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by fao_ 1y ago
> I suspect that you haven’t really used them much, or at least in a while. You’re spouting a lot of 2023-era talking points. I tested them recently and was not impressed, quite frankly.
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by fao_ 1y ago
> It doesn't seem clear that there is necessarily any connection between consciousness and intelligence. If anything, LLMs are evidence of the opposite. This implies that LLMs are intelligent, and yet even the most advanced models a
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by fao_ 1y ago
At this point I would feel more enthused to read a "Why not Nim?" page. Advertise where the language is bad at so I can get a better sense of it.
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by fao_ 1y ago
> > There’s no option to create original content... > While this is true, I'd say the vast majority of users don't create original content either, but still end up shaping the social media environment through the actions
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by fao_ 1y ago
Archived here: https://archive.is/iBAJr
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by fao_ 1y ago
It's almost like huge organizations built off the backs of many different parties working in tandem, will at times have contradictory aims.
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by fao_ 1y ago
Eh, someone already got instructions for botulism a year or so ago.
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by fao_ 1y ago
> if it was presented on Spotify or some other platform and not advertised as AI generated, would you still be able to tell the difference? Would your target audience? These are all fair questions but this one is a good bouncing off poin
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by fao_ 1y ago
> but if the GenAI can do this now, what will it sound like a year from now (For reference, I'm responding with such a long post because I have a pretty unique perspective to share compared to the hacker news crowd, and also, I wish
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by fao_ 1y ago
Hey! I absolutely love it! I wanted to share the results with my partner but it looks like the share button doesn't work on the PC? (Firefox 141.0, Linux)
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by fao_ 1y ago
> The switch to widescreen mean the 7th row of keys competed with the trackpad for real estate. Sure, but I would have preferred a smaller trackpad. The lid latch was no longer needed as screens got lighter. Their solution of ratcheting
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by fao_ 1y ago
in a similar vein, there's also Nectarine Radio for demoscene music: https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/
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by fao_ 1y ago
> This is arguably the most important piece of software where people need to watch out for updates carefully, but its release version policy is a bit loony. How so? That seems pretty well defined to me. Just because it's not major&
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Wood and Wood-Based Materials in Space Applications – A Literature Review (2024)(mdpi.com)
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by fao_ 1y ago
You forgot all the times that debian requires you to run terminal instructions just to add a new repo, to get a specific type of software that's new for a specific feature you want, instead of one that's ancient and crusty. And th
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by fao_ 1y ago
My favourite go-to for that in Love2D has been rxi's lurker: https://github.com/rxi/lurker
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by fao_ 1y ago
Eh, you could probably get away with it if you use BearSSL[0]. The only difficulty would be: These elements can be allocated anywhere in (writable) memory, e.g. heap, data segment or stack. They must not be moved while in use
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by fao_ 1y ago
Yeah, same. To be clear I'm frustrated and annoyed that people are using LLMs to replace writing just... normal everyday things, that it is beneficial to think through and consider and form in your mind; it is likewise frustrating that
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by fao_ 1y ago
I don't think that that makes it ok here, and I think that "laws only being for rich people to use against the poor" is decidedly a position that one should take a standpoint against, and try to fight against when they are ab
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by fao_ 1y ago
Agreed, but lol at the center-right hacker news populace ever accepting such a philosophy.
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by fao_ 1y ago
Not OP, but the whole "AI using em-dashes when people writing would use commas" is very annoying given that the em-dash is readily available on my phone (hold on - to get one) and on my computer (compose - -), and I only started u
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by fao_ 1y ago
> Cyberpunk was essentially a sub-type of counterculture, and counterculture itself has pretty much been dead for a couple decades now. When the hackers are primarily interested in VC funds, the cryptocurrency ethos overtaken by the fina
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by fao_ 1y ago
Your claims that "Linux is not a good DAW" does not match up with my experience of opening the Pop_OS! store this weekend, clicking "install" on Furnace and Ardour, and instantly having a way to make music, or of setting
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by fao_ 1y ago
Things got a bit deep into the discussion there for a minute so I'm lifting it out > Your lengthy response is a good example of Linux forums, that eventually I got tired to visit, though. It takes four times as much writing to refut
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by fao_ 1y ago
Ok yes, Proton is a distribution of Wine, incorporating fixes that then get upstreamed, and some other software that users typically want to pull down. If you open up `winetricks` in a default installation, you can just select to install al
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by fao_ 1y ago
That wasn't my answer, pay attention to people's username ;) You haven't responded to the rest of my post, and your response of "If I can't do it on Kali Linux then it isn't possible because the poster said an
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by fao_ 1y ago
> Proton isn't Wine. Proton _is_ Wine. Fixes in Proton get upstreamed into Wine, and Valve hires developers to work on Proton, Wine, and Mesa. Wine isn't in the dark ages anymore and is able to run the majority of things you th
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by fao_ 1y ago
> I would like to see someone using Kali Linux for a DAW, without issues, it is any of them, after all. Why would you use Kali Linux for a DAW? It's designed for penetration testing. Most linux distributions ship pipewire which hand
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by fao_ 1y ago
Yeah, vi has supported % as "jump between matching parenthesis" since it's original release in the 1970s, and vim by default will do simple parenthesis matching and highlighting, I don't see why everyone is so scared of
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by fao_ 1y ago
On windows you have to apply "a few tweaks" just to get the start bar to stop showing advertising and work as it should. Windows users in the modern day have to do way more tweaks than Linux users do just to get a functional and u

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