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by chromacity 6mo ago
What's especially frustrating is that the posts about AI are also disproportionately written by AI. I can sort of understand that people who are very enthusiastic about LLMs also use them for blogging. But the most bizarre part is that
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by chromacity 6mo ago
How else do you expect me to illustrate my LLM-generated blog posts about AI?
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I mean, more or less, we do. The NIH list includes cell phones, e-cigarettes, and headphones.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I never followed up, but I didn't read it as some serious IP licensing thing. It sounded like they've come to the conclusion that they're making the stuff that's sold on Tindie anyway, so might as well set up a website a
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Unfortunate. Tindie is (was?) a pretty unique marketplace. Amusingly, a lot of what they were selling was probably illegal due to FCC rules: for the most part, you can't sell electronics without EMI certification and "I'm jus
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Phones don't have removable batteries mostly because of the desire to make the device as thin as possible. The battery is just a delicate, flexible pouch that can easily be damaged and catch fire if removed from the phone and carried a
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by chromacity 6mo ago
This is an interesting sentiment given how desperate AI labs seem to be source any new internet content from any walled-garden platform willing to take their money (and how willing they are to try & take it even if you don't consen
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by chromacity 6mo ago
No matter how many AI tracks I blocked / downvoted on Spotify, they kept recommending them to me. It made me cancel my account. The thing is, from the consumer point of view, you can barely tell if it's playing in the background.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
> Generally speaking I am a fan of the idea that everyone should be required to do some kind of community service for 2 years once they turn 18. Why? I get the warm-and-fuzzy angle of "instilling civic responsibility", but you&
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by chromacity 6mo ago
But it doesn't. We have a problem. We can focus on addressing the problem without pre-adjudicating every hypothetical corner case. If your "work" is mostly AI, and if you don't disclose it, it goes to /dev/null
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by chromacity 6mo ago
The same people who read AI-generated stories about AI. Which is, roughly, most of us. There are AI-generated blog posts on the front page of HN multiple times a day. Right now, I see "I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini
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by chromacity 6mo ago
But these early chips are not that. The 324 has marked crossover distortion and problems with phase reversal, both have severe input and output voltage limitations, etc. Basically, they are a pain to use, especially in single-supply circuit
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Honestly, debating these corner cases feels like a distraction tactic. The reality is that the bulk of that 44% is total AI slop: one-sentence prompts entered into Suno to generate 1,000 tracks and extract money from subscribers who stream
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by chromacity 6mo ago
The "it works" part may be true for BJTs, but I think it's a stretch for op-amps. The number of Stackexchange and Reddit threads where people are struggling to debug the quirks of these ancient chips is pretty staggering.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
The obvious difference is that the US, more or less by deliberate design, had a remarkably lax approach to visa overstays and illegal border crossings for decades. This resulted in a population of more than 10 million "unauthorized&quo
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I think the reason is much simpler, same as with 741 and 324 op-amps. These devices just came out at the right time. They featured prominently in the first crop of books that popularized a number of reference circuits among hobbyists and pr
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by chromacity 6mo ago
They only burrow to a depth of about one foot.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I wish them well, but this has all the signs of nanotech vaporware. The article even mentions graphene, and empirically, that seems to be a death kiss for every promising technology announced in the past three decades. The tech to make your
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by chromacity 6mo ago
> The article isn’t arguing that if ICL facilities are disrupted, that’s it, no more bromine forever. It is saying that if these facilities are disrupted there will be an even bigger problem with DRAM supply than already exists because t
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Ah, this week's iteration of "we're running out of sand". I'm sure one of these predictions will eventually come true, but we have articles that overstate the likelihood and consequences of running out of <some b
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I think that's a goofy take. It's two coffees everywhere . Every other software vendor is trying to move to the subscription model. If you add up all the licenses you need to do work, have hobbies, or procrastinate (Netflix, Spot
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I know you edited your post, but I'm actually taken aback by people trying to argue it's a blog, not "journalism". I see no real difference between this and some of the most celebrated pieces of gonzo journalism. However
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Every time I see one of these HN threads, I am actually amazed with what Adobe was able to pull off. I'm not surprised that they could do this to pros who were used to a particular workflow. In fact, for some businesses, a subscription
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by chromacity 6mo ago
It's kinda poetic that in the entire process, authors get screwed thrice. First, by the publishers and retailers, who keep 80% of the revenue. Then, by the hacker culture that enables widespread, institutionalized book piracy for the s
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by chromacity 6mo ago
No. I've been using that construct long before LLMs and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. It allows you to succinctly state the position you're disagreeing with before putting forward another hypothesis. LLMs
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Like the original Grammarly, I think this can be useful for business writing because these tools help you get to the point. Many students are rewarded for using flowery language in school essays, but if you're composing an email or wri
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by chromacity 6mo ago
This is cool work, but it's also somewhat unsurprising: this is a recurring problem with fancy, richly-featured terminal apps. I think we had at least ten publicly reported vulns of this type in the past 15 years. We also had vulnerabi
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Calcium perchlorate is only slightly toxic. Not good for you, but living in an environment with background radiation levels 50x higher than on Earth may be your bigger worry... Still, I'm pretty sure we have plenty of people who wouldn
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by chromacity 6mo ago
But doesn't that overstate it in the other direction? Talking about investments in proportion to GDP back when any estimate of GDP probably wasn't a good measure of total economic output? We're talking about the period before
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I think your frustration is somewhat misplaced. One big gotcha is that Anthropic burned a lot of money to demonstrate these capabilities. I believe many millions of dollars in compute costs. There's probably no third party willing to

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