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by disqard 2y ago
That was hilarious! I'm hoping-against-hope that you (a human) wrote it, and not some LLM.
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by disqard 2y ago
There's at least one specific optimization in H.264 (aka "MPEG-4 Part 10") to smooth out these artifacts at block boundaries, called "deblocking". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deblocking_filter
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by disqard 2y ago
Thank you for making and sharing this! Do you envision it predominantly being used on a mobile device? I (personally) found it a bit "fiddly" to aim for the horizontal scrollbar with my mouse -- maybe I missed an easy-to-use mecha
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by disqard 2y ago
I misread the title as "CEOs are ruining companies from afar...", and found myself agreeing. I sense that, CEOs are often ignorant of day-to-day (and even month-to-month) realities of what's going on in their own company (p
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by disqard 2y ago
The overlords want their minions to. Eric's views, Jack Ma's (in)famous "996" exhortation, are all part of the same pattern.
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by disqard 2y ago
Morgan Housel hits this nail on the head in "The Psychology of Money", by talking about these "touchy-feely" aspects of money (which are routinely tossed aside in quantitative analyses... because they're not quantif
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by disqard 2y ago
Wow! I had the exact same experience as you --- also precipitated by the same "use pinkie sideways to support the bottom of the phone" usage. I stopped holding the phone that way, and it went away. The phone being big and heavy
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by disqard 2y ago
You're already able to see past the subtle subterfuge here: "let us lift the heavy weights for you, we'll make going to the gym so much easier!" ...however, I'm almost certain that you are not in their target demogr
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by disqard 2y ago
> The process of note taking is what really helps me learn things. Yes, it reminds one of Douglas Adams' "Electric Monk", that was built to believe things -- so that people wouldn't have to exert the mental effort of
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by disqard 2y ago
Thanks for calling that out! Indeed, that is a well-written technical book that one could read cover-to-cover. It has a clear progression of topics, and all of the text is beautifully written: "Once secure boot is enabled, the bootrom
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by disqard 2y ago
This is beautiful! It reminds me that there are indeed real people making and sharing themselves on the Internet.
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by disqard 2y ago
Good call! Reading "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough did give me a deep appreciation for how their slow, steady, incremental progress was thoroughly grounded and authentic. It ended up beating all the deep-pocketed rivals,
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by disqard 2y ago
I'm sure there were two variants of this ad, and some data-driven A/B testing picked this one. Perhaps the alternative was something like: "Motivated student writes letter to Nobel laureate scientist with the help of AI"
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by disqard 2y ago
A bit of a detour (inspired by your words)... if anything, LLMs will soon be "eating their own poop", so structurally, they're a "dual" of the "hippogator" -- an ouroboric coprophage. If LLMs ever achieve
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by disqard 2y ago
Yup! Hyrum's Law :)
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by disqard 2y ago
Paging Abner Coimbre... Bluestein, you should check out the Handmade Conference(s). https://handmadecities.com/
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by disqard 2y ago
It's the same as any other piece of tech-that-will-disrupt-X-industry: a good concrete example is EdTech, where the core premise is that making curriculum "moar fun" is all that's needed. Spoiler: education's bigges
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by disqard 2y ago
How do you deal with this particular kind of spam? I ignore and block the number. Curious to know what others are doing... esp. if anyone actually replied to see what these folks' "angle" is.
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by disqard 2y ago
Yep, it reminds me of the Ferrari almost-scam that was thwarted because the target thought to verify by asking about something that was only shared in-person.
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by disqard 2y ago
Thanks for making and sharing! Could you share some info about how you generated the 2D space embedding/visualization?
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by disqard 2y ago
I think you'd really like Derek Thompson's essay on "Workism": https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...
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by disqard 2y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted. A multitude of successful cryptocurrency rugpulls has shown that technology can indeed be ouroboric, with no actual social benefit. I do get GP's broader argument, that every generation shakes
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by disqard 2y ago
McLuhan was right: "the medium is the message". In this context, the "medium" is the country where KFC/McD is situated, and the "message" is the set of food standards or "the bar" as we're c
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by disqard 2y ago
Your (parenthesized) explanation of switching power supplies made a lot of "secondhand knowledge" click in my head -- like, for instance, why there's lots of high-frequency noise in the DC output. Thank you!
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by disqard 2y ago
> Fat chance. I see what you did there.
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by disqard 2y ago
You articulated a sentiment similar to what I wrote a couple of weeks ago -- you're more candid in your self-awareness, and you did a better job delineating why you hold these views. Here's my comment, which was more of a sociol
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by disqard 2y ago
Before the printing press, access to "knowledge" was through designated privileged members of society -- priests, etc. Few (if any) "laypeople" did their own research, as you and I understand it today.
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by disqard 2y ago
Perhaps you can help it attain its full garbage potential -- casually slip in suggestions to integrate AI into version 2.0: e.g. setting a "background glow" color based on the user's mood, holographic flying creature-pets and
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by disqard 2y ago
I love it! Instant loophole-creator -- "we trained an AI on the data"!
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by disqard 2y ago
Your service is founded on some ideas and points of view that I personally don't understand. Instead of focusing on teaching children robust strategies for dealing with the Real World, you're advocating for inserting some interpos

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