el_benhameen

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by el_benhameen 5mo ago
I frequently see it reference points that it made and then added to its memory as if they were my own assertions. This creates a sort of self-reinforcing loop where it asserts something, “remembers” it, sees the memory, builds on that asser
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by el_benhameen 5mo ago
I have no affiliation with Shorts Blocker, but I installed it a long time ago and immediately forgot that shorts existed. Worth whatever I paid for it. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shorts-blocker-for-youtube/
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by el_benhameen 6mo ago
No no, I find that having to click back through almost 40 years’ worth of months to get to my birthday allows for a nice pause to consider the fleeting and ever-accelerating nature of life.
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by el_benhameen 6mo ago
Just wait until you notice that it’s inexplicably slower on 120hz monitors and that your input devices remain focused on the previous space until the animation fully completes!
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by el_benhameen 6mo ago
I think the point is that the banner is more likely to extend your search by sending a negative signal than it is to speed up your search. Fair or not, potential employers often have a negative bias toward people who are unemployed, so indi
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by el_benhameen 6mo ago
I recently stood up a personal and a business site using Claude + Astro + GitHub + Cloudflare Pages, and apart from the Claude subscription, it’s all free. Definitely not skills that are going to be in the typical restaurant owner’s wheelho
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
I have used em dashes and semicolons for decades. The LLM appropriation of my writing style has been almost as devastating as their impending vaporization of my career path.
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
Facebook’s feed is mostly AI slop and Moltbook’s feed is mostly humans posing as AI, so there’s some good synergy here.
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Good Vibes, Bad Vendors(werd.io)
3 points by el_benhameen 7mo ago|0 comments
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
The process of figuring out what to build has always been harder and more drawn out than the process of building it. I’m not arguing one way or the other for the Jevon’s paradox claims, but the steelman argument that you’ve missed is that j
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
I keep hearing this from the naysayers, but I just think that they haven’t fully integrated unilateral phase detractors into their work effectively. Maybe you’re using the free retro encabulator tier so you don’t see the full capabilities,
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
A delightful update to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
Yeah, I guess my point is that “killer robot” evokes a terminator-like image for a lot of people. Something that marches around and kills of its own accord. I don’t like either one, but I don’t think they’re the same thing.
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
I’m not sure that “killer robot” is the actual concern outside of media hyperbole. I’m imagining a loitering munition-type drone that has some kind of targeting package loaded into it with different parameters describing what it should seek
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Lose Myself(eod.com)
1 points by el_benhameen 7mo ago|0 comments
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
My kids have (insanely shitty) chromebooks from school and we are absolutely responsible for the cost if they break. We have to sign a release at the beginning of the year. Whether or not they’d be able to collect from the vast majority of
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
Absolutely incompetent, but I don’t think that’s the cause here. I think Anthropic’s sin was publicly challenging the administration. They’re huge on optics. You can get away with anything as long as you praise and bow in public.
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
I like this feature and rely on it too. I get that some people hate it and that it can make some pretty insidious mistakes when it uses it, but I’ve found it valuable for providing implicit context when I have multiple queries for the same
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
God forbid someone pose an interesting question on a discussion board.
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by el_benhameen 7mo ago
Yeah that seems silly. I was a quiet-room sleeper until I met my wife, who needs some kind of white noise to sleep. I eventually adapted and now sleep much better with noise than without (at least subjectively), but that change took a while
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by el_benhameen 8mo ago
On the off chance you’re in the Bay Area, look into Walk N Roll: https://walknrolltoschool.org/ I helped start the chapter at my kids’ school and I’ve been impressed by the enthusiasm given how car-centric the school is (we
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by el_benhameen 8mo ago
I like using it to listen to narrated versions of New Yorker articles. Except I can’t tell it “I like narrated versions of New Yorker articles”. I can search by publisher, or I can browse narrated stories that are selected “for you” (none o
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by el_benhameen 8mo ago
Unfortunately all of my male relatives suffered from hit by a bus itis.
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by el_benhameen 8mo ago
My kids are in elementary school in the SF area (although pretty far in the ‘burbs) and this is not my experience. The older one has a chromebook and uses it for research and production of larger written projects and presents—the kind of th
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by el_benhameen 8mo ago
I’ve been working on archiving a bunch of old hard drives and floppies that my parents found and gave to me when they were cleaning out their garage. Aside from the fun of seeing all of the old contents of the drives, it’s also been fun to
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by el_benhameen 9mo ago
Kind of! https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-gets-doom-running-on-a-vap...
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by el_benhameen 9mo ago
I find the opposite to be true. Once you know the problem you’re trying to solve (which admittedly can be the biggest lift), writing the fist cut of the code is fun, and you can design the system and set precedent however you want. Once it’
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by el_benhameen 9mo ago
Oh come on. There are plenty of uncharismatic rich people who have still managed to persuade him.
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by el_benhameen 9mo ago
Sure. I think the point is that in Texas, those are valid but not viable due to politics.
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by el_benhameen 9mo ago
I think the point is that in this case, the choice is between the infrastructure being pay-to-use or just not existing, not between the infrastructure being free and being pay-to-use

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