I do as well and I also cherry pick a lot specifically with —no-commit to pull together disparate ideas from various sources. I am always fascinated when git usage comes up in threads because there are so many ways people use it that differ from my own and we all seem to find value in it!

I can confirm it is not just you. I’ve had similar experiences in other subreddits. Eventually I just stopped trying because it’s super demoralizing trying to navigate the myriad of rules in each subreddit.

IIRC the mascot is a lizard so here the comment is portraying a Zig enthusiast keen on promoting the ease of learning Zig as a lizard. That was my take.

This is great advice. I also try to make incremental gains in projects as it is the one way I’ve experienced consistent progress. This includes things like learning handstands as a project. A little bit of forward progress is better than no progress. I’ve heard it said it’s like putting pennies (or similar currency) into a savings account. It never seems like much but over time it adds up. The hardest thing for me was recognizing the value in those pennies. Ego, insecurity, etc want the big cathartic jump in progress.

Thanks for sharing this perspective. We have a 9yo and it's already the case some of her classmates have devices that are connected to social media. Very handy advice!

Is it me or does this article seem “off”. The verbatim repetition of the thesis multiple times makes me think this wasn’t written by a person.

The same author just published an article on a new open source language model that supposedly outperforms GPT-3[1]. Very curious.

[1] https://therationalist.substack.com/p/glm-130b-an-open-bilin...

Haven't bothered to read it. GPT detector says it is 99% fake. https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/

Ignoring for the moment the accuracy of that tool, even if the prose is 99% AI written, that doesn't meant that the result is fake. Maybe their model wrote it.

Edit: You can try it here https://huggingface.co/spaces/THUDM/GLM-130B. I tried it. I was not impressed.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I pasted the article text into the site you linked and it said 99.98% real.

I've used two paragraphs from the middle of the article.

100% had this thought because of the repetition. It generally just feels like it makes the same point three times without adding anything new in any of them.

Hi! I am the person that wrote this, and used GPT-3 and a few other writing tools to help me wordsmith it. All the points, however, is original work and not AI generated. I am not a native English speaker, so I have been using these tools to avoid awkward sentences/paragraphs. (Clearly this has not been the outcome I was hoping for)

Good eye, their only other article is equally suspicious in prose and especially content:

https://therationalist.substack.com/p/glm-130b-an-open-bilin...

You're right. I came to this HN thread from Twitter https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1611758284175966209

I was thinking the same thing. The repetition of the variations of the phrase "the creator economy...upper echelon of..." are painfully redundant.

The stock image in the beginning doesn't exactly help - it definitely looks AI produced.

The style is reminiscent of an eighth grade essay. The thesis is as trite and obvious as they come.

For bonus points, the writer cites sources without linking to them, including Forbes—the worst pay-to-play publication out there.

Citing without linking is something I've seen ChatGPT do. It knows this sort of article should contain this sort of citation but doesn't know or care what to actually link.

The second half of the article seems more authentic though. I'm not sure ChatGPT would come up with "the middle class comes from economic friction" (paraphrasing).

I wish I could upvote more than once. Thanks for this perspective!

Seconding Sublime Merge. I've been using it since it was launched and it has been a solid tool.

I second this. I would include The Go Programming Language as well. I will buy any book the Kernighan has had a hand in writing.

If for no other reason than simplified debugging I find there is value. Maybe I’m old but if you have more than one UUID involved in the debugging I’m more likely to trip up than just integers.