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by d--b 9mo ago
The man's a legend. Whoever does not know him should listen to Richard D James, Drukqs, and Syro. It's incredible how the experimental stuff he was doing in the 90s has pervaded mainstream music so profoundly. Also, people should
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by d--b 9mo ago
Yeah but that definition is a deformation of what bankrupcy means for a business, and the use of the word bankrupcy is more alarmist than its "proposed definition". "irreversible damage to nature" is vague. Is a dam caus
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by d--b 9mo ago
The author is right, I care a lot more about the Venice thing than reading the rest of the article.
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by d--b 9mo ago
And the salesman always says it’s great while it’s in fact lame.
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by d--b 9mo ago
This is huge! At first I thought this was someone working thousands of hours putting this together, and I thought: I wonder if this could be done with AI…
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by d--b 9mo ago
That's not true at all though. Car makers don't make a car and dismiss the entire engineering team. Sure, you could do that, but eventually people are going to move on from your only car that's old and clunky. That's exa
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by d--b 9mo ago
> overall operating expenses remain well above pre-2021 levels. Rising costs since 2020 have been driven primarily by sharp increases in interest expenses (+71%), fertilizer (+37%), fuel and oil (+32%), labor (+47%), chemicals (+25%) and
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by d--b 9mo ago
Can you at least switch to 1/10th of inches? The 1/4th, 1/8th, 1/16th is very annoying
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by d--b 9mo ago
This looks great. Quick feedback, scrollbars don't work well on my mac mini M1. The bar seems to move twice as fast as the mouse.
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by d--b 9mo ago
One could make an app that actually scans the cards from a distance and computes the stuff. Brett Victor style.
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by d--b 9mo ago
The option market is an insurance market. Most people buy low-strike puts as insurance against catastrophic market events. Since catastrophic crises are rare, the price of these puts is quite low. But since many people fear a crisis, the pr
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by d--b 9mo ago
It's not addiction. That makes in sound like self pat on the back disguised as a problem. It's the equivalent of being neat freak. Some people are annoyed when they see breadcrumbs on the floor and feel a compelling urge to clean
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by d--b 9mo ago
This is the kind of question that made us doubt that AI would happen one day, cause meaning is quite remote from its expression. There was always these contextual meanings that differ widely. Like "carrots are orange" is a fact th
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by d--b 9mo ago
since financial speculation exists, the news has been about gambling. Regular people just didn’t know it cause the ticket to entry was to expensive.
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by d--b 9mo ago
These prizes were such a bad ideas to start with. Most recipients either think it’s stupid that they got it and not their peers, or they develop Nobel Prize syndrome. Many non recipients become sour for not getting them. Plus the selection
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by d--b 9mo ago
I used to play chess over email that way, back in 1994, using a plugin for the Thor email client on Amiga
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by d--b 9mo ago
Sure it always starts with an individual or a group of individuals, but what you describe is some sort of virality. Like a counter-epidemic if you will. It’s one way of getting changes in culture, which relies a lot on lucky timing. Like th
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by d--b 9mo ago
Cause the world needs more tech to erode common people’s privacy.
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by d--b 9mo ago
It looks like every comment here is suggesting that lonely people should do something to feel less lonely. But that's not how you stop an epidemic. The epidemic is a systemic things, and you don't solve systemic things by giving a
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by d--b 9mo ago
I usually am the anti-religion type, pointing out the abuses happening in churches, and the general bigotry that leads to more violence rather than fewer. So reaching that part of the article made me cringe. The sentence about him being a s
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by d--b 9mo ago
It's beyond ridiculous, it's rechargeable but not refillable. As if a silicon tap was more difficult to design than a USB charging port.
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by d--b 9mo ago
I found it quite insightful. Looking at individual line changes produced by AI is definitely difficult. And going one step higher to version control makes sense. We're not really there yet though, as the generated code currently still
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by d--b 9mo ago
Reminded me of Red Faction, a FPS where you could destroy the environment. Kind of like Quake in a Lemmings world. This is quite more polished to say the least.
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by d--b 9mo ago
People don't want AI PC, cause they don't want to spend 5000 bucks for something that's half as good as the free version of ChatGPT. But we've been there before. Computers are going to get faster for cheaper, and LLMs ar
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by d--b 9mo ago
"Smart" things get old quickly... I think I bought one of these ten years ago. My parents' sound system is from the mid 90s
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by d--b 9mo ago
Well it takes some politics to get this kind of culture shift. As long as highly processed food is cheap and working class people are paid what they are paid, there is no chance of anything changing. Additionnally, it is generally cheaper t
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by d--b 9mo ago
> 1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems. A little bit of sarcasm here: “well there probably isn’t a lot of great engineers at google then”
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by d--b 9mo ago
Couldn’t agree more. Changing anything in oUR react Bootstrap frontend was a visit to the dentist. But Llms really lowered the pain.
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by d--b 9mo ago
This is a highly romanticized view imo. I sit alone in cafes all the time, for many reasons. I don’t feel particularly joyful about it nor weird. I just do it to take a break and have something to drink, or wait for someone or something. Of
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by d--b 9mo ago
The fact that someone actually wins the lottery is what’s surprising. For me, it makes me realize how incredibly large human populations are.

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