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by lysace 8mo ago
I still like to buy my cheap and esoteric Chinese stuff from Amazon. It's a good balance of not-too-slow-delivery and not-too-expensive for very specific stuff. And it's easy to return if it doesn't work. Example last purch
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by lysace 8mo ago
How do you handle the do-before-thinking devs? Or the kinda low-to-mid performing devs? Most companies has one or a few of those, right? They help the company machine go around by doing the somewhat boring stuff over and over again. Tailsca
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by lysace 8mo ago
I guess we both have zero verifiable sources we can refer to.
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by lysace 8mo ago
It's like.. what happens when software becomes a solved problem? Like bricks for construction. There's not 50 million typically highly paid brick design engineers in the world.
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by lysace 8mo ago
I discovered a particularly good genre for that: Zero narration mechanical manufacturing videos. E.g. from some Japanese paperclip/thumbtack factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVxjy5pnlPY
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by lysace 8mo ago
> it's difficult to see ARM as anything but a greedy profiteer. Keep in mind that Apple is the other party in this interaction. Pot, Kettle, Black, etc.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Not that I wouldn't want Apple to pay ARM more, but, a) Apple is getting really good at switching CPU architectures when needed. b) Don't they already have a forever licence to the ARM ISA (since the 90s/Newton) as well as
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by lysace 8mo ago
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-m... That means a normal amusement park balloon can lift about 14 grams, assuming that the weight of the balloon itself and the string is negligible. About 9
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by lysace 8mo ago
I think it is. I just struck me - would be fun to re-read The Age of Spiritual Machines (Kurzweil, 1999.) I was so into it 26-27 years ago. The amount of ridicule this man has suffered on HN is immense.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Also: porn. Audio is too niche and porn is too ethically messy and legally risky. There's also music, which the giants also don't touch. Suno is actually really impressive.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Fair. Maybe the Matrix (1999) with the human battery farms were on to something. :)
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That "simple orchestration layer" (paraphrased) is what I consider the AGI. But yeah, I suspect LLM:s may actually get close enough. "Just" add more reasoning loops and corresponding compute. It is objectively grotesquel
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by lysace 8mo ago
That's not it. This is the first version of the Sky voice model which most people seem to agree doesn't sound that much like Scarlett. See my adjacent comment for more details.
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by lysace 8mo ago
They were definitely not. Here is someone in that first thread trying to figure out what is actually going on, and failing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421757 I had to wade through 12 gigantic generic political s
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by lysace 8mo ago
Echoes of when Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of stealing her voice. That time it was impossible to tell who was in the right - there was no available recording of OpenAI's supposed Scarlett clone - they had pulled it immediately f
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by lysace 8mo ago
Good timing. My current weekend project is constructing something similar to the the first third of Ben Eater's 6502 design (last weekend was the clock module plus some eccentricities). It occurred to me that given the 6502's pred
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by lysace 8mo ago
This waste generates around 5.6 million tons of CO2 emissions – almost equal to Sweden’s total net emissions in 2021. Very tongue in cheek: In the latest fully analyzed year (2024) Sweden was CO2 net negative. Cause: Increased growth in f
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by lysace 8mo ago
None of the quotes were damning enough to fit the narrative they at some point decided to go with. Wired has devolved into pure outrage reporting with like 80% political focus. Just have a look at their front page: https://www.wi
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by lysace 8mo ago
Hah.
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by lysace 8mo ago
So Apple has a new software crisis on their hands. Echoes of the 90s. Well Microsoft too, but their customers are long used to working/living in a dumpster fire.
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by lysace 8mo ago
I bought an 80s HP pen plotter a while ago (one of these: https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/hp-7475a-plotter ). Haven't put it to use yet. I bet Claude can figure out HPGL though...
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This comment explains why: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1l2gg3r/thirdparty_ios... tl;dr: gatekeeping by Apple. Yes, it would probably be embarassing to Apple if someone built a way better touch
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I'm getting a strong feeling that the first generation of really, really talented people who built iOS in the 2000s have now to a substantial degree moved on/retired. Similar feeling with OS X/macOS. Please correct me if I&#x
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In high to very high density living contexts, when done right, yes.
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Because trains are famously awesome for the last mile(s)?
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Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs?(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
3 points by lysace 8mo ago|1 comments
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by lysace 8mo ago
They have not, afaik. Here's the list of recipients: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statlig_inkomstgaranti_f%C3%B6...
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> Terminals give us relatively few pixels to play with; they have a single font size; colors are not uniformly supported; in some terminal emulators, rendering is extremely slow. That's why I use your excellent VS Code extension. I
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Live performance (2018!) in German with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO5lfJ9dhs (I can mostly understand spoken German. Have heard this song in German many times before. Never got the message. It&#x27
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The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of

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