Gigachad

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by Gigachad 5mo ago
If your website itself is advertising a product or service you sell you would still want LLMs to see and fetch it. If you are a news site, blog, or any other website that doesn’t exist to sell something, you are only harmed by ai agents.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
This is what reader mode is. It exists purely because most websites are unreadable.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Almost all of these are historic relics of no relevance today. FLIF for example was a research project that was later the basis of JPEG-XL. Pretty much only the ones I listed previously are serious contenders in the space right now.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
There aren’t _that_ many. HEIF has been an unusually large pain in the ass just because it’s both patent encumbered and incredibly popular since the iPhone and many cameras use it. JPEG is woefully outdated with the lack of HDR and modern c
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Hardware encode is required if you want things like video calls, camera recording and such to use it. It isn’t required for content distribution platforms which aren’t realtime and the cost of encode is easily made up by hundreds of thousan
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Most of them can't. It's just a few products like speed testers and social media that are at least surface level easy. You can't vibe code up a triple A quality game in a weekend.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I think we just need sensible levels of surveillance with proper safe guards. I'm quite happy with a network of CCTV that can track down the driver who just bulldosed and killed a kid on the their bike. I'm not ok with Amazon buil
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
It's also surprising how little money is being made. If I was buying a new car and there was an option where I could pay 61 cents for the privacy respecting version, it would be a no brainer.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
The end state is something like China, where petty street level crime is essentially solved. You can leave your bike unlocked because if anyone stole it the police would find them and return it since they can track the thief on a network of
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
The pi, particularly the pi zero is still useful if you need something that can run normal software but not a full mini pc. One example I've seen is using a Pi zero as a "wireless usb" where you can plug it in to a machine th
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Not really. These AI detectors are not quality detectors. I've seen real artists who do quality work have their old pieces they drew way before the invention of gen ai get flagged as AI. It's very detrimental to their business and
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Tbh I wish all messaging apps worked like this. While it’s kind of cool to make charts like this, the privacy implications are pretty terrible for keeping conversations forever. A data breach on an IM app would be one of the most devastatin
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
My advice is to go somewhere in person and to keep going there consistently. It could be a club, a meetup, volunteering, etc. The internet is the fast food of socialising. While it might be quick and easy, the quality is terrible. You’ll ma
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I don't have to because I don't write software for child seeking missiles for Palantir
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
There are certainly some environments that do. The data is clear that things like loud traffic noise increases stress.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I think the FIRE movement is a response to how absurd this is, but it feels kind of wrong that you have to front load all of the saving for your whole life in the first 30 years. I'd love to work 3 days a week now and be paid a livable
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
The general public is not their customer base, they don't have nearly enough money to spend on AI. Going to the media and saying "this product can automate so many jobs" is marketing to other businesses who want to use it to
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Presumably enforcing this would trigger an immediate legal response where Uber claims Apple is using their monopolistic control over the App Store.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I just flag every marketing email as spam. It's much more effective than unsubscribing since it tells your email provider to just redirect everything from them to spam, and it causes trouble for the sender.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Has been like this on my phone for a while. It's crazy when you see someone who hasn't blocked everything and their phone dings multiple times a minute.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
It's absolutely disgusting how most tech companies use notifications as an advertising or addiction building channel. On the rare times I use an app like uber eats, I uninstall it directly after because the app sends multiple adverts a
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Consumerism also doesn't really make people happy in the same way alcohol isn't a cure for depression. It's a short term rush that leaves you in a deeper more empty pit after.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Every TCG buyer I've spoken to is always "up" on cards, though if you dig further you'll find they haven't cashed in any actual gain and are just mentally up based on what they think they could sell them for. While
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Pokemon itself is not a trend but the current hype around the cards is and has only been around for a few years.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
What gets me is that no one actually plays the game or cares about the cards. They buy them purely to resell them to someone else later for more. It's just like crypto in physical form.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
The prime example of the boy who cried wolf.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
It's more the tech leaders than the internet. Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt and such get up on stage or interview regularly with a shit eating grin telling us all about how they are coming for our jobs, will make us obsolete, an
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
There's a lot of workslop pumping the numbers. People can generate a 300 page PDF in a tiny fraction of the time it would have taken, but now the report is full of mistakes and fluff, and the stuff that would have been learned and caug
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
I'd happily work for a company that paid me the money they would have spent on LLMs.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
Limiting token quotas would be fine. Encourage developers to use efficient models, plan the work first, and to not burn thousands of GPU hours on waste. It's much like when developers would waste tons of money on AWS spinning up massiv

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