TheAceOfHearts

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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
I regret watching that series, it was immensely disappointing. Some aspects are really well executed like the coloring and framing, but that's not enough to carry a series. Pluribus is a concept that works for a single season, anything
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
I watch almost every movie at 2x and I think it usually makes the whole experience better for me. You can tailor your own media experiences however you want. If you disagree with a director's vision for a movie you can bring your own p
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
Looking back on the history of Windows, one of the things that most stands out to me as a user is the utterly insane UX around the C++ redistributable. They really should've figured out a better solution than having every single applic
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
The part that often gets left unsaid or glossed over is what the transition period looks like. At most we get some Underpants Gnomes claim about unlimited abundance without actually engaging with the substance of what happens if this techno
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
Do any of you deliberately integrate the golden ratio into anything you create or do? For me it always seems more like an intellectual curiosity rather than an item in my regular toolkit for design, creative exploration, or problem solving.
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
For most of my music listening needs, I self-host SwingMusic and keep it pinned in Firefox. Occasionally I'll open the music files directly with MPV or VLC. The automatic lyrics fetching and playback sync in SwingMusic is pretty nice.
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
Counting large crowds is hard, but the tools continue to improve: we have increasingly advanced drone photography and access to better AI tools to generate more reliable estimates. If crowd sizes become a significant point of contention it&
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
I think protests are good since it requires you to go outside and interact with other people, it requires a higher level of commitment than the slacktivism of the 2010s that was so prominent in online spaces. Polls are gamed all the time an
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
I need to share a video [0] which helped contextualize Alex Honnold for me by contrasting him with another climber I've watched for years: Magnus Midtbo. In this video they're solo climbing a fairly simple and safe mountain, and M
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
This post just makes me reflect on the sad state of the web and how it continues growing its own little silos that don't integrate with native applications. Actually, I already have the perfect video player (mpv) and I should be able t
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
I'm bullish on LLMs being able to help with this kind of reverse engineering effort, if not current models then in a few more years. I've had conversations with people where they managed to get Claude to help reverse engineer old
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
Yeah, it's not great. I wrote a harness that calculates it as: 3.61s Load Time, 38.78s Gen Time, 18.38s Audio Len, RTF 2.111. The Tao Te Ching audiobook came in at 62 mins in length and it ran for 102 mins, which gives an RTF of 1.645.
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
For the system prompt I used: > Read this in a calm, clear, and wise audiobook tone. > Do not rush. Allow the meaning to sink in. But maybe I should experiment with something more detailed. Do you have any suggestions?
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
Interesting model, I've managed to get the 0.6B param model running on my old 1080 and I can generated 200 character chunks safely without going OOM, so I thought that making an audiobook of the Tao Te Ching would be a good test. Unfor
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
For me the real capability unlock from The Design of Everyday Things was that it made me start noticing and thinking deliberately about design decisions, which pushed me to begin evaluating everything through that lens. In general it comes
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
That is one of the worst clanker-brained replies I have ever read on this platform. The OP you're replying to made a concrete point (X claim to be transparent but block researcher access through unreasonably price gating), and you didn
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
I learned about this book / concept: Tools for Conviviality [0]: > Illich proposes the idea of a 'convivial tool', one which allows its user to exercise their human autonomy and creativity. This came up as I was reading ab
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by TheAceOfHearts 9mo ago
I disagreed with him politically, especially during the last few years, but I'm very appreciative of Dilbert and in particular the Dilbert cartoon. The Knack is one of those clips that I keep coming back to and sharing with friends whe
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
Deploying and maintaining something in a production-ready environment is a huge amount of work. It's not surprising that most people give up once they have a tech demo, especially if they're not interested in spending a ton of tim
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
Maybe Apple just got so many things right early on, then the people with experience slowly left and inexperienced people kept showing up and they felt compelled to keep making changes to justify their jobs. How do they justify their job if
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
Looking at the old Microsoft menu gave me a pang of nostalgia for what we lost. It was so clear and readable. The icons were clearly colored and so easy to understand. I think the key issue with macOS is that they don't seem to have so
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
Haven't watched the video yet, but I think this capability was leaked by VP Kamala Harris during her recent interview with the Late Night Show [0]. She stated she doesn't use wireless headphones because she's been in security
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
I've watched multiple car reviewer videos where they talk up BYD's software as top-notch, however the price is artificially inflated in the US due to tariffs.
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
For an interesting example that goes in the opposite direction, I've noticed that big YouTube creators like MrBeast optimize their audio to sound as clear as possible on smartphone speakers, but if you listen to their content with head
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
It's perfectly rational to allocate a bit of money towards investigating unlikely phenomenon. In this case, it started around the 70s and it was believed that the Soviet Union was also doing research into paranormal effects, so even i
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
Spoilers, but the excerpt posted here [0] of Aenea was one of my favorite scenes from Hyperion Cantos. "Choose again" as a gentle reminder to reevaluate our beliefs and structures, and to really choose, not just go along with what
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
I read The Buddha: Biography of a Myth, by Donald S. Lopez after hearing him on Conversations With Tyler. That's probably my top non-fiction book this year. Key takeaway was that the history of Buddhism is incredibly deep. Two highligh
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
I want to build the AGI god in order to bring abundance, wealth, and prosperity to all of humanity. Aside from that, I'd like to shore up the cracks or gaps in my mathematical foundations, and learn more advanced mathematics. I'm
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
It cannot be understated how much of a boon AI-assisted programming has been for getting stuff up and running. Once you get past the initial hurdle of setting up an environment along with any boilerplate, you can actually start running code

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