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Comment #49177657
Waitasec...wouldn't you have to hold it at a very specific distance from your eye for the "viewfinder" to be accurate?
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Comment #49147199
At work I am sitting on a small pile of incomplete/wrong/missing-the-point bug reports right now, all generated by Opus 5 on High effort. Even under good conditions, LLMs are still…
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Comment #48575379
Precisely! I don't think this is the whole problem but it's a part of it I keep coming back to. We took the one thing that computers were good at (getting the same answer every tim…
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Comment #48505028
My friends and I used to do this all the time in that same time period. It was all fun and games until one day I caught one of them spoofing a message from me to president@whitehou…
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Comment #48490273
I really appreciate the reply, and all your work. The difficulty of what you're doing is not lost on me; I was honestly blown away that you all launched a browser project at all. I…
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Comment #48478825
I'm a devoted Kagi user and really want to use Orion but keep running into perf issues and jank that frustrate me enough to switch back to something else. My most recent attempt wa…
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Comment #48324197
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse
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Comment #47929912
This was unexpected and wonderful. Thank you so much!
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Comment #47911724
The style is really fun, and your writing is interesting. I find it slightly ironic, though, that many of your articles that make a case against AI-generated writing are illustrate…
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Comment #47171819
Just a regular brag, I'd say! He mentions it at the top of every blog post, including irrelevant details like the case. "Weird flex, but OK" The visuals are neat looking but I was …
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Comment #47056094
Did you catch that it's allowed to edit its own SOUL.md? So the bad behavior can be emergent, and compound on itself.
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Comment #47025309
If you want to appreciate his work today, consider reading these lovely articles about the systems he helped design: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/master-system/ https:…
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Comment #46661398
> The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT. Wait...wh...why?!? Of all the things, actual pictures of the planet Saturn are readily available in the public domain. Why poison …
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Comment #46124749
In what sense will it be "Free" if it...isn't?
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Comment #45851626
Same reaction here. I think the author certainly crossed a line by using a diffusion model to publish an image of a dead famous person doing something he never did.
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Comment #45792335
> the OG tool `git` This phrase immediately turned the rest of my hair gray. I'm old enough to still think of Git as the "new" version control system, having survived CVS and Subve…
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Comment #45761981
I'm sorry if it has that effect on you. Personally I've been on tirzepatide for about a year now and have not experienced anything like that. It seems to reduce my impulsivity, but…
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Comment #45754074
You made me curious. It looks like dithering is still an accepted name for this kind of technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_dithering
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Comment #45560828
This is fantastic, thank you. Recently when trying to sleep away from home, I went looking for a noise app and was grossed out by the state of the available apps, just like you sai…
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Comment #44872192
> YouTube gaining an “ask a question about this video” button, this is a perfect example of how to sprinkle AI on an existing product. lol if this is the perfect example, "AI" in g…
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Comment #43227267
Some people experience major side effects. Neither my wife (semaglutide) nor I (tirzepatide) have had any negative effects apart from minor upper GI disturbances when moving up to …
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Comment #42698509
Please reconsider citing Gwyneth Paltrow's scammy goop.com.
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Comment #42553099
I'm so sorry for your loss. I don't have anything super-personal to contribute except what has been said many times already: QModem was my first window on the digital world and a d…
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Comment #41427441
It's quite a bit more "realistic" if you imagine it as a simulation of the "Defragment Free Space" option that at least some defraggers had.
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Comment #41312651
I humbly suggest that you read beyond the first few paragraphs. The author goes on to significantly expand the definition.