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by dofm 20d ago
Once saw a closing slide that had contact details on it but also: "milk, two sugars"
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by dofm 20d ago
Tell the speakers why you liked their talks! And ask them about things you didn't understand. Same with bands. "Loved your set" is one thing, "loved your set" because "it reminded me of…"/"made
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by dofm 21d ago
That's not even a number.
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by dofm 21d ago
Is he, or is he not, fully responsible for the words in his blog that he wrote a year ago and has not amended or corrected despite very clear corrections of his misstatements of fact? (This is not even the only article where he has done tha
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by dofm 21d ago
I am not going to waste my time watching videos about UFO nuts to try to gain insight into why what DHH said about London is somehow a result of him being deceived and not his own fully formed opinions that he affirmed by deliberately writi
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by dofm 21d ago
Nope, sorry. There are things in that article that are really a long way beyond having been deceived. They cannot and must not be minimised in that way. And nobody who criticises them should feel any blame if he doubles down; he is a wealth
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by dofm 21d ago
I do indeed accuse him of being a pseudo-intellectual troll, and that is the kindest interpretation of things he has actually written, including “As I Remember London”, which is creepy, deliberately misleading, has clear white-nationalist s
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by dofm 21d ago
Actually this appears to output 3DM, which is the CAD format Rhinoceros 3D uses, and is based on openNURBs. The typically tiny Claude (?) text (such as I can read it) makes it clear it's not just a mesh format, mentions faces and edges
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by dofm 21d ago
Indeed — I try to stay away from website design critique here and it's against a rule, but that dot field makes it actually impossible for me to read, especially given the low text contrast and small fonts on the body text.
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by dofm 21d ago
> Secondly, constantly berating him for having the wrong opinions and not explaining why those opinions are wrong are more likely to entrench his positions and anyone that is sympathetic to those opinions. People have tried that. DHH is
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by dofm 21d ago
DHH is pretty evidently racist in a lazily-disguised form, and he sounds a lot like a wealthy 1930s pro-Nazi pseudointellectual when he spouts off. He's also spoken in favour of an agitator who appears intent on sparking a race-and-rel
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by dofm 22d ago
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you go ahead and come in on Saturday.
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by dofm 22d ago
Right. Scroll back on their X timelines and you see it. The only thing I can say about LLMs is that we might end up with some broad, stable utility from them, when the dust settles. The only thing crypto is really good for is hiding the sou
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by dofm 22d ago
His whole channel is full of commentary like this. It's simultaneously funny and really informative about the sort of blend of grift and AI psychosis that is genuinely out there.
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by dofm 22d ago
Immediately knew what that video would be before I clicked it. Eric Morrison is doing the gods' work.
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by dofm 22d ago
> I don't think it is particularly egotistical to say that you can be a more ethical CEO than Sam Altman. Especially as you can draw the reasonable conclusion that he wouldn't know ethics if they bit him without looking at his
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by dofm 22d ago
I see WooCommerce stores all the time . (e.g. just this afternoon: Godin guitars. One of the longer-established multi-brand companies in the guitar world.) And embedded in really odd stuff, like behind member walls — companies selling spar
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by dofm 22d ago
I am not from the “Matt school” of anything. I did write a mangled sentence late at night and you are correct to object to it. But you seem kind of angry and have decided something about me, and are now cherrypicking things off the woocomme
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by dofm 22d ago
I was not trying to be disingenuous. I did clearly write a mangled sentence, after midnight. It’s wrongly constructed, you are right to say so.
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by dofm 22d ago
Volume constantly surprises us, doesn’t it.
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by dofm 22d ago
Yep. If you are under 30 in the UK and you have more possessions than can fit in one trip in a Fiesta with the seats down, you have too much stuff.
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by dofm 22d ago
Matt famously used it himself and bought them the domain name (which was expensive) and gave it to them no-strings-attached. A more optimistic, less chaotic and exasperating time.
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by dofm 22d ago
Woocommerce is everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. Over four million stores. About a third of all non-big-box/amazon online shopping runs through Woocommerce installations. Much more than Shopify, which is the next biggest. Because it’s
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by dofm 22d ago
Yeah. I have always been conscious of this gleeful “disruption” shit. An especially awful example was Bodega/Stockwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockwell_(company) This might have been the tipping point for
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by dofm 22d ago
Yes — I have seen that more self-assured behaviour. I have a test where I ask the model to ask me any followup questions it needs, and Qwen 3.8 27B is the only one I have seen that won’t routinely take this as a prompt to just ask questions
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by dofm 22d ago
Yeah, this lines up with my experience. It will overkill things and then dig a hole for itself and fall in. But did you test Muse Glimmer? IMO it is really worth comparing the two, at least. I really find it interesting (and while it is slo
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by dofm 23d ago
> You're basically arguing that a criminal syndicate must be allowed to continue and we're required to make their business model make sense? This is how Uber worked. They didn't just break the law in different countries, i
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by dofm 23d ago
FWIW if I understand correctly what people say about Trump’s psychology, which if he is a malignant narcissist is a pretty complex maelstrom of instincts, he is actually at a disadvantage in imagining ever dying. He will not be able to cope
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by dofm 23d ago
This made me laugh out loud but ain't it the truth.
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by dofm 23d ago
We used to call it enlightened self-interest.

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