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by a13o 3y ago
The strip mining imagery landed for me when focusing on the trend of open source communities adjacent to cloud platforms. Citus, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, etc all feel like corporate goliaths forked and outcompeted David. No analogy is per
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by a13o 3y ago
I view this entire saga more as an unbundling of microblog topics. One website had all the microblog topics, and now they will be spread across N websites. If you're viewing this as a king of the hill scenario, you've got the wron
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by a13o 3y ago
Holy moly, honored to see my game Bloody Fun Day in their hall of fame. Unfortunately there seems to be some bugs in their player, the RNG isn't working so all the cuties spawn the same color. I also wonder if these newer html5 flash p
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by a13o 3y ago
That's exactly why the stock analogy doesn't work. People don't buy algorithms, they buy products - such as detectors or predictors. You necessarily have to sell judgement alongside the algorithm. So debating the merits of an
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by a13o 3y ago
This is a strawman. First, the AI detection algorithms can't offer anything close to 99.9%. Second, your scenario doesn't analyze another human and issue judgement, as the AI detection algorithms do. When a human is miscategorized
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by a13o 3y ago
The issue isn't criminals communicating over E2E encryption. The issue is that social media uniquely facilitates fandoms for crimes (mainly CSAM) where criminal influencers can easily build audiences for fame and fortune. This is only
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by a13o 3y ago
Everyone keeps calling them offices, but I used to work in them and they felt a lot more like code factories to me. Good riddance.
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by a13o 3y ago
I had this same intuition and built an inverted calculator a few years back where you tell it how much you want to pay and it tells you how much house you can afford. It compared what that payment gets you on a 30 year vs a 15 year mortgage
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by a13o 3y ago
We've reached the part of the hype cycle where VCs realize LLMs are yet more aimless technology with very narrow product potential; so they start tricking an even less informed investor class into fund matching.
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by a13o 3y ago
There's this desire for Vannevar Bush's memex that is preyed on by to-do, note, and mind map apps. None of them scratch the itch, because data entry sucks, and data entry isn't even the problem. Free yourself from the trap. W
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by a13o 3y ago
Using your code review process to hold changes ransom until they meet some lofty ever-changing team ideals, is disfunctional. "Upgrade as you go" policies leave long tails of half-completed conversions that make the codebase harde
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by a13o 3y ago
I love this. In general, I would like to see municipalities take on more IT responsibilities. Tax-funded cloud storage and digital communications services would weaken tech companies and make accessing these table stakes features more equit
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by a13o 3y ago
I thought these might eventually have their day with a GaN PSU and a touch screen, running Windows 10+. Kind of like the Continuum vision Microsoft had for Windows Phone; carry a little brick around and dock it as needed. But we have cell p
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by a13o 3y ago
If Windows can run Android apps, they can bring back Windows Phone. The only issue with that platform is nobody made apps for it.
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by a13o 3y ago
Microsoft has been doing Microsoft things to boost the Xbox app and game pass. Having a huge back catalog to fill their store gives them a leg up over say, Epic's game store, which also wants to enter the space. It's a huge hill t
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by a13o 3y ago
I'm evaluating them ultimately from their technical prospects and on a long timeline. Sony has a bright future as a content curator no doubt. It's their hardware business I think looks shaky. Consider a future where TV sales dwind
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by a13o 3y ago
The console war argument is around such an outdated definition of the gaming industry. Self-identifying gamers have had their head in the sand for over a decade now. Since 2010 mobile gaming has eclipsed revenue of both console and PC gamin
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by a13o 3y ago
'Consciousness' is about as academically stringent as medical humorism, so Chalmers has found himself a nice free wine supply.
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by a13o 3y ago
This is a really smart move for them. They were downstream of a lot of other creator platforms, and now they can start to move that revenue over to them. Discord has a really well-built server permission model, and a rich API bot ecosystem.
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by a13o 3y ago
Undetectable bots have been spoiling the internet since its birth. First our email, then our blog comments, then the review sites. LLMs will definitely contribute the next phase of this. Not only elevating the level of attack on those previ
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by a13o 3y ago
I was deeply involved in the indie scene during this time and played many of these local multiplayer games at GDC indie events, weekly barcade meetups, game jams, Indiecade, etc. I think this misled many developers. Your peers are together
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by a13o 3y ago
Juicy Beast was considered a top tier studio in the Flash ecosystem with many hits in that space, and Toto Temple was well-known and much anticipated at the time by the scene. Unfortunately the scene was dying; and the gameplay aesthetics t
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by a13o 3y ago
Polls and vote counts can no longer be used to measure subreddit sentiment on this issue. That window closed once the first blackout began, which thrust low-information members into a situation where it looks like the subreddit suddenly shu
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by a13o 3y ago
Lurkers can participate with upvotes and downvotes. You don't even have to join a subreddit to participate in this way. Lurkers (who did click join, but never posted) are included in the subreddit user-counts advertised on the protest
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by a13o 3y ago
They used to brew small batches of Old Potrero whiskey in their warehouse across the street. Then they would hand it all over to their distributor and have no idea where it ended up. Ever since learning that, it's been a game to spot i
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by a13o 3y ago
There's an accessibility mode you can enable which provides keyboard and menu navigation, as well as audio cues. It's basically an alternative interface for interacting with the data layer. I actually think this is a better approa
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by a13o 3y ago
The bar for extensions is lower than breaking the browser security model. The goal is to slip basic XSS attacks past the Chrome Web Store review process, which is a mix of automated and human linters. People over-pemission chrome extensions
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by a13o 3y ago
Maybe if someone were to build it. You can't talk to LLMs in natural language either. They have a very precise query language. The natural language component is an additional feature bolted onto the front. Also the output of LLMs is no
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by a13o 3y ago
LLM training is a compression algorithm, LLM weights are a compressed dataset of the training materials, and executing LLMs is accessing the compressed source material. That the compression technology relies on parameterizing the copyrighte
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by a13o 3y ago
These prices are being set by an industry-wide bottleneck around online human verification. The cost just shot up because of LLMs. This is only a temporary reprieve for Reddit, Twitter, et.al. The LLMs are going to start simulating user age

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