Hacker News with Generative AI: Myth

Experience Doesn't Stack: The Myth of Collective Knowledge (joanwestenberg.com)
We treat knowledge like so much cargo. Stack it high enough, gather enough people, and surely you'll reach critical mass. Twenty smart people, each with a year of experience, must be just as good as one person with twenty years. Right?

Experience, Knowledge Management, Human Resources, Work, Myth

5 points by giardini 9 days ago | 0 comments

The Myth of Liquid Detection (eclecticlight.co)
Macs have developed their own mythology, and this week I unintentionally came across a myth that developed over a year ago. Like so many it was born from a chance observation, this time of a new background process that appeared on 25 October 2023 in macOS Sonoma 14.1, and was reported in 9to5Mac on 3 November 2023.

Mac OS, Software, Technology, Myth

62 points by frizlab 64 days ago | 31 comments

The Myth of Liquid Detection (eclecticlight.co)
Macs have developed their own mythology, and this week I unintentionally came across a myth that developed over a year ago. Like so many it was born from a chance observation, this time of a new background process that appeared on 25 October 2023 in macOS Sonoma 14.1, and was reported in 9to5Mac on 3 November 2023.