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by bitwize 3mo ago
This is one of those times you actually get to use "leverage" as a verb without sounding turbo cringe: a leveraged buyout is an acquisition with borrowed money; the hope is that you will be able to pay back the debt with the money
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by bitwize 3mo ago
As long as we're taking the Japanese approach, why not create a yandere wAIfu? People will love her irrespective of her being suspicious and sinister.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Poor Albert Einstein. He donated perpetual rights to his name and likeness to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which promptly used them as a cash cow.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Based and redpilled, Stallman is.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
I still have my NetBSD-running MSI Wind around somewhere...
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Should be using strcpy_s or strncpy_s.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
A fucking built-in genlock? For years I thought only Amigas had those!
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I was kinda hoping that you would arduino the Hackernews front page onto an actual train-style flipboard, but this is a pretty cute web trick.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Working on it
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I was thinking more like Disney. Studio Ghibli would want to hand-draw everything as well; Miyazaki's abhorrence for AI is well documented.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
JS is easier to develop, easier to deploy cross-platform, and, more importantly from a business perspective, easier to hire for. So it makes complete sense to use JS in the commercial world.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
There's a limit that won't be breached without a fundamental breakthrough in physics of computation, but we're not there yet by a long shot. You can train bigger models, faster, and infer with them faster and more precisely,
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Indeed. Local models becoming available and halfway decent don't obviate the laws of scale. And because there's no ceiling to what scaling more will buy you in terms of capability, there's no reason not to scale more, there&#
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by bitwize 4mo ago
The heavy lifting in terms of realizing vision was already done in the design, layout, and keyframing phases. The in-between frames are interpolations, that's why they're sent to sweatshops. And the idea is that you wouldn't
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I wonder why the use of AI to do in-between frames is not more embraced by artists and professionals. It sounds like a perfect use case for the technology: pure scutwork that would have been farmed out to sweatshops in a cheap-labor country
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Win11 has come up short, So 10 needs more support. How do they offer it, according to AI? Quietly, quietly, quiet... L-Y!
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Job interviewees are now routinely asked to perform silly gestures (e.g., "wave your hand in front of your face") to catch out generative video models.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
The logic used to implement game NPCs has been called "AI" since well before the current AI boom. And many of the techniques come from the previous AI boom of the 1970s-1980s. I know that we're all experiencing AI fatigue, bu
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by bitwize 4mo ago
If you hear a Japanese person yell "K.Y.! K.Y.!" you'd better blush, and not because they're referring to a fun-times lubricant. It stands for "kūki yomenai", literally " cannot read the atmosphere".
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by bitwize 4mo ago
They are interesting for a variety of reasons. One of which is, while some are similar in function to, say, the "handicapped tag" that gets you pick of the best parking spaces in the United States, they are mainly enforced through
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I'm becoming convinced that mandatory AI use is a humiliation ritual, akin to neighboring tribes forcing Hebrews to eat pork.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Whatchoo talkin about, Willis? I've had to supply references for every job I've had. Somehow it seems every other hackernews was living in a much better timeline, job-wise, than I during the ZIRP era.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I see we (as a society) are now full Primeagen: "Epic as in health records, not Epic as in Fortnite."
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Because the peecee was cobbled-together cheap crap, that's why.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Wait until you discover the hesychasts of Orthodox Christianity and their "ceaseless prayer of the heart".
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by bitwize 4mo ago
If so, it's a failure to uphold Fred Rogers' original ideas. He aimed to teach kids how to handle anger, frustration, and other negative emotions by finding safe outlets, not by suppressing them.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Closest I could find is a new-old-stock, 4" Sony Watchman style B&W tube. No newly manufactured ones, and when I search a lot of industrial-style LCD displays come up. I think Thomas Electronics may be it in terms of new manufactur
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by bitwize 4mo ago
There's also like one company still manufacturing CRTs, and their market is exclusively military and heavy-industrial, replacements for old fighter-jet HUDs and the like: https://www.thomaselectronics.com/avionics/
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I ran it on a Pentium 60. If you stuck to 320x200 it ran fine.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
APIs have not been ruled uncopyrightable. The Supreme Court found that Google's use of the Java API's was fair use; fair use is specifically a defense against infringement of a copyrighted work. There may be court cases in the f

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