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   by andybak 1y ago

   And that is a terrifying sentence to read.
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   by andybak 1y ago

   Yes and that argument can be made for a lot of conceptual art since. But that's not the argument the "hurr... it's a banana. stuck to a wall" crowd are really making.
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   by andybak 1y ago

   The banana stuck to the wall isn't as dumb as it sounds. Look up the story behind it. I read an argument that it's a clever bit of satire on NFTs and the idea of "owning a piece of art". Does that make it art? Dunno. Don
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   by andybak 1y ago

   Nobody tested that page on mobile.
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   by andybak 1y ago

   I guess "API client" is often shorthand for "API client library" but that seems less of a stretch than using it to mean "App for calling, testing and documenting an API". A quick Github search seems to indicate
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   by andybak 1y ago

   > By definition, API Client is a devtool that makes it easier for devs (& co.) to design, test, document, and debug APIs. If it's confusing, we can take it to Postman, but it's an industry standard, been that way for a long
7. 277.▲
   by andybak 1y ago

   I just downloaded it and tried it and I still don't understand what it does. It seems to be some kind of wysiwyg editor? With elements specific to API docs? But then why does that make it an "API client". I'm guessing &q
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   by andybak 1y ago

   OK. That's confusing.
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   by andybak 1y ago

   I'm still not sure what an "API client" is in this context.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    I always wonder this. I was in the target market for Magic Leap / Apple Vision Pro but I never considered buying either because of (among other reasons) the extra hassle of prescription inserts (both for me and for guests who would wan
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Also "Hippity Hop" is a Space Hopper! Wikipedia agrees with me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_hopper :) I wonder how much the commonality or frequency of names for things affects image generation? My hu
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Side note. It's my understanding that being a pith helmet is pretty orthogonal to having a spike. Plenty of helmets with spikes aren't pith helmets and plenty of pith helmets don't have spikes. Not sure if this affects your r
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Surely the claim being made is that the overall effort was increased in this case. That makes sense to me. I guess you can debate "but by how much?" but it seems fairly clear that there is more friction than there would have been
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    by andybak 1y ago

    First skim and I'm confused about the meaning of "interface" in this context. Anyone?
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    by andybak 1y ago

    B.F. Skinner has entered the chat.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Even more than that. x3dom looks like the kind of thing that could use threejs under the hood. GP - are we misunderstanding something here?
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Yes. That's the same distinction I would expect. Although I'm not sure that the database stuff is the role I'd usually look for in the application server itself. Maybe it's a language community thing.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    > Web server" is, more or less, about converting a database into JSON and/or HTML You seem to have a very different definition of "web server" to me.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    This is where a) a strong stdlib and b) community consensus on common packages tends to help at least mitigate the problem. My feeling is that Python scores fairly well in this regard. At least it used to. I haven't been following clos
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    by andybak 1y ago

    I would maybe argue that used to be acronyms but now are just... well, words.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    > NOTHING is beyond the reach of science! Events outside of our light cone? (I was going to say "past events" but I suspect that's superfluous)
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Any thoughts on how Ideogram would rank? I've not used it recently but I used to get the sense that it is (or was) a "contender".
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    by andybak 1y ago

    ("deprecation" not "depreciation")
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    by andybak 1y ago

    So. We've moved rom "human compiler" to "human compression encoder"?
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    by andybak 1y ago

    That's not what I thought HN primarily was.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Arguably we tend to attempt to hear atonal music in a key (or temporal sequence of keys) despite it's attempt to avoid that. I suspect something similar about bitonality. We hear one of the keys and then try and interpret the other n
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    by andybak 1y ago

    I miss early NMS in many ways. The emptiness lent it a poignant feel that complemented the narrative. There's more to do now, but it came at a cost.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Whatever if you think of the amount spent or the direction in general it's disingenuous to say "lost" when it's actually "spent". It was a deliberate investment in r&d and a pitch for a future platform. It&
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Absolutely! I've been saying the same thing for decades (checks calendar - almost literally!)
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Please forgive me for being old, but what the hell does "took an L" mean?