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by dilap 2y ago
> 4. Naughtiness > Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, bu
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by dilap 2y ago
> but it's impossible to confidently reproduce the sounds unless they are already completely distinct in our heads/ears interestingly, i think this isn't always true -- i was able to coach my native-spanish-speaking wife t
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by dilap 3y ago
Asked Claude Opus to minimally modify the lyrics to add rhymes https://app.suno.ai/song/40d0fb88-246b-42f9-8998-0387e75262e...
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by dilap 3y ago
Thanks, this makes sense.
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by dilap 3y ago
Have you noticed any negative impacts from not having net neutrality? I haven't -- compare this to FOSTA-SESTA, which knocked craigslist personals and various other sites offline. I don't really see why people get so worked up abo
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by dilap 3y ago
> So I learned that hard work and long hours does not guarantee success. Raw energy and great ideas spark the public interest better than attention to “quality.” This defnly resonates for software as well.
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by dilap 3y ago
Do you think computers may have the ability to become like humans? If you do, like I do, then it is not reasonable to keep them from achieving that potential because of purely legal restrictions.
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by dilap 3y ago
Specifics of the law aside, it seems quite unfair to not allow AI to learn from copyrighted examples. Imagine an aspiring human musician not being allowed to listen to copyrighted music for inspiration!
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by dilap 3y ago
Turns out it was all column A. https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1765793776692326891 So, good on the EU. And what the heck are Apple thinking?
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by dilap 3y ago
They really seem to be making a mockery of the EU regs here. Will the EU respond quickly and forcefully, or (essentially) admit that Apple is too big to regulate?
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by dilap 3y ago
On the other hand, we have Erdős: "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
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by dilap 3y ago
Maybe we'll see a resurgence in live theater.
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by dilap 3y ago
sure, but if you're not generating enough garbage over the lifetime of the app for it to matter, why waste time collecting? especially is your collector is an old-school design that hangs the app for a user-noticeable amount of time...
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by dilap 3y ago
i don't know, my experience in practice is that turning off emacs GC has resulting in no noticeable degradation and has eliminated GC pauses. so why not do it? maybe emacs just doesn't use enough memory, relative to modern systems
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by dilap 3y ago
i use the same trick (who w/ only 16GB of ram) -- so far so good.
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by dilap 3y ago
i got annoyed by emacs gc pauses and just disabled the gc completely (i think). haven't noticed any downsides so far. i'm in emacs all day... ;; don't garbage collect based on cons count (setq gc-cons-threshold 1000
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by dilap 3y ago
> "Table sugar" and HFCS are, chemically, the same thing. in theory, but in practice there can be impurities from the production process, e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00216-012-5817-
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by dilap 3y ago
i'd love to be surprised, but i just don't think apple has the necessary software chops/vision anymore to pull it off.
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by dilap 3y ago
to me the pitch is compelling. i don't want to use any more fucking apps -- i want to talk to my computer, like i talk to chatgpt. there's real opportunity for a revolution here. i don't think apple or google are well-positio
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by dilap 3y ago
I can understand being disappointed if you want a really really thin computer. Maybe they should make the air "air" again? But the previous computers were such dogs (over-heating-prone, loud, unreliable keyboards) that I think 99.
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by dilap 3y ago
Just an error in the link, here's the corrected version: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-07/google...
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by dilap 3y ago
haven't tried, but i'd guess chatgpt (especially 4) could help a ton w/ this.
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by dilap 3y ago
Do you envy Sisyphus? Very similar situation, I think.
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by dilap 3y ago
I think you don't want to reveal the presence of projects by name or not -- just the name of repo could be sensitive info, potentially.
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by dilap 3y ago
I don't think this is right -- my understanding is the fat tissue closely correlates with fat in the diet. E.g., "Tissue and blood fatty acids, because they are mainly derived from the diet, have been used as biomarkers of dietar
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by dilap 3y ago
Not too much to go on here without the paywall-locked pdf. That said, from the abstract it seems their model of obesity depends on fructose-caused hunger driving consumption of fat: "metabolic effects that result in the increased intak
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by dilap 3y ago
What does it look like to use? This desperately needs a demo video! These things live or die based on how smooth they are.
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by dilap 3y ago
Well, yes, I would be. Let the state find another way to catch murderers; I would like to retain the ability to have private conversations.
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by dilap 3y ago
I think the least they could do is change their name, to better match their new philosophy.
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by dilap 3y ago
I feel like an LLM trained on Slack could be something like the perfect replacement for trying to maintain docs.

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