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by antipotoad 4y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. I think it’s a great shame that so many communities are centered around Discord, closed off to search engines, and essentially just black holes for knowledge. It does indeed feel like a significant regression from the
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Really nice work, thanks! Much cleaner than pulling arbitrary properties off the HTTP request context, and gets a nice conceptual leg-up by analogy to React hooks.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Thought-provoking and somehow ingenious, even if something about this makes me deeply uncomfortable. To try to be a little constructive, is a relationship really worth anything if a half-bit is all one can spare for it?
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by antipotoad 4y ago
I submit that people could learn, provided the model output is framed appropriately. It does come across as rather patronizing from Google. Little wonder given the company’s DNA. Also just very risk averse, which goes without saying.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Nice to see DeepL pushing forward. Personally rooting for them given how much I’ve got from their tools up to now.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
I think there’s a fundamental limit to the degree of correctness an AI can achieve, without it actually being embedded in the business domain. So long as that domain exists in meatspace, there will always be business requirements beyond the
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by antipotoad 4y ago
This neatly summarizes the dynamics of so many client-contractor relationships. Takes real professional integrity not to exploit the information asymmetry, which I regrettably found to be in short supply in the building trades, at least in
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Not sure, but consider that summer months can have little to no nighttime owing to the northerly latitude.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Sadly YouTube’s compression absolutely crushes the quality out of your video. Love the concept though.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
What’s your comparison site for monitors (assuming it’s still up-to-date)? Interested in something that comes close to Retina in PPI, but doesn’t carry Apple’s hefty price tag. Edit: ah, well that didn’t take much looking. It’s https:&#x2F
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Switzerland: https://www.blutstammzellspende.ch/de Registered this morning, was very easy.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Glad to be of even the smallest help. I think you have the right head on for dealing with this. Just keep open the door to communication with all the others, especially since the shock will fade differently for each of you. All I can say is
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by antipotoad 4y ago
This is essentially why I decided not to give up on all these years of experience building tech. Not to claim any special insight, but taking just a couple years out has been enough to see that the flaws of the current generation are not in
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Thank you for this. Calculating risks and knowing when to turn back is what keeps my wingsuiting squirrel of a childhood best friend alive to this day, after more than 2000 flights.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
I do feel bad when it seems needless. Lost a good friend to an avalanche in an avalanche-prone area, in dangerous conditions (weak layer in the snow from earlier in the season, big wet dump on top, turns into a slab slide so easily). He cou
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by antipotoad 4y ago
If you’re in the Swiss Alps, have the REGA app installed and active, pay the incredibly reasonable membership fee, but for goodness sake do not treat it like your personal helicopter rescue service. It’s a classic case of moral hazard [1].
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by antipotoad 4y ago
That paranoia is the creeping realization that civilization coddles us to the point of uselessness in the face of trivial survival challenges, and that nature actually cares not one jot for your continued existence as a living being. I’d mo
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Seems about five others of us also linked his video in this thread :) Guess you’re experiencing the Baader-Meinhof effect, AKA the frequency illusion [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by antipotoad 4y ago
See this video from Practical Engineering, aptly titled ‘The Drowning Machine’: https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/3/16/drowning-machin...
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Exactly why I believe telling the public anything but the whole truth in a pandemic is a terrible idea (not that I really wish to open that can of worms).
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by antipotoad 4y ago
From one survivor of a near-certain-death scenario to another: glad that you’re still here with us to tell your story. No two experiences are alike, but don’t be surprised if it takes you a long while to process what happened. Good that you
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Hmm. Think you could be right. Question to me is whether they can provide anything compelling beyond stability of identity / ease of connection. That would itself be pretty huge though, so is maybe enough to displace WhatsApp and the l
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by antipotoad 4y ago
My wish is that this big tech cycle has been long enough for us to have collectively learned at least some lessons about what’s desirable and what’s not in such vital communication infrastructure. Is it really good for human psychology to
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Yet. The builders of the next generation of social tools are doubtless already busy. I’d venture to say we’re looking for the wrong thing, if we’re expecting the Facebook-killer to be another giant platform.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
This is user experience design in its highest form, born out of an intimate understanding of the target customer. Very nice to see it showcased here. The lack of tracking scripts is telling. Adding them would clearly be detrimental to per
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by antipotoad 4y ago
You really have no interest in the concept of a non-corporate / non–billionaire-controlled Twitter? Not trying to bait you, but genuinely curious on your stance.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
I think you could be underestimating it. I’d guess there’s a simmering level of interest among a lot of people, especially those more conscious of moving away from big tech / corporate platforms. FWIW, this tipped me over the edge into
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Are you implying AI-generated astroturfing? We’re rapidly approaching the scenario depicted in XKCD 810 [1]. Edit: OK, on actually reading the comments I agree. Something weird. Hmm. [1] https://xkcd.com/810/
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Hmm, I see. Can relate too. I still see that as no reason for shame, even though from within that situation it can feel shameful. The journey to getting better can be a long and challenging one that’s hard to make sense of from the outside.
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by antipotoad 4y ago
Maybe it’s a lack of imagination, but I can’t think of why any kind of YC experience should be shameful, provided lessons were learned and no one ended up in jail. That said, I still agree it should be opt-in.

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