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by apercu 2mo ago
I'm speaking pretty generally here - the tasks vary, as do the models and the way I access them. The point I was making is that they are inconsistent hour to hour, much less day to day and require a very disciplined mindset to babysit,
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by apercu 2mo ago
One thing I struggle with is the value proposition. One day on a specific task I'll feel like the model saved me a couple hours of work. Then days like yesterday, the model cost me half the day with context loss, repeating steps alread
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by apercu 2mo ago
I just heard about a rare one in Wisconsin - someone I know knows someone that has land that includes original prairie and there is an almost extinct plant on that property. The local University has been studying the land for years, but a g
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by apercu 2mo ago
I am pretty down on the pervasive LLM psychosis - but that doesn't mean they are useless.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I've been saying "The economics of AI investment don't make sense" for 2 years but this audience in particular doesn't (on the whole) agree.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I imagine because Bards never let the truth get in the way of a good story?
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by apercu 2mo ago
Mostly agree. Hacker News has a stronger signal-to-noise ratio, but I wouldn't say it's immune to enshittification. It just manifests differently. And it feels anecdotally worse to me than it did 5 years ago. Some of that is all t
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by apercu 2mo ago
Trillions in some cases.
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by apercu 2mo ago
$150bn a year? Awesome. But the investment obligations are in the trillions already so where is all this new revenue coming from? I think that is what the article is saying and what many of us have been asking for a year.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I meant more for the party in charge than any particular individual but I see that was not clear.
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by apercu 2mo ago
"You'll own nothing and you will love it"
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by apercu 2mo ago
I’ve had a few iPhones. Own 2 right now and I completely agree with your sentiment but while the hardware gets faster the software gets slower and worse. ;)
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by apercu 2mo ago
I'm not sure a government can bail out these irrational companies and have it not be political suicide.
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by apercu 3mo ago
>There's absolutely nothing of value on any Word Press site. I would hope not, but I’d be surprised if that were true across the millions(?) of Wordpress sites?
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by apercu 3mo ago
Poblano and jalapeno grow fine here (SW Wisconsin), but absent a green house we can't get sweet (bell) peppers to grow.
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by apercu 3mo ago
That's covered in the article, along with a bunch of other things I had no idea about.
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by apercu 3mo ago
We will see if the outcomes are similar - dotcom sucked and hurt a lot of individuals and small businesses. This is different and the effects may be a lot worse.
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by apercu 3mo ago
Or composted to feed my garden. I hardly throw out any garbage.
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by apercu 3mo ago
Buy frozen fruit?
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by apercu 3mo ago
Subsidized Gen AI maybe. Also, California has a high cost of living.
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by apercu 3mo ago
Compared to what?
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by apercu 3mo ago
Maybe healthcare shouldn’t be primarily for profit?
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by apercu 3mo ago
I would never use a product from that company for any purpose.
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by apercu 3mo ago
I lived in Ontario for 18 years and found power to be quite expensive compared to the midwestern US state I lived in before and after. I believe this is due to the concentrated population centers needing to subsidize the transmission to the
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by apercu 3mo ago
So I totally disagree with your arguments on nearly all points, but the fact that no companies prioritize security of data means that this footage WILL get released at some point, which in my opinion overrides ever single argument you made.
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by apercu 4mo ago
Informed society is getting tired of unethical finance bro technocrats buying political influence and power with ill-gotten gains.
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by apercu 4mo ago
I only like splitting perfectly seasoned wood ( I do about a face cord every summer/fall). Otherwise it’s just too much work. Got any tips in to tooling? I use a maul.
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by apercu 4mo ago
Yep, never studied physics. Do know the difference between a sine wave and a square wave, though. We can debate whether people can hear the difference, and mastering has as much (or more) to do with it, but I will take an AAA or AAD over an
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by apercu 4mo ago
I skimmed the article but the parallel did not seem obvious to me. I play 'string' instruments (bass guitar, guitar, open tuned resonators) but I guess my approach is fairly standard - I read music but don't site read real-ti
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by apercu 4mo ago
I think this is smart. I have never done ear training apps because I just don't like to learn music that way - it doesn't "stick" for me. I like to learn in the context of a song. Here's what a melody sounds like wh

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