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by cbeach 4y ago
I’m at a mid size company that is currently moving away from cute names onto meaningful names. I’m glad we’re going in this direction as the onboarding process was painful, trying to piece together so many arbitrary facts, and I’m reminded
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VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model(mpost.io)
524 points by cbeach 4y ago|445 comments
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by cbeach 4y ago
After a decade working with Java, I moved onto Scala and rekindled my love of coding. Looking back at the verbosity of the language and the horror of Enterprise Java frameworks, I would never go back to Java. Everyone currently coding in Ja
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’m more inclined to buy Tesla since Elon took a principled stand for free speech. There are others like me, but they’re afraid to speak up because hating Elon is the current groupthink and to challenge it means being downvoted to oblivion.
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by cbeach 4y ago
A lot of people buy cars on finance deals in Europe. More than 90% of new car buyers pay on finance in the U.K. https://uk.motor1.com/news/353737/91-percent-cars-financed-y... Personally I think it’s absurd to get
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by cbeach 4y ago
Claimed “sources familiar with the matter” who can’t be named. Meanwhile the CEO of the actual company concerned confirms the news report of this notorious leftwing hack paper is factually incorrect.
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’d rather do without consumer battery replacement and have strong waterproofing instead. But now I can’t. Thanks EU. Oh, and thanks also to the EU for condemning all my Lightning cables and accessories to landfill. Nice one.
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by cbeach 4y ago
It’s political. I’m in the tribe that loves what Elon Musk is currently doing. But many are in the tribe that hates what Musk is doing because it threatens the arrangements that benefited their tribe for many years.
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by cbeach 4y ago
There’s a difference between supporting marriage equality and, say, a straight man standing on a pedestal and announcing he wants to unilaterally “re-home the gay community” despite not a single gay person asking for this.
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’m talking about the degree of elitism / superiority / technocratic urge that makes a white man feel he’s responsible for “finding a home” for black people - as if they’re not capable of making that choice themselves. This attitu
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by cbeach 4y ago
> So I think it behooves privileged geeks like myself to help find and improve an alternate home for things like #BlackTwitter. I always suspected these attitudes were common amongst the white leftwing intelligentsia, but here it is in
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by cbeach 4y ago
Could you name a single Nazi that Elon has replied to? The only example I can think of is Kanye West - and Elon banned him from Twitter.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Makes me wonder what other things (that we don’t hear about publicly) are being done to try to bring Musk down.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Elon needed to sack people immediately when he joined because many of them were actively sabotaging the takeover. What else could he do? Sit back and allow them access to the network and tools for months? Their severance package looks prett
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by cbeach 4y ago
Automation (particularly of agriculture) should be the focus of national strategy. God forbid we return to the 20th-century solution of throwing more bodies at the problem (uncontrolled mass immigration), which will only exacerbate the unde
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by cbeach 4y ago
My biggest bugbear is the size of the upvote/downvote buttons. They’re tiny, hard to touch accurately and vanish when clicked, giving useless feedback.
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by cbeach 4y ago
This is all part of the plan. Only those on the frontier of nu-speak are untouchable. The faster the frontier advances, the greater the concentration of power in the hands of those coming up with this language. When people can (and have) lo
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by cbeach 4y ago
> Second, and not impossible, it finds a route back to relevance. Twitter 2.0 is so irrelevant it’s the subject of half a dozen HN front page news stories every day…
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How Jack Sweeney tracked Elon’s Jet (“public information?”)(youtube.com)
6 points by cbeach 4y ago|0 comments
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by cbeach 4y ago
"Script kiddie uses Twitter to systematiclaly dox owner of Twitter. Gets banned from Twitter" How is this news? I know at the moment it's trendy to hate Musk (although no one will admit the underlying political reasons), but
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by cbeach 4y ago
that is beautiful!
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by cbeach 4y ago
As a U.K. citizen I’m glad not a penny of our taxes were used for this. Some of our Euroskeptic MEPs once made a documentary about the spending and waste of EU institutions, and it was eye-opening. More than €100M is spent each year because
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by cbeach 4y ago
Your Twitter feed is dependent on who you follow. Why follow people who abuse and troll?
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by cbeach 4y ago
He's the world's richest man. He can take on big interest payments. He experimented with some changes to Twitter, and his style is to rapidly try different things and see what works. I would expect him to continue like this. I hop
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by cbeach 4y ago
As someone who likely has opposing political views to yours I think the following outcomes were vital to a well-functioning public square for inclusive and civil discourse: * taking the company private, and off the stock market, so decision
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by cbeach 4y ago
I suspect some of the gains found in the trial companies will be short-lived if /all/ companies transition to a four day week. At the moment, trial companies offer a rare and coveted perk. They’ll attract a large pool of candidate
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by cbeach 4y ago
I think it was Henry Ford that originally came up with the concept of a weekend because he wanted everyday people to buy motorcars for leisure time. So they needed to have some leisure time. I wonder if a five/two day cycle is the ba
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by cbeach 4y ago
So he’s slow on delivering a very difficult and ground breaking technology (he has, however, delivered FSD to North America). Is that really a reason to hate the man? “Hate” is a strong and emotionally loaded word.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Author describes Elon Musk as “a deranged over-leveraged misanthropic moron” I stopped reading there. Too much silly, hateful hyperbole about Elon Musk at the moment. Yes, I get it - he’s seen as a Republican, and you’re a Democrat supporte
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’m sure there are sad stories like this from the tens of thousands of staff laid off by Amazon, Meta and co. But we only hear bad news about Twitter. Why? Because Twitter used to be owned by the Blue tribe and now it’s owned by a member of

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