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by dTal 4mo ago
I think this is a kind of nerd chauvanism. What I see is that the general public are deeply skeptical of "AI" in all its forms. Software "engineers" are especially vulnerable to believing that LLMs are smart generally,
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by dTal 4mo ago
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords...
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by dTal 4mo ago
Tinfoil hat: If I were sitting on a big pile of valuable data I was legally forbidden from selling - perhaps to a rogue state willing to pay big bux for it - I might be tempted to engineer a "breach" for plausible deniability. Oop
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by dTal 4mo ago
From Room 641A to Snowden, the speed with which the narrative shifts from "that's conspiracy nonsense" to "we knew it all along" is neck-snapping. Every. Single. Time.
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by dTal 4mo ago
OpenTrack uses it for its AI headtracking, which works extremely well.
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by dTal 4mo ago
>According to market research firm Mordor Intelligence, nearly 1 trillion liters of water were consumed by AI data centers in 2025 I'm sorry, what? "Palantir" wasn't bad enough? Anyway this is silly propaganda as usua
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by dTal 4mo ago
Describing life on Earth as "a cruder version of humanity" is uh a choice. Your parrot snark is hilarious because that actually happened with Alex the African Gray - and indeed it took people a long time to accept. Your comment am
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by dTal 4mo ago
Curious logic. Does Google want you to use it or not? Do they want to be paid for tokens or not? why segregate open and closed? It's not parameter size - there is apparently such a thing as "Gemini Nano", which famously is do
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by dTal 4mo ago
Why? You think an obvious scam is easy money for you? You think you're smarter than the next retail investor? Why? Don't give your money to Elon Musk, he doesn't need more.
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by dTal 4mo ago
My reading is that in the suburbs you typically buy, while in urban environments you typically rent because all the land is already owned by someone who is making a killing off it; they aren't going to sell because that would be slaug
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by dTal 4mo ago
>If there was hope, it must lie in the proles
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by dTal 5mo ago
Have you stopped beating your wife?
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by dTal 5mo ago
For the purposes of this thread, "this stuff" consists of: >It's absurd that modern phones can talk to satellites hundreds of kilometers above, but not to other phones a few meters away in the same room, airplane cabin, tr
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by dTal 5mo ago
Reminder that "$2 million worth of OpenAI tokens" is meaningless and codes for "as much access to OpenAI infrastructure as Sam Altman feels like letting you have".
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Between-Device Sharing Still Sucks(hackaday.com)
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by dTal 5mo ago
That's not at all true, phones have both WiFi and Bluetooth, both of which are perfectly capable of communicating peer to peer. Bluetooth file transfer worked 20 years ago. Wifi is physically capable but the software usually requires o
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by dTal 5mo ago
The Register is great at these: "EFF dinks HP Inc finks in rinky-dink ink stink" https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2016/09/27/eff-dinks-hp...
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by dTal 5mo ago
You're quite wrong. You can, in fact, print perfectly well in any thermoplastic, including PVC (although it's unpopular due to toxic fumes). Nor is strength neccessarily an issue. In fact you can 3D print polycarbonate parts stron
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by dTal 5mo ago
Looks like singularity panic is having a bit of a moment on Hacker News. In the past day: Accelerando (2005) (antipope.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159241 Too Much Is Happening Too Fast (theatlantic.com) htt
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by dTal 5mo ago
What an obnoxious website. I'm not clicking through your silly javascript animated slideshow one sentence at a time just to read an article.
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by dTal 5mo ago
Reddit is as bad as the others, now.
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by dTal 5mo ago
ipython-qtconsole seems very underappreciated to me.
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by dTal 5mo ago
>it really doesn't need to be local I urge you to reconsider this attitude. If AI has a tenth the significance people claim, you're signing away your life; your ideas, your privacy, your very sovereignty of mind, all under so
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by dTal 5mo ago
Just because we'll have to pay for the hardware, doesn't mean we'll have meaningful control. Look at what happened with phones - weak and limited slaves to the mothership, secured against pesky users with powerful encryption,
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by dTal 5mo ago
>By the way, this post was totally built with the help of another language model which is not Claude! Yeah, it shows.
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by dTal 5mo ago
My god, a "web" of documents - it's brilliant! The best part is the documents can even be on different domains, world wide!
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by dTal 5mo ago
As with headphones, you can always just not wiggle it! Or arrange so that it doesn't rotate once it's fully inserted. There's nothing magical about the contacts in a USB connector.
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by dTal 5mo ago
I would caution against deriving too much of your philosophical worldview from a scifi book about posthuman vampires that has been deliberately engineered to make a philosophical point that is most certainly not a consensus. For alternative
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by dTal 5mo ago
For what it's worth, it'd be pretty easy to design an RJ45 compatible connector that didn't have that flimsy plastic latch.
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by dTal 5mo ago
The cables fail from bad design. The connectors are great.

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