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fredley

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About fredley

hn [at] mamota dot net

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    Comment #48832357

    Very nice, but the map seems to be in the wrong position vs. the trains/3d elements.

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    Comment #48760816

    > "Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."

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    Comment #48687742

    As an OS, I wish the user would launch fewer programs. What a chore.

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    Comment #48670597

    3) Buy all the RAM, increasing the barrier to entry to push back the tide a bit, in time for a juicy IPO.

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    Comment #48541363

    > To William’s complete lack of surprise, the little cellar under the shed was much better built than the shed itself. But then, practically everywhere in Ankh-Morpork had cellars …

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    Comment #48293604

    The people behind these funds are playing Monopoly IRL, and this in particular makes me very angry. The UK high street has been a notable victim. Gradually, over the past couple of…

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    Comment #48269774

    I think if local models catch up with current SOTA then that might not happen. Either way, I'm don't think the long-term for OAI, Anthropic etc. really holds up.

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    Comment #48211476

    Increasingly I see marketing as akin to LLM training. We are all being trained (by activating and reinforcing neural pathways in our meaty heads) to respond to certain stimuli in a…

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    Comment #48192040

    I don't want to learn how GIMP works. I want to edit photos.

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    Comment #48192015

    Some people do. I know my way around Photoshop very well, but do not use any advanced features. I tried using GIMP once and bounced off immediately, trying to do what I knew how to…

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    Comment #48119791

    Almost exactly the playbook I followed (unwittingly) when designing a logotype for my Playdate game recently: https://play.date/games/hyper-vector/

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    Comment #47915026

    He did his _last_ mile in 4.17. Insane.

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    Comment #47889333

    I need a version of this which swears loudly when an assumption it made turns out to be wrong, with the volume/passion/verbosity correlated with how many tokens it's burned on the …

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    Comment #47862512

    https://archive.is/92Xsy

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    Comment #47701127

    Playdate games! Super constrained/lo-fi/retro and really a joy to program without AI. Hyper Vector is dropping on Catalog next week!

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    Comment #47518235

    I had the UK Age verification popup today. It verified immediately based on the age of my Apple account, I didn't have to take any further action. I am much younger than the OP, an…

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