fugaziboutit

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by fugaziboutit 15d ago
In Gemini, which is quite good at image generation, it gets locked into a path so rigidly that you need to start a new chat to get much variation in style; about half the time when using a previous image (in the same chat) as input it just
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by fugaziboutit 1mo ago
"All people agree on this rule. A single man with high wealth must find a wife." -- Jane Austbot
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by fugaziboutit 1mo ago
Please let a visitor explore (a) what it does, (b) what it actually looks like, before asking them to register. You need to show value before asking for user information even when what you're offering is free. A 30-second demo video on
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by fugaziboutit 1mo ago
This is attributable to survivorship bias and the democratisation of information. We aren't exposed to the 99% worst books, plays, pamphlets, and sermons of the 17th century, but we experience the dull ramblings of our fellow 21st-cent
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by fugaziboutit 2mo ago
There's a place for spinners, but I agree in the sense that the average user shouldn't be waiting for a spinner in an average session. A green path should be a good experience. An edge-case user should expect it for expected waits
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by fugaziboutit 2mo ago
I don't believe that "6 hours a day" is an answer any historian would give when asked how much workers in any period in history worked. There have been indications that there were approximately 150 days per year which were mo
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by fugaziboutit 2mo ago
New commercial seating design: Oops, All Pinch Points!
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by fugaziboutit 3mo ago
Neither cursing nor thanking LLMs is useful. Relating in emotive syntax puts you in the wrong headspace to get the most out of the chat. We anthropomorphise things very easily -- dogs, toys, cars -- because we're wired as social beings
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by fugaziboutit 3mo ago
They're very strongly against the Iran War right now.
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by fugaziboutit 3mo ago
AI = Actually Indenturedservantsfromthirdworldcountries
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by fugaziboutit 3mo ago
An LLM conversation is like handling clay. When I don't grok an answer I mold the LLM's approach to fit my level of mastery of the subject. It's one of the few interactions you can have in life where you can tell someone how
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
> Or we ship a feature and never circle back to check whether it's used the way we intended, so we keep shipping more on the same untested assumptions. It's not on you to track the whole lifecycle of a feature, that belongs to
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
Sideways, small, and far away isn't an ideal format for reading hundreds of titles.
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
For you, the day General Electric graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me? It was Taco Tuesday.
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." - The
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
There are Black Mirror episodes for people in all sorts of careers who find themselves with too much power, poorly handled; the show's narratives depend on the fact that the technology is the axe but not the executioner.
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
Optimistically, perhaps the thread is undersubscribed because people with good ideas to change the world are using them for their startups.
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
Private black ops that does stuff that state-level actors find awkward to do, like retiring former KGB members from their executive roles in a kinetic fashion, trying out at least a dozen different low-to-medium cost approaches until it&#x2
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
This captures readers with high willingness to pay. They might only be one reader per 20,000 readers, but without the button there would be no way to capture it. I often reflect that as a normal consumer of commercial and semi-commercial co
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
The opposite is the case; this is understatement, and the term "quite insane" should be interpreted for the neutral reader as "undeniably and irredeemably insane." (Because James Barrie is an author whose works are in AI
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." ("I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.") Blaise Pascal
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
Their efforts at AI have been really sad to see. They tried making an Everything Bagel and seem to have hit a wall, hard. It's a shame because if they'd taken an iterative approach of automating various parts of a normal Figma wor
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
Strangely, New York is not listed.
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier ('staircase wit')
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
The best thinking I've read on this topic is here: https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/i/183266265/space-dat... (The entire post is well worth your time too.)
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
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by fugaziboutit 4mo ago
Rutherford said that "all science is either physics or stamp collecting." In his view, a field either explains the underlying mechanisms of the universe (physics) or it simply collects and labels data without real understanding
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by fugaziboutit 5mo ago
Not a Cannes film: 'Given the breathless way this news has reverberated through Silicon Valley, it feels important for me to set the record straight: This is, at best, wildly misleading language. You see, I checked every single track o
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by fugaziboutit 5mo ago
I realised this in 2006 when I committed the faux pas of wearing a cerulean blue sweater to a screening of The Devil Wears Prada.

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