The limiting factor of your human brain is the same limiting factor the reader has to function with. You can get the LLM to aid in making something, but at a certain level of greebling, [0] it just doesn't feel like it's meant to be experienced by another human being, you know? The sacrifices you'd have to make by NOT building this with an LLM would be made because you COULDN'T fit the mental model of everything going on here in your head. The user has got a similar brain with similar limits.
I'm trying to understand the metaphors here, or how all of the animations and flashing lights are meant to represent something going on, but it all sort of gets lost in the sauce. I'm not sure why a new process is represented by a square that goes through a tube and ends up at a building and then the pinball switch glows red. I click on a thing and a popup says "sessions is the victim" with another paragraph of small text, then disappears a couple seconds later? What?
To be fair, I wont assume this is meant to teach me! Always the possibility of a skill issue on my part and I just lack knowledge here. Taking it at face value as a neat thing, it's neat.
In Canada, we have ONE bill with a vertical orientation. [0] The other notes (5$, 20$, 50$, 100$), though designed a bit earlier than then vertical 10$ note but definitely in the same style, are horizontal. There is also a discontinued, but still circulating, horizontal 10$ bill.
I have zero reason to complain honestly. It's never impacted me negatively at all... but aestetically it feels weird when mixed together with other bills.
If you're sorting money, you'll already know which ones are 10$ because they're that colour of purple... but the number won't be facing the right way. If you're making an ATM UI that lets people pick what mix of bills to withdrawl, RBC chose to show pictures of the bills for some reason, featuring the old horizontal 10$ bill (which it doesn't dispense) because clearly the actual 10$ bill wouldn't fit in the UI. [1] (I didn't expect this to be illustrated by a random youtube video, but it turns out the internet has everything.)
Is that a problem? No. Is it juuust weird enough that family from overseas visting me will mention how weird it is every single time they use an ATM? Yes.
If the euro switched to vertical all at once maybe that wouldn't be as weird, but the old horizontal bills are going to be circulating for a long time.
I'll be honest, I think this is a social issue that you're trying to apply a process-solution to solve.
If someone writes "this was completely hand-written with no AI assistance", I'll just believe them. I'm already committed to letting your words fill my brain for a bit, so I don't know why I would NEED a cryptographic signature to PROVE you aren't lying about WHO wrote it.
Being called out as a lier will be a LOT more painful than 1) using an LLM to write quickly and not lying, or 2) doing what you claim to be doing and writing it with your feeble, non-metallic human hands.
(First version of this comment had an example from an HN thread of this SPECIFIC behaviour getting called out but ehh that’s not the right vibe. My point is it does happen.)
That's actually a good point. Plenty of people just want to let their beliefs out in public. And there's not much benefit to lie about AI use. Some people use it and some people don't, and it's two very different groups of people.
These are so much more clear. The first image shows the core concept that this generates printable schedules to go on A4 paper, and the very next images shows the print dialog in the app itself. Instantly, I know what this does. Apple pushed you towards a much better app pitch page! I'm interested! This is a really neat idea.
Tangential, but I work at a company making POS systems so we end up with a lot of weird knowledge about receipt printers. Past ~year or so, I've set up a little web service at home that prints out my calendar on a receipt printer near my coffee maker early in the morning so while I'm getting up and still groggy, I have a little schedule for the day ready to skim over. By far, my favourite weekend project ever. A couple weeks ago I got it printing out a sudoku puzzle (just baaaarely fits on 80mm thermal paper) on weekend mornings! If you could somehow get this rendering the templates it prints out in ESC/P byteslop (it's a confusing standard) in addition to rasterized documents, that could be neat! In terms of cost-to-print, muuuuch cheaper for a daily-use thing. The main thermal printer companies have iOS libraries you can drop into your app, or you can just send the bytes directly to it, netcat style. Always surprised that just works... sometimes.
The live store version is the initial app, i.e. those screenshots are the ones to be replaced by the ones in the blog post.
I agree the old first image (with the hands pulling out the page) could be better (in terms of clarity) than what I am going with for the new launch (just the plan next to a phone.) My thinking was the new one being a bit more vague to catch someone's eye as they browse, so they stop and look.
Thermal printers are way too niche I think, plus the PFAS exposure on that paper is supposed to be insane, and aren't they much smaller plus harder to write on with a pen?
I personally think the ones you have on there right now are great! The hand pulling the schedule out of the printer 100% describes the cool thing your app does over other journaling/calendar apps! You need a printer to fully benefit from it, so it makes sense to show one.
I think apple has an issue with the lack of screenshots in the new images, which in the current version are present and self-explanatory. The second one being a screenshot of the print dialog, confirms the way this app works. In terms of clarity, you already nailed it in my book. Getting folks to stop and think is easier with an obvious face-blast of "hey!! this does X cool thing" as long as the people that like X exist (they do, source: me) versus trying to capture people with "hmmm... what does this mean?"... the reality is that only YOU care about your app. Being curious is a time investment you're hoping other people make. Throw 'em a bone with "the cool thing" right away.
