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magarnicle
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About magarnicle
# The muddle-headed developer
[Github profile](https://github.com/magarnicle)
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Comment #49203738
If broadcast TV competition was just between stations, then maybe this is a bad thing. But no, they are now competing against Netflix et al. From my side of the pond this looks lik…
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Comment #49190608
I don't know why you are getting down-votes. If you've spent any time around a motorized wheelchair you would see they are still pretty bad tech. The wheelchair companies were not …
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Comment #49190546
> My disability is not a tragedy of biology. I find these sorts of statements about disability over-correcting. It is a tragedy of biology that my brother cannot run but I can. Wha…
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Comment #49190520
Maybe, but regulations do have a widespread impact on issues like this. Disabled access is a legal requirement and so we have ramps, despite the extra cost. Asking for better regul…
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Comment #49163747
"mic-droppy" is the perfect description. Now I can imagine Claude sheepishly picking up the mic yet again after I correct it.
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Comment #49162543
Or all the celebrities who write children's' books.
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Comment #49150960
The interesting thing about Lovecraft is that, despite all those racist tropes you mentioned, he actually tried to make horror that wasn't about fear of falling down the evolutiona…
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Comment #49149450
I think the best heuristic for separating artist from their work is: How much does the artist try to put their own personality into it? Woody Allen films are very much soaked throu…
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Comment #49129556
I wasn't arguing about your points because I didn't read them, because your formatting is terrible. Instead of using --, just press return and format your comments so I will be inc…
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Comment #49129497
What about jerks un-pressing your button cos they don't want to wait? Passive-aggressive button wars breaking out, escalating to active-aggressive wars...
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Comment #49118830
Not the emoji, but the text, borders, or other elements for AI features are often in rainbow colours.
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Comment #49104108
Is it cooler than letting a legally blind person be able to see? https://youtu.be/KbS7IiLEqM0?si=itIRbX3SBDxn18IQ
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Comment #49063304
Embedding the app inside the webpage is not a great idea. My PC couldn't really handle it so I couldn't read the page.
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Comment #49014070
Everyone should know about SIMD, so you can know when to ask your good friend Al, who knows how to do it, to use it for you in the right places.
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Comment #48989649
No, he was just talking about reinforcement learning, etc.
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Comment #48987718
Yeah Infuse is actually usable.
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Comment #48987648
> If anthropic Hoovers up the world’s books and trains on them, and then spits them out verbatim on command, then it will clearly impact the value of the work; nobody will buy the …
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Comment #48987175
Has someone replaced your return key with a double-dash key?
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Comment #48987157
Why would reading copyrighted material ever be an issue anyway? Wouldn't copyright law only apply to what you create and publish using the model? Training on every comic book shoul…
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Comment #48953793
Some day this industry's gonna end.
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Comment #48915043
Film is a visual medium, so this is more appropriate: https://www.rogerebert.com/category/opening-shots
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Comment #48803663
If only there were "real" engineers who could answer this question... https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/crossover-project/
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Comment #48770112
All the other replies to this missed the joke.