JimDabell

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by JimDabell 6d ago
People say ChatGPT generates images with a yellow tint. The person you are replying to is suggesting that these images have a yellow tint and therefore this model is distilled from ChatGPT.
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by JimDabell 8d ago
> > If you aren’t willing to say you believe this, you are just asking me to waste my time arguing with a phantom opinion nobody holds. > This is the weirdest thing to put in a comment you could simply not have made. If your time i
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by JimDabell 8d ago
I don’t care what’s possible , I asked what was plausible . Do you think that they came up with it independently? If you aren’t willing to say you believe this, you are just asking me to waste my time arguing with a phantom opinion nobo
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by JimDabell 8d ago
You are mixing up culture, data, and the creation of new works as if they are the same thing when they are very different.
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by JimDabell 8d ago
> Isn't that the same point piracy advocates have been making for a while? No. Plenty of people – not just “piracy advocates”, whoever they are – have pointed out that copyright infringement is not theft over the years. Learning,
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by JimDabell 8d ago
> how can you say that he didn't think it himself? Because the same sentence has been repeated practically word-for-word ad nauseam all over social media for years. What do you think is plausible - that they repeated something tha
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by JimDabell 8d ago
> It's the robbery of all of our culture to sell it back to us at a mark-up Learning isn’t stealing. They didn’t take our culture away from us and nobody is “buying our culture back” from them. We never lost it; it never went anywhe
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by JimDabell 8d ago
> If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it? This isn’t your thought; you are merely regurgitating a sentence we have all heard many times before, practically word for word. Presumably you think there is val
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by JimDabell 10d ago
The Google Play review process has been slower and more painful than the App Store review process for 5+ years at this point. At least you get to communicate with real people at Apple; it’s all bot-driven with Google.
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by JimDabell 10d ago
More specifically – because I think this is an aspect that has mostly been lost to time – when the CSS Zen Garden was first created, table layouts were still the norm and there was huge pushback from a surprisingly large number of develop
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by JimDabell 20d ago
Either you are paying attention or you are doing what the GP described in their comment. The two are mutually exclusive.
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by JimDabell 20d ago
Pay attention to what you are staging. Generally this means `git add -p` or similar. Pay attention to what you are committing. Generally this means looking at what you have staged before writing your commit log message. Pay attention to wha
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by JimDabell 21d ago
> You clearly haven't seen the people who are lazy and so just do `git add . && git commit -m ... && git push -f origin` every time. I’ve worked with and managed plenty of people like that and those are the people I
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by JimDabell 27d ago
> If you want to work on the problem, you can do that when you're ready, at your own initiative, not in the middle of what you're actually trying to do. As I explained earlier, what we were actually trying to do was debug the p
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by JimDabell 27d ago
I have experienced this in person with a developer who was failing to debug something. An error message was popping up on screen and he was reflexively clicking it away faster than anybody could read it. Even after being told “an error mess
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by JimDabell 27d ago
You can usually safely dismiss sentences that start with “It’s widely accepted that…” because if it were actually true, they wouldn’t need to hedge like that. The usual reason to start a sentence like that is when it isn’t as widely acc
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by JimDabell 28d ago
Requests has been dead for over a decade. It doesn’t support HTTP/2, it doesn’t support HTTP/3, it doesn’t support async, and they ignore security vulnerabilities for months. Nobody should use requests. If you are still using it,
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
Claude Code’s been doing this for at least a year already and I assume Claude Cowork does it too as a result. That’s already millions of users, so it’s not “just a neat idea with no adoption”.
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
I haven’t kept up to date on Gastown, but I’m familiar with the mindset. A lot of people who want to go all-in on AI start with how they currently produce software and they try to add AI everywhere they can until things start going wrong. A
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
em is a generic "font-size" without regard to the axis. ch is specifically related to the font width, and ex is specifically related to the font height. So if you want things like padding and margins to be proportionate to the fon
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
> Her objections run from the immediate to the apocalyptic: the water and power consumed by data centres, what the technology is doing to people’s capacity to think, and research suggesting advanced AI could pose a risk of human extincti
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
It’s even worse than that! There is no delete all feature ! So if you have 100k photos and make the mistake of saying yes to Google Photos just once , it will fill up all your storage space, block your email until you pay for extra storag
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
You don’t want to do that for anything you want to be able to vary, but they do something similar with a “soul document” for things they always want to apply. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125184
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
I’ve seen this used before to add a credit that only appears when you save the image. You append the credit to the bottom of the image, then crop the image with CSS using a technique like this to hide the credit. Then when somebody saves th
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
Mozilla have indicated they are positive on the feature: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#declarative-w... Chromium has a bug filed: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/382298314 So h
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
> native apps are only made to the benefit of the companies, not the users. We literally built the apps because people wanted them. The whole reason the App Store exists is because when Steve Jobs told everybody that to build iPhone apps
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
This is not true. I’ve worked in this space. Whenever users had the choice, they chose native iOS about two thirds of the time, native Android about a quarter of the time, and web about 10% of the time. This is across all platforms, includi
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
> basically unusable for browsers unless you do wasm Relying on WASM means that nobody on Apple platforms who has Lockdown Mode enabled for better security will be able to use it.
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by JimDabell 2mo ago
In the same month the Llama weights were leaked, Eliezer Yudkowsky – possibly the most prominent AI doomer, had an article published in TIME magazine saying that we should conduct airstrikes on foreign datacentres to stop their AI develop
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by JimDabell 2mo ago
England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are constituent countries in a larger country called the United Kingdom. When dealing with international affairs, you typically want to be talking about the UK (unless the subject is sport), as

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