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by groby_b 2y ago
> it's incompatible with the "learn while playing" concept I'm not 100% sure about that. I do believe "learn while play" is less efficient for memorization, and it especially sucks when it comes to somewhat
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by groby_b 2y ago
Is it a scam, though? You'd have to ask Mageek. Sometimes, your friends ask you for money, you know you won't see it again, and you still give it to them. Granted, for most of us that amounts to buying them a drink or three, not
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by groby_b 2y ago
The (non-privacy related) issue is the same - if you resort to screen shots, you've thrown away tons of valuable metadata. And, as long as there's an API, I am fairly certain that maintaining a compat layer is a lot less work than
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by groby_b 2y ago
I mean, the basic problem behind both is the same - taking without consent or compensation, and the entire field being OK with it. (And, in fact, happily leaning into it - even Playboy thought, hey, good for name recognition, we're not
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by groby_b 2y ago
It's a great set of advice, with a small caveat - it's very easy to speak about fit and ignore long-term consequences & externalities. It really hit me when they talked about relationships - "A relationship is healthy if
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by groby_b 2y ago
This is a horrible use case for Windows Recall. Even if we ignore all the privacy implications of having a third party screenshot you every 30 seconds and making the files world readable, it's a bad idea. Recall has lost a ton of usefu
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by groby_b 2y ago
You said EDIFACT - it'll cost more than you expect :) You'll need to attract folks who care deeply about the space (yes, they exist, for some people logistics is fun), are seasoned software devs (the pool shrinks) and set them loo
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by groby_b 2y ago
Looking at the watch photographies, how is this "super-black"?
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by groby_b 2y ago
Boeing's basically a defunct company at this point, no? (Yes, there are still outstanding contracts, carriers don't like mixed fleets, etc, but... in terms of quality I can't see anybody saying "Yeah, Boeing, we're
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by groby_b 2y ago
Uhuh. You can get a desk reasonably close to this for $80 at IKEA. I love TE, a lot, but that desk is just shamelessly milking the audience. More power to them, they created an audience who wants to pay that, but you're not paying for
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by groby_b 2y ago
If you thought B&H is cool, you haven't met Sweetwater yet ;) (B&H is great for photo/video, but for music, they're not it, IMHO)
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by groby_b 2y ago
As a guitar player: Nobody wants strings that never break. How would we ever try new strings? ;) But as much as this is a half-joke, it also encapsulates an attitude that Teenage Engineering caters to: A lot of musicians love new experience
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by groby_b 2y ago
fwiw, hiring senior talent in SF works just fine. If you pay at the right pricing tier. SF is a decent city. It could definitely do better, it has issues, but if we all could stop pretending it's a post apocalyptic hellscape, that&#x27
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by groby_b 2y ago
The only people worth having in power are the ones that don't want the power. This extends well beyond OSS projects.
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by groby_b 2y ago
If you always wanted to maintain OSS for free and get to write grant applications... Seriously, you have a dozen or so folks on staff, and you just can't decide which OSS programs are most worthy of funding without making the maintai
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by groby_b 2y ago
Ah, misread you then, thanks for clarifying. I don't think film will look very different here - early film work was very much informed by theatrical tastes at the time, and then started to diverge as people figured out what else they
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by groby_b 2y ago
Wait, why do you think Picasso didn't have deep knowledge? He studied both at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona & the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, for ~5 years before moving to Paris. Borges was incredibly talented,
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by groby_b 2y ago
With the caveat that I haven't looked in a while, the rot seemed very anglo-specific. Coming over from Germany almost three decades ago, it was amazing how much US text books just didn't cover. There were a few developments in Ger
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by groby_b 2y ago
Thanks for sharing (I really meant the "I like reading interesting papers" request). In an odd coincidence, that means you're the second person I met this month who helped save Hubble.
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by groby_b 2y ago
We discovered a couple of centuries later that there's more than one reference frame, you can choose, and the choice matters. It's been a pretty interesting development!
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by groby_b 2y ago
What interesting research are you currently pursuing? Would love to read the papers!
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by groby_b 2y ago
Sure, if you want to go with wildly theoretical approaches, we can't even be sure if the rock on the ground doesn't have some form of intelligence. Meanwhile, for practical purposes, there's little arrogance needed to say tha
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by groby_b 2y ago
Off the top of my head: - The settings app is now positively atrocious, "because iPhone" - SIP is an absolute pox to deal with. - "Which version of Python will we invoke today" has become a fabulous game with multiple p
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by groby_b 2y ago
LLMs are not a tool to model intelligence. It's not a function of the dataset, they are, as is, not sufficient. One of the largest shortcomings being the lack of continuous learning, memory, and (likely) forgetting
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by groby_b 2y ago
LLMs are not truly intelligent. Never have been, never will be. They model language, not intelligence.
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by groby_b 2y ago
layman or children shouldn't use LLMs. They're pointless unless you have the expertise to check the output. Just because you can type text in a box doesn't mean it's a tool for everybody.
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by groby_b 2y ago
I mean, yes? Letter-based gymnastics are difficult in a token-based environment, and they're not a particularly valuable use case (outside of online dunking), so it's not really a surprise nobody cares much about those in terms of
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by groby_b 2y ago
Profane is, if you will, fucking fine. But "cheese and chalk" is a great analogy because both are sources of calcium, but cheese is much better for the human body. It carries useful info.
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by groby_b 2y ago
How does a primary help with the "conditions changed" part? As for electing questionable leaders, no, primaries don't necessarily address that either. If you look back through US presidents, you can find a good sampling of re
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by groby_b 2y ago
Setting aside the argument if any electorate is really capable of making that decision - the world has elected many questionable leaders - the big question is "what if the conditions change halfway through". That likelihood incr

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