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jna_sh

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About jna_sh

@joenash@hachyderm.io

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48767296

    It’s not AI, that is an honest to goodness human! She reads the intro to every episode on a daily podcast, she’s just well practiced.

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    Comment #48766234

    Zachtronics wrapped up because they all got a bit burned out by the yearly release pace, and Zach tried to become a teacher. He didn’t like it, and when the rest of the team contin…

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    Comment #48765899

    He never stopped, he’s just under a different label: https://coincidence.games/ They’ve released two Zach-likes, Kaizen and UVS Nirmana. Blatant self promotion, but if you want the…

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    Comment #48758361

    I’ve heard a different reason for their presence in graveyards: because yew kills grazing mammals that eat it, it was cut down everywhere that people grazed animals, which excluded…

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    Comment #48547427

    Kill your lawn!

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    Comment #48518036

    You are the second person to respond to my question that’s entirely orthogonal to the actual AI usage here with a very self-conscious screed. Go read my responses to the first one …

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    Comment #48514967

    Do you think the only reaction to knowing you’re not the first to do something is not to do it? Do you think I said that? To spell it out in case it is still non-obvious: knowing t…

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    Comment #48514929

    This is fair! I am possibly attaching some notion of originality to the word “idea” in the context of a project that others don’t.

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    Comment #48514844

    My thoughts are less about the merits of creating something that already exists than they are about _knowing_ you are doing that. Which I think my post made very clear :)

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    Comment #48514291

    I feel like prior to GenAI, you’d have had to reckon with the true originality of your idea in some form as you did the research. Creatives having to confront their own unoriginali…

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    Comment #48514040

    “ can it build a game idea I've had for years, in a single shot?” Do people do no research or introspection when they’ve had an “idea for years”? There are countless examples of th…

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    Comment #48382464

    I have alas not published it yet, but I really should. How about you? For me, on the research front, I’m very interested in methods that can be sustainably applied in remote, resou…

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    Comment #48344294

    Thanks for sharing these resources and your story! I followed a very similar path, and ended up doing a biodiversity related MSc, with my dissertation being a custom classifier for…

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    Comment #47919143

    Motus is also used for bats and insects! The butterfly project the parent linked to is using Motus: “ This year, new receivers have been added to Motus towers around the Southwest …

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    Comment #47913883

    For what it’s worth, these can be fired in a campfire! No kiln or anything necessary.

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    Comment #47913852

    Got to take part in this when they ran it at Creative Coding Utrecht. They had brought a variety of clays for us to use, most wild dug from forests in Austria. But they also had so…

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    Comment #47430087

    Oh I totally missed you had submitted it yourself! Thanks for a wonderful project :)

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    Comment #47430060

    Title is wrong, isn’t it Wander?

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    Comment #47411189

    > The amount of training data doesn’t matter as much as we thought. Seems a huge assumption to me. From the data one could equally conclude that JavaScript and Python have lower co…

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    Comment #47170907

    > I dunno if the author realizes, but all the things they mentioned did materialize in one way or another, just not exactly how the hype described it. From the post, which is not a…

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    Comment #46962955

    Welcome to the comment section Kyle! https://github.com/GoXLR-on-Linux/goxlr-utility/issues/239#i...

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    Comment #46962281

    Been on Bazzite for a while now and had very few issues, though to backup the sentiments of Antheas here, they have managed to upset the maintainer of the Go-XLR Linux Utility with…

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    Comment #46692147

    Good to see recent writings and changes, I had taken from the December 2025 blog post that the maintainer was done: https://unsigned.io/articles/2025_12_28_Carrier_Switch.html

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    Comment #46657188

    Jevons paradox in action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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    Comment #46600064

    There are more people eating sandwiches than committing school shootings. This is insightful.