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by Centigonal 2mo ago
I think a fantastic companion piece to this article is https://gwern.net/complement
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
Another AI-ism is the use of the word "grain" in technical contexts. I'm confident the OP is human-written, but everything in my AI-supported codebase is about grains, seams, tracer bullets, and load-bearing components now. I
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
Important question: how many engineers does it take to teach a robot how to screw in a light bulb?
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
It's free for a limited number of notes. I guess you could copypaste the note summaries out to Obsidian or something, but at that point you're better off using MacParakeet, OpenWhispr, etc. https://www.granola.ai/p
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
I just found out this capability is also available on Macbooks! This would have saved me a lot of grief during a recent road trip through some mountains. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-motion-setti
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
places like Charles Town, Martinsburg, and Cumberland MD are really wonderful, beautiful, but economically depressed communities. It's not quite Boise or Austin, but towns like this would be really attractive to a certain group of remo
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
I will often do "speak a long rambling set of ideas and ask the LLM to summarize it into a prompt or spec -> manually refine -> drop refined prompt into fresh conversation"
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
Is Superpowers any good? My coworkers who've used it seem to think that its main purpose is to consume a lot of tokens.
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
wow, they really are exhausting every avenue to raise as much money as possible.
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
Our internet ecosystem is becoming more and more hostile to open information commons. I like open information commons -- what do we do about this?
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
I'm referring to the equity offering that started in June and has a second component that starts in 2026Q3. Most of this raise came from the sale of Class A and Class C stock. A fraction came from the sale of convertible stock. To my k
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
They just raised $85 billion and they're sitting on a mountain of cash - if their spending didn't increase in this context, it'd be bad management. The real story here is that they have decided to spend that mountain of cash
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
That tiny 1"x1.5" thumbnail[1] of John C. Dvorak in PC Magazine was the essence of Gravitas for me as a kid. [1] https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1999-12-14/page/88/mode/2...
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
Moreover, OpenAI already doesn't have the best reputation for maintaining ideals over doing the convenient and profitable thing
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
I had the same experience trying to see the 4th of July fireworks in an unfamiliar city. It doesn't help that there was very little information online about which roads were closed.
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
I didn't get that vibe from this piece at all. Claire sounds disillusioned more than she sounds bitter, and I really don't see too much supporting the narrative about her becoming upset because of her lack of relevancy.
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
Google is loved for the things they built that cause people to love Google (GMail, Search, Drive, K8s, Android, Patents, Books, Nest, Wave, Workspace, YouTube) and Google is hated for the things they built that cause people to hate Google (
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
The cloud logo that is inscribed onto the base of this device and on its bottom-right key is no longer used by OpenAI. In fact, the "Codex" app, branding, and featureset was folded entirely into the ChatGPT app earlier this week.
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
It is an emulator for a console that does not exist in real life. People make games for this "console" because they are fun to play and fun to program. The same developer made PICO-8, which is better known: https://www.
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
Actually reasonable decision from the DEA under RFK. Scheduling concentrated/semi-synthetic kratom products while leaving the weaker leaf-based products alone is a good compromise to reduce harm without criminalizing kratom (which has
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by Centigonal 2mo ago
This is the AI coding version of those long blog posts talking about zettelkasten or workflowy or whatever. I'm sure this is great for you, but without insight into what you're shipping, you're just waxing lyrical about your
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
Yes, I am. I think Chatto looks great, and I use AI in my job every single day. I've been following OpenAI since MuseNet. I'm uncomfortable about the coming Kuznets curve for AI, the wealth concentrating effects, the energy use, t
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
If they fixed it, then it wouldn't be SWE-Bench Pro anymore, right? It'd be "SWE-Bench-Pro-Fixed-OpenAI." I think it's better optics for the independence of the benchmark if the OpenAI team lets some third party do
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
Good luck! The world needs more rms types (specifically referring to people who adhere strongly to moral principles over expedience)
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
That was intentional - I think Office (or, uh, Microsoft 365 Copilot as it is now called) is frustrating mass-market mediocre software! That said, it consistently lets me do my job, while LibreOffice is often unusable for my purposes.
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
For 2 and 3, office software and OSs have strong network effects and up-stack effects, just like CPU instruction sets. Also, I'm sorry, but OSS office suites compete with Office and GSuite the way grocery store frozen pizza competes wi
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
It's in the press release. > Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have en
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
Looking forward to reading something very similar to this in 10 years about the Discord servers and Insta DMs of the 2020s.
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
There are some nice curb-cut effects of dark-sky lighting: - The circadian rhythms of birds and nocturnal creatures are less severely affected - Amber lights produce less insomnia - The dumb streetlight across the street doesn't blind
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
Larry Sanger has been grinding an axe against Wikipedia for nearly two decades. Some of his arguments are convincing, but it's hard to take them seriously when they're coming from a man who has tried repeatedly to undermine the si

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