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by davely 3y ago
Hah, well then, maybe I just don't like vampires! In all seriousness, I thought I had seen it in a list of "top hard sci-fi books" awhile back and a quick Kagi search seems to imply that a lot of people seem consider it hard
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by davely 3y ago
Oh, boy. Blindsight was a book that made me realize that maybe I like the _idea_ of hard sci-fi more than I actually like reading it.
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by davely 3y ago
A lot of great suggestions here and some stuff I’ve never heard of before! Throwing my own suggestion into the ring, as I was just looking into this last week. I started setting up a blog using Hexo. It’s another Node based SSG that uses ma
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by davely 3y ago
Ah, my apologies then. I have updated but out of habit, I haven't tried it on my phone since that feature hasn't worked for years.
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by davely 3y ago
Interestingly (and somewhat surprisingly) you can do this on an Apple Watch. However, you cannot do this on an iPhone (what?!).
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by davely 3y ago
colormind.io is great! They have a free API you can use to get random color palettes. I was using it to get random (and hopefully pleasant) color schemes awhile back when you could still run Twitter bots for my cheesy “JustTriangles” bot [1
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by davely 3y ago
I say this as a huge Apple fan: the iPad strategy is ridiculously frustrating (for my purposes). The crux of the issue is that the latest Pros have one of the most awesome and powerful processors on the market for traditional computing purp
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by davely 3y ago
I use generative AI to rubber duck and help improve my code. Am I no longer a software engineer?
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by davely 3y ago
I agree with this to an extent. Our kiddos are old enough to be in school. But if someone is home sick, I have to take the day off because it’s hard to get anything done. A reply to you mentioned noise-canceling headphones. That doesn’t wor
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by davely 3y ago
I was once asked in a technical interview how I’d do XYZ in some framework. I said, “well, I’m not exactly sure, but I’d look up their API interface on devdocs.io to try and understand more…” The interviewer had no idea what I meant, so we
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by davely 3y ago
The kids used to love our Google mini speaker. There were voice activated games, normal stories, choose your own adventure style stories and a fun little “animal of the day” feature. Every single one of those things have been deprecated and
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by davely 3y ago
As a plane nerd my entire life, I have to say that in my humble opinion, there is no such thing as an ugly airplane. And then I clicked through the link. Oh, wow.
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by davely 3y ago
In 2010, an Airbus A380 engine exploded. The fact that it landed safely was a miracle. [1] In 2017, an Airbus A380 lost an engine (literally, fell off the plane). [2] In 2018, a cockpit windshield blew out in an Airbus A319. [3] Don't
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by davely 3y ago
To ensure no one will ever touch it, you can pull the hardware equivalent of adding a comment to a piece of code: // AUTOGENERATED DO NOT DELETE
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by davely 3y ago
I found the additional context to be helpful in quickly understanding how / where I could run it.
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by davely 3y ago
When these algorithms get it wrong, it completely sucks. And since no tech company has any semblance of customer support, you're completely hosed. With respect to Facebook: I posted a shop vac last April for $50. I got a message that I
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by davely 3y ago
Neat device! I don’t see any obvious answer for this, but how often does it query / refresh the image URL? I’m thinking of writing some script to just push an updated image to something like https://example.com/dashboar
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by davely 3y ago
This immediately reminds me of a book I read a year ago about a man who walked off into the woods of Maine in 1986 and lived as a hermit for 27 years [1] [1] “Stranger in the Woods” by Michael Finkel: https://www.goodreads.com&#x
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by davely 3y ago
Seeing Jupiter, its Great Red Spot, and a line of dots representing 4 of its largest moons, as well as Saturn and its rings through a telescope at a backyard astronomy event when I was a kid was such a ridiculously cool experience. Granted,
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by davely 3y ago
How does blockchain solve this problem? You still have to rely on a middleman (the blockchain), which I believe isn’t infallible either (human input error, adversarial attacks, phishing, social engineering, network availability, etc)
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by davely 3y ago
I believe that simply registering for an API key on the AI Horde website and ensuring you use that jumps you up past a ton of the queue work. ArtBot visitors generate about 1,100 images an hour and it has only accounted for about 10% of the
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by davely 3y ago
I've been playing around with DALL-E 3 a lot recently. One of the things they do is to expand a user's prompt in order to add a lot of detail. Via their API, you can see the expanded prompt (whereas, you can't through the Cha
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by davely 3y ago
Yup! It's since been renamed to the AI Horde, but same backend service. https://aihorde.net/
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by davely 3y ago
Hello! ArtBot dev here. Happy to answer any questions. Been hacking away on this in my spare time over the last year. It’s been a lot of fun! I’ve taken a bit of a break over the last month or so but am slowly picking things up again. Hopin
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by davely 3y ago
Oh, man. I lived across the street from an apartment complex in Oakland for about 5 years that had a beautiful ground floor corner commercial real estate unit that was empty the entire time. Sure, Oakland and all that. But other spots in th
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by davely 3y ago
Just tried it and it appears so (on an iPhone 14, at least).
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by davely 3y ago
With the way these AI models work, that data isn’t stored in a database though. It’s hard for people to understand this concept, but the fact that a model repeated some data verbatim is a happy coincidence (!) solely based on patterns of d
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by davely 3y ago
This looks pretty neat and I’m sure Shaun and the team have learned a lot… But man, I remember the No Man’s Sky announcement trailer and then the initial state of the game afterward. It took a lonnnnnng time to restore trust. I am cautiousl
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by davely 3y ago
> Think of it as copying, compressing and storing all the copyrighted material in a database. But it isn’t. It’s just a series of vectors that point to a likely occurrence of the next word or pixel or bit in a sequence.
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by davely 3y ago
CNN just started blocking visitors using ad block extensions. It’s made me stop going there. Regardless of what you think of a particular news organization, I think this is a sign of things to come. (See YouTube’s experiment with warning us

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