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by fsloth 3y ago
In general Google sucks in creating new consumer offerings. So it's not about resources for sure. I guess it's about synergy, culture, taste and talent.
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by fsloth 3y ago
You are thinking about stealing the rolodex. That would be probably theft. But personal relations and reputation is NOT company IP. If you steal the rolodex, it's questionable for sure. If you leverage your network and reputation, that
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by fsloth 3y ago
Neither AI fears nor singularity is substantiated. Hence the discussion is a matter of taste and opinion, not of facts. They are sunstantiated once one or the other comes to fruition. The fact it's a matter of taste and opinion make
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by fsloth 3y ago
In general software seems to be really hard for hardware companies. This was the main reason for the downfall IMO. The things that make you succeed in hardware do not suffice, and are partly wrong in software. The N9 etc demonstrated ther
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by fsloth 3y ago
The downfall of Nokia phones was seeded in it’s management culture. After one message from their CEO Elop Osbourned the market for Nokia phones faster than you can say ”burning raft”, the house of cards built on top of strong early brand hi
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by fsloth 3y ago
Quite possible actually, this seems to become a really hot political potato with at least 3 types of ambition running it 1. Business 2. Regulatory 3. ’Religious/Academic’. By latter I mean the divide between ai doomerists and others is
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by fsloth 3y ago
All video call software suck in various ways. Corporate IT throttling&filtering and analyzing traffic with a mismash of third party offerings ”to increase security” does not help.
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by fsloth 3y ago
I think one still needs to acknowledge that cultural eradication is painfull to those whose culture is eradicated. If this is necessary, then the basic courtesy would be to acknowledge the pain with empathy. ”Your ancestors were all fucking
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by fsloth 3y ago
Totally agree on Abe. Regarding ”Fighting for your country as a virtue” - yup. Regarding motivations of the north-”more imperialistic rather than abolitionist” - yup. The point remains though - the southern system even post-civil war was
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by fsloth 3y ago
Regarding Abe’s motivations - Abe was one super-canny player (lawyer who read Euclid for fun and spiritual sustenance ). I would read anything he wrote as a piece intended to persuade an audience. My point is an audience reading a single
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by fsloth 3y ago
”Genocide” does not mean simply killing, the full definition is broader that. The definition includes ”genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious
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by fsloth 3y ago
Afaik the linked case of the melting of statue of Lee is more complicated than that. After US civil war north attempted to demolish and rebuild the institutions in the secenniost southern states https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by fsloth 3y ago
You take the good with the bad. A thousand times this. All humans are fallible. If you presume someone isn’t you just don’t know them very well. Unforgivable offences should not be forgiven. Beyond that - celebrate wins, cherish humanity,
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by fsloth 3y ago
Several books - but I really want to shout out Roger Zelazny’s ”Lord of light”(1967) I don’t think this book is as half as well known in the Sci-fi genre as it should be. When you start reading it, it becomes an obvious precursor to themes
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by fsloth 3y ago
My therapy probably saved my life, and I'm not exaggerating. While it may take a while to sync with your therapist, it's plausible the chemistry between you two just isn't working, or, that the style of therapy is not helpful
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by fsloth 3y ago
This is one aspect of therapy for sure. Just discussing your bad stuff with someone who is a talented listener is a very important component IMO to get your stuff together. And I concur. Don't use your friends or family as therapist as
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by fsloth 3y ago
This is not my experience at all. There are different types of therapy with wildly different approaches. What I worked with my therapist were recurring negative thought patterns, the associations and actionable concepts to get better, as we
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by fsloth 3y ago
In the interviews some of the team members were concerned with proliferation of shaped-charge mini-nukes. IMO that's not a good reason not to do anything but not an expert.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Project orion was super cool and I warmly recommend the book by similar name by George Dyson (son of Freeman Dyson!) who did a tremendous job of putting everything back together as well as humanly possible for an ops with very top secret co
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by fsloth 3y ago
I went several years more or less depressed and observed this phenomenon and utilized it. Night of Kerbal Space Program and next day the world is much better. For a while. Also, a lot fuzzier. And I couldn't code very well (just good e
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by fsloth 3y ago
Where’s the SketchUp reference?
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by fsloth 3y ago
Plausibly they thought market is saturated with M1:s and targeted this to entice M1 users to switch.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yeah, controlnet and ipadapter allow really fine grained control. The quality and creativity of Dalle3 beats Stable Diffusion (all models) but this fine grained control is missing.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Totally agree. I was not pitching for large audience, the dryness creates a specific exclusivity in itself. HN subculture is focused on conrete subjects with world class subject experts occasionally pitching in.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Counterpoint - strong prank and joke culture can quickly turn to a closed subculture that is offputting to otherwise superb contributors. I really enjoy HN due to the generally lukewarm and civilized discussion the rules promote. I love jok
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by fsloth 3y ago
Depends what you want. Dalle 3 is super good, but lacks the creative control controlnets and ip-adapter provide. So for instance afaik there is no way to perform style transfers, or ’paint a van gogh portrait over my pencil sketch’. Both ar
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by fsloth 3y ago
Comfy ui is really nice. The fact that the node graph is saved as png metadata actually makes node based workflows super fluent and reproducible since all you need to do to get the graph for your image is to drag and drop the result png to
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by fsloth 3y ago
Fully agree SSRI:s probably saved my life. SSRI:s are supposed to be used as part of therapeutic regimen with therapy and regular checkups with doctor, not as over-the-counter remedy like aspirin. I’m guessing that using them detached from
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by fsloth 3y ago
Might need to do a bit of geoengineering on the side. I hear upper atmosphere SO2 does wonders for atmospheric cooling (and yes, Neal Stephenson has written a book about it). Apologies for the slightly dark take. But either it’s humor or de
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by fsloth 3y ago
Phones? Hardly. Their offering is the network infrastructure and one of the ’western’ alternatives to Huawei kit.

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