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by andybak 5mo ago
You just invented you own definition of intelligence. I'm pretty sure that strategy could also support the opposite conclusion.
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by andybak 6mo ago
I commented on this topic elsewhere on this page. This is an email from 2021. Maybe they changed policy but here: > Bob (Backblaze Help) > Aug 5, 2021, 11:33 PDT > Hello there, > Thank you for taking the time to write in, >
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by andybak 6mo ago
I had a back and forth with them about .git folders a couple of years back and their defence was something like "we are a consumer product - not a professional developer product. Pay for our business offering" But if that's t
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by andybak 6mo ago
But surely there's a way to do this without totally killing valuable functionality? It's like the Android Sideloading debate all over again. Something that is very useful to 1% of users is stripped away. And we end up with dumb ap
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by andybak 6mo ago
On Windows I occasionally still run useful software compiled before 2000.
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by andybak 6mo ago
Took me a while to parse the title
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by andybak 7mo ago
Ideally this should be something search engines handle - but they do a poor job in specialised areas like code repos. It's helpful to have a github mirror of your "real" repo (or even just a stub pointing to the real repo if
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by andybak 7mo ago
MacOS has the drawback today any software compiled more than x years no longer works. That is an unforgivable sin in my eyes.
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by andybak 7mo ago
What is the aim of "moral instruction" if not deterrence? Surely it needs be instruction in pursuit of an outcome?
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by andybak 7mo ago
But surely that requires (virtual) player movement in VR for there to be a mismatch?
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by andybak 7mo ago
Even for games or experiences with no artificial locomotion whatsoever?
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XR Fragments(xrfragment.org)
1 points by andybak 7mo ago|0 comments
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by andybak 7mo ago
> solved Have you considered that it's unsolvable? Or - at least - there is an irreconcilable tension between capability and safety. And people will always choose the former if given the choice.
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by andybak 7mo ago
> The issue title was interpolated directly into Claude's prompt via ${{ github.event.issue.title }} without sanitisation. How would sanitation have helped here? From my understanding Claude will "generously" attempt to un
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by andybak 7mo ago
8gb is (not) enough for anyone
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by andybak 7mo ago
oh dear god. i can port this to VR now... Claude!
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by andybak 7mo ago
Why are they using JSON in the context? I thought we'd figured out that the extra syntax was a waste of tokens?
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by andybak 8mo ago
Because you might not have a build script?
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by andybak 8mo ago
I don't believe people have no agency. But I do believe we overestimate our own agency. Or more importantly society is often structured on the assumption that we have more agency then we actually do.
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by andybak 8mo ago
But how do you stop the boring and depressing - and abusive and manipulative parts? I'm not saying legislation is a good solution but you seem to be making a poetic plea that benefits the abusers.
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WebMCP Early Preview(docs.google.com)
6 points by andybak 8mo ago|0 comments
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by andybak 8mo ago
"Dumb" and "insane" are thoughtless and shallow positions to take. It's fine to disagree with the EU's stance (I probably do. I'm not sure yet) but it's not a good look to dismiss it without some reco
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by andybak 8mo ago
It's important to remember that "games" aren't a monolith. People want different things. There's a categorization I vaguely remember and I was an "explorer". Hated narrative, puzzles and any repetition. Ne
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by andybak 9mo ago
I wonder how many HN readers you just insulted. Me for one.
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by andybak 9mo ago
So not this Reticulum networking stack: https://github.com/Hubs-Foundation/reticulum
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by andybak 9mo ago
> and then "NeRF"'d which means to extrapolate any missing data about their transposed 3D model Not sure if it's you or the original article but that's a slightly misleading summary of NeRFs.
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by andybak 9mo ago
Both have many tools that aren't raw triangle editing
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by andybak 9mo ago
> and little to no follow-up engagement from their authors. A strategy I sometimes use for external contributions is to immediately ask a question about the pull request. Ignoring PRs where I don't get a reply or the reply doesn&#x
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by andybak 9mo ago
I find one easier to avoid or ignore them the other.
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by andybak 9mo ago
Mudbun renders using raymarching - the video explains why he has avoided doing this.

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