Hacker News: BeFlatXIII

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

BeFlatXIII — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:55:10 +0000

> For every one of us, there are hundreds, thousands of developers who literally do not give a shit so long as their paychecks hit their accounts

May our new AI co-workers put those thousands into the poorhouse for shoddy worksmanship.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

BeFlatXIII — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:50:18 +0000

So the rest of the world should have the access removed out of some delusion of fairness?

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

BeFlatXIII — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:45:21 +0000

On the other hand, if it's a one-off, you'll have forgotten what you learned by the time you'd need to use that skill again.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

BeFlatXIII — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:36:53 +0000

Trump running wasn't a 4chan joke, but support of him was.

Also, thank you for encouraging me to read the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Reform_Party_presidential....

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

BeFlatXIII — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:34:21 +0000

Keeping outdated models in the curriculum needs to be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Some of them are detrimental to the learning process and should be relegated to a history of science class—skip directly to current understanding; others are useful because they're developmentally appropriate for younger students. Someone who has a background in science pedagogy would be the proper person to make that decision for the Bohr model.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

BeFlatXIII — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:31:00 +0000

That's also why they're the ones who are most vehemently opposed AI art. The algorithm only cares for content, not the artistry they add to their images.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "This is not the future"

BeFlatXIII — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:21:58 +0000

Yes! I want my AI music generator to spit out stems and sheet music I can rearrange, not finished mp3 files.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "This is not the future"

BeFlatXIII — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:18:26 +0000

…and the sting is that the majority of people employed in creative fields are hired to produce content, not art. AI makes this blatantly clear with no fallbacks to ease the mind.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "This is not the future"

BeFlatXIII — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:14:26 +0000

[ citation needed ]

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

BeFlatXIII — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:11:54 +0000

Please point to where the Chinese will have a direct negative impact to my life.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

BeFlatXIII — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:14:00 +0000

The US government is more likely to be a threat to my personal freedom than the Chinese.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

BeFlatXIII — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:04:22 +0000

> 95% of those descriptions have nothing to do with anything that happens later in the book, other than hiding the one tiny detail that actually does become relevant

The foundation of the mystery novel.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

BeFlatXIII — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:03:35 +0000

The problems with teaching symbolism using novels are:

1. Novels considered “curriculum-approved literature” often have symbolism that is irrelevant to a student’s life. It was placed there intentionally by the author, and was blatant to all readers when it was published, but it is indistinguishable to a student from the teacher making things up.

2. Teachers who aren't the best end up teaching from a “it's true because it's true” mindset, which may as well be “because I made it up and said so.” These are quite common.

3. Or the teacher draws from a pool of stock symbolic and thematic answers for all novels. Astute students will spot that immediately and treat it as a game of guessing the teacher’s answer rather than engaging with the text.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Bye, Mom"

BeFlatXIII — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:54:17 +0000

Stories like this are why there should be competency tests before letting people be fertile.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

BeFlatXIII — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:43:50 +0000

Speed and effort arguments are negated for southpaws.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

BeFlatXIII — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:42:59 +0000

But is there a difference between cursive and block lettering? I fully agree with your overall point about handwritten notes being far superior to typed notes. It forces you to filter out extraneous information instead of being a live transcriptionist of your professor.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

BeFlatXIII — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:39:21 +0000

Seems like a skill issue on your end.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

BeFlatXIII — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:38:26 +0000

The kids don't hate classroom reading because of the reading; they hate it because of the associated curriculum. “Why were the curtains blue?” is a skill wasted on children. I only gained an appreciation for such meta-reading during a weeks-long TV Tropes bender during a spat of unemployment after getting fired from my first big-boy job.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

BeFlatXIII — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:51:46 +0000

I type like a drunkard from the autocorrection on modern phones.

New comment by BeFlatXIII in "Craft software that makes people feel something"

BeFlatXIII — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:49:15 +0000

Fun hobby project with the option to change that if someone offers a big enough bag of money.