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by ppqqrr 2y ago
I applied for summer 24, and got a less-than-thoughtful response bordering on personally insulting (“TL;DR - why don’t you go back to your day job?”). I won’t be applying anymore. Funny thing is, I didn’t even want to hear back - I just lik
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification - I do not claim that artists don’t want to make a living. My point is that, too often, the “artists need to make a living too” narrative is used by the system that exploits artists.
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
Arguably, but imho the difference between search engines and GPTs is akin to punch card coding vs modern IDE - theoretically the same activity, vastly different in practice.
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
The “artists need to make a living” narrative against piracy is pure deception. Truth is that most artists want nothing more than for their messages to spread as widely as possible, as that is also the most naturally profitable path for the
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
If a miraculous new technology that helps individuals grok any conceivable topic has “no economic impact,” you should probably question how you measure of economic impact - perhaps even your very definition of the economy, the nature of hum
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
I haven't read the book, but I think "concrete zoos," for humans, is more metaphorical than literal. Humans find comfort in much wider ranges of environment. If it were available, I'm sure many would find spaceships to b
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
i'm not a flaming activist or anything (yet), and i appreciate the benefit of their work, but they really told us we can't pirate anything they make, and then proceeded to pirate everything we made. i'm not a luddite, or a &q
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by ppqqrr 2y ago
Anyone know if there’s an audio equivalent of this software?
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
In my mind, the lowest-hanging fruit is: "tech is now abundant, and great machine farms feed us all." Surprising thing is, most of us are already there - except the media (hand-in-hand with legacy corporations that need scared, do
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
You're exactly right - tainted, because the contract killer's money becomes clean (laundered) at the expense of the rest of the money. Now, as to whether everyone who had money in that pool will be found guilty by "Big Bad Go
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
A while ago i had a heated discussion on HN with someone who claimed that any graph where 0 is not the minimum value of all the axes is misleading. We were talking about a graph that shows global temperature rise due to climate change. They
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
nice try, but your username betrays your dastardly ambitions.
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
I remember the moment I decided to be a vimmer. I was in my first systems class in college, looking for advice. A senior asked me if I knew how to use vim, and with a few flicks of his wrists, split his screen into halves, quarters. I was s
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Show HN: UNIQR – Image-to-QR API(uniqr.us)
5 points by ppqqrr 3y ago|0 comments
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Using picture QRs to improve AI QR generation(uniqr.us)
4 points by ppqqrr 3y ago|1 comments
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
Thanks for your feedback! As I mentioned in the other comment, we've removed the login wall so you can freely try the tool. And yes - the end result is simple :) but there's more to it than meets the eye. In any case, from what we
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
Really appreciate your feedback. I think customizing the auth0 login page is out of our reach at the moment... but we addressed the other parts of your feedback :) you should be able to use the customize page without having to log in. (we d
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by ppqqrr 3y ago
Thanks for trying it out! I'd love to hear more - we use auth0's login UX, thought it would be a smooth experience for most. Did you want to try without signing up? I understand the frustration... but we made it work this way so w
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Show HN: Turn Any Image into QR(uniqr.us)
4 points by ppqqrr 3y ago|6 comments
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
False dichotomy; descriptive names can and should be cute, if you're willing to spice them with a bit of analogy and/or irony. Problem is that most corporate programmers lack personality (and punk spirit, tbh), and use names as a
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
Low quality HN post right there. /s
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
> whether it is really just your body, or whether it is two bodies Not really. That’s a pseudo-philosophical framing that anti-abortionists prefer, because it hides the real world consequence of their little thought experiment: forcing w
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
Sure, they like to have “their money do the work,” but they still have to find (or grow) a system where large capitals can sit and collect interests.
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
As I’ve said, I express no judgement as to whether any of this is morally objectionable, or good/bad for society in general. You’re arguing with yourself at this point.
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
Despite my cynical tone, I don’t see inequality as a primary outcome of commerce, either; I do see the increased exchange of goods that the crypto economy brings as a general positive. But it’s almost always been the case that the more comm
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
And yet, our current medium of exchange relies on artificial scarcity as well, controlled by central banks. This is where your average crypto proponent will follow up with their spiel on the benefits of decentralization, but I personally be
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
So there’s material differences that supports certain prejudices; big surprise, turns out human societies have been (and still is) working very hard for thousands of years to craft those differences - isolating, separating, enslaving, oppre
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
Amphetamine ( https://amphetamine.en.softonic.com/mac ) solved this for me. I turn it on, with “allow system sleep when display is closed” disabled, and it’ll work with the laptop closed, using only the two connected monitor
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by ppqqrr 4y ago
White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
“It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.”

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