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by jstanley 1y ago
Leave the computer running all the time. Never install software updates. Browsing for videos with keyboard is equivalent or better than browsing with phone. If you really want to browse with phone I guess you need a Firefox extension that c
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by jstanley 1y ago
No, the objections are stupid. Not only is the Firefox experience vastly superior to any smart TV app, but you can have easy and effective ad blocking on top. My best guess at why people don't want to do this is that we're conditi
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It's not ugly, it's hidden inside the cabinet that the TV stands on.
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I watch YouTube on my TV. Using Firefox, with uBlock Origin. We have a laptop plugged into the TV, with a bluetooth keyboard. It is a vastly superior experience to any smart TV I have ever seen.
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by jstanley 1y ago
I really don't understand why people go to the trouble of using Pi-hole that only blocks at the DNS level, instead of using uBlock Origin which can block at the DOM level. uBlock Origin is easier and cheaper to set up, less maintenance
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by jstanley 1y ago
A tailor makes clothes. To fashion something is to make something. To tailor something is to customise it. `cat` is a Unix command for concatenating files, which you could argue is fusing them together?
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In this case I wasn't trying to say that em-dashes themselves are evidence of AI use. I was trying to say that mixing incorrect hyphen usage with correct em-dash usage is evidence of AI use. But... Using em-dashes is a signal. It&#
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by jstanley 1y ago
A big giveaway is that for most of the post the author uses hyphens instead of em-dashes, obviously because em-dashes are too difficult to type, but then uses em-dashes in a handful of places that sound exactly like the kind of thing ChatGP
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That they're getting downvoted by someone who never uses ChatGPT does not refute the claim that they're getting downvoted by people who do.
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> Specifically, the Landauer’s principle states that all non-physically-reversible computation operations consume at least 10^21 J of energy at room temperature (and less as the temperature drops). Wow! What an absurd claim! I checked th
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by jstanley 1y ago
I am an AI fan, I just thought the random specific irrelevant details sprinkled in the middle were out of place in such a high level overview. One technique I use is to paste a draft into a new conversation and let ChatGPT work on it some m
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by jstanley 1y ago
For sure programming with AI is a game-changer, and o3 in particular is really quite good at maths. I've tried getting ChatGPT to write blog posts for me as well, but it seems to struggle with knowing which things are important and whi
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by jstanley 2y ago
I don't really understand what you're trying to say here. Did you try to avoid giving them your insurance details? Why? What would the dash cam have shown?
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by jstanley 2y ago
I actually don't really like the OpenSCAD-style interface. For me FreeCAD is the current state-of-the-art in CAD. But if you are into code-style SDF interfaces, I have some links on https://incoherency.co.uk/notes/
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I'm working on a new open source CAD program for 3d printing based on Signed Distance Functions. Benefits of SDFs over the standard Boundary Representation (used in Freecad and similar) are that you can do "pattern" operation
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> The point is that our perception doesn’t provably equal “truth”. That's fine, but that you have experiences at all proves that you have experiences. I'm not saying nothing can be an illusion! I'm saying that consciousnes
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This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. How can you be remotely unsure about whether you are conscious? It is inconceivable to me that you could be conscious and unaware of it. It's an oxymoron. Of course you can be unsu
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by jstanley 2y ago
Consciousness is the only thing that can not possibly be an illusion. Whenever this comes up I have to wonder if half the people are secretly p-zombies and actually genuinely aren't sure whether consciousness is an illusion because the
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The air was already there, the wing is being pushed into it, it seems to me that when the wing has passed it needs to end up all touching the same pieces it was before otherwise the wing will leave gaps in the air.
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> Why does the air have to transit in the same time period? Because otherwise it would leave holes in it where one side moves too fast before joining back up. It makes more sense if you imagine air to be incompressable.
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And if you can't mathematically prove it correct, you're better off doing it in your head?
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Why wouldn't you just get everything right the first time and never need to learn anything new?
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How do you understand the problem without writing any code? It's possible that people's experiences are different to yours because you work on a specific type of software and other people work on other specific types of software.
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> when people feel safe, supported, and optimistic, they have kids. I actually thought that wasn't the case. Across the entire world, people in more precarious circumstances have more kids. I don't know why.
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And how do you pay back the loan without realising a gain?
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> If you believe in cryptocurrencies, you can't run to the courts when people use them as designed, even if they didn't use them as intended. If you believe in cash, does that mean you can't run to the courts if someone st
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How do you export unemployment?
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Yeah, totally. Has anyone else noticed how every streaming service has an "Audio Description" mode? My imaginary deaf people aren't using your streaming service! I don't want to be reminded of deafness!
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It's also good when you're making the "same" change in a bunch of different places, after you do it by hand a couple of times it gets the idea and you can just keep pressing Tab.
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by jstanley 2y ago
> suggestions interfere with your own thinking This definitely happens, but it's worth it. When you and Cursor are on the same page the autocomplete is a magical experience.

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