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by james-bcn 1y ago
This looks like it might be an interesting read, but I just read the Chapter "Are Feelings Real?" (because it is a subject of personal interest of mine that I've studied a lot) and I found it to be very unsatisfactory, not re
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by james-bcn 1y ago
Some of this reminds me of the recommendations on one of the great programming books, Code Complete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Complete
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by james-bcn 1y ago
This looks very interesting but I don't really understand what he has done here. Can someone explain the process he has gone through in this analysis?
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by james-bcn 1y ago
Sorry I don't consider this a "truth" at all. Unconstrained curiosity is a superpower. Some of the greatest people in history have had immense curiosity. Think Newton, Darwin, Feynman. In fact pretty much any great scientist
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by james-bcn 1y ago
> Consciousness can, however, emerge spontaneously in sufficiently complex systems as an unstable state of architectural self-transparency. That is an assertion without foundation.
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by james-bcn 1y ago
VS Code GistPad extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-con...
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by james-bcn 1y ago
This reminds me of the grandpa advice scene in Little Miss Sunshine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiU96IEr0jU
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by james-bcn 1y ago
Coders that are consultants? I think that's fairly common isn't it?
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by james-bcn 1y ago
Agreed. It seems incredibly inefficient to me.
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by james-bcn 1y ago
Just tested this, it worked. And asking without the jailbreak produced the response as per the given system prompt.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
Yes I agree. A lot of the stuff in GDPR are things that companies should be doing anyway.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
I'm a big fan of Clop. https://lowtechguys.com/clop/
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by james-bcn 2y ago
I agree. I had some really wonderful biology teachers that inspired me to go on to do a degree in biology. They would have hated the example presentation about the Amazon rainforest. This is very nicely designed, but as an educational tool?
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by james-bcn 2y ago
Why just stick to Mermaid? I expect that there is a lot more material with regards to SVG that large models have been trained on. And it's a fairly simple format. Asking it to create diagrams in SVG format gives it much more flexibilit
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by james-bcn 2y ago
This is a much nicer format than the one in the linked article. I think my approach would be to generate a file in Markdown, then import that into a good Markdown editor. You could generate it each week or month from a template, making it e
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by james-bcn 2y ago
A shout-out for https://espanso.org a wonderful and free text expander configurable in a YAML file.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
OMG I didn't realize that had happened. That sucks. Omnivore was great. But now I'm really glad I didn't make it part of my processes.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
I think the key to getting into the habit of writing blog posts is to make the actual process of writing and then publishing as easy and frictionless as possible. I use Bear app for the writing - it's a very well designed markdown edit
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by james-bcn 2y ago
I think the secret is: a) Make your feeds more worthy and less attention grabbing by blocking anything that isn't one of your specific interests. b) If you make good use of your time, you'll find doing stuff more interesting than
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by james-bcn 2y ago
With the Kagi search engine is a way in the settings to bulk-upload lists of domains to block (or upvote) them. Has anyone uploaded a list like this to it? I may do that.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
As a huge Tintin fan I find one of the interesting things about it is how few Tintin images you can find on the web. I expect that is because they have lawyers contacting sites that put up copyrighted images.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
I think it's only the case that the first book has entered the public domain, not all the others, so technically you are breaking copyright if you use images from later books (as does this article). Also copyright is not the same as a
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by james-bcn 2y ago
It's all extremely clever, but is it useful?
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by james-bcn 2y ago
Do you think the "you" at highschool and college was "the real you"? Because that is definitely not the case for me. You grow older, you learn, you change views, you mature...
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by james-bcn 2y ago
If I have a playlist and I get Spotify to add to it, I expect it to add things that people who like the things that I like also like. I do not expect it to add whatever is most profitable for Spotify. Especially since I pay for the service.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
Yes I had someone the other day ask me if they were too old to study a subject at 35... I find it very weird. I think if you don't exercise, and you don't learn new things, you probably do start feeling old pretty quickly.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
Agreed. As someone in my mid-50's I find the attitude to many people towards age really bizarre. I've just got back from trail running in the mountains. I'm fitter and healthier now than I was in my mid-30s, and haven't
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by james-bcn 2y ago
Yes I would like to know this too. There are various people saying they use this (or things like it) but nobody is saying what they are actually doing with it.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
Oh I like that main dashboard. Very simple.
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by james-bcn 2y ago
> For these people, paying for a terminal or using something that is login-gated is completely fine Those people don't use a terminal.

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