Liquix

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by Liquix 2y ago
classified tech is generally at least 10 years ahead of anything the public has access to. judging by how bizarre and polarizing the previous two US elections have been, i wouldn't be surprised if this prediction had already played out
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by Liquix 2y ago
of course not. i think parent comment means not accessing youtube's videos is preferable to ever visiting the bloated, tracker-infested, dark pattern rife g**gle frontends.
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by Liquix 2y ago
but what will happen when "enjoyable art" and "AI art" are virtually impossible to differentiate between without tools? https://i.imgur.com/XSCN9Aj.png
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by Liquix 2y ago
does displacement mapping not hold up in VR?
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by Liquix 2y ago
booze has been around for thousands of years. it's not good for you but it's also not a new phenomenon driving suicide numbers up. IMHO it's a combination of low wages, high cost of living, and scrolling/gaming/stre
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by Liquix 2y ago
> I made virtually no lasting friendships on tour through my seven years, despite coming across hundreds of players my own age living the same life as my own. > Some players did go out partying locally, which I always felt was a stupi
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by Liquix 2y ago
maybe a balance can be struck? audition/take-home to select potential candidates, a follow up interview with each to confirm they wrote the code and are a good team fit.
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by Liquix 2y ago
classic. we had the versions of OS X with keyboard shortcuts for global zoom and color invert. took a couple months for the faculty to learn about these shortcuts the hard way..
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by Liquix 2y ago
slack was a great product already, no one asked for their org's data to be slurped up by the sleazy opt-in-by-default data harvesting program. gross https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383978
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by Liquix 2y ago
only works if you pay all cash - major supermarkets' data ingestion systems are linked up with credit card companies. it doesn't take a genius to correlate the data. who made a $73.86 visa transaction at the maple st store at 6:23
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by Liquix 2y ago
ah, the youtube strategy: strip out useful heuristics and make the user experience objectively worse, ad impressions go brrrrr
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by Liquix 2y ago
how is causality established? the data seems to support either conclusion: A.) we found the types of brains that are inherently prone to depression/anxiety B.) we found the patterns that depressive/anxious thoughts make on MRIs
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by Liquix 2y ago
SMS and cryptocurrency have largely solved the "send info or money to anyone instantly" problem. then entities stepped in to protect their walled gardens (governments in control of financial systems, apple, facebook, google) and v
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by Liquix 2y ago
IMHO it doesn't matter which kinds of bugs bubble up to daily use. I have no interest in purchasing something at full price when it's stuffed with buggy software that's harvesting my family's data for profit [0]. a bug i
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by Liquix 2y ago
back in the day there was a healthy blend of win95, 98, ME, XP, and vista in the wild. it was common for devs to check for older versions with something like `if str(os.version)[0] == 9`. according to legend enough (internal?) software kept
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by Liquix 2y ago
they dragnet surveil to build an increasingly accurate stockpile of data on an increasing number of people. everything is catalogued and filed away, nothing is discarded. at some point in the past or future, this data has been/will be
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by Liquix 2y ago
MIT/BSD code is fair game, but isn't the whole point of GPL/AGPL "you can read and share and use this, but you can't take it and roll it into your closed commercial product for profit"? It seems like what Mistr
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by Liquix 2y ago
seconded - IMHO Jan has the cleanest UI and most straightforward setup out of all LLM frontends available now. https://jan.ai/ https://github.com/janhq/jan
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by Liquix 2y ago
it would be better and more fair to either A) provide actual support for everyone or B) do away with the "internal forms" and provide zero support to everyone. there shouldn't be two hidden levels of support depending on how
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by Liquix 2y ago
all your files? no way that cozy of a blanket statement can be true. if you kept cycling in drives full of /dev/random you could fill up M$ servers with petabytes of junk? sounds like an appealing weekend project
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by Liquix 2y ago
proprietary software that no one who cares about privacy or security should use? absolutely. dead? not exactly
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by Liquix 2y ago
squarely in the former camp. there's something deeply abhorrent about creating a place that encourages people to share and build and collaborate, then turning around and using their creative output to put more money in shareholder pock
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by Liquix 2y ago
or C) the first AGI was/is being/will be carried away by men with earpieces to a heavily fortified underground compound. any government - let alone the US government - isn't going to twiddle their thumbs while tech that will
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by Liquix 2y ago
the third rule of fight club is that it's okay to explain references to fight club on pseudonymous discussion boards, provided the explanation is furnished in parentheses
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by Liquix 2y ago
It looks like the pro version has 27,000 icons (vs. the free 3,800) and bundles N requests for custom icons per month. Beautiful icon sets are a dime a dozen. But direct contact with the set's creator to design custom icons for your pr
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by Liquix 2y ago
> I'm going to guess that all of those early internet pioneers that you mentioned also have fond stories of LSD. What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff is exactly that. A dive into how psychedelic counterculture made its mark on f
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by Liquix 2y ago
subway is falling into the same greedflation trap. a simple sandwich can run $10 - $12 these days with no add-ons or sides. better to pay $15 for something local and actually quality
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by Liquix 2y ago
those "specials" often have razor thin margins because the goal is driving app installs. more personal data/push notifications = constant stream of money = more value than they'd get selling one burger at menu price. not
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by Liquix 2y ago
sure, marijuana shouldn't be considered 100% harmless, but it's ludicrous to argue it does the same amount of damage to people's bodies as ketamine (abuse can lead to kidney failure, bladder cystectomy) or even some sched. IV
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by Liquix 2y ago
Eh, Firefox is blazing fast and readily available. Avoiding ReCaptcha on the other hand...

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