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by flir 5mo ago
Better than the other two I mentioned though. My big problem with Reynolds, I think, was that his characters are hard to distinguish. He seems to have a few stock personalities that he re-uses. The only one that really stood out for me as f
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by flir 5mo ago
I see what you did there. Nice.
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by flir 5mo ago
Matrix franchise is well known for not trying to pack in too much complexity /s
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by flir 5mo ago
> Edit: come to think of it, I don't know why I still use Google. A guess: because you type queries in the URL bar, and they're the default search engine in your web browser? (I'm convinced that these days, this is 90% of
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by flir 5mo ago
Someone round here said Yandex shows you what you searched for, while Google shows you what it thinks you should have searched for.
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by flir 5mo ago
Plex is trending worse, though (Oh, I see you've mentioned the non-web interface. Carry on then.)
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by flir 5mo ago
Ok, ok. Nobody who matters cares if they're bad SQL ;)
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by flir 5mo ago
Alastair Reynolds (high-concept space opera, well written), Adrian Tchaikovsky (first contact, aliens, can't write nearly as well as Banks), Neal Asher (AI-run civilisation, inventive nastiness). Nobody's exactly like Banks though
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by flir 5mo ago
The first three shorts, when initialy published, had a real "15 minutes into the future" vibe. Substantial ideas thrown away as quick asides gave it that "acceleration" vibe - a society with its finger mashed on the fast
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by flir 5mo ago
SQL is (was?) one of my strongest skills, I enjoy it a lot, and I still reach for the LLM. It's just faster than me, and when it goes wrong (rarely) I can correct it in plain English.
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by flir 5mo ago
That's interesting - SQL is one of the places I find them the strongest - I think there must be an insane amount of training data out there for SQL. But mostly I'm asking them for ad hoc report queries. Nobody cares if they'r
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by flir 5mo ago
You have a lot of faith in the chatbots.
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by flir 5mo ago
Just an observation: constraints often result in creative solutions. I wouldn't be surprised if a smaller lab makes a big breakthrough because they have to.
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by flir 5mo ago
I find the class (C++-descended languages) as the primary abstraction much easier to reason about than the module (Python), and I'm not sure why. Could be familiarity of course, but I think it might be because a class has a more explic
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by flir 5mo ago
Smaller, more capable, cheaper? Yes, it absolutely is progress. The only question is whether everyone gets a slice, or it ends up locked down so only governments and corporations have access to it. Obivously I come down on the sousveillence
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by flir 5mo ago
It'll just happen. Can't really fight technological progress.
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by flir 5mo ago
Henry Williamson didn't sugarcoat the countryside. Can I recommend The Peregrine's Saga? Collection of short stories.
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by flir 5mo ago
I'm getting strong H. P. Lovecraft vibes here. Just so you know.
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by flir 5mo ago
What a great project. I vibe coded something similar (different data source) with codex that went something like SQLite->GeoJSON->Leaflet and it was a dream - almost no corrections necessary. It even went off and found a really nice c
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by flir 5mo ago
Thanks! Something to dig into.
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by flir 5mo ago
Just as a suggestion, but I've been thinking in terms of clustering. If I can figure out that five different posts from five different feeds are about one story, I can collapse them into a single UI element.
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by flir 5mo ago
3rd Sept 1189. Anything after that is time memorial I guess.
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by flir 5mo ago
Didn't a bunch of hardware that was destined for Tesla get redirected to xAI? I'm sure I remember something like that.
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by flir 5mo ago
It's interesting to think about what the process will look like when we do understand them. I imagine pulling bits of LLM off the shelf like libraries and compiling them together into a functioning "brain", precisely tailor
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by flir 6mo ago
I do. "Commoditize your complement". Want to sell lots of silicon? Give away good local models to run on that silicon. Even if SOTA models in the cloud are a few percentage points better, most work can be routed to local models mo
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by flir 6mo ago
The transition to mobile-first was a good call. Probably the last good call though. Oh, and buying Instagram.
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by flir 6mo ago
The "Fantasy, but the chemistry works" phrasing in the last box on the first tab makes me suspect chatbot input. Which is a pity, because I like the exhaustive structure. I just can't trust it. But I guess if I was going to d
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by flir 6mo ago
I once printed out a directions from an online map that contained "pass straight over the next fourteen roundabouts" (I think it was on the way into Reading). Lose count, and you are stuffed . I much prefer a turn-by-turn approac
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by flir 6mo ago
Ok, I see - it's a consequence of the smoothing function used in the graph. First actual use is 1979.
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by flir 6mo ago
I'm really surprised that you're that deep into folk and have never heard of Connie Converse. She's turned up on my radar multiple times over the past couple of decades, and I don't go looking for her, or much folk conte

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