alwa

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by alwa 6d ago
Time and a place. I only see these kind of online spats refracted through people’s reactions like this one. Invariably I find myself asking how someone’s unattractive idea even came up there in the first place… Over my time in the world I h
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by alwa 11d ago
It’s not a defect, the stochastic “temperature” setting unleashes the chainsaw’s creativity and imagination! Who are we to cast aspersions on the Oracle Chainsaw’s intelligence—nay, wisdom!—just because it happens to be non-living?
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by alwa 16d ago
So—speaking to the general “you” here—not you, @jiggawatts, personally (I’m sure we’re both lovely, and I chose to respond here only because you seem to capture the prevailing opinion simply, thoughtfully, and reasonably)— I respect that yo
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by alwa 20d ago
Thank you for sharing this (and your other reactions downthread) with such depth and care. Setting your off-the-cuff comment alongside TFA’s Claudish muddle reminds me—as if I needed reminding—about the hazardous parts of self-education, pa
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by alwa 20d ago
The paper where the target values originated: https://home.cis.rit.edu/~cnspci/references/mccamy1976.pdf [1976, PDF] It’s a charming read, with lines like > The orange and Yellow patches visually matched some
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by alwa 20d ago
Not the exact same inks, for sure, but as a slight tangent—having grown up with RGB/YUV/CIE coordinates and Pantone swatches and process-color printing, but without painterly training, I’d long imagined the world of physical color
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by alwa 22d ago
It was pretty far down there, snuck in between some animated-in photos, but: > Due to the placement of the machines under the hoistways, and the need for proper rope lead off of the overhead sheaves, the counterweights did not run in th
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by alwa 23d ago
Always a good idea to pick up the book and read for yourself in context, but for those who might pass on that opportunity: “Make it your goal to life a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed
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by alwa 27d ago
Is it still an intrusion if the user accepted the shrinkwrap TOS of an app that trades them “free TV” in exchange for allowing that app to operate a proxy (via an “app monetization” SDK) on their network?
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by alwa 27d ago
Would those tools be primarily proprietary, or do some live in the open-source world too? I’d be interested in the techniques they use to aim for realism there. Admittedly I haven’t made much of a search, but various search engines and au
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by alwa 29d ago
I agree with you, I really like OP's design choices, even more so amidst the flood of Claude-Generic these days. Although Claude just can't resist those little muted-toned ui-monospace small-caps... It reminds me of Neue Grafik&#x
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by alwa 1mo ago
This feels like Claude thought to me—assertions and comparisons that look impressive on the surface, but kind of make me scratch my head the more I think about them. I think what made me throw in the towel was “Figure 2 — Two Instruments, O
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by alwa 1mo ago
For that matter, I admire their relative transparency about their incidents. I can think of other big players who will cheerfully show green statuses across the board while everyone can see that their pants are down...
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by alwa 1mo ago
Mine came much later, in the Triplets of Belleville (2003). In case it brings a nostalgic smile to anyone else’s face, too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N0VrHQ-cHUA&
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by alwa 1mo ago
Doesn’t literally every bathroom need someone to clean up body fluids and odors from time to time? At the last gas station, big box hardware store, and McDonalds I visited in the West, log sheets hung inside the bathrooms indicating they’re
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by alwa 1mo ago
I feel like all sorts of problems flow from treating homes as fungible commodities. As “a house, not a home,” as it were. Independent of residents’ schools, neighbors, transportation, jobs, culture, churches, family compositions, duties to
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by alwa 1mo ago
Why is that a problem? Two schools can both produce good work, and still illustrate a contrast. If a muscular Soviet art scene embarrassed the Americans into juicing up their own art scene, isn’t that good and healthy for both?
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by alwa 1mo ago
That page seems to indicate that the subscription is to a real-time data feed, rather than the software itself—am I mistaken?
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by alwa 1mo ago
I feel like I could think of a way to word a letter that pointed out the problem without pointing out specific locations or people. I can’t imagine that kind of race to the bottom is too fun for the low level employers laboring under it. It
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by alwa 2mo ago
Eh… seems to me that in a lot of scenes, “volunteer”-vs-“paid” is something of a spectrum…
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by alwa 2mo ago
Lesbians too [0]. And people who don’t make much money [1]. And people who aren’t Asian [2]. And athletes, and people who like sports [3]. Applying group statistics to judge individual people is almost never proper, and lies at the root of
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by alwa 2mo ago
> raise concerns about data being shared with third-party companies or federal agencies. What, you don’t like “sharing”? It would be selfish not to “share”! Truly the move from “send copies to” to “share” is one of the great linguistic d
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by alwa 2mo ago
Future jobs? I thought AGI was the future of work! And plus, their duty is to a higher cause! All humanity needs them to win, so that the superintelligence is “aligned” to their superior values… like “all’s fair in love and war”! (/s
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by alwa 2mo ago
So, but… where do most fish go when they die?
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by alwa 2mo ago
So… @lazide replied with a hahaha. It got flagged to death, understandably. If it were anybody but @lazide I’d have flagged it too, but… I can’t help but grimace and nod. To hazard a loosely-informed guess at their subtext… and politely ign
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by alwa 2mo ago
I think this is an ancillary specifically for economy class passengers—you pay a certain amount to reserve a 4-hour slot on a bunk or something. I have no idea, but my guess is economy + nap slot would still come in well under the cost of a
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GenAI Added to Google Earth(theatlantic.com)
5 points by alwa 2mo ago|1 comments
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by alwa 2mo ago
Matteo Wong writing on new “Nano Banana” features in Google Earth. He is not a fan, but he did create some rather impressive fake satellite imagery of cataclysm. Linkbait title as published: “Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Too
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by alwa 2mo ago
Especially on the same routes where you’d think about using this kind of airliner... https://www.airnewzealand.com/economy-skynest
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by alwa 2mo ago
Good enough for what? Certainly good enough to direct people to the correct links for their platform. And, to me at least, to signal ahead of time that it’s a Claude-flavored game. Personally I’m not much for those (I don’t really snack on

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