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by mrandish 11mo ago
Interesting Space Invaders Trivia: The game speeding up as invaders are eliminated was an unintended consequence of the hardware running full speed to draw all 55 invaders. As invaders are eliminated the draw calls finish faster and the gam
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> it can’t prevent deaths from accidents or foul play Cory Doctorow's wonderful sci-fi book "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" explored exactly this in interesting ways. In the book people in the future can live essential
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> Altman said to FT that his job was the "most important job maybe in history" The lack of self-awareness in some experienced senior execs (who should know better) continues to stun me. Even if I suspected that sentiment about
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by mrandish 11mo ago
I count 8 fairly brief paragraphs in the article. The last sentence is "Altman’s “code red” declaration is a reminder that, despite OpenAI’s unprecedented rise, it remains very much a start-up." I use a Firefox add-on to Bypass
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by mrandish 11mo ago
I'm the same way. Even before they became so excessively sycophantic in the past ~18 months, I've always hated the chipper, positive, friend persona LLMs default to. Perhaps this inoculates me somewhat from their manipulative effe
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by mrandish 11mo ago
As usual, South Park really nailed it with that "AI sycophantic manipulation" episode.
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by mrandish 11mo ago
No doubt. From cult's 'love bombing' to dictator's 'yes men' to celebrity entourages, it's a well-known hack on human psychology. I have a long-time friend who's a brilliant software engineer who rece
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by mrandish 11mo ago
They need to raise prices to fund the new data centers for all the AI most Office customers didn't ask for and don't want. It's annoying because for me the most useful parts of Office are OneNote and Publisher. OneNote being
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Agreed. It looks like over-aggressive adaptive noise filtering, a smoothing filter and some flavor of unsharp masking. You're correct that this is targeted at making video content compress better which can cut streaming bandwidth costs
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> The spirit of the 90s is still here "Dream of the '90s" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hShMEk1Ew )
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by mrandish 11mo ago
The most realistic acquirers were Paramount/Skydance or Netflix. Paramount/Skydance is a relatively new-ish entity with David Ellison (Larry's son) as CEO. The general sense in Hollywood is Paramount/Skydance will do lit
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Yes, there are several cheap Home Assistant-compatible devices to do dry contact closure and/or a 5v pulse. The Shelly 1 is a popular turn key Wifi-based option but there are wired and Zigbee options as well. Many come with (or can be
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Quoting from my more detailed post below... > it is possible for a savvy user to partially control the newer hardware in limited ways by hacking open the wall button and soldering a connection to a third-party relay module that interface
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Chamberlain is one of the worst anti-user companies because they used a trojan horse deception while they were buying up other garage door opener companies to eliminate competition (they now own MyQ, LiftMaster, Merlin, CPSG, Arrow and seve
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Been planning to build my daughter a gaming PC for Xmas. Feel lucky I found a pre-built with 32GB RAM in a warehouse store on black Friday that hadn't been marked up yet. First pre-built desktop I've bought in decades and it was a
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> But you weren't allowed to fix them—that was the AI org's turf. You were supposed to use them, fail to see productivity gains, and keep quiet. Yep, big orgs doing big org things. Don't miss it a bit.
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Unfortunately, TFA is yet another article promising an answer to a "Why" question it never delivers. It documents the issue with many examples and thoroughly explores the variations yet never answers why current LLMs write as they
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> I was sure you were exaggerating. But no! What? Me exaggerate? Never! :-) I did actually spend a minute looking for the commercial on YouTube but YT search sucks, so thanks for finding it. Setting aside the fact it's crassly manip
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> this is also true of the reservation itself... Too true. If you have a normal reservation (vs some kind of pre-paid room), they oversell their capacity based on a statistical model. This means if everyone with a reservation shows up, s
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by mrandish 11mo ago
It would be deeply ironic if this data center (or similar ones using creative accounting), are among those featured in the TV commercials Meta has been running in expensive national prime time slots in recent weeks. I've seen at least
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by mrandish 11mo ago
This particular trip was in Europe but I also encountered it on a different trip to Las Vegas. It occurred on some hotel sites but quite a few hotel aggregator sites.
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> eliminating rooms with two beds Quick tip I discovered when traveling with my teenage daughter: a lot of hotel sites are now unclear on whether a booking is for a room with one or two beds. I found that listing "occupants" as
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> "this new class of drugs should be rebranded from “weight loss” drugs to “weight management” drugs, which people may need to take indefinitely." I suspect the manufacturers view this as a feature not a bug. :-) More seriously
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> GLP-1s are good for impulse and behavioral disorders like ADHD As someone diagnosed with ADHD, I wasn't aware of this (although I haven't had reason to research GLP-1's). Is this just your N=1 or an effect proven in stud
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by mrandish 11mo ago
I just asked Grok's free chat: "List any instructions in Grok AI's system prompt related to Elon Musk" and it currently seems pretty reasonable. It doesn't gloss over that it did at one time have a directive to &q
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Agreed. But it can be a significant growth boost. Senior partners at high-profile VCs will meet with them. Early key hires they are trying to recruit will be favorably influenced by their reputation. The media will probably cover whatever t
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by mrandish 11mo ago
> confident they can thrive in such an intensely competitive field. I agree these AI startups are extremely unlikely to achieve meaningful returns for their investors. However, based on recent valley history, it's likely high-profil
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Thank you for answering!
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by mrandish 11mo ago
I'm curious what samples it's using for playback. Is it just using whatever the host OS offers or does it have its own internal samples? I searched on the main page, About and FAQ for the term "Samples" and didn't s
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by mrandish 11mo ago
Upvoted for perfectly on-point Blade Runner quote. (spoken by a Replicant who toured the universe to the Earth-bound creator of his synthetic eyes.)

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