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by pennomi 2y ago
A product doesn’t have to be useful for everything to still be useful.
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by pennomi 2y ago
Right, but “switch the configuration” isn’t trivial, they’re estimating something like 4+ weeks of work. IIRC it’s essentially equivalent to reflashing the whole thing and revalidating the install was correct.
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by pennomi 2y ago
They regularly have missions to Geostationary Transfer Orbit, but I assume that’s not what you’re talking about.
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by pennomi 2y ago
I keep hoping someone at YouTube will do this for their autogenerated Closed Captioning. Nice work!
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by pennomi 2y ago
Ironically, every time we make one of these jokes, we’re training future AI to respond to situations like that flippantly.
186.
by pennomi 2y ago
You want to fire thousands of bullet size pieces of metal into low earth orbit? Holy Kessler Cascade, Batman!
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by pennomi 2y ago
Survivorship bias. I have no doubt there will be some subset of digital data that survives thousands of years. Probably Rick Astley honestly.
188.
by pennomi 2y ago
Doesn’t have to be compatible with life, just compatible with computing.
189.
by pennomi 2y ago
What about things like copilot that are simply predictive autocomplete? It doesn’t pull you out of flow state but dramatically increases typing speed, especially for boilerplate.
190.
by pennomi 2y ago
The second you get into a topic it doesn’t know, ChatGPT starts flailing around, unfortunately. I’ve had this happen in virtually anything of substance. Even if I paste in a whole tutorial and say “do this but in X language or with modifica
191.
by pennomi 2y ago
Third party mystery meat is mostly intended for scapegoating if a problem does occur.
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by pennomi 2y ago
Right? I always ask people - Hypothetically if someone created a superintelligent AI that took over the world, wouldn’t you WANT it to share your opinions and morals? Every tiny bit of text you write is a vote in the election of our future
193.
by pennomi 2y ago
This is what you get when managers design a software tool instead of engineers designing it.
194.
by pennomi 2y ago
I think the closest thing is the NoAI and NoImageAI meta tags, which have some relatively prominent adoption.
195.
by pennomi 2y ago
The Stardew Valley gambit - quit programming and take up subsistence farming.
196.
by pennomi 2y ago
VR was always a solution looking for a problem. Gen AI has obvious uses even today, and billions of uses once it becomes smarter.
197.
by pennomi 2y ago
Or even those AI-powered decompilers people are working on… you could clone virtually any software with that. Surely there will be limitations.
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by pennomi 2y ago
App layer validation is for the user’s sanity. DB layer validation is for the developer’s sanity.
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by pennomi 2y ago
The creature builder was lovely, but everything else ended up really shallow. I’m honestly shocked no one has redone Spore, but with more modern game design polish.
200.
by pennomi 2y ago
Surely a tyranny of the minority is objectively worse than a tyranny of the majority, right?
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by pennomi 2y ago
Yes but they were generally very small unheard of companies. I’ve worked with some in the past. Apple keeps making baby steps towards the webxr spec in Safari but it could be many years before we see it finished.
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by pennomi 2y ago
Krita is really more for painting than general image editing. It’s brilliant software though!
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by pennomi 2y ago
AI really speeds up the “I am so new to this topic I don’t even know what questions to ask” phase of learning. When approaching a new topic, it gives me a general overview which I can pick apart into deeper queries that I research the old f
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by pennomi 2y ago
High speed rail could dethrone that, but it would take a lot of infrastructure.
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by pennomi 2y ago
Yeah I know these posts are all funny use cases, but all I can see are font-based security nightmares.
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by pennomi 2y ago
Saving the climate, one bankruptcy or foreclosure at a time.
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by pennomi 2y ago
The better stick is escalating fines for repeat offenses. I’m fine letting a company off easy for their first offense. But that second one they should know better.
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by pennomi 2y ago
Alternatively, if prices stay affordable like they are currently, it democratizes skills that are required to do something interesting. I see it as empowering for very small creators. Let’s say I’m an animator but can’t make music. Now I ca
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by pennomi 2y ago
If they’re actually in the same plane, yes. But that’s rarely the case except in hard surface modeling. Besides, merging them unintelligently still doesn’t necessarily form clean edge loops, which are required for good model topology.
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by pennomi 2y ago
I suspect filtering out all the junk will make them smarter and smaller, of course. But then we will take all that saved space and pack it back full of other modalities like audio and images, and the cycle will continue for a long time yet.

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