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colbyn
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Comment #48245827
I’ve thought about this. Or at least something like that. When reading dune there’s a class of women who can control their biochemistry in such a way that they can eg prolong lifes…
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Comment #47557009
In my experience Grok is the least likely to push back on crazy ideas out of all major chatbots and it’s more often wrong on technical matters. Although I suppose this isn’t necess…
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Comment #47258524
I can’t get downvoted further but as a friendly FYI this page can’t be opened in iOS safari (too many redirects). But I was thinking some time ago I disabled algorithmically prompt…
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Comment #47225862
Oh I guess I stand corrected. I sometimes wish AI wasn't a thing because any natural talent for writing has now been rendered almost meaningless.
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Comment #47214709
Why should we presume it’s an AI description? The writing seems reasonable enough. Some people are more naturally inclined towards articulate writing than others (seems like projec…
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Comment #47214403
Design can go a long way when reading long form text. If someone here is in contact with the author please tell them to improve the typography; most notably smaller and justified t…
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Comment #47172914
The title could have been a line out of Dune. It’s interesting that many of us myself included once thought that the butlerian jihad was silly until now. Frank Herbert wrote someth…
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Comment #47117941
Nope. For all I know it’s due to the sins of the people. The reckoning of heaven.
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Comment #47117477
For context there are many theories for why younger generations are less “cognitively capable” than older generations. Nowadays we call it the reverse Flynn effect. IMO this articl…
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Comment #47108119
Okay I see. Are people being attacked for engaging in AI research/dev irrespective of their character or other personal attributes?
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Comment #47107924
I’m confused can someone please explain to me why he or she is so controversial?
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Comment #47097838
I have yet to read this article (in full), but I love trees! As an amateur AST transformation nerd. Kinda related but I’ve been trying to figure out how to generalize the lessons l…
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Comment #47055620
My thoughts exactly. I’ve been using them for exposing local services to the public internet from my home network. Super convenient for initial proof of concept work…
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Comment #46747825
Cool I sent you an email and included a screen recorded video demo of that project. Although FYI: the UI in that demo needs some work since updating iOS but it's an interesting pro…
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Comment #46747321
As old a rust dev. Any interest in the client side of things? I’ve been experimenting with a few ideas in this regard. Especially, true native markdown rendering and a branching co…
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Comment #46747073
A while ago I figured out how to extend my native TextKit 2 based markdown renderer to support full blown markdown tables with full text selection support. At the time this was qui…
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Comment #45676898
Perhaps because people who are convinced that they’re on the morally right side of history will always assume the problem pertains to others.
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Comment #45382995
Not sufficient. Would people pay money to have these ideas explained to them by a former self educated zealot? (Id have to refresh my memory but if my younger self could get into t…
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Comment #45382958
That’s too simplistic because there’s different types of equality. Things can be different but semantically equal in other regards. Equality in elementary algebra is very vague.
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Comment #44918532
Oh also I’d like to add to the above, the TextKit2 API is way more freeform than people think. You could probably implement your own web browser upon it with optimized line by line…
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Comment #44918411
Oh hey good to see some more literature on TextKit2. I remember diving into it when I wrote my proof of concept markdown renderer: https://github.com/SuperSwiftMarkup/SuperSwiftMar…