mortenjorck

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by mortenjorck 9mo ago
I don't know how much of it was hand-edited and how much was direct output, but this article has that unmistakable LLM voice. The rhythm, the rhetorical flourishes; it's all there even if it's diffused through some human re
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by mortenjorck 9mo ago
They will probably be there for as long as the capacitors last, but the critical thing is that they are almost certainly running some Win32 industrial process software with no need for web browsers or for that matter even Internet connectiv
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by mortenjorck 10mo ago
Nano Banana became useless for image edits once the safety training started rejecting anything as “I can’t edit some public figures.” My own profile picture? Can’t edit some public figures. A famous Norman Rockwell painting from 80 years ag
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by mortenjorck 10mo ago
> how do I make (at least) new content protected? Air gap. If you don’t want content to be used without your permission, it never leaves your computer. This is the only protection that works. If you want others to see your content, how
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by mortenjorck 11mo ago
This is the first image model I’ve used that passed my piano test. It actually generated an image of a keyboard with the proper pattern of black keys repeated per octave – every other model I’ve tried this with since the first Dall-E has st
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by mortenjorck 11mo ago
Reminder that even in the hypothetical world where every AI image is digitally watermarked, and all cameras have a TPM that writes a hash of every photo to the blockchain, there’s nothing to stop you from pointing that perfectly-verified ca
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
The $999 Lectric XP4 has hydraulic disc brakes. While uncommon at that price point, it's not unusual to see them on $1500-2k e-bikes.
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
This is pretty clearly an LLM-written sentence, but the list structure and even the em dashes are red herrings. What qualifies this as an LLM sentence is that it makes a mildly insightful observation, indeed an inference, a sort of first-
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
I think you mean "LCD/LED" monitors (where "LED" is commonly used to mean an LCD panel with an LED backlight, and "LCD" is used to differentiate old CCFL-backlit LCD panels). OLED screens do not have a bac
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
This was definitely the "no arrow keys because we have a mouse" era of Apple. Everything we take for granted today was still in flux, and I can certainly imagine that even by the Macintosh 512k, just enough dust had settled that J
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
The vast majority of users knew nothing about Facebook‘s origins until The Social Network. In the mid-to-late 2000s, the perception was of simply a much better designed, much more exclusive alternative to Myspace. Hard to imagine nearly two
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
The reductive "you just invented $existing_thing" framing is so tiresome. There are so very many opportunities for a better surface transport system than buses. Dynamic routing and scheduling, capacity somewhere between a city bus
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
> In fact, the Amiga computer's monitor output was used to display the Toaster user interface but when a video effect was running the interface was entirely replaced with odd patterns that looked like bar codes. These were the addr
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
The output consistency is interesting. I just went through half a dozen generations of my standard image model challenge, (to date I have yet to see a model that can render piano keyboard octaves correctly, and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is no
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
> We sincerely hope that Germany does not become the second jurisdiction (after China) to ban ad blockers. Given the other restrictions on internet use in China, it should have come as no surprise, but I had no idea this was the law of
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
I recently got throttled to ~1Mb/s for going over my mobile data allotment (which incidentally got me to finally switch to an MVNO), and I was amazed at how insufficient a speed that was once considered “broadband” was in 2025. It was
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
I don’t think your point and the reply about dogs are in disagreement. If anything, the “anthropification” of dogs (putting them in strollers, having birthday parties for them) strongly suggests that AI is headed for that role, and if happi
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
I randomly came across an app called Lunacy the other day, from stock vector and image marketplace Icons8. I decided to give it a try. It’s pitched as a Figma alternative, but as essentially an expensive advertisement for Icons8 (the stock
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
I had to wryly laugh when I read this framed as a bad thing. This is great news for American developers and product teams.
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
There is a pendant light in my entryway that came outfitted with LED filament bulbs when I bought my home. They flicker noticeably, and I would have replaced them all if it were in my living room. One of the bulbs recently burned out, and I
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
The most unpleasant effect from cut-rate HDR is when graphics with bright backgrounds get lazy-mapped to HDR. Perhaps the worst offender I've ever seen was the Mafia remake by Hangar 17, which loads every time with a sequence of studio
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
If you really want to delete the app, a chargeback is the surest way to permanently remove yourself from the platform.
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
> Do localities with plasma gasifiers end up purchasing waste from elsewhere to maintain waste input stocks? This… sounds like a very good problem to have?
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
I kept expecting that to happen, but it apparently has some mechanism to persist context outside the user’s FOV. In a way, that almost makes it more dreamlike, in that you have what feels like high local coherence (just enough not to immedi
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
"Last Train Home" is a banger, in any case.
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
This is the kind of project that always used to be its own website, but these days largely exists only on a social media platform where it's stuffed between other content and the usual barrage of ads. Which is a roundabout way of sayin
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
Wait, Airbnb itself stopped using (and presumably maintaining) Lottie? What are they using now? I’m trying to find any kind of news or blog post about this and I’m coming up empty-handed. Edit: it looks like you were referring to Lava, whic
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by mortenjorck 1y ago
Ive is basically the best in the business if your needs are to get a large amount of cutting-edge technology into a ridiculously constrained form factor and have it look good, feel solid, and be manufacturable at scale. That is what he is w
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by mortenjorck 2y ago
This is probably a colorful way of saying they bought up a couple months' worth of inventory from Wham-O's western-division distributors.
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by mortenjorck 2y ago
The timeframe is even more important due to the macro environment of the past six years - one might have credibly suggested 2019 was a fluke and that 2020-2021 was obviously a major outlier on many fronts, but the trend keeps going into the

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