andybak

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   by andybak 1y ago

   One thing I think is pertinent - I don't think many people currently have been made poorer by AI. I'm not disputing many people think it's an imminent risk - but I think the number of people directly affected financially in
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   by andybak 1y ago

   AI seems to elicit a different response from people than any other debate I can remember. It's different to blockchain (which had a similar level of "will you all just shut the fuck up about it?") It's different to cultu
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   by andybak 1y ago

   Same use cases that native apps have for using a GPU except in a browser? > Are we sure sites are not just going to use it to mine bitcoins using their users' hardware? Some almost certainly will but like all similar issues the game
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   by andybak 1y ago

   greasemonkey / custom css
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   by andybak 1y ago

   If only hyperlinks were a thing...
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   by andybak 1y ago

   I sometimes feel that a lot of people bringing up the topic of creativity have never spent much time thinking, studying and self-reflecting on what "creativity" actually is. It's a complex topic and one that's mixed up w
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   by andybak 1y ago

   Oh, I've been disagreeing with this take on the admin for such a long time!
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   by andybak 1y ago

   I still tend to discover a takeaway or restaurant and then figure out how to get them to deliver. I've never not ordered from somewhere I was keen on based on their choice of delivery service. If the consolidation results in price hi
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   by andybak 1y ago

   Unless you define "scrape" to be inherently nefarious - then surely they are? Isn't the definition of a web crawler based on scraping websites?
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    by andybak 1y ago

    thank you. it was a horrible title
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    by andybak 1y ago

    > Traditional frameworks hydrate entire pages with JavaScript. Even if you've got a simple blog post with one interactive widget, the whole page gets the JavaScript treatment. Astro flips this on its head. Your pages are static HTML
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    by andybak 1y ago

    I remember stumbling across this a couple of years ago and, despite being interested in this field, finding the website confusing. The GitHub readme seems fairly clear now, though.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Curious to see the syntax and how it compares to Linq
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    by andybak 1y ago

    OK. So "persistent key-value store" makes sense. But the "for External Storage" bit doesn't? What other kinds of persistent key-value stores are there? Or is "for external storage" just a synonym for &quot
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    by andybak 1y ago

    > About AI Evals Maybe it's obvious to some - but I was hoping that page started off by explaining what the hell an AI Eval specifically is. I can probably guess from context but I'd love to have some validation.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    And the cycle continues. Who's working on the "Figma but not enshittified" at the moment?
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    by andybak 1y ago

    This is failing my "Can I figure out what the hell it is in 60 seconds?" test. Sometimes that means I'm just not the target market. I do do web dev (among other things) so that doesn't seem to be the case at first glance
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    by andybak 1y ago

    I have no idea what you just tried to say.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    OK. You've lost me.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Have you read "Dreaming in Code"? This is a key theme in one section and I recall it was quoting Philip Eby https://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Maybe this? https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moldbug-sold-out
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    by andybak 1y ago

    It's a wrapper for Claude. What's the moat here? Why this and not one of a dozen similar products? Why not reproduce from scratch? $80M would buy you a decent development team and it doesn't seem like these kind of apps are h
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    by andybak 1y ago

    I've been thinking about the impact on visual programming. I've believed for a long time that any visual programming environment should have flawless round-tripping with a human readable/writable text representation (for many
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Do you mind explaining how you see this working as a nefarious plot? I don't see an upside in this case so I'm going with the old "never ascribe to malice" etc
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    by andybak 1y ago

    And we also vote for governments in the expectation they will regulate those companies. To put it another way. "Voting with my wallet" is a very inefficient way to send signals that I want a behaviour change from the company. I&#x
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    by andybak 1y ago

    My parent's Thorn music centre came with a cassette with Herb Alpert's Taste of Honey (although probably not the original). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRGOm071sE0 And I still love that tune.
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    by andybak 1y ago

    And this is not Reddit so please don't.
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    LayerPeeler: Autoregressive Peeling for Layer-Wise Image Vectorization(arxiv.org)

    5 points by andybak 1y ago|0 comments
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    by andybak 1y ago

    You're either misinformed or being deliberately disingenuous in how you've framed all of these. Which is it?
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    by andybak 1y ago

    Isn't it worse having it baked in? Usually extensions move faster, compete for best feature set etc etc. "Baked in" usually means "that's the last update we're gonna see". Plus I might want to - you know -