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by dofm 2mo ago
“Everyone hates us and the very fundamentals of what we are promising, will fight to prevent us establishing infrastructure, may pass laws to limit our activities in their states, and will extend that hatred to our major investors, potentia
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by dofm 2mo ago
Then there was no reason it took almost a year for Anthropic to find a workaround for a bit of screen flickering, right?
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by dofm 2mo ago
The ARM 1 only had 25,000 or so.
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by dofm 2mo ago
Well, I think those jobs can’t be so easily taken away by AI, physical work is good for low morale and mood, etc., and you don’t have to do it forever? A family member got out of IT a few years ago, retrained as a specialist gardener, drew
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by dofm 2mo ago
> Sorry to dissapoint but […] > Therefore it’s not AI fault that you built your identity on sand. I mean it is a pretty disappointing comment, so you're absolutely not wrong on one axis at least. But you might consider reading th
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by dofm 2mo ago
> Possibly also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa That is a bit of a reach! Anyone who doesn't like your weird sci-fi food on principle possibly has an eating disorder?
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by dofm 2mo ago
> You're equally hardware-constrained with Apple too. Can you find me an Apple laptop with four "proper" USB ports, a Displayport socket, and swappable battery? This is now a circular argument. As I said, a Mac is a Mac is
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by dofm 2mo ago
Of course it does! I'm exactly suggesting that those constrained hardware choices have value in the context discussed (agreeing with an earlier poster) and that in fact, if you're out on the road or you're under pressure and
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by dofm 2mo ago
3D printers, CAD, CNC, all affordable and IMO accessible (and will run on cheap old kit). No matter what people say, LLMs are not coming for real world adaptable parametric designs any time soon. ETA: whether there is a way forward for a re
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by dofm 2mo ago
Genuinely unsettling. Can’t even begin to explain why. Like a terrifying glimpse into how fragile our grasp of reality is. Because whatever it is I wrote down wasn’t my dream, it was something my dream self thought profound or important. Ne
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by dofm 2mo ago
> the Claude pandemic Wow. This phrasing hits home so hard.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I am struggling to be honest, but I am learning how to make stuff with CAD and 3D printers and plotting my escape towards teaching (adults), because I have spoken to enough lifelong learners to know that AI is not satisfying important parts
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by dofm 2mo ago
Well you have no reason to feel ashamed or mentally ill. Everything has, in fact, changed, and it is a task for those of us who cared about what was, to try to work out what is worth caring about. As Annie Savoy says in Bull Durham , “th
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by dofm 2mo ago
People who never really had these feelings about coding will turn up to tell you that you are wrong to care or that it is childish or silly to care. You are not wrong to have your feelings or to strongly identify your sense of self with y
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by dofm 2mo ago
On the contrary it (faster Surface Go 2) was one of the most practical little machines I’ve ever used, and was really impressive in Windows 11. I am totally happy to lay the blame for the poor trackpad performance in Gnome/Wayland on t
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by dofm 2mo ago
Right but a secondhand thinkpad is not a laptop you find in the travel context of the thread. (I dispute the main point, too — I spent flipping hours trying and failing to get trackpad speed right on a Surface Go in GNOME/Wayland. En
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by dofm 2mo ago
I think it is because they are on some latent level cognitively uniform and unchanging.
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by dofm 2mo ago
Well the examples I gave rise above their ephemerality due to the circumstances that make them memorable. I can remember the details of the story around them — the way the prize winners reacted in each story — in such a way as to contrast t
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by dofm 2mo ago
> There's no real edge to it. Yes, as if it is in some weird hidden dimensional sense completely uniform. ETA: suddenly reminded of the Bateson quote about information being “the difference that makes a difference”.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I went through a phase of leaving notepads next to my bed to try to write down my dreams and it simply never worked. I stopped after I wrote something on the pad while I was still asleep. Woke up to text with letters that were backwards, up
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by dofm 2mo ago
I remember seeing some very strange, deliberately creepy images that were generated to accompany a two-paragraph creepypasta about a 19th Century Belgian expedition into the jungle. They were actually rather good in a sort of "fake col
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by dofm 2mo ago
Something that bothers me about AI generated content more broadly is how unmemorable it is. I don't mean as in bad . I mean literally, as in hard to remember or recall. Despite seeing a lot of them, I cannot think of one AI-generated
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by dofm 2mo ago
> Buy any laptop, stick Linux on it, get working. Except it's still a slightly different challenge each time to "get it working", each different PC. A Mac is a Mac is a Mac, more or less. I have a nice Framework laptop o
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by dofm 2mo ago
I only realised when I was told about it that, while for me it doesn't have that nausea trigger, it does have a bit more alert associated with it — which is probably why I made my comment at all. I am not emetophobic (might have rise
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by dofm 2mo ago
It is not a question of meritocracy or politics if an artificial intelligence system trained in all of humanity's written history refuses to talk about something that happened. It is inherently a question of ethics, regardless of what
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by dofm 2mo ago
Apposite name but — grim trivia — bear in mind some emetophobes have a meaningful physiological reaction to the word and various euphemisms. I have tried not to use it analogously ever since someone pointed this out. The word itself causes
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by dofm 2mo ago
FWIW in the UK I rather imagine many small businesses (Harvest's target) are getting their invoicing from Freeagent.
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by dofm 2mo ago
I cannot even begin to tell you how little I care about this sort of tiny-minded obsessiveness. ETA: For those who downvoted me — seriously, take a look at the number of times this one account has made this one correction. It's just p
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by dofm 2mo ago
Looks like it's basically like a one way show-hidden mechanism, but the browser's built-in search will pop it open on matches. So you could use it for additional notes, things like "view pricing terms" or "show excl
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by dofm 2mo ago
A tale as old as time… Bending Spoons is who you sell to when you have developed contempt for your customers. ETA: and contempt for your staff, too, since they basically always lose their jobs after explaining what they do

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