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by eloisius 9mo ago
Part of me feels the same way, and ~2015 me was full on SPA believer, but nowadays I sigh a little sigh of relief when I land on a site with the aesthetic markers of PHP and jQuery and not whatever Facebook Marketplace is made out of. Not s
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by eloisius 9mo ago
That doesn’t really address much of the criticism in this thread. No one is shocked that it’s not as good as production web browsers. It’s that it was billed as “from scratch” but upon deeper inspection it looks like it’s just gluing togeth
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by eloisius 9mo ago
> generate a bunch of code that seems mostly correct and then gradually tweak it until it's closer and closer to compiling/working The diffusion model of software engineering
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by eloisius 9mo ago
This is great. If you packaged it as a docker-compose YAML and maybe added a periodic task to poll automatically id drop it into Container Station in my NAS today.
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by eloisius 9mo ago
They could throw some small portion of their billions of dollars into proper quality control and reproduce it themselves if they wanted to. It’s an industry-wide malaise, but it isn’t inevitable. It’s amazing that every year it becomes more
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by eloisius 9mo ago
It’s any interesting thread for sure, but while reading through this I couldn’t help but think that the point of these ideas are for a person to read and consider deeply. What is the point of having a machine do this “thinking” for us? The
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by eloisius 10mo ago
I hiked Torres del Paine around 51 deg south about 12 years ago and the winds were no joke. On plains or in mountain passes it was absolutely howling. It felt like you could lean into it at a 60 deg angle and not fall over. Sometimes when t
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by eloisius 10mo ago
Yeah, I was expecting read something that made me mad, but this is basically how I’ve eaten my whole life. I’ve never subscribed to any special diet, but I like whole milk, I like eating meat and veggies, I don’t enjoy sliced bread, and I a
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by eloisius 10mo ago
I doubt it. I don’t think anyone is spending $2k on Canon L-series (red ring) lenses based on the size. On the high end, photographers are pretty discerning about equipment’s capabilities. If they made my Canon EF 35mm f1.4L USM II half the
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by eloisius 10mo ago
Not to be too rude, but this looks like a bunch of 2010-style procedural PHP string concatenation spaghetti. Data mappers and ORMs are pretty much a solved problem. Why write your own as part of your platform? If you’re writing this much bo
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by eloisius 10mo ago
Can you say anything about where you were five years ago? Or how your ability to write and ship code from 2015 to 2020 changed? It’s hard to believe all these 50x AI productivity claims, especially without an idea of what that multiplier ap
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by eloisius 10mo ago
And Zamyatin’s _We_ was even a few years earlier. Great artists steal.
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by eloisius 10mo ago
I was disappointed to learn that even after subscribing to the Atlantic (print and digital, aka the premium tier) that popups don’t stop. They now nag me on every visit to spend even more money to buy a subscription as a gift for someone el
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by eloisius 10mo ago
It’s fair to recognize. Personally I do not like the aesthetic decisions that Apple makes, so if I’m taking pictures on my phone I use camera apps that’s give me more control (Halide, Leica Lux). I also have reservations about cloning away
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by eloisius 10mo ago
At the very least, art usually contains effort signifiers. Yes, an artist could potentially employ gingerbread men cut from construction paper in a work, but no, construction paper gingerbread men are typically not in the same league as Dav
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by eloisius 10mo ago
This whole post read like and in-depth response to people that claim things like “I don’t do any processing to my photos” or feel some kind of purist shame about doing so. It’s a weird chip some amateur photographers have on their shoulders
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by eloisius 10mo ago
If you want to spell rape on HackerNews you can just spell it. There’s nothing wrong with using the word in its proper context, or in quotations. There’s no algorithm censoring the word, and you’re not shielding someone from “getting trigge
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by eloisius 10mo ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/pus...
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by eloisius 10mo ago
If you think eastern philosophical traditions have resulted in comparatively less consumerist desire in Asia, you’re in for a disappointment. You don’t have to transcend to some spiritual enlightenment. I understood what the author was gett
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by eloisius 10mo ago
Hidden in the sense of neural net layers. I mean intermediary representation.
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by eloisius 10mo ago
From a single picture it infers a hidden 3D representation, from which you can produce photorealistic images from slightly different vantage points (novel views).
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by eloisius 10mo ago
I think that’s the same idea behind clicker training for dogs. There’s a delay in giving them the actual treat, but the instantaneous click sound lets them now they did the thing that results in a treat
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by eloisius 10mo ago
It's not about what non-0.001% people invest in, but what they spend on. More evenly distributed wealth would mean more money for people to spend on education, food security, and housing, which in turn would spur increased production o
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by eloisius 10mo ago
I agree with that. I only mean that it’s not as simple as “if we gave everyone Elon’s money then we could all afford homes.” But you’re right, the higher concentration of wealth means there’s less investment into producing more resources th
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by eloisius 10mo ago
The concentration of wealth isn’t a problem so much for poverty, because without doing something to increase the production of things people need, having more money would just result in higher prices. Like you said, the 0.001% aren’t consum
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by eloisius 11mo ago
One that represented compressed videos as an embedding that gets reinflated by having gen AI interpret it back into image frames.
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by eloisius 11mo ago
I doubt that’s what’s happening too but it’s not beyond the pale. They could be feeding both the input video and audio/transcript into their transformer and it has learned “when the audio is talking about lips the person is usually puc
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by eloisius 11mo ago
I do too, but I’m looking to get proper solution soon. A Pi is a pretty lousy NAS. It can’t even power two drives so you can’t have redundancy unless you get a powered USB hub. And even then, I used one of those for a while and the drive co
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by eloisius 11mo ago
Same. This is just the next iteration of all those spam sites back in the 2010s that used to mirror GitHub issues, but wowee it uses AI and you can chat with it! Forever grateful to Kagi for the ability to block sites from my results.
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by eloisius 11mo ago
I don’t think you have to go that far backward. You can get a QNAP or Synology NAS, a storage VPS and use syncthing. I don’t even have the NAS yet, just a Pi with an external drive and I’ve gotten pretty far. The part I haven’t been able to

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