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New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:02:34 +0000

This is one hell of a trivia.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Iroh 1.0"

GreenWatermelon — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:14:57 +0000

Is the LLM-tone of this comment intentional? Or is it just how you normally write? Honest question.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:19:38 +0000

Left behind from the cyberpunk dystopian future of the US?

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

GreenWatermelon — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:20:21 +0000

I want out of this absurd reality.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

GreenWatermelon — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:30:31 +0000

The perfect keyboards, for me, are the ones that put HomeEndPgupPgdwn on Fn+Arrow keys. It's just perfect.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

GreenWatermelon — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:21:23 +0000

No all that dramatization is just what LLMs belch out by default when told to tell a story.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Have a fucking website"

GreenWatermelon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:29:54 +0000

It could be "Please, I beg of you, have a website" or "For the love of God, have a website" or even "AAAHHHHH JUST HAVE A WEBSITE ALREADY"

Many ways exist to cover all ranges of emotions without resorting to a purely cosmetic "fuck"

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Have a fucking website"

GreenWatermelon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:03:04 +0000

And in our day jobs we earn money for providing negative value to society. Least we can do is give a little something to someone everynow and then.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Have a fucking website"

GreenWatermelon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:01:41 +0000

That, and giving something nice to your local community ----- the place where you belong.

Like, if I have a skill, why shouldn't I use that skill in service of those around me? Especially when it's barely an inconvenience for me.

The western culture of individualism runs contrary to our biology.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:52:36 +0000

of course, we shouldn't forget that they manifacture the entire world's shit, and have a larger population than US and EU combined. And despite manufacturing all shit, they still emit less per Capita than US and EU.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:55:29 +0000

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:47:36 +0000

Pure AI slope os often extremely obvious, while for good AI writing that's indistinguishable from thoughtful human writing I'd say "Mission fucking accomplished"[0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:44:47 +0000

Poe's law strikes.

Parent's last paragraph was definitely an ironic portray of LLM writing! Notice the double-dash emdash.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:42:27 +0000

As someone put ot before, humans use these little constructions maybe once or twice per article, not every single fucking paragraph.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:32:12 +0000

There is also significant meaning encoded in the parent's choice of words that implies more than what's written. "Formulate", "intend", and "receive" imply the parent comes from a technical or academic background, and this is how they express their thoughts. Parent has "intentions", not mere "wants". To the parent, the act of weaving together a comment for communication constitutes "Formulating thought", which is different from just "find wording"

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

GreenWatermelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:25:02 +0000

> my ears, "to help me find wording that conveys my thoughts the way I want them to be understood by the reader" conveys the same meaning as "to search for a way to formulate my thoughts like I intend them to be received by the reader"

I disagree with your disagreement and subjective take. The LLM changed the meaning in a significant but not very obvious way.

Compare "I use a hammer to drive nails" to "I use a hammer to help me drive nails"

In the former the writer implies tool use, in the latter the LLM turned that into some sort of assistant relationship. The former is normal, the latter is cringe (to my ears)

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

GreenWatermelon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:02:20 +0000

And I much prefer "unpolished due to resource constraints" to the outright malice that is windows.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

GreenWatermelon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:57:35 +0000

For just notepad you have kwrite.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

GreenWatermelon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:42:32 +0000

Why the sad smily? I'm pretty happy Chinese tech is stepping up to break the current memory cartel.

New comment by GreenWatermelon in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

GreenWatermelon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:19:31 +0000

Yeah, and for good reason. The invitation of the light bulb meant factory owners could force workers into 16 hours shifts. The main beneficiaries of new tech were always the capital owners. Workers had to literally fight and die for our 8-hour workdays and 5-days workweek.

This is still going on today: the massive gains from automation are being hoarded by the wealthy capital owners, while workers struggle to make ends meet.