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by floren 2y ago
Also the ad doesn't make any mention of pattern recognition or improved responses, nor does it involve using an AI to "predict" the child's future.
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by floren 2y ago
Hardly self-reflection; I asked it why an imaginary "Love, Jason" ad was so off-putting, changing the ad name from a letter salutation to the closing remarks, and it gave a very similar response.
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by floren 2y ago
Maybe the athletes can just skip those pesky fans and type "Gemini, write a fan letter to me that I can read for a little confidence boost". The entire sentiment and value of your AI-enhanced fan letter is contained in the prompt
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by floren 2y ago
Of course with the magic of browser web tools, the AI character doesn't actually have to say anything offensive, you can just change whatever it did say and post screenshots on Mastodon.
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by floren 2y ago
This was done computationally, no gravitational waves actually came into existence.
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by floren 2y ago
There's a persistent belief among non-hams that it is an acronym or something. I don't get it either.
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by floren 2y ago
If you're in the SF bay area, we might be able to get one put together... I've built several adapters for mice and keyboards, assuming the voltage levels are compatible it's mostly a matter of twiddling the right pins on a mi
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by floren 2y ago
Yeah I'm willing to believe that X has some accounts marked for various special treatments, but I'll need something more conclusive than a screenshot to prove it.
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by floren 2y ago
They're leaving that for the Long Long Now Foundation
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by floren 2y ago
Ah, I missed that sentence on my first read. Kind of a shame because the NPC meme is dumb as shit and the rest of the post was interesting.
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by floren 2y ago
I don't know what article you intended to post this on, but it sounds interesting and I'd like to see it!
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by floren 2y ago
And I do, every time! They don't really care, although some make a half-hearted pitch about how the image gets deleted right away.
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by floren 2y ago
Could you expand on Kodi, Emby, et al spying on you? I hadn't heard about this, but I don't watch the space closely.
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by floren 2y ago
> Shouting at subordinates, fostering a culture of fear, and generally just being an absolute asswipe to work with. This was one of my big takeaways reading through folklore.org: "oh man, I would have hated working for that prick&qu
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by floren 2y ago
You can configure some IRC servers to mask all IPs by default, for instance the Ergo IRCv3 server does so automatically: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/MANUAL.md#...
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by floren 2y ago
I think it's just that from the author's point of view, for his specific use-case, voice chat isn't a compelling feature in Discord.
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by floren 2y ago
It's rather because your average person (maybe not your average HN reader) browses the web with a single window filling the entire screen. If paragraphs did not wrap, you could end up with lines 2 feet long which require you to turn yo
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by floren 2y ago
Well, you'd want some pattern, because on a 1-bit display your only choices otherwise are pure white or pure black, both of which kind of suck. The Blit terminal also used a stippled pattern, I think the Perq did the same, etc. I thi
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by floren 2y ago
Leaving aside the myriad political & economic implications of this, my VW's navigation quite frequently thinks I'm on a different road, or it misses a speed limit sign, etc. It's bad enough when it jerks the wheel a littl
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by floren 2y ago
It's the same guys, pretty often.
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by floren 2y ago
But unless you're going to ask for contributions, this means the organizers are footing the bill every time -- and in my opinion, once you start collecting money you've doubled the complexity.
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by floren 2y ago
> In the end we are now in a stable location in the local library, but only because we had someone on the inside. Previously when we approached the library we were stone walled without someone to grease the wheels. I ran into this sort o
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by floren 2y ago
At last we can declare cryptocurrency truly dead.
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by floren 2y ago
But if you offer a service where you pay $20 to get your account back, well, nobody's going to want to pay that unless it actually works, so their incentive is to make it work. Which makes it start to feel more like a "pay $20 to
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by floren 2y ago
After the AI Winter, people started calling it ML to avoid the stigma. Eventually ML got pretty good and a lot of the industry forgot the AI winter, so we're calling it AI again because it sounds cooler.
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by floren 2y ago
> I've heard Covid referred to in some quarters as "aerosolised HIV", which should be at least taken seriously, even if it is (possibly) overly alarmist. I've heard it too and it's definitely one of the more dera
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by floren 2y ago
> YouTube is unusable without Premium or an ad blocker. I can't imagine that they have many users that doesn't have either. aside from millions of children on tablets, that is
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by floren 2y ago
I was trying to figure out some of the lyrics to "Harold of the Rocks" a while back, stumbled across that site and holy shit: > The lyrics of Harold of the Rocks are metaphorical and open to interpretation. They tell the story
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by floren 2y ago
That would require paying a contractor for ~5 minutes of time to skip through the movie until they find a good scene, take the screenshot, trim it, and upload it. Ugh. We've already got all these GPUs over in AWS, just spin up an image
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by floren 2y ago
> As soon as I asked "are you giving me instructions for Gemini Advanced or Bard?" it was like "OH LOL WOOPS!! YOU GOT ME BRO! XD I CAN'T DO ANY OF THAT! LOL." Which, honestly, is great. Being able to evaluate it

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