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by andybak 2mo ago
Is "Lindy" a typo or have I missed another linguistic innovation?
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by andybak 2mo ago
I get tired of saying this but "got misidentified by the police" is somewhere between an annoyance and a humourous anecdote in most developed countries that aren't the USA where it appears to be justifiably regarded as a near
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by andybak 2mo ago
> Many buildings are copyrighted Well, let me stop you right there. That's the bit that needs fixing.
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by andybak 2mo ago
It won't matter. People will assume it has a camera. The product category is most likely (and rather predictably) dead if it depends on people wearing them ubiquitously and in public.
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by andybak 2mo ago
> frogmaxxed raninemandibularprognathism-maxxed?
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by andybak 2mo ago
Don Draper in the elevator meme?
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by andybak 2mo ago
> but the productivity gains and economic surplus. I think you might be missing out vast swathes of human experience here. Some things are about joy, or god help me - fun. (For the record I think AI has a role to play here as well)
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by andybak 2mo ago
I'm happy for Simon to post what he wants, when he wants. He's earned it.
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by andybak 2mo ago
> I can't say I've been impressed with LLMs generating code What the hell are these people doing? Running 2 year old models on the lowest settings and then throwing their hands in the air?
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by andybak 3mo ago
If there's one type of beer I didn't associate with Burton on Trent it was lager.
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by andybak 3mo ago
If it was still possible to get verbatim results from Google then I believe "mwah mwah vision" would have been an authentic Googlewhack pointing at this comment thread.
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by andybak 3mo ago
Ok but you're commenting on the general concept of animated gaussian splats. That's existed for a while and it's unrelated to what this actual post is about which is a new compression method.
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by andybak 3mo ago
> I don't feel like I was getting anything for the 13%+ extra taxes I was paying in California. Some people might argue that it's not meant to be about what you personally get back. Social contract and all that... I get your ot
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by andybak 3mo ago
Related work-in-progress if you like polyhedra and tiling transformations: https://ixxyxr.github.io/polyhydra-web/ It has the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra and allows you to apply a superset of Conway Operators to them. No
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by andybak 3mo ago
When I first learned about computer science at the age of 11 or so (and in 1982 or so) the first page of the text book put digital and analogue computers on what seemed to be an equal footing. And then proceeded to ignore the latter for the
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by andybak 3mo ago
The Peter Thiel connection is especially toxic for a lot of people outside the US. Whether it's substantive or just optics doesn't make a huge difference.
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by andybak 3mo ago
I have no idea what point you're making here.
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by andybak 3mo ago
Yes. But that's not the point I'm addressing.
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by andybak 3mo ago
I'm a bit late in replying - but I've been a user of Google Docs since launch by choice and still use it by choice. I've never really worked "corporate" but the few times I've had contact with that world they w
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by andybak 3mo ago
> their mistakes aren't based on their understanding, it's basically random guesses Whilst I don't claim any true "understanding" as that is a very loaded term that doesn't mean it's just random guesses
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by andybak 3mo ago
I can't help but feel that people continually underestimate how bad human written code becomes over time. The exception is probably single-person passion projects or open source projects that maintain quality governance over time. I st
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by andybak 4mo ago
No. That wasn't a whoosh. Or even a woosh.
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by andybak 4mo ago
That's hyperbole. They have flaws, but at the very least, when they were launched, they were arguably best in class. I'm not sure how much me sticking with them is due to familiarity and muscle memory but I know they won we over p
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by andybak 4mo ago
That's really surprising to me.
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by andybak 4mo ago
"quotation marks"
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by andybak 4mo ago
Aw jeez. Just take it in the spirit it was intended and stop trying to score "more spiritual than thou" points. We are all deep one day and shallow the next. We are all workaholics and also smelling the roses. You know nothing abo
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by andybak 4mo ago
People are rendering huge splat scenes on mobile devices using LOD. This (currently) requires CUDA and an NVidia GPU to work. I would have been much more impressed to see a demo where it was running on low end mobile hardware faster than cu
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by andybak 4mo ago
In what world are unions never criticised? I'm in the UK and they are often reviled in the press and among people who don't work in a unionised sector. America has an even stronger tradition of anti-union feeling (maybe partly due
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Mark Zuckerberg's Worst Metaverse Bet Was Always Mark Zuckerberg(frontrow.co)
4 points by andybak 4mo ago|1 comments
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by andybak 4mo ago
If the power dynamic allows it, I tend to just reply "Sorry, I'm not reading that". (Unless it's a) trivially short or b) there's a solid reason to send me it. It's the "wall of AI text" that I genera

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