imiric

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by imiric 6mo ago
Very nice! Can you share the skill for it?
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by imiric 6mo ago
Why is everyone compelled to write one of these articles? Do they think that their workflow is so unique that they've unlocked the secret to harnessing the power of a pattern generator? Every single one of these reads like influencer v
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by imiric 6mo ago
> I liked YouTube Premium because it was an ethical way to avoid ads on YouTube Why would you behave ethically towards a company that is anything but? The slight remorse I feel by not using official YT frontends is towards creators I enj
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by imiric 6mo ago
> And statistically-speaking, is viable as long as a company keeps its users to a normal distribution. Doing a bait-and-switch on a percentage of your paying customers, no matter how small the percentage is, may be "viable" for
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by imiric 6mo ago
Right. Let's extrapolate that to Jensen Huang as well, and maybe TSMC, and also ASML engineers, why not. Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?
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by imiric 6mo ago
> We believe that the user experience comes first. If by "user" you mean advertisers, sure you do. Everyone else is an asset to extract as much value from as possible. You actively corrupt their experience. The fact these compa
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by imiric 6mo ago
I've used ` as prefix for years now. Considering how often you switch windows/panes, I reckon using a single character has saved me hours per year. :D It rarely conflicts with whatever I'm doing, but I have a binding to tem
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by imiric 6mo ago
> They've claimed the term, this is not a useful objection to make at this point. Sure it is. Someone saying that the sky is purple will never be true, no matter how many times they say it. Pushing against this is how we avoid the f
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by imiric 6mo ago
Well said. > We're a very primitive species, and the forces involved here are genuinely new. It's absolutely wild to me that we went from inventing flying machines to putting people on the freaking moon in the span of a human l
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by imiric 6mo ago
This is neat, but the tap to release controls are unintuitive for me. I much prefer the variant of this game that uses hold, drag and aim as input. This allows much greater control, is more engaging, and thus feels more rewarding and fun. P
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by imiric 6mo ago
Regardless, "AI" is not doing the killing in that case. Rather, humans have deployed it to control weapons that kill people. There are several layers of indirection there before you can claim "AI kills people". This is t
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by imiric 6mo ago
> We have to get safety right, which is not just about aligning a model—we urgently need a society-wide response to be resilient to new threats. This includes things like new policy to help navigate through a difficult economic transitio
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by imiric 6mo ago
I'm on the skeptic side of "AI" and find this entire industry obnoxious, but your argument doesn't hold any water. Technology that can be used to kill innocent people is all around us. Would it be moral to attack knife m
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by imiric 6mo ago
I don't think GP was advocating for actually square windows. Rather that the corners should be right angles. This makes perfect sense considering that most LCD displays, and practically all computer displays, don't have rounded co
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by imiric 6mo ago
This is a controversial opinion, but I do think that there are objectively right and wrong sides of political ideologies. At its core, there's nothing wrong with conservatism. Wanting to preserve traditional cultural and social values;
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by imiric 6mo ago
Well, sure, there are aspects of the work that can suck the joy out of it, but that's part of it. :) Even in personal projects I can create a codebase that's difficult to work with, or depend on third party code and tools that I d
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by imiric 6mo ago
I think both viewpoints are valid. It's perfectly fine to see your work as a craft which you hone in your personal time, and also see it as a means to an end where you clock in, get the job done, and clock out. It's also understan
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by imiric 6mo ago
I agree that the tone is off-putting and immature, but attacking the author and the site doesn't change the fact that it gained traction and many students seemed to enjoy it (if we can believe the claims). There's clearly a demand
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by imiric 6mo ago
Sure, as soon as I locate my soul.
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by imiric 6mo ago
I'm not worried about this, since I don't use Adobe products. I'm just calling out what's clearly user hostile behavior. Considering the amount of hostility Adobe has exhibited towards its users over the years, I'm
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by imiric 6mo ago
What a ridiculous conclusion. Why does Adobe need to exfiltrate some information from my machine anyway? If I'm a customer, then they should know this when I sign into my account. They absolutely don't need this information if I&#
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by imiric 6mo ago
Make sure to use "PRETTY PLEASE" in all caps in your `SOUL.md`. And occasionally remind it that kittens are going to die unless it cooperates. Works wonders.
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by imiric 6mo ago
The top 40 has rarely been about "art", though. The music there is highly formulaic and derivative, whose creators know well how to produce music that appeals to the masses. The effect of this "AI" trend is that now huma
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by imiric 6mo ago
The author contradicts themself. > Stop thinking that finding a flaw is a contribution. It's half of a contribution at best. The other half is "and here's how we might solve that." If you're pointing out a proble
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by imiric 6mo ago
You're right, but are also ignoring that branding, appearance, etc., is simply not important to some people. They prefer function over form, which is where I think the author is coming from. They're wrong in thinking that most peo
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by imiric 6mo ago
If you considered using it in the first place, reports of security vulnerabilities wouldn't concern you.
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by imiric 6mo ago
I find it puzzling whenever someone claims to reach "flow" or "zen state" when using these tools. Reviewing and testing code, constantly switching contexts, juggling model contexts, coming up with prompt incantations to
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by imiric 6mo ago
So your solution is to deploy a black box that can be worked around with a basic lookup table for a single field? CAPTCHAs were never meant to work 100% of the time in all situations, or be the only security solution. They're meant to
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by imiric 6mo ago
Tailscale is not different. It simply makes managing WG configuration easier, and adds some useful value-added features on top. But, as you know, you can also manage this configuration yourself, either via traditional config mgmt tools, hel
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by imiric 6mo ago
That's an interesting story, but not a great analogy for software. If a technology to build airplanes quickly and cheaply existed and was made available to everyone, even to people with no aeronautical engineering experience, flying wo

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