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Nah. Right in the browser works great: discord.com/app

You’re going to keep running into a wall thinking of discord like a forum replacement; It’s designed to be an IRC replacement.

The invitation system intentionally creates some privacy so you can build a sense of enclosed community around them, and so you have some control over who sees what. Not having your conversations on full automatic blast to the public is a feature.


IRC works in the browser now thanks to IRCv3. Matrix is another option

The invitation system gives a false sense of privacy. There are bots that crawl publicly posted invites, public IRC channels, etc. Eventually people will understand that IRC and discord are public in the same way we understand usenet to have been public


No, no. We want the wisdom of the older generations.

We want the stability of someone who has seen life’s ups and downs and understands there is more to life than the petty day to days of a presidency. There is a legacy beyond them and they imbue that in their policy.

Age can be a symptom of your inability to do this, but it is not the problem.

The problem is with specific mental ailments and behavior coming into the presidency. We should scrutinize those ailments heavily, and build a culture around stepping down when life inevitably gets to you too — and having it taken from you if you do not take the opportunity for mutual dignity.

The problems that afflicted Biden could happen to anyone at any age. It is a problem if any candidate experiences it.

And I do not really think age has effectively changed Trump’s view of the world.


There is a minimum age already on all those offices for exactly those reasons.

:) As much I love ragging on ridiculous HN comments, I think this one is rooted in some sensibility.

IBM doesn’t majorly market themselves to consumers. The overwhelming majority of devs just aren’t part of the demographic IBM intends to capture.

It’s no surprise people don’t know what they do. To be honest it does surprise me they’re such a strongly successful company, as little as I’ve knowingly encountered them over my career.


The branding is so strong and it works well enough (I’d say, according to the perception of most people) that it’s just the first “obvious” choice.

Akin to nobody getting fired for choosing AWS, nobody would think poorly of you using ChatGPT.

I don’t think Claude has that same presence yet.

Google has a reputation for being a risk to develop with, and I think they flopped on marketing for general users. It’s hard to compete with “ChatGPT” where there’s a perceived call to action right in the name; You don’t really know what Gemini is for until it’s explained.


From the advertisements I’ve seen, only in the bay area, I honestly wouldn’t know Claude “competed” with ChatGPT unless I knew of it beforehand.

For me that’s mostly because every AI startup is promising the moon on their billboards, lol.


Oh we’re at this stage of AI huh :)

“No it was always slop!!!! Nyeh!”


Feeding text into a machine-learning based app that creates low-effort audio and visuals? Yeah, that's always been slop. I don't use "slop" in a particularly negative sense here, it is what it is


It’s an intriguing use of the word I’ll admit — I think it’s a bit of a loaded term atm though. Overwhelmingly negative, anecdotally.


> Overwhelmingly negative, anecdotally

I don't think it is, actually? "Friend-slop" is a super-popular genre of video game right now (for example, indie smash-hit PEAK), typically characterised by low-friction co-op experiences with a low-fi and/or kit-bashed aesthetic


The games are the popular, but I do not think that term to describe them is that well-used nor used with that much affection :)

It’s requires a good base group of friends that you will have fun with already, and the design for the game is “slop” / cheap / lazy in that regard. But not necessarily bad.


The complete 180 is jarring.

They went from “Core Devices to stealing and everything is terrible and we are making demands” to “Actually everything was fine all along oopsy sorry for the misunderstandings”…


… Quite ironically, Google results are AI… :)


It seems like a great way to foster a sense of community.

Our peers are more than people our age. They are the people older and younger than us too.


> It seems like a great way...

It was a small town, in the early 1900's. Everybody knew everybody, including the kids - who freely roamed the town when not doing chores or such.

I'd agree that it was very good for the kids' social development...but "foster a sense of community", in the present-day context, sounds like an express ticket to expecting far too much from it.


:) Perhaps.


Theoretically this is probably where good jury selection comes in.

If a juror is presented a message with an explanation that is obviously “out of touch” with its intended meaning, the juror loses some trust and applies more scrutiny.


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