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by bombcar 4mo ago
Some of it feels boiled down to "opus works better when told not to be dumb, fable's prompt tells it not to be dumb." If they know much of what the tool is used for, they can customize prompts to "do that usage right&quo
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Those who don't have bit twiddling instructions are doomed to rebuild them badly via heavier actions and compiler optimizations.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The customer can reproduce it, or they wouldn't be complaining about it - and if you connect with them you can get much of the detail you need; especially if they're "test-support" inclined and can help diagnose possib
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Most (but by no means all) prolific authors do, eventually. You see it especially in podcasts, many of them start to somewhat repeat after a few tens or hundreds of episodes.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I’ve always felt beer should be taxed on distance - the further from the brewery, the more expensive. Beer is easy, every town should have their own.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I really suspect that the models are basically the same below, it’s all in the prompt. The way I use them, surgically, they seem to perform about the same. Fable certainly hasn’t blow my socks off.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
When your job is to produce writings every week, you produce a ton of writings. About 15 volumes in I started to realize I’d read most of what he had to say; but it was still entertaining each time. Given his size, perhaps he was the Larges
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Copilot actually can search outlook emails on Mac. This is the greatest achievement of any AI.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I remember a trick (I think it was for Windows 95) where you could copy all the files to the hard drive first and then once they were all there, you could install directly from them.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The humor is that it’s a page about respecting user mode setting that doesn’t respect user mode setting.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
This is exactly the key - residential real estate is based on tons of pricing effects, and appraisals are much more "feels" than "reals", if you will (how people feel about the area, how they feel about the tower the pre
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by bombcar 4mo ago
As others have said, but also the Apple "watch shares your phone number but not really" where you have a second "real" phone number that actually communicates - reminiscent of how Republic Wireless worked on the Sprint n
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Cell phone enabled watches are a pile of hacks sitting on top of hacks on top of a system pretending to be a telephone switch board from the 1940s. It’s surprising any of it works.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
If it's natively supported on linux, an LLM should be able to write a simple Windows program to control it based on the code.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Simcity was the first sandbox simulation game I played, and all my favorite ones have really been in that genre in some way: Factorio, Dwarf Fortress, Cities Skylines, even Minecraft.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
If I had a nickel for every time an 18 wheeler dropped something off at my house I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t much, but it’s weird it happened twice.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
We’re an hour out and I had to do a deep dive and finally admit to myself that the savings just really weren’t there, including membership and gas.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
If you don’t think Costco encourages people to buy things they don’t need you’ve never shopped at Costco. Anyway, my 55 gallon drum of mayonnaise is starting to go bad, got to make a run.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
HN materially changed the title to something surprising!
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by bombcar 4mo ago
That's what I've heard - intelligent research, combined with unclassified facts gleaned from conversations at coffeeshops and bars, led to a pretty accurate picture.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Also amusing is I see way more rifles especially in Europe than I ever do in the USA; Paris and other metros really seem to like having soldiers walking around armed. Here we just have cops with sidearms and one or two cowboys open carrying
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Bond using a “top secret compact rifle” that I recognized as an AR-7 was greatly disappointing to me, especially I had just finished discovering how crappy a gun that thing is.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Yes, it’s the flip side of Gell Mann Amnesia - nerding out!
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Didn’t he piece rumors and made intelligent guesses so well that the government freaked out wondering where the leak was?
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Tesla at least somewhat busted ass in the whole "iPad screen in the car" movement, and CarPlay was more invasive in some ways then than it is now.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The car industry got "mogged" as the kids say by Apple - cars went from status items (see any 60s/70s movie) to "an iPhone accessory" overnight and they've still not recovered.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
A surprisingly large number of customers DO want the smart TV to "just work" and play their Netflix. Like car infotainment, they figure out how to use it, bitch about it, and some connect an Apple device and use that instead.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I love the "pick your own off the line" rentals because I can snoop the cars for CarPlay.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
In the USA at least, you seem to either be in the "buy/lease new, trade in every 3-5 years" camp, or "buy it and drive it until the wheels fall off." If you do the first, you end up not being out a terrible amount o
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Car Infotainment Systems vs Built-in TV UI/Apps shittiness FIGHT! It's a real competition, not sure who would take home the gold.

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