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by mrandish 5mo ago
Check out the rest of Copetti's site. He's got similar posts on almost all the other consoles. So much gold.
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Yep, I was totally nerd-sniped by the image. I've never seen an engineer draw a whiteboard diagram anywhere near that detailed and tidy. No acronyms, consistent title case, descenders on a baseline - everything about it is wrong. It&
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Not sure what you want to know. To me, the interesting aspect is the unique challenges of making high-stakes decisions in ultra high-uncertainty situations where you never receive any feedback signal on most of your calls. And the little yo
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by mrandish 5mo ago
While he reads books in his job, what he's actually paid for is quickly synthesizing what he's read into actionable judgements assessing whether (and in what ways) those books have potential to be adapted into commercial film sc
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To me the interesting question about a job like this is "How can you tell if you're doing it well?" It involves such high-stakes, high-uncertainty and highly variability that it has to be nearly impossible to know. I mean you
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm about to revisit this again soon (new laptop + some free time for fun). Have you been able to get BT latency low enough on Windows to hit a MIDI key and hear the note without noticeable lag? It's been a few
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by mrandish 5mo ago
If you're considering this, what I learned during my hair transplant journey may be useful. There are a variety of surgical techniques to address hair loss including different kinds and degrees of transplants and scalp reductions. Most
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> I'm interested in audio out because I dabble in musical instruments. Sorry, I don't know. I'm just responding to echo and expand on another reply that Bluetooth for anything related to serious music, from audio playback
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by mrandish 5mo ago
While I haven't followed this situation, I assumed based on this... > we have temporarily stopped publishing on the Adafruit blog That they needed to explain to their audience why they stopped publishing on their blog, and I inferre
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Ladyada mentions in the current top post of this thread that they've reached out to the Flux.ai founder to hopefully discuss a mutually satisfactory resolution. Unilaterally publishing Flux's demand letter probably isn't proh
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by mrandish 5mo ago
When LLM results started being shoved into standard result pages, I immediately added them to my ever-growing Userscript, CSS mods and uBO filters for https://www.google.com/search* . That said, I DO sometimes prompt explici
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> There was a minimum level of stability you needed in your life at that time to be able to own a computer... True. I was fortunate to grow up middle-class in suburban California with a college grad dad and stay-at-home mom. Still, I had
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by mrandish 5mo ago
This exposes a fundamental (and obvious) problem with not just SpaceX but the OAI and ANT IPOs as well. Their valuations are massive far beyond what the existing GAAP revenue and profit can justify, forcing large percentages of the valuatio
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by mrandish 5mo ago
The most surprising thing about early and mid-80s hobbyist computer culture (BBSes, users groups, etc) is despite being so open, egalitarian and easy to join, more than half of everyone you'd meet would be someone cool, interesting a
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Circa 1985, I ran a BBS for my computer club and when a Fidonet feature was offered in the software I activated it and figured out how to connect to a larger relay BBS in my area code. It was really magical in those toll-call days to see me
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I'll add one other thought which just occurred to me: Most of the serious fans who like the "gimmick" episodes such as the musical and Lower Decks cross-over, like them because of the gimmick. Whether the specific reason is
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> (including the musical episode) Oh... you had to go and bring up the musical episode. :-) Let me preface with: I actually like some more modern, top-tier musicals. I saw Wicked on Broadway with the original cast and was blown away by h
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> probably more of a Trekkie. Unfortunately, all the Trek shows have been canceled, so it looks like you're not going to have much to watch for a while. There's a final short season of Strange New Worlds done and coming soon, f
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> The fact that without that exemption, gun manufacturers would be liable Uh, okay? But the topic wasn't about guns per se, someone just brought guns up as one example of a dangerous product which can be sold to consumers. They just
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> The facts are pretty bad. The facts alleged in initial complaints usually do look pretty bad. But the causes of action which are still standing after summary judgement and discovery tend to look a lot less bad. So I tend to heavily dis
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> Guns are explicitly exempted from liability rules. Yes, but that only eliminates guns as an example of inherently dangerous products which are legally sold without special exemptions. I think the most constructive response is to consid
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by mrandish 5mo ago
I suspect the plan here is to grandstand on this suit through the election cycle and then settle for a token $20M or $40M fine (payable to the state attorney general's office) and a jointly negotiated consent decree mandating vague rul
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by mrandish 5mo ago
> limitation on the First Amendment This suit has nothing to do with free speech and the F1A provides no relevant protection here. This prosecution is under consumer protection law. Broadly, the cause of action is "you negligently s
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Indeed. Prosecution under consumer protection law in court is a poor substitute for well-considered legislation or regulation. Creating laws and regulations to address new problems is why elected legislatures exist. Courts are for applying
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by mrandish 5mo ago
While I generally lean toward the AI skeptical side, at least for more extreme claims on near-term LLM capability, growth and time frames, I'm not at all a fan of this. It seems like political grandstanding and unlikely to net much in
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by mrandish 5mo ago
Not at all an expert but I believe it's possible to get started experimenting with just a simulated robot in the simulated world model. While the full workflow is to generate training data to drive a real robot in the real world, witho
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It's sadly ironic I no longer even bother clicking on HN posts that are obvious product announcements from large corporations and instead just go to the replies. Corporate product announcements somehow fail to even clearly communicate
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I get that account recovery for sites with hundreds of millions of users is a huge burden they're struggling to manage but I'm shocked they didn't restrict such loose verification to the >90% of lower value accounts that a
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by mrandish 5mo ago
+1 for Firefly nailing the 'cowboys in space' vibe.
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> But Star Wars is best when it's pulp adventure stuff. This is the way. I saw the first Star Wars the week it opened as a tween and it rocked my world. Both SW and Raiders of the Lost Ark had a clear vision of building on the prov

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