NBJack

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by NBJack 8d ago
Sound fonts were a reovlution on consumer grade PCs. I can still hear the "Bloodwar" demo they shipped with. But I also recall how much I struggled to get the emu10k1 chip to work with my Linux distro in the (very) early 2000s. I
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by NBJack 8d ago
There was a bug? Is that why some of the Wing Commander 2 music would sound weird sometimes?!?
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by NBJack 8d ago
I had a decent midi collection well before MP3s were around (or even took off). MIDI was much more forgiving to download via a 14.4k modem. Even when they did, I remember how revolutionary Creative Labs appeared (to me) with sound fonts on
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by NBJack 8d ago
Yep, we've been doing this "agenticly" at my job for a while now. I can't say the results are often impressive, particularly if you underspecify what you actually want.
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by NBJack 11d ago
I'm slightly miffed that the pictured computer is technically an Apple IIc (though I'm sure they meant the Apple II family). Mainly because there actually was an Apple II computer. I see the original article got this detail co
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by NBJack 11d ago
Not necessarily. One could argue my cell phone's signal is in the public when I use it (home or otherwise; it is rather omnidirectional), and the records thereof aren't subject to it the same way as say a search of my phone or my
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by NBJack 11d ago
These would be a nightmare to wear for kettlebells.
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by NBJack 11d ago
I was surprised when (finally) trying out Claude how much I preferred Gemini's way of communicating. I wont argue Claude is better at coding, but for knowledge work, I had to dig through Claude output to find what I actually wanted. At
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by NBJack 11d ago
Since the context here is the U.S., there are plenty of restrictions they are legally bound by. Here's a small sample: - The fourth amendment (protection against unreasonable search and seizure) - Mapp v. Ohio, 1961 (evidence gained wi
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by NBJack 13d ago
Their competition isn't really raising the bar either. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
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by NBJack 14d ago
I, uh, would be more careful of making that statement given our public comment history. I know I can't cast any stones here. More than interesting though, I will vouch for many of the points they presented in practice. Spreading part
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by NBJack 16d ago
It isn't the right play. Part of the reason Meta is scrambling for purpose is how much privacy laws and changes have hurt them while their platforms fail to attract new generations. Ads are still selling, but they can no longer tie the
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by NBJack 17d ago
I mean, sentences themselves are graphs of data and context with connectors of various types. Embeddings within these models help form the links to the underlying semantic concepts. Directly representing things as a graph would likely reduc
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by NBJack 17d ago
Beyerdynamic has ruined me. And it's not even the best out there.
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by NBJack 17d ago
I am but an armchair expert here, but I do think most of what's missing is the complexity of real-life ecosystems and "connections". Having biomes that are substantially large on a given planet and diversity among them, anima
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by NBJack 17d ago
I agree; I stopped playing years ago after completing what was the main quest of the time (uncovering the nature of the universe and getting to the center). I even setup a decent sized farm for one of the more rare materials to make a billi
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by NBJack 17d ago
True realism at the right place and time. Fly out of SeaTac or Chicago O'Hare in most flight sims at sunrise, and you'll get a richly detailed airport, realistic traffic, realistic surrounding terrain, etc. with hopefully jaw-drop
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by NBJack 18d ago
It made a lot of money with its core virtualization tech, which gave it excellent market momentum in datacenters. But the ever growing cloud lanscape was a shift that eventually became an all-hands-on-deck (sort of, and all too late) moment
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by NBJack 18d ago
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire Virginia v. Black Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. While it may not apply to you personally, the U.S. Supreme Court largely disagrees with that sentiment.
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by NBJack 20d ago
They already know what they are. There are good reasons the term "terrorist" has yet to be formally agreed upon among members of the United Nations.
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by NBJack 21d ago
That only makes it worse.
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by NBJack 23d ago
Hey, don't forget how "dangerous" GPT-2 was supposed to be.
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by NBJack 24d ago
> Mac Neo can be had for $600 now Maybe a used one? https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/ has it for ~$700
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by NBJack 27d ago
I get it. You need to market. But it helps us all if you do your homework on terminology and prior art. For example, I assume you aren't referring to an object request broker, a music streaming service, an older open router system for
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by NBJack 28d ago
I do laugh in that in all the times I ever did this for real (even back to my massive 170MB drive), it never felt much faster.
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by NBJack 28d ago
Not if everyone else starts fishing in them. Take a look at the Common Fisheries Policy. It effectively means everyone else in the EU can show up and fish for it themselves, potentially undermining the export revenue and (more importantly)
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by NBJack 1mo ago
It totally did. Thanks!
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by NBJack 1mo ago
I think the first problem may be fixing the broken mobile experience. I'm getting black text on a very dark gray background.
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by NBJack 1mo ago
Definitely not weightless. So much bloat has been dedicated to various frameworks for it, and modern browsers are notorious for how much RAM they require. I'm particularly reminded of this each time I try to visit websites on one of my
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by NBJack 1mo ago
I felt the same. I think it's in part to just how long the first game was (somewhere around 27 hours). New York, California, Nevada, Hong Kong, Paris...and multiple areas within each. Cheateaus, military bases, Liberty Island, research

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