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by lynx23 3y ago
Oh, Om Unit mentioned on HN, thats a pretty special day! :-)
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by lynx23 3y ago
Wayland kind of reminds me of the CORBA->DBus rewrite. GNOME 2 was awesomely accessible. Then came the "qwe need to switch to DBus" people, and basically destroyed the hard work of many years. For me, GNOME Accessibility nev
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by lynx23 3y ago
If your 9/11 story contains words like teacher, you don't have to feel that old. I remember being at work when the news broke...
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by lynx23 3y ago
You are right, refugees in germany seem to prefer stabbing minor girls with knives. Watch out for ghetto streets, there might be grenades coming soon.
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by lynx23 3y ago
s,subreddits,events, and s,/default subs, festivals, in your first paragraph and it is still valid. Saying that because I noticed this effect as a young festival goer. As the size of the event grew, the number of people I'd much
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by lynx23 3y ago
Gibson (Neuromancer) and Stephenson (Snow Crash) have already predicted this corporate-power-future. And it is becoming a reality.
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Because scientific publications regularily get falsified. And have proofably been used to manipulate public perception of events.
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Actually, the tongue can feel finer details then hands/fingers can. It is not socially accepted, so mostly done in secret... But I am blind, and whenever I have to feel something very very tiny, the tongue is better then the finger(na
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well, let me tell you a story. I have early beta access to GPT-4 with the ability to add pictures to the chat. This is rolled out as part of BeMyEyes, a volunteer-based app which lets volunteers have access to the camera for helping blind
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by lynx23 3y ago
Tell that to Google. You could almost feel how sexy the censoring people felt during 2020 at Google. Must have been a blast of a time.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Feels a bit like async on the programming language side. Just replace "waiting for memory" with "waiting for IO" and you're almost there.
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by lynx23 3y ago
According to 2016 FAO data, roughly 59 mio people are directly involved in fishing. Do you consider taking away their ability to have some income "small impact"? Besides, most of the fish I eat are sweetwater fish. I doubt me st
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by lynx23 3y ago
A toddler capable of walking is still miles away from the topic at hand, a LLM capable of processing relatively complex text. It is well know that humans have a particularily long training period compared to other animals. So I dont under
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by lynx23 3y ago
I know at least one case of a Microsoft Consultant who suggested to use company.local for a new Exchange setup for roughly 5k employees. Unfortunately, his suggestion was actually implemented.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Downvoting this is not enough. I'd pay $5 (reddit style) to have this properly killfiled if HN allowed for that. Besides, not "everybody hates them, only those inmature enough to still need intellectual babysitting.
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Be My AI: GPT-4 as image descriptor for the blind(bemyeyes.com)
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by lynx23 3y ago
I am not sure what you are hinting at with your side comment about .local, but I came here to say that I pretty much love .local. Switched all my home machines to the systemd-resolved stub with enabled mDNS. Feels so much nicer then maint
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by lynx23 3y ago
I realized that I am a cold war kid when I got repeated dreams of the final blast around 15 years ago. Tells you something about political environment you grow up with if you find your subconscious manufacturing final blast events...
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by lynx23 3y ago
You forgot to list the most hypocritical--american--topic filtered, erotic content. I know, the american world will go down in flames if a generative AI ever outputs something sexy. You can google all these scary things these days already.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Safety standards. One might call it "our censorship model" but that would be too close to the truth, so call it safety standards...
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HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis (2016) [video](youtube.com)
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by lynx23 3y ago
Don't shoot the messenger... There is not much difference between generic social media critique, AI angst and, gnerally, making tools responsible for the actions of their owners. If you cant stand what social media does to you, stop.
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by lynx23 3y ago
You know, there is actually a world outside of the USA. Universities, research labs, companies of all kinds, and, surprise, people! This US-centric attitude is hilarious.
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Or, even better, don't accept invites from U.S. based conferences, and you will never have any unexpected issues. Best not to cross their borders at all.
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I am assuing this is in the context of some kind of mental health issue? Because this reads and feels backwards to me. Maybe it is a recipe for people without motivation, and that is fine. But I, for one, am mostly driven by motivation.
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by lynx23 3y ago
I also know someone who could do this, with arbitrary sentences. According to his story, he was fascinated with talking backwards as a child, and apparently that practice was enough to make it natural for him.
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by lynx23 3y ago
What seems to have been missed is that almost all large projects germany tried to push through in the past 10 years or so have turned out to be a massive fuckup. Digital drivers licence, stuttgart21, the list goes on.
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by lynx23 3y ago
This is by far the most interesting analysis of this topic that I have read since a long time. Given your writing, I am assuming you know a bit or two about the issues, but you seem to not be directly affected too much. This would be grea
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Wait, I couldn't even survive without my smartphone, being blind and all. Given that context, if a person deeply emersed in tech to actually get things done during the day says they think not everything should be solved with an app,
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Am I the only one who thinks meditation with an app is super hilariously weird? Its hard to explain without falling for too much cynism, but... the topic is mindfulness, not "have my phone tell me what to do next". If you are un

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