ethagnawl

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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Certain elements of Capitalism (cough AI) seem to simultaneously be speedrunning its decline and keeping it on life support. What strange times we find ourselves in.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
> If getting a million dollars wouldn't affect how much money you can leave your kids, you already have generational wealth. Well said. Where I live, one million dollars would allow me to pay off my house, open healthily sized inves
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Right. For the most part, consequences (if any) are down the road and will be the functional equivalent of a tax or toll. Their ethos is _move quick and (maybe) ask for forgiveness later_ ... or something like that.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
> Where is anything saying there should be? What are the boosters ranting and raving about if not the above? Am I just confused and the end game for all of the AI hype, investment, infrastructure build out, etc. over the last N years is
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Bonkers is right. Where in those ~12 billion commits is the software, products and "innovations" which are supposed to be making our lives better? Software and apps in particular are getting worse, normies hate AI more than ever b
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
> Timescale lately released the pgvector extension, that turns your PostgreSQL into a vector database. I don't think this is accurate and smells like an LLM hallucination to me. From the Timescale/Tiger Data _pgvectorscale_ pro
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Yeah, that was one of the sources of my confusion, too. Some of the recent DuckDB features and extensions would certainly seem to undercut premium features MotherDuck has layered over DuckDB. Though, on the flip side, since there is a relat
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
I was wrong. Apologies. > They decided to work together, and DuckLabs would become a co-founder of the new endeavor. https://motherduck.com/about-us/
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
UPDATE: Removed uninformed comment about the relationship between DuckDB and MotherDuck.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
No questions. Only bench press.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
You're right. However, I'm also of the boomer opinion that you should get what you pay for. "Ranting online" about a service (you pay for) being unavailable is a reasonable reaction. It's not like they have a call c
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted; you're right. Firefox the browser is an amazingly capable tool but I wish it was shepherded by an org that prioritized its users' interests (privacy, performance, etc.) instead
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
I'm sorry. These charades are such a complete waste of time, energy and money. They're some real 21st Century Office Space nonsense. I recently joked (only slightly) that it's currently possible to get yourself promoted at th
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Depends on your definitions, I guess, but look up people who get busted for performing sex acts at massage parlors.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Thanks. That omission didn't smell right based on everything I know about Docker. Curious choice, indeed, not to show Linux install instructions.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Whoah. I took for granted it'd work on Linux.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
And, as a result, the market is ... up?
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
> I'm amazed that someone was able to do that This is a bit "woo" but I've always thought of this experience/phenomenon as souls touching across time and space. LLMs either don't have souls or they've s
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
> I use adb to uninstall all of the system apps like facebook I've only ever used Cyanogen/Lineage or Graphene, so I had no idea this was a thing. I'm not surprised but ... WOOF.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
I've always found YT's comment features to be worst in class. I never see notifications, there's a way to find your own past comments but it seems purposely hidden and the Android app keyboard / spell checker is really w
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
You left out the best part: > The planet is fine, the people are fucked.
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
Well, everybody _did_ use Google+ but nobody _wanted to_. I remember constantly finding myself redirected to it and them doing shady things like automatically connecting you with everyone in your gmail contact list. Also, if memory serves,
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by ethagnawl 2mo ago
> ... when I first stumbled on to the internet ... StumbleUpon used to be an endlessly entertaining way to find new content on the internet.
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Old.reddit.com is now requiring users to log in
7 points by ethagnawl 3mo ago|6 comments
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by ethagnawl 3mo ago
I've been meaning to write something up about this myself but, suffice it to say, I've been asking myself this question a lot lately.
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Gatekeepers, Luddites, Haters and AI-Generated Maps(maproomblog.com)
4 points by ethagnawl 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ethagnawl 3mo ago
That's pretty much how I feel. I've been extremely lucky in that, for the last ~15 years, work often hasn't felt like work as a result. I also think I was (am?) _average at best_ but continually saw improvement, found new tri
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by ethagnawl 3mo ago
> ... why would we even want to do this manually? All it did was lead to burnout and cynicism. Speak for yourself. If anything is leading _me_ to burnout, it's this bullshit hype cycle.
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by ethagnawl 3mo ago
At the risk of oversimplifying things from a distance, this site -- especially the free, public-facing part of it -- seems like it would be an ideal candidate for a rewrite using static site generator/framework. That, coupled with a bo
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The Mystery on DuckLake: A Time-Travelling Whodunit Story(peterdohertys.website)
1 points by ethagnawl 3mo ago|0 comments

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