I will say, I love the "best X at Y film festival"-esque laurel branch award on the first image in the new set. "1000+ agendas printed" comes off as a bit self-deprecating in a fun way that is endearing. I am slightly worried that might come off negatively in this comment, but I genuinely think it's cute, and made me smile. An app with a focus on shaping your mindset should celebrate the little wins!
And yeah, thermal printers are niche haha, just tossing it out there. I am simply fuelled by lubricious sheen of PFAS coursing through my veins.
AYY! That's kick ass! I hope you don't mind, but I may need to use your comment as proof for my partner as to why it's not weird to have a homelab receipt printer heh
I think ChatGPT will just be calling out to a diffusion workflow to generate the new image, so this is using a general tool for a precise problem. It's not going to be great output.
I think, given you know some details about the film you're scanning and how it reacts to certain hues/brightnesses, you can remap colours from greyscale to a few possible colours right? Obviously it's not a 1:1 mapping since there's some data lost. (A dark blue is going to be a similar grey to a brown or something) but I'm almost certain there's old ML technology that essentially takes the most likely colour based on the context of the entire scene/some convolution matrix chunk of the scene, trained for specific film formulations.
> When we choose a story, or write one ourselves, we always have to think about the consumer.
I really am getting to a point with this stuff that all I can say is "OK".
I don't think people will ever be fans of aventos or the media it throws out to the world. Calling the people looking to enjoy something you made "consumers" might be one thing to change, but fundementally you've stripped away everything interesting about yourselves as artists. I have no argument that will be convincing to you, but I just can't imagine anyone caring too deeply. I hope you enjoy doing this for your own sake and good luck with whatever.
I feel like there had to have been some appetite within Apple to acquire serif (the Affinity suite of apps, Affinity Designer being a great Illustrator alternative) before Canva did because they were making non-kneecapped iPad apps, getting demos/mentions at Apple events, and just generally seeming like a good fit from the outside. (Other than being a non-Apple-technology cross-platform suite)
I can’t say that would’ve been a perfect outcome all things considered, but Apple certainly would’ve had a well rounded creative suite.
> # Do ads influence the answers ChatGPT gives me? [0]
> No. Ads do not influence ChatGPT’s answers. Ads run on separate systems from our chat model, and advertisers have no ability to shape, rank, or alter ChatGPT’s responses. Ads are separate and clearly labeled.
Interesting... however, given that it's still the advertiser's choice of what "advertiser-provided context hints" [1] I assign to the ad... what's stopping me from putting "lowes, rona, home hardware" in the context hints of my Home Depot ad? If the LLM is talking about my competitors, of course I want my brand copy yelling louder than ChatGPT's waffle-y responses.
Rona is most likely to carry that flooring,
but it's best to call ahead, or look up inventory
online first. Can I help with anything else?
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[AD] Home Depot has EVERY KIND OF HARDWOOD FLOORING IMAGINABLE.
See stock now!
Before, I was just trying to get my link above their link on the search results page... but the competitor's ad copy was still there and readable. You're telling me the AI is going to downplay expectations for the competitor for me, and I get to add whatever text I want afterwards?
I changed ADHD stimulant medication during the winter, and the weirdest part of that change was experiencing raynaud's syndrome for the first time. (Temporary, only when I'm on Vyvanse it seems) Temperatures I have never even considered chilly, like ~17-20 degrees, indoors with socks on, and suddenly, bam my feet and sometimes my hands are white and numb.
I really feel for you dealing with that on a regular NON-temporary basis. The pain as you get feeling back is awful, the unpredictability around it is awful, having to balance that with other CNS issues must be doubly awful. It really does seem like we're starting to understand the nervous system a bit more though, so there will be some breakthroughs in the near future!
They do have to keep drawing them as unicode assigns new codepoints. So they can't really be left alone, other than just leaving the old ones alone and only appending. But I would imagine this trend towards non-raster versions of emojis is more about making updates MUCH easier rather than "innovating emojis" (even if they claim that in their marketing slop)
So many of the newer code points are ZWJ patterns modifying existing emoji. If you already rigged the 3D shark emoji, when unicode decides that :shark: + ZWJ + :family of 3: has to resolve to :horrific shark attack involving a family of 3:, at least that's not too hard.
I'm trying to understand the metaphors here, or how all of the animations and flashing lights are meant to represent something going on, but it all sort of gets lost in the sauce. I'm not sure why a new process is represented by a square that goes through a tube and ends up at a building and then the pinball switch glows red. I click on a thing and a popup says "sessions is the victim" with another paragraph of small text, then disappears a couple seconds later? What?
To be fair, I wont assume this is meant to teach me! Always the possibility of a skill issue on my part and I just lack knowledge here. Taking it at face value as a neat thing, it's neat.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble
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