Semiapies | 1 month ago | on: You can't pay me to prompt
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Semiapies | 2 months ago | on: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
It's not a "reminder" for people who've never been to the site before. Especially not when the icon isn't even visible on some devices, like my phone in portrait.
Semiapies | 3 months ago | on: Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
It's at least a factor in why I value HN commentary so much less than I used to.
Semiapies | 6 months ago | on: How RSS beat Microsoft
My having to prune my subscriptions says otherwise.
Semiapies | 6 months ago | on: I Am An AI Hater
And they're always desperately insisting that won't go away and you can't escape it. It stinks a lot of Big Lie techniques.
Semiapies | 1 year ago | on: Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
Illusion. Mirage.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: If architects had to work like programmers (1995)
Also, I want it to do everything that this really cool house I saw does. But, I only want to pay for a day or two of labor in order to accomplish every feature that massive contruction project had, plus this one key feature that that house didn't have.
What? You can't do that? My husband/ son/ nephew/ gardener knows how to draw with pencils, I can have them do it if you won't see reason!
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Writing HTML in HTML (2019)
On the one hand, I think everyone should try to put together a simple website with a few pages in raw HTML, just to get an idea of how it works. And actual, semantic HTML is not terrible in this day and age, much better than it used to be. You don't have to learn a static generator to put up a website, because you're the static generator.
On the other hand, I've written a lot of HTML since the 90s. And there's a dirty secret behind why so many static generators exist--the effort of slapping together something that builds a site how you want it is similar to learning an existing system. Often, that's a short build script rather than some expansive framework.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
> But let’s substitute a different phrase: “learn to cook”. People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more people learn to cook so they can eat better, or more affordably. Because they want to carry on a tradition. Sometimes they learn because they’re bored! Or even because they enjoy spending time with the person who’s teaching them.
This is actually why I think more people should learn some coding (and why there should be more HyperCard-like environments for non-professionals). It makes the computer or phone a tool to do the things they want, not just what some programmer in SF wanted to write and try to market.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day
Looking forward to a brief rush of editorial cartoon-level works doing absolutely nothing not already covered by parody or fair use. Maybe a bad horror or porn movie.
Then nothing, just like happened with Winnie the Pooh.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Building ColdFusion for the Web
I still support a few sites and continue to update one large app written in it.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Constellations are younger than continents
If you take it as "life on land", it's accurate on both counts. Those are some old mountains.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
Also the royal "we".
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: The most interesting book cover designs are often left on the cutting room floor
Really, book covers were getting terrible by the late 90s and early Aughts. I remember the especially cringeworthy period where a few female Asian-American writers got semi-autobiographical books out, and the publishers slapped vaguely arty photos of bowls of rice on them.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Ensō: write now, edit later
I think the fading, if I paused to think about anything, would make me lose track of what I'd already written.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: The Moose Boulder Hoax
Really, I always assumed that of a lot of their articles.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Rhythm 0
I wouldn't feel bad about anecdote in this case. All the online descriptions of the performance, including this Wikipedia article, rely solely on the artist's narrative of the events.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: I built a Python web framework
Probably safest to avoid people raining hate in them for any perceived falling.
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: What's new in Emacs 29.1
I've had good results with wsl2. The only thing that frustrates me is magit performance on a big project with literally twenty years of commits. (It was originally an SVN repo.)
Semiapies | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
Even this has some culturally confusing elements, doesn't it?
It's never not going to.
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And I don't ever see it under a fifth, anymore. There is a Hell of a marketing push going on, and it's genuinely hard to tell the difference between the AI true believers and the marketing bots.