To me the 'It didn’t get all of them' is what makes me think this AI thing is just a toy. Don't get me wrong, it's marvelous as it is, but it only is useful (I use ollama + mistral 7B) when I know nothing, if I do have some understanding of the topic at hand it just becomes plain wrong. Hopefully I will be corrected.
No I have not, I am not convinced I should spend money on it (yet)
Using 'sadly' in your answer hints at triggering an emotional response, therefore I will ignore
You are a journalist according to your profile, and please don't get me wrong, but I like to use Mistral 7B, even if it is not as good as GPT4, but it only works for me if I want to be creative, but not accurate, e.g. marketing, writing condolences :(
I would not use it for anything serious
PS: I checked a few other comments here, and I am not the only one who thinks the same, so pointing me at another paid version is not a proof. All I am saying is that there is too much error for it to be more than a toy
- The CEO was owner of a data collection and selling company before.
- Tencient owns to much ownership
- They don't even claim to provide any kind of Privacy
- DM Spam is horrible
- Sometimes enforcing a phone number but don't even support some major carriers.
- Some scams are using the same URLs for years. discord doesn't care.
- Personally I find the UI confusing and unproductive.
I never understood why it even got relevant outside of gaming. It's basically just a closed source, Chinese owned, privacy disrespecting IRC on steroids.
> I never understood why it even got relevant outside of gaming. It's basically just a closed source, Chinese owned, privacy disrespecting IRC on steroids.
That last part is all that matters. It's not "just IRC", like many HNers claim. It is the most advanced evolution of IRC currently available. People use it because it can do anything they want and more, all in one very convenient package. Nobody cares about externalities like who owns it and what data it collects. It works - extremely well. And it's free!
It's just a slack clone. Like mattermost or many other free clones that are just as 'advanced' the only features discord has/had that other slack clones don't have is the gaming integration stuff.
It has way more features than Slack and those others. Just the first things that pop into my head: up arrow to edit, code syntax highlighting, custom (animated) emotes, quick jump (like macos Spotlight), built-in Giphy search, the best and most reliable screen share and video calls (with voice channels, not just DMs/groups), unbeatable voice isolation and echo cancellation (better than Zoom!), very good built-in webhook support and likely the most powerful bot API of any platform.
Maybe some platforms have some of these features, but I'm pretty sure no one platform has even half. That's why Discord won.
Literally everything except video and voice was introduced with slack. Video and voice was horrible and only got really good when they already won the 'battle'. The API and Hooks were even borrowed from slack initially and only later extended.
I am not even a fan of slack and have no need for a group IM like this at all. However discord was everything but revolutionary.
Nobody ever said any of the features features were revolutionary. I don't care what they were like in the early days, or even last week. Right now, at this moment, Discord has all of these features and the best implementations of most of them them at that. And again, it's free.
Like it or not (and fwiw, I don't - trusting most of my communications to a highly over-valued VC-funded startup sounds like a recipe for disaster), Discord is damn good software!
Originally called S+7, invented as part of the OuLiPo (OUvroir à la LIterature POtentielle which could be translated into English as WOrkshop for POtential LIterature, WOPOLI).
I would kindly refer anyone interested -- to the works of Raymond Russel that really started the whole thing. Also, I would recommend the book of Foucault dedicated to his work (only one of this kind in his oeuvre), called Death and The Labyrinth (in English translation).
The Raymond Queneau Exercises in Style is a delightful introduction to OuLiPo. It takes the same story and tells it in 99 different ways (including N+7).
To me, a lot of what the OuLiPo constraints do is to free one’s writing voice from the worn routes that it might take without intervention. Doing an N+7 transpose on a text can open up new way of looking at that text since the nouns have been arbitrarily replaced and you see how the verbs and other auxiliaries work in the writing. My writing often has a subtle undercurrent of OuLiPo happening in it (e.g., the novel I’m revising started with a vague notion of story and 29 chapter titles taken from the Passover Haggadah. A similar shorter piece I wrote, “The Norton Anthology of Self-Destructive Behaviors” [https://uploads.documents.cimpress.io/v1/uploads/151c2c51-d2...], began with a list of self-destructive behaviors and a story emerged from those).
A cul-de-sac is a dead end for cars. Maybe these cities focus more on pedestrians than cars? Seems there are some priori for that line of thinking: https://culdesac.com/
> Welcome to Culdesac Tempe
> The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US!
Never heard of that particular "neighborhood" and to be honest, the website kind of looks like a scam. I was just musing about how the name could make sense for the authors.
