mikestorrent

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by mikestorrent 9d ago
Quick to produce, emerges in vast quantities, and getting hit with it can consume all your attention immediately
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by mikestorrent 10d ago
> It's hundreds of bucks + a monthly subscription for... what, exactly? Once upon a time I thought this kind of thing would be needed for accurate hand tracking for VR applications, in lieu of a full glove, but it seems to not be a
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by mikestorrent 16d ago
All those John Smiths out there are laughing at me
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by mikestorrent 16d ago
You may have forgotten that the world is driven by screenshots, and so a screenshot of a picture with the `(X) Verified by Apple to be Joe Schmoe` tacked on will be just as good as real verification for a lot of people. What we need is almo
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by mikestorrent 17d ago
I've tried some abliterated models. So far, they're not evil - you can make them say evil things, but they don't leap right to it without a bit of pushing. Or perhaps I'm not asking the right questions...
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by mikestorrent 17d ago
The problem is indeed people. How do we make the default choices most people make, better? Consider that a lot of people will be very happy to ask an AI what to do when in the past they may have taken no advice at all. It's a hell of a
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by mikestorrent 17d ago
It might be a matter of choosing which apocalypse you'd like. The non-AI state of affairs is not exactly super compelling on a long timescale right now.
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by mikestorrent 17d ago
Will you be optimizing your behaviour now to alleviate potential negative judgement from AI in the future?
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by mikestorrent 21d ago
There's some irony in Germany using censorship for the purpose of ensuring people don't get into reading materials that might convince them to become... fascists who censor people
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by mikestorrent 21d ago
I think it's true
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by mikestorrent 21d ago
You can just send the gnupg box and keys to me, I will hold them securely for you so you don't have to worry about it
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by mikestorrent 23d ago
> Sorry it was down, guys, I was bulk transcoding some Buffy
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by mikestorrent 23d ago
What Plugging My Own Tire Taught Me About Agile Development in 2026
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by mikestorrent 23d ago
I am seriously concerned that, despite 20 years of coding, I might not be able to anymore
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by mikestorrent 29d ago
I believe you. Why wouldn't someone believe you? There's not much reason to claim "I cannot do X" maliciously. I'm hopeless at catching a ball, can't play tennis to save my life, for instance... believe me? I j
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by mikestorrent 29d ago
If people would stop putting lettuce in Greek salads we'd be FINE
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
It reads like a flex. Online equivalent of a driver of a fancy car who has to make sure you know it.
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
Seriously had no idea it went like this. I was a kid playing with VHSB so for me, it was a hoot - I could make my house, my school, the local swimming pool. I see parallels in my own son as he works on various 3D projects - it's just s
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
Thank you for this fascinating and in-depth reply, man. Really cool insight.
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
That's a remarkable idea. It could be heavily gamified, it could train models, and it might actually be mentally stimulating since you'd be facing different situations all the time. Except, I'm a grown adult and I can't
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The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada(thetariffcost.com)
231 points by mikestorrent 1mo ago|307 comments
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
Wireless headphones can get you halfway there if they have enough range for ya to walk around the house a bit. Airpods are quite good for this.
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
There's a lot of value in camera-on, but for some meetings, I love being camera off, nowhere near my computer, somewhere else in the house, watering plants or sweeping the floor. Sometimes it actually has me MORE engaged with the verba
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
It so was. It's amazing how easily we can all tell what's written by a real person these days. It's gotta be like the early days of CGI.... ten years from now it'll be so hard to tell :( Thanks OP, great read
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
I fired up RACTER but I couldn't get it to do anything half as interesting as MegaHAL, whomst once told my brother, "Pop is just water with a good director"
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
Ahh VRML was pretty cool. The problem was that the VRML viewer plugins were slow, needed more RAM than anyone had, or needed to run Java and so you'd let the 486 kick that off and go get a snack and come back and it would still be thra
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
> This is auto consumers carbon footprint; not just you but you too. I know that, no need to be patronizing, if you read what I said, I clearly want a lower carbon footprint all around. Sorry if you read weasel words into my statement. W
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
Somewhat true, but you don't get brake fade from it, and since the slowdown is more gradual you shouldn't be asking anywhere near as much from the tires as you would be under real braking.
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
Well, https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu is, but it's not enough to make you an iPhone.
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by mikestorrent 1mo ago
Android has been a brutal disappointment on this front since the day it launched. Sure, you could hack various devices and spend too much time on xda-developers and get custom ROMs, but if you compare that to the openness of even a stock Wi

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