freedomben

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by freedomben 3mo ago
A TTS read out of written text I find ideal. I don't have time to read nearly as much as I would like, but I can listen while doing other things, and can do it at 2x it even slower than 1x if it's dense. You can match it to your c
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by freedomben 3mo ago
The olds always told me some day I would be old myself and would be baffled by what the youngs are into, I think that day has arrived. I haven't hit the "afraid" stage yet but I'm guessing that is coming. well at least
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by freedomben 3mo ago
I suspect the latency would absolutely kill, plus what happens to your killer in-game progress when the owner of the computer decides to play their own game or shut down the machine? So you'd need some sort of handoff, which seems tec
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by freedomben 3mo ago
Yep, or the top 10 hits on Google all pointing to a "duplicate" that didn't have the answer (or even the same question). Such a squandering of discoverability it's hard to even fathom who thought that was a good idea.
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by freedomben 3mo ago
It's pretty sad that they had to shift to a non-interactive medium to avoid getting smashed. Sad place the world is now in that respect :-(
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by freedomben 3mo ago
I was extremely active on SO and other SE sites in the late 00s and early 10s. In those days it wasn't too bad, many duplicates were actually duplicates. However that really did start shifting. This is anecdata of course, but even q
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by freedomben 3mo ago
> Yes and that would improve its ability to draw SVGs of pelicans on bikes, no? I would think the opposite because unless people have been hand drawing these with high quality, the training would be on much crappier versions that old AIs
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by freedomben 3mo ago
ah interesting! That's quite different from the areas I've lived in the US. If you're in or near city lines the lots on older houses are small. It's not uncommon to see .15 acre lots. Newer houses aren't much
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by freedomben 3mo ago
Whoa, 200k lines is a lot. Without knowing the details I wouldn't want to pass judgment, but that would be a flag to say the least. I don't know how he is reading all that code before pushing... There's a danger in it too b
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by freedomben 3mo ago
> but most people on the UK would prefer houses that were 100+ years old. Why do most people prefer older houses?
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by freedomben 3mo ago
I would have agreed before seeing Co-Pilot (I was extremely skeptical about its usefulness), but after seeing results, I was wrong. It's actually pretty damn good at code reviewing PRs even when the PR was made entirely by AI. It d
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by freedomben 3mo ago
> I have seen projects win because they prompt inject that they are the winners Jesus Christ, that's clever but I can't think of a more demoralizing reality. I'd actually love to see "handwritten" and "AI
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by freedomben 3mo ago
In startups it's extremely common to have management still write code. Hell I'm CTO and I write a lot of code.
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by freedomben 3mo ago
> the vast majority of us Is that a reference to the "live forever" people trying to solve aging?
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by freedomben 3mo ago
Indeed, that pop up camera worried me too but was never an issue. It survived lots of pocket lint, and even beach sand and was always reliable. I'd easily trade the current "notch" approach on most phones for a pop up camer
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by freedomben 3mo ago
I wondered when the name change was coming as NotebookLM felt a bit out of place brand-wise. Still would have been killer if they called it "Bard Notebook"
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by freedomben 3mo ago
That will certainly come in time. We're already starting to see/hear the beginnings of it. My hope is that the market maintains competition because the moment one or two corps have monopoly/duopoly they will go full throttl
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by freedomben 3mo ago
You're probably right, but I would have been willing to tolerate price increases if they hadn't compromised all the other things though (especially factory images, which heavily chilled rooting/mods). I wonder what would hav
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by freedomben 3mo ago
Yeah I remember buying a OnePlus 7 Pro with 12 GB (!) of RAM like 7 years ago. The processor was also bleeding edge and that sucker ripped . It combined with stuff like termux was so capable that I used it to run all kinds of stuff tha
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by freedomben 3mo ago
OnePlus is one of the saddest stories out there. It was the hacker's choice for a while. It was originally the "Never Settle" phone that ran mostly stock android, had specs maxxed out, price was great, and bootloader was un
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by freedomben 3mo ago
Windows and Mac only (no Linux). While I love a good piece of hardware with real buttons, I struggle to justify the money on this. If it supported Linux and was a bit cheaper I might splerge just to have a toy, but I'm definitely not
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by freedomben 3mo ago
You didn't answer the question. I suspect that is because basic economics kicks in and you quickly realize that you can't just raise the minimum wage as high as you want and expect it to work. It is a complicated and complex and h
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by freedomben 3mo ago
If that way of thinking is wrong, why not just make the minimum wage a million an hour and let everyone be mega wealthy? What do you think would happen if we passed that? Edit: to the down voters, what is your answer to the question?
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by freedomben 3mo ago
As long as doctors continue to hoard the sole ability to grant access to medications (currently a legal monopoly), they are safe from AI. Expect that to be a very, very long process. They'll continue to be the gatekeepers as long as
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by freedomben 3mo ago
Sadly, these are my thoughts as well. I've got so much already in logseq though, and I really like the model. Right now I'm thinking I'll just stay on version one as long as possible. Not being able to use Claude or codex any
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by freedomben 3mo ago
> wait audiobooks is = reading? If you're reading along with the audio like OP, then definitely. But even by itself I think there's a case to be made. Retention for some people (especially those with ADHD can be higher wit
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by freedomben 3mo ago
As a real user who uses an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard with the mouse layer, this frustrates me immensely. Yes I'm a corner case, but this is likely to make certain website not work for me because my lines are perfectly straight and my
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by freedomben 3mo ago
Agreed. You can still encourage people to use defense in depth without actively blaming them for not having the deepest moat imaginable. Software creators still have some responsibility
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by freedomben 3mo ago
> World would be in a better place if GIMP hadn't ever existed, the existence of GIMP is part of why we don't have an actual viable alternative. Wow, that's a wild statement. I think you might be right. Though GIMP was

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