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People tolerate inefficiency longer than they tolerate transition.


It needs help. I often pipe my screed though an LLM and post it. I do request that it use a 10th grade reading level, and no emdashes.

For giggles, here's how it would look for this comment. Rather meta, but in this case it removed the "It needs hellp" so here we are.

I often run my screed through an LLM before posting. I ask it to keep the writing at about a 10th grade reading level and to avoid em dashes.


If China keeps releasing decent copies of SOTA models that only take 20% of the resources, then we may get some relief when those models become "good-enough"


>copies of SOTA models that only take 20% of the resources

They might be 20% of the price (because they don't have to invest that much in training), but are probably not 20% of the resources (ie. inference), considering they take more tokens to do the same task, and have slower inference speeds.

https://x.com/scaling01/status/2050616057191072161


Even at 2x the tokens (max from that tweet), that makes them 40% of resources. Which is still only 40% of the resources.


I've been using deepseek and it's good enough for my personal use. It takes way more time/tokens/course-correcting to get things done, but I spend in a month what I spend in a day with opus 4.6


When Europe lost a tone of people to disease, wages went up, housing was cheep and people made families.

Sadly, big business wants cheap labor so we can't have nice things.


What did IBM want? Arrow keys?


Possibly, OS/2 co-development started in 1985, which is the same year IBM released the a keyboard with arrow keys.

Of course, that assumes it came from a place of corporate strategy rather than individual habit, which could have been learned from other older systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard


Enter/return commonly used elsewhere.


I'd never really thought about it before, but Enter to advance to the next field field and Ctrl + Enter to submit the whole form (which is the typical keyboard shortcut for submitting the form while a multi-line text input control has focus) does have a certain appeal to it.


The overloading of return to either send a message or add a newline has become really annoying since chat apps (and then now AI) have become popular.

You have to keep a mental context of whether you need to hold shift before you press return. See also: every message I've ever sent that ended with I' because I fat-fingered the ' key while typing a contraction.


Terminal keyboards generally used to have two separate ENTER (submit the form to the mainframe) and RETURN (insert a line break) keys. I mean, even the original 101-key PC keyboard has them: the RETURN key above the right Shift, and the ENTER key of the numpad.


Shift+Enter will usually enter a newline in a message without triggering send... At least that's the convention used most of the time. No guarantees on specific applications, just my own experience with this.


Some applications annoyingly use the opposite convention: Shift+Enter is what commits the entered text, while plain Enter inserts a newline.


Yeah, it's not always consistent... hell, google voice's sms in the web app will take shift+enter but fail and just submit half the time anyway.


To me that sounds like the way MacOS avoids Home/End with alternative solutions that kinda work but are not great

(And yes I do miss those - with an external keyboard these get less painful but still don't work 100% like on a PC)


What would be 'submit' then?


Enter/return on the 'Submit' button, I suppose. The rationale may have been "Start at the beginning of the form, keep hitting Enter after filling in each field, and it will submit itself when you're done."


Some terminal software would use a function key that would be labelled "Execute". You'd usually have a template to put over the function keys to tell you what does what.


A bit jealous that Japanese facilitates thin, readable labels for the X axis, as each character can be stacked vertically and still make sense on its own


This neatly avoids so many struggles with data viz labels.


I like Trump, but this could very well be true. He's getting rich off of something.


Be really careful about cheap Detroit homes as they can come with a backlog of property taxes.


And occasionally squatters.


And your kitchen can be stolen four times,

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BVZZhyvZMBQ


Install the boring shit and use colored vinal wrap for fun. Good resale value and you can enjoy life.


Workaround: I'm rich and would just start up a newspaper that gave my candidates good coverage.

In my opinion, this isn't a easy problem if you value freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of people to spend their own money.


And fix: a functioning government would make a law that outlaws such flagrant abuse of a media company.

What, if making murder illegal was hard would you just throw your hands and give up and make murder legal? Why is it that suddenly, when it's about corporations to do whatever they want - including destroy democracy itself - we're little babies who can't possibly lift a single finger to stop it?

But that guy who sold an eighth? Implement the full extent of mass surveillance and send a tactical SWAT team to the wrong house to arrest him for 40 years!


> Workaround: I'm rich and would just start up a newspaper that gave my candidates good coverage.

Or buy Twitter.


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