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We are not "Homo Economicus". We do a lot more than work for gain.

There's art, sport and inquiry. I could spend a lifetime just perfecting my snowboarding skills, even if one could say snowmobiles obviate that.

About art, no, AI can't make art. If you still think it does, please stop polluting the world with uncanny-valley-esque slop, and go to a concert.

And inquiry will only be boosted by AI. We will still make questions...

Next time put the AI disclaimer at the top of the article so that I can avoid reading it while having a meal.

With 2 o's is the Belgian recipe, which is caramelized, out of which they made Biscoff. The Dutch recipe, named "Speculaas", has more spices, and is less sweet.

"The radio spectrum is a fragile resource". That's the first thing they tell you in the licensing class in my country. So this care is more about keeping a fragile common resource working well, rather then trying to pose as law-abiding.

"Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app".

Ugh, no.

And let's not forget the playful variety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepernoot

Please, make sure you try these at least once in your life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos

+1 for the potluck dinners. I find much satisfaction in seeing my social circles merging.

Another lost art is keeping a contacts list and contacting them regularly. People used to have these lists on paper and then send cards at least once per year on birthdays/christmas/independence. With this being relegated to social media, your contacts often fall in the cracks of the quirks of tech companies.

Uhm, why not writing the degrees of the scale at hand? 12-TET is irrelevant for modal music.

In a similar vein, I sometimes line the root of the scale with a red felt tip pen if I am struggling reading a piece.

Probably humans. Arguably worse.

LLMs have introduced a new form of polution: cognitive polution.

Abuse.

You can also get custom-made jeans and T-shirts. They fit better, you can pick the fabric, you can choose details, plus tailors tend to be fun to chat with. I could spend a whole day browsing the local fabric market chosing fabric for my next shirt.

I find it baffling, but custom-made shirts are cheaper than off-the-shelf.

Oh yes, when LLMs fail at translating they don't make a visible error. They fill up with inferred meaning. Translators can only be replaced by LLMs if there's no consequence attached to the meaning of what's being translated.

Meanwhile there's a 60's era fridge in our garage that still runs fine. For three generations it's reputed to keep beer at just the right temperature. To think that a machine like that would need an update... You'd never want to change something that works so well for so long.

Oh, and all the glueing it takes... I hate that part.

Perhaps more like snipers saying they don't need full-auto?

Also, don't use AI to translate into a language you can't read back. It glosses over assumptions you didn't know you made, and the output might not mean what you intended.

My eyes immediately move away from AI generated graphics. If it does manage to fool me, I get irritated and the thing you are trying to promote gets associated with that feeling. Make a poster with crayons if you will, but spare us from more cognitive polution.

I would date this beginning to 2013. That's around when Facebook feed ceased to be chronological. That's when everyone became rabid.

This cuts against you in a way that genuinely matters.

What about the vicinity of large or uphill streets inside a city? I am curious how the data compares with highways.

Windows 11 is what made me switch back to dual booting, after 4 years being content with WSL. Everything is slow, everything's GUIs have two versions and it nags endlessly for a "Windows Account".

> We used opcode charts like musicians used sheet music.

Maybe like musicians use chord charts? In this analogy, sheet music plays a better role as the program.

"Parity is what makes the replacement a drop-in rather than a migration."

It always reads like a 14 year old arguing.

"One, the path not taken, started with an Arduino or Arduino-like microcontroller. The other began with a Raspberry Pi or Pi-like computer-y thing. I went with the Pi, variously using both a Raspberry Pi Zero W and Zero 2 W."

Ok, so instead of bumping your clock +- one hour twice a year you preferred distro upgrades?

I am very curious: did you figure some of the books they were using?

I have almost the same setup. Plus a 3rd party app called "Material Files" to access it on my phone.

It's sad to have to unearth the very human line of thought in this article from the very foamy LLM slop.

No more LLM-written articles in HN!