··on I think you should almost never use AI to write
True, but I was responding to the comment rather than the article.
onraglanroad··on I think you should almost never use AI to write
While I mostly agree with you, what is the real difference between an editor saying, 'when generating prose de novo' sounds pretentious to an American audience so let's use 'when writing from scratch' instead, versus an LLM giving the same advice?

Not that it's necessarily better but it's the kind of thing an editor might pick up and so why would you reject the advice if it's a machine giving it rather than a human?

onraglanroad··on A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum
I genuinely found it funny that you thought "go fuck yourself" would be either effective or off-putting to someone with the username "gizajob".

You know Boys from the Black Stuff right?

onraglanroad··on AI models don't kill people – people kill people
I'm not sure the submitter, Bender "kill all humans" Rodriguez, is entirely neutral on this.
onraglanroad··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
As an Idiran sympathiser, I disagree with your ranking. The Culture are now pets of the Minds.
onraglanroad··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
I don't see any AAAA record for your domain.
onraglanroad··on Audacity 4.0
Yes, it would take more space, that's definitely a drawback. You might end up having to have 2 staves for each part.

I'm not really serious about replacing it, more like writing your own OS: it's fun to do and you get a better understanding of why the existing systems work.

onraglanroad··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
It's not an accomplishment. It's obviously been recorded and is therefore a record.
onraglanroad··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
Did that actually happen as something that appears on maps or did it just get ignored as senile rambling?
onraglanroad··on Music Theory for Programmers
Yes, being able to write is a good thing.

You can get so far with just an aural tradition but the invention of writing helps.

onraglanroad··on Audacity 4.0
I think that's a property of the piano though. If every note had an exact lining, it would seem to work better (unless you were very used to the old system).
onraglanroad··on Audacity 4.0
I'll watch the video later but is it more difficult for singers or musicians of particular instruments?

For example, if you number the tones and have a piano style instrument with alternating white and black keys, then you can have a 6 line stave where spaces are always white keys and black keys are always lines.

onraglanroad··on Tim Curry has died
I don't write my comments just for the people I'm replying to. It's more for people who might believe what they wrote.

I don't really care if the original post is trolling. Frankly it's rather sad that people feel the need to get attention online by pretending to be stupid. I wish they had better lives.

onraglanroad··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Which is why they allow you to add new repos like ppas.
onraglanroad··on Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting
I just remember the 4 inner rocky planets which is pretty easy, and then the giant outer planets spell JSUN.

Asteroid belt in between and the second asteroid belt (the Kuiper belt) on the outside.

Then the Oort cloud surrounding the whole thing as a shield to protect the system from alien incursion.

onraglanroad··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
There's no reason to use homebrew on Linux. Your package manager is better in every respect.

Just don't.

onraglanroad··on Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
Summer nears its end

And Haiku blooms like heather

New flowers emerge.

onraglanroad··on Nobody Told Me People Still Code New Games for a 1982 Computer
The 48k ZX Spectrum was my first computer and I love these old games.

I now get the Crash annual for myself for Christmas, which has reviews of the new games. Highly recommended for a nostalgia hit.

onraglanroad··on Bhartrhari's Paradox
Actually, and perhaps sadly, I asked an LLM and I understand now.

But perhaps that's not such a bad thing that I can get answers to my foolish questions!

onraglanroad··on Bhartrhari's Paradox
> No surjective function exists from definitions to real numbers.

I'm not really up on maths so this is possibly a stupid question, but can't any real number be written as an ASCII string, which is basically an integer number, so there is a direct mapping there?

Or is it because the ASCII number wouldn't be in order that makes the difference?

Or is it that you can't write that mapping as a mathematical function perhaps?

onraglanroad··on Tim Curry has died
But the doctor doesn't have any incentive to push whatever the purchasers recommend.

The Scottish NHS really does care about treating people. I know several people who work there.

Your "people like me" spiel is a little lame because you are rather obviously ignorant of the world. Why don't you expand your knowledge rather than continuing here?

onraglanroad··on Tim Curry has died
> millions are radiated to death through capitalist medical systems that drive sales and prioritize profit over cures

This would be a reasonable belief if the USA was the only developed country to use chemo and none of the more Socialist European countries did. In fact, I'd be very wary of any such treatment.

But the reality is that all countries use it as a last resort. So the idea that doctors are recommending it for profit is obviously wrong: a Scottish doctor makes zero more money whatever treatment they recommend, so your theory is obviously wrong.

onraglanroad··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
No, it's exactly what the GP said: per capita doesn't matter, it's just the size of the country.

So split the country up fixes the problem. Yes, it's dumb, but you agreed with it...

onraglanroad··on Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
> Why do many environmental activists seem to want to go back to a shitty past rather than move forward to bright future.

They don't. That's fossil fuel propoganda that you've fallen for and are now spreading.

In reality fossil fuel is crap and we don't need it.

onraglanroad··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
Which was my point. The overseeing has to do with funding not application.

But you're fundamentally dishonest here. You recognise insurance denials but are trying to pretend they don't exist.

You're not discussing honestly, you're just a useless waste of space.

onraglanroad··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
If I lacked the wit to understand sampling, that would be true.
onraglanroad··on Small, native web tricks worth remembering
It tells you which directory is the largest, including dot directories. You can then cd to the largest and run the exact same command again.

You can find out what's filled your disk just by following it. It's something I regularly do.

onraglanroad··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
NICE is an independent body consisting mainly of medical professionals. It's not made up of MPs.

That's exactly my point. How on earth are you still missing this?

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