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by klik99 1y ago
Literally got something similar to this last Friday. Sounded legit. My one weird trick that works every time - give me a ticket # and an official phone number to call back to and I can confirm the phone number is legit. This way you can con
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by klik99 1y ago
The amazon "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown" listing reminds me of this restaurant in Shanghai when I l
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What nicotine does to your brain(economist.com)
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by klik99 1y ago
Exactly this - I've said it before and will say it again - new technologies emerge in response to trends, often to accelerate existing trends and does not create them. I see a few explanations for what you're saying, and those mig
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by klik99 1y ago
You could write a book on why it's practically impossible to create a new OS these days. Love Carmack for stating it so clearly. I also love that called out TempleOS, I also have a weird respect for it. Plan 9 is the probably the best
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by klik99 1y ago
Yeah I'm very familiar with Josh Ge and Rex - my current project uses rex files for loading images - I just have a lot of metadata I bake in through hacky ways and rex format is not very flexible - rexpaint is great though
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by klik99 1y ago
Not parent commenter, but I've been using rexpaint for a while but the editor is clunky and format too limited, I've been looking at other options - At a quick look monodraw does look interesting as a more fully featured replaceme
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by klik99 1y ago
Nice! I was wondering if it would be good for making ascii art assets for roguelike games (for example: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2014/12/cogmind-ascii-art... or https://www.markrjohnsonga
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by klik99 1y ago
I’m pretty sure that Apple blocks any exporting of contacts without consent, maybe he previously consented and it stored it, or he clicked ok without thinking. Even things that require consent can be engineered to make it easy to thoughtles
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by klik99 1y ago
Yes spot on, crazy that asking for an optional pittance for less bandwidth throttling on such a huge and risky project can be seen as exploitative.
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by klik99 1y ago
Nice! Leaving a comment to easily find this later, dont have anything to add except this looks cool
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by klik99 1y ago
Is that GPT5? Reddit users are freaking out about losing 4o and AFAICT it's because 5 doesn't stroke their ego as hard as 4o. I feel there are roughly two classes of heavy LLM users - one who use it like a tool, and the other like
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by klik99 1y ago
It’s my understanding that google makes bulk of ad money from search ads - sure they harvest a ton of data but it isn’t as valuable to them as you’d think. I suspect they know that could change so they’re hoovering up as much as they can to
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by klik99 1y ago
I’ve been saying for a while if AGI is possible it’s going to take another innovation and the transformer / LLM paradigm will plateau, and innovations are hard to time. I used to get downvoted for saying that years ago and now more peo
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by klik99 1y ago
The company I founded previous faced this problem - we were selling to a part of the development team that often had no clout in making financial decisions. We were able to sell to smaller companies and larger ones that happened to have peo
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by klik99 1y ago
Then people would be saying we’d be better off with 10-bits! Seriously though we can always do more with one more bit. That doesn’t mean we’d be better off. 8-bits is a nice symmetry with powers of two
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by klik99 1y ago
Does anybody remember when Elon Musk said he created Neuralink because he was scared of AI and thought brain interfaces was the only way to mitigate that? (Amazing article on brain interfaces here: https://waitbutwhy.com/201
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by klik99 1y ago
People will see kids laughing and playing in a war zone and think “it can’t be that bad, if it was that bad they’d be cowering in fear 24/7” - but people always find a way to live and find snippets of joy in even the worst situations
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by klik99 1y ago
Open source really flourished due to lots of sponsoring of projects, I could see an argument that money caused a golden age in 2010s, but money also attracted the type of person who could, without irony, say "It's only been a gold
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by klik99 1y ago
Yeah, the parent comments feel confused, it's kind of a truism that corporations make decisions based on greed. Capitalism, at it's best, tries to align personal/corporate self-interest with the interests of society. If you c
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by klik99 1y ago
Need a content warning on that splash page
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by klik99 1y ago
Sure, but it's a hacker news comment, not a book. To be more clear I mean functionally run out of things. To be even more clear, when ROI on innovation becomes less than ROI on simply making product cheaper. There's always innovat
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by klik99 1y ago
I think it’s very human to keep doing what once helped us when even when it starts harming us. Like an alcoholic who started to help get over social anxiety and saw positive results early on but then starts seeing drink as what makes them h
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by klik99 1y ago
No, and that’s not what I said. In fact I said being blindly pro or anti capitalism blinds people to things that could be fixed. Growth helps innovate and create great products up to point of innovation creating diminishing returns. There’s
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by klik99 1y ago
Parent comment explicitly says this happens when a sector runs out of things to innovate on. Chips are still innovating like crazy which is why we're seeing some amazing processing/CPU/GPU/DSP chips/etc. If we ever
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by klik99 1y ago
People buy cheap because they don't have an option. People are "addicted to cheap" because of growing wealth inequality.
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by klik99 1y ago
This is exactly what I came to say - growth as the primary goal DOES create innovation, until innovation in that field yields diminishing returns or bottoms out completely, then it creates shittier and shittier product. The entire American
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by klik99 1y ago
It’s true startups go against deeper pockets, but I stand by my analysis since Uber / Amazon / Tesla (to a degree) were early tech companies going against old companies and not competing with others doing the exact same thing. The
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by klik99 1y ago
Those aren’t good comparisons. Uber operated at a loss to destroy competition and raised prices after they did that. Amazon (the retailer) did the same and leveraged their position to enter new more lucrative markets. Dunno about Spotify, b
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by klik99 1y ago
Yes, this is mostly true - class is thought of as upbringing in UK and it's malleable in US. But you can still be rich and low class in the US, there are a ton of class signifiers in US but it's more like a club that you get induc

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