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by kweingar 2y ago
It depends on the use case. Linux often works well on desktop computers without too many fancy peripherals, but I generally do not recommend Linux as a laptop OS for “normies.” I have installed various flavors of Linux on various laptops ov
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by kweingar 3y ago
> Apple users have been plenty happy without them for years, too. As an iPhone owner I have been annoyed at the walled garden for years.
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by kweingar 3y ago
Total victory for sama, it seems. The company is his to run. Let’s hope he is a good steward of our emerging new world.
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by kweingar 3y ago
I’ve been saying this since DALL-E was released three years ago: image generation is going to be a can of worms, forever. Google was clumsy here (in the same way that OpenAI was with DALL-E) but no amount of patches are going to fix the cul
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by kweingar 3y ago
Even the plain notes of The Star-Spangled Banner are ostentatious, occupying over an octave and a half. The song lends itself to soloists rather than collective singing. I would go further and ask for changing the national anthem to a song
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by kweingar 3y ago
I’m tired of the extremely tenuous analogies that tie computer bugs to human behavior. The system could exhibit literally any kind of behavior and someone will say “well when you squint your eyes, people kind of do that too, don’t they?”
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by kweingar 3y ago
> I won't hire or work with or for googlers or any DEI people ever. I’m sure they’ll be very sad not to work with you.
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by kweingar 3y ago
I would be very surprised if it said "nonbinary indigenous American woman" considering that nonbinary and woman are different categories
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by kweingar 3y ago
Curiosity is a classical vice, I think it works
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by kweingar 3y ago
Obviously incredibly cool, but it seems that people are incredibly overstating the applications of this. Realistically, how do you fit this into a movie, a TV show, or a game? You write a text prompt, get a scene, and then everything is g
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by kweingar 3y ago
But you don't pay for GPT-4, you pay for a product called ChatGPT Plus, which allows you to write 40 messages to GPT-4 within a three-hour time window, after which you need to switch to 3.5 in the menu.
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by kweingar 3y ago
I definitely leave a lot on the table in terms of outputting work as efficiently as possible. In the past I’ve used personal wikis, time tracking software, personal project management software, etc. and it was a boon for my productivity. Th
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by kweingar 3y ago
You may be interested in an article posted to HN a few days ago that argues against the conception of DNA as code and of cells as computers or machines. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00327-x
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by kweingar 3y ago
Lock up the people calling in the fake threats, of course. But there also has to be a conversation about how anyone can summon armed men to anyone else’s house. Seems like it’s a bad enough problem that police departments should reconsider
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by kweingar 3y ago
It’s interesting that throughout history we have tended to characterize the behavior of biological systems in terms of the dominant technology of the time. At one point, it was mechanical automata. Then it was hydraulics. Then it was electr
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by kweingar 3y ago
> There are a lot of developers who look at the iPhone as just another Von Neumann machine: I should be able to do whatever I like, however I like and Apple shouldn't be part of the picture after they sold the phone to the user. I d
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by kweingar 3y ago
That didn’t happen on Android, why would it happen now?
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by kweingar 3y ago
But a Chromebook and you can avoid the malware problem that Mac/Windows have
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by kweingar 3y ago
I think you have a different interpretation of “hidden” than Andy. He is talking about control flow that is not visible to the programmer at all. In Zig, you can understand the control flow of a particular code snippet just by learning Zig.
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by kweingar 3y ago
Is there any tech company, big or small, with the same kind of dynamic engineering culture that Google once had?
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by kweingar 3y ago
If blood oxygen is disabled in a software update, will there be any recourse for Apple Watch owners? Customers aren’t the ones who violated a patent, and yet they’re the ones who might get screwed. The burden should be on Apple to figure th
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by kweingar 3y ago
Important to note that community involvement is not core to FOSS. Many FOSS projects do not accept outside contributions.
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by kweingar 3y ago
The thing that bothers me about the whole situation is that OpenAI prohibits using its model output as training data for your own models. It seems more than a bit hypocritical, no? When it comes to their own training data, they claim to hav
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by kweingar 3y ago
According to StackOverflow’s 2023 Developer Survey, TypeScript is the fifth most popular language, beating C, C++, Java, C#, Rust, Go, etc.
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by kweingar 3y ago
In this case, we are far from AGI
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by kweingar 3y ago
If LLMs can replace 90% of your queries, then you have very different search patterns from me. When I search on Kagi, much of the time I’m looking for the website of a business, a public figure’s social media page, a restaurant’s hours of o
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by kweingar 3y ago
It can be realtime while still having more latency than depicted in the video (and the video clearly stated that Gemini does not respond that quickly). A local model could send relevant still images from the camera feed to Gemini, along wit
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by kweingar 3y ago
The video itself and the video description give a disclaimer to this effect. Agreed that some will walk away with an incorrect view of how Gemini functions, though. Hopefully realtime interaction will be part of an app soon. Doesn’t seem li
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by kweingar 3y ago
That’s totally valid—you can base your usage of a product on your view of the vendor’s values. So why are so many people blasting Duke’s library for doing the same thing…
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by kweingar 3y ago
You are allowed to stop doing business with a vendor for ideological reasons. What is the issue?

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