Is it? Plastic has its uses; plastic shopping bags were once "free", littering the landscape wherever you looked. This is a project the author "really wish[ed] existed", but didn't care enough about to make it happen; and now, after spending a "free" credit, with all the externalities of LLMs we none of us can avoid hearing about on a daily basis, he has a "Sub-standard" result (I cannot believe that the name was chosen entirely without a kind of queasy irony) that either zero or at most one person cares enough about to occasionally use. Does this apparently feeble utility outweigh the externalities? Or perhaps we are simply ignoring them here, again, as we do practically every other in our lives?
On my side, my pending projects are defined to be fun to implement, they are not missing functionality of any sort. for example: implementing a SMTP server or writing a compressor; I don't have brilliant features in mind, only want to learn to do something different.
And i also have a pile of books to read, but I don't want a summary, i can read that anywhere, but i want to enjoy the details
tonyg | 5 hours ago
Is it? Plastic has its uses; plastic shopping bags were once "free", littering the landscape wherever you looked. This is a project the author "really wish[ed] existed", but didn't care enough about to make it happen; and now, after spending a "free" credit, with all the externalities of LLMs we none of us can avoid hearing about on a daily basis, he has a "Sub-standard" result (I cannot believe that the name was chosen entirely without a kind of queasy irony) that either zero or at most one person cares enough about to occasionally use. Does this apparently feeble utility outweigh the externalities? Or perhaps we are simply ignoring them here, again, as we do practically every other in our lives?
einacio | 4 hours ago
On my side, my pending projects are defined to be fun to implement, they are not missing functionality of any sort. for example: implementing a SMTP server or writing a compressor; I don't have brilliant features in mind, only want to learn to do something different. And i also have a pile of books to read, but I don't want a summary, i can read that anywhere, but i want to enjoy the details
daveliepmann | 3 hours ago
There's no software in your life that you want fit to your needs but it would be a chore to do so?