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by epihelix 2mo ago
Would it not be easier to not drink so much caffeine late in the day? Unless you're jetlagged, there's not much evidence AFAIK that melatonin will induce sleep better than a placebo.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Personally, I just took a book in with me. (I thought everyone did, but apparently not.) Many share houses, when I was a student, put the film calendar for the local art house cinema on the back of the toilet door. It was the accepted pl
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by epihelix 2mo ago
The problem is that an application isn't intuitively analogous to removable media at all. The last time I physically inserted a disc to run an app was in the CD Rom era. The click-and-drag to the Applications folder step is also odd
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by epihelix 2mo ago
This sounds like A1 slop to me.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Interestingly, that's many people's experience (including my own) of drinking good coffee with covid. I'm so sorry, is all I can say :(
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Holy shirt balls, they had AI in the 1800s! Fricken' Dickens was a bot, and Austen was a clanker.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
I know it's not what you wanted to start here with this comment. But the silly, tangential, petty bickering in this thread goes a very long way to explain our failure to act to stop the catastrophe we've known was coming since the
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by epihelix 2mo ago
While I also don't like the idea of LLM-generated novels, if you browse the shelves of an airport bookstore you'll see a load of facile by-the-numbers pap novels that could just as well have been AI generated. I suspect readers ke
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by epihelix 2mo ago
You have to be there to have a subjective experience of the Grand Canyon, for whatever that's worth. (This is essentially the qualia distinction between us and LLMs, writ large.) But in terms of objective knowledge about the Grand
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by epihelix 3mo ago
Literally from TFA: > “We were somewhat surprised by how good the advice was,” Choukhmane said. “Especially when you read the kind of questions people asked, it was not a given that the advice would line up with what academics think are
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by epihelix 3mo ago
I have no idea what Bubeck meant, and I agree about OpenAI's hypocrisy, but the problems with that infamous (and non-peer-reviewed) Apple preprint were the nature of the tasks (insanely repetitive), the fact that simple coded solutions
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by epihelix 3mo ago
It still holds for the desktop, though. LLMs have helped me quickly code new software for lab equipment (total users ~6), a research tool for my partner, and for several desktop apps I just use for me. Two apps fill niches that I've w
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by epihelix 3mo ago
I'm writing this on a seven year old phone (an S10e), running a community ROM with A15, and I have no issues at all in installing any apps. This device is my daily driver (it has a headphone jack and SD card support, and a relatively
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by epihelix 3mo ago
What TFA demonstrates is that an ability to prompt clearly and well is still a lot more valuable than unlimited tokens and hope. The prompt they used was poor (what does growth mean over the limited period - user base or revenue?), the time
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by epihelix 3mo ago
The lack of easy browsing is an issue, but Darktable has never purported to provide an image browser / organizer. Quite the contrary, the devs have always been crystal clear that they hate the concept with a fiery passion.
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by epihelix 3mo ago
Well, you shouldn't need to maintain - just compile a static linked binary and you should be good for the rest of your system's life. But more practically - I've been using darktable for well over a decade, and it's rema
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by epihelix 3mo ago
Personally, I was delighted to read the thoughts and perspective of someone who knows and understands the Odyssey better than just about anyone, on the Nolan film adaptation. It was eloquent and educated, and provided some unique criticism
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by epihelix 3mo ago
I think the trick is to learn exactly what things AI can give a 100x speed boost with, and use it for those tasks, and only those. The tasks where there's little-to-no speed boost at all -- do those yourself. You'll feel better
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by epihelix 3mo ago
This is hypothesised future deceleration, I'm guessing? Because we've seen the exact opposite of deceleration from closed models over the last seven months.
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by epihelix 3mo ago
Not quite what you're suggesting, but at least Nextcloud (and other open self-hosting platform) servers are a thing. All you need is for the app to provide the option of saving to local storage – your cloud server software provides a l
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by epihelix 3mo ago
Right now, that site doesn't show this post, regardless of whether the filter is active or not ... So, it's impossible to know whether your filter is working on this story yet, either.
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by epihelix 3mo ago
> What about me ... While I can see that you feel very passionately about this, the reality is that it's the majority experience that will dictate adoption. There may never be published research on productivity -- blinding in this i
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by epihelix 3mo ago
I briefly used Zip drives back in the day. They were amazing, when the only alternative portable media was a 3.5" floppy. And then USB thumb drives came along, and made them obsolete pretty much overnight.
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by epihelix 3mo ago
Gods, I can't believe his Nintendo married him. I mean, what a player!
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by epihelix 3mo ago
I didn't know that people used to make buggy whips for free and give them away? The thing about FOSS that everyone keeps forgetting is that it sits outside the market economy. We write FOSS code because we love doing it, and love givin
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by epihelix 3mo ago
> that could be: give away solar panels and two way heat pumps to low-income families, tax the profits of oil and gas companies, enforce right to repair, remove tariffs on chinese car makers if they create jobs in europe, fund train netw
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by epihelix 3mo ago
At least with Zotero Version 6, you could have just selected all your PDFs and drag-n-dropped them into the interface. Like another poster here, trusting an LLM with my reference database -- the ultimate source of truth -- is not a step I&#
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by epihelix 3mo ago
Unlike grepping your BibTeX file, Zotero provides a nice tabbed PDF viewer, useful automatic import options with file renaming, and saved dynamic searches. Those are the main reasons why I still use it -- it's a good tool to manage my
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by epihelix 3mo ago
I suspect "AI 1844" would be more apt for this group.
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by epihelix 3mo ago
There are a lot of HN users for whom this song (and its covers) was an integral part of our childhood. The Nikki French cover was one of the very first MP3s I ripped. The song is just part of growing up with the early personal computers a

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