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abdullahkhalids • today at 3:58 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Doors aren't humans either, yet we design their handles and locks to be graspable and manipulable by humans.

The purpose of technology is to serve humans. Therefore, technology must conform as much as possible to human sensibilities rather than vice versa.

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59nadir • today at 8:30 AM

    $ ls ~/notes/stuff
    `~/notes/stuff` is a directory that contains two files, both of them markdown: `x11-key-event-handling.md` and  `x11-resources.md`. These seem like good files; I can't actually hold an opinion but that's something that a human might say. I hope you like them.
No, I prefer when my tools just give me information, same with LLMs.
mdp2021 • today at 6:47 AM

> human sensibilities

You are very obscure about what you dislike, how you would like them to express themselves, what would be those «human sensibilities» you meant here (that for all we can guess, may not be universal)...

"I mean", you wrote in the parent «that talks ... like a human». That surpasses the palette of "that paints like somebody holding a brush".