jrm4

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811.
by jrm4 2y ago
In the spirit of friendly competition; I gotta argue that Skroll's "Remind" supercedes this in every way. More flexible and more powerful.
812.
by jrm4 2y ago
It's high time we stop being surprised by the seeming oblivousness/stupidity of our rich folks. Say it with me: "Domain-Specific Knowledge."
813.
by jrm4 2y ago
Love it. Reminds me quite a bit of what I do; which is https://zim-wiki.org + a custom template I designed. Plus some scripts and such to keep up with (bleh) Canvas CMS.
814.
by jrm4 2y ago
Nah. This place is a bit of an echo chamber; as I said above -- it is unfortunate but the people who do (much more than I) this good real work of keeping stupid overdoers like this away don't have time to, e.g. post in places like this
815.
by jrm4 2y ago
Right, I mean the fundamental problem here is that the sort of person who actually does this sort of real work -- much more than I do -- doesn't have time to screw around on here. :)
816.
by jrm4 2y ago
All of your theory sounds good. I've NEVER ever ever seen anyone who comes in with this attitude do it effectively in practice. They always either soften greatly or screw things up.
817.
by jrm4 2y ago
I've worked in government and large institutions, and frequently deal with people who think like this. Let's just say I'm perfectly comfortable with the ad hominem. Literally 100% of the people I've encountered with th
818.
by jrm4 2y ago
You're probably part of the problem; folks like yourself are nearly universally ignorant of many Chesterton's fences.
819.
by jrm4 2y ago
Because I believe in the higher goal of free and open source software, which is more or less the same as the belief that knowledge should be shared -- and the space that GIMP occupies is one that I think a great deal of people would (have b
820.
by jrm4 2y ago
Sigh. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. An extremely conservative church group is perhaps the worst place to try to figure this out; y'all will self-censor naturally. Anyway, I teach IT, in a department -- shared with
821.
by jrm4 2y ago
Will continue to say it, this piece of software that could be a mainstream huge deal, a straight-up Adobe killer, will never do this unless it changes its name. I've mostly given up hope on this, but it's still wild that people wh
822.
by jrm4 2y ago
As I've said exhaustively before, this is also reflected in the stupid stubbornness in not changing the name. I firmly believe they could have eaten Adobe's lunch decades ago, but I can't recommend something that may be an
823.
by jrm4 2y ago
I agree that you should do this but I also completely get why people don't It's just SUCH AN ARTIFICIALLY STUPID process, basically actively engineering the technology to work worse than "by default." As in, it's
824.
by jrm4 2y ago
My pet theory is that the "improved" technology of tennis rackets paved the way for pickleball. "New" (to me, I'm 48 and played varsity in high-school) tennis rackets are actually now TOO light and the strings are t
825.
by jrm4 2y ago
All the whiners in the thread. Now, as a lawyer I technically can't recommend this, but: Consider someone who goes to the library, reads books, and then only buys them if they like them. There is no meaningful moral difference betwee
826.
by jrm4 2y ago
Very simple. Maybe the simplest comment I've seen on this site.
827.
by jrm4 2y ago
Nah, this is something you say about a dude who stole your highschool girlfriend, not about the absolute sort of psychopath who could, you know, literally give every kid in America free lunch with little to-no-effect on his own life and mon
828.
by jrm4 2y ago
Given the source, no, my first thought was emphatically not "training models," it was -- this crazy bastard is hellbent on world domination. Seriously.
829.
by jrm4 2y ago
This is exactly backwards, I think. "Risk-averse" (really, wealth loving) people, uh, loving amassing wealth.
830.
by jrm4 2y ago
Are we sure about this? McKenzie Bezos and Melinda Gates are, of course, different -- but they really really really appear to be doing what a normal person would do, given that amount of money.
831.
by jrm4 2y ago
The best things that Bezos (and arguably Bill Gates) did was get divorced. Observe the ex-wives doing what a normal/sane person would do with that amount of money.
832.
by jrm4 2y ago
For what purpose? I'm asking this as someone who threw one of the cheap $500 Nvidia's with 16gb of VRAM and I'm already overwhelmed with what I can do already with Ollama, Krita+ComfyUI etc etc.
833.
by jrm4 2y ago
For roughly the same reason Steve Jobs et al killed Hypercard; too much power to the users.
834.
by jrm4 2y ago
This feels like plumbers thinking that using some weird type of toilet fitting is killing civilization.
835.
by jrm4 2y ago
Completely unsurprising. (Former?) Math nerd and common core hater here; having watched myself and other kids go through all of this; beyond EARLY algebra, maybe earlier we literally should not teach any math that doesn't have an immed
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by jrm4 2y ago
> Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there, so you will get real facts, worthy opinions and less emotions. But, definitely understand what you are getting into here: Paraphrasing Nassim Nicholas Tale
837.
by jrm4 2y ago
I still doubt it? It's a marathon, not a sprint; I still trust Firefox more.
838.
by jrm4 2y ago
This is not smart. It's entirely reasonable that Chrome may be better on top of its exploit game; but this absolutely pales in comparison to the threat of universal surveillance that Google hits us with frequently. Shouts to the heroe
839.
by jrm4 2y ago
This presumes AI makes competitively good music. I'm not saying it's not possible or even maybe it's happening somewhere -- but I've yet to hear really good AI hip-hop competitive with humans -- while on the other hand,
840.
by jrm4 2y ago
As a long time (actual) hip-hop fan, I do find it quite hard to muster sympathy for this weirdly isolated, and perhaps disposable, genre? Kind of like, okay, how much did you try to build with the origins of the thing you're using to

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