realityfactchex

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by realityfactchex 9mo ago
Wow, the IndexTTS2 demo is very good. Definitely going to check that out. Thanks. [0] https://indextts2.org
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by realityfactchex 9mo ago
That's cool and useful. IMO, the best alternative is Chatterbox-TTS-Server [0] (slower, but quite high quality). [0] https://github.com/devnen/Chatterbox-TTS-Server
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by realityfactchex 9mo ago
Strong disagree What's achieved is impressive as heck, but it ain't AGI. It's easy (and good marketing) to convince people that this is AGI. And, for sure, it's fairly easy to become convinced that this is AGI. But
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by realityfactchex 9mo ago
You probably built enough to start finding out from others. Try to find one person who wants it (or why they don't). Then another, and another. Some ideas, distilled from [0]: 1. Find subreddits who would find it helpful to solve
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
The parallel between microwave and AI skepticism is even broader: Plenty of people today "know" that "you shouldn't use a microwave" *at all*, either.
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
Overall, HN is good. Nowhere else really can you get that concentrated & large a place to weigh in on something and get (fairly) intelligent, (fairly) rapid, (fairly) reasonable, (fairly) fast feedback -- even if you don't agree wi
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
Ok, here are some starting links and summaries: In 2012, South Korean judges found the following to be unconstitutional [0], e.g. based on the person who complained about not being allowed to comment anonymously on YouTube and other sites (
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
Advent of Computing: https://adventofcomputing.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/advent-of-computing/id1459202600 https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/rss htt
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
> As someone who is a huge IDE fan, I vastly prefer the experience from Codex CLI compared to having that built into my IDE, which I customize for my general purposes Fascinating. As a person who *loathes VS Code* and prefers terminal te
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
The single most costly mistake I ever made, in hindsight, was talking myself out of a CS trajectory and into something more "practical" circa 2003.
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
I was pleasantly surprised recently when planning to "upgrade" a light web app to be portable between SQLite and DuckDB, and the LLM I was working with really made the case that SQLite is better if concurrent operations were to oc
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by realityfactchex 10mo ago
Speaking of coups, was the Nepal coup (by Gen Z via Discord) reported 3 months ago [0] real or fake? Anyone over there and know for sure? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229989
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
> compelling >> motivation It's the only way to be sure it's not being trained on. Most people never come up with any truly novel ideas to code. That's fine. There's no point in those people not submitting the
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Yeah, I find that I like to use uv for one thing, quickly/efficiently getting a Python into a new venv for some project. A la: uv venv ~/.venvs/my_new_project --python 3.13 source ~/.venvs/my_new_project&#x2F
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
The greatest thing about Graphviz is indeed the dot language. A nice thing about using dot is that the graph definition is *portable among all applications that support dot*. Dot is such a simple and readable format (particularly if using
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
> relevant survey data Based on a cursory look, keywords can include "smartphone-only internet users" and "large-screen computer ownership". The American Community Survey asks questions related to that (income, comput
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Darn. This looks like the open issue: https://github.com/cypht-org/cypht/issues/931
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
It looks like Cypht [0] is the most actively maintained JMAP webmail client listed at [1], assuming that works. [0] https://github.com/cypht-org/cypht [1] https://jmap.io/software.html
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Thanks, both
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Not really, though? That's what I thought at first, after trying one inflation calculator: $30 for a decent meal, sure, and double that maybe for a pretty tasty meal, is pretty available. (Even then, I think ingredient purity and true
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
> best case scenario is walkable neighborhoods with lots of little tasty restaurants at affordable prices around the corner from everybody. According to the written history, pre-1906 San Francisco had basically that. It seems that the no
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Per charts in TFA, it looks like some disks are failing less overall, and failing after a longer period of time. I'm still not sure how to confidently store decent amounts of (personal) data for over 5 years without 1- giving to cl
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
This article discusses the usage of the word "absolutely" by humans on HN, contrasted with machine (over)usage of the term, which has been referenced a lot in articles and memes, both the usage and the attempts at correcting the o
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Nice! Is it better than or much different from Marp [0]? If so, in what ways? Looks like the Deckless editor UI is nice. I wonder if the Markdown source could be compatible/portable between Deckless and Marp. [0] https://gi
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Yeah, it's a myth, and a pervasive one. Decent description at [0]. Not only that, but people actually think they know that. Since people believe it, it's "real to them". IMO, this helps make it easier to go from "w
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
https://archive.is/kX4dH
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Why not just set them up with Catbox Spaces [0, 1]? [0] https://blog.catbox.moe/post/774800476681207808/introducing-... [1] https://catbox.tech
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
It would mean actually reasoning, not just applying stats to look like reasoning.
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Are the $10 "rugged defender style cases" found online actually as protective for drops as the $80 actual Otterbox Defender branded case? I really wonder, seems like maybe, and might be worth looking into. If so, that would be fa
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by realityfactchex 1y ago
Jacques Pépin suggested at [0] "basically you need three knives": - a chopping knive, 9-12" depending on one's hand - a utility knife for slicing, about 6" - a paring knife, a cheaper ordinary one is fine

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