rgovostes

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by rgovostes 6mo ago
Curiously, the accounts whose comments/articles I'm most confident about being AI-written tend to focus heavily on AI, yet deny using it themselves. I prompted Claude 5 times with a simple "What do you think about <blog
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by rgovostes 6mo ago
I'm willing to wager that your comment was generated from the body of the article plus a prompt to work in an advertisement for your product, which gets a mention in nearly every comment you make (and every submission you make, sometim
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by rgovostes 6mo ago
A number of comments are along the lines of "people will just pirate books from Library Genesis / Anna's Archive". It seems obvious the motivation is cutting off the supply of new books to those sites.
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Wizards of Leroy (and Wrico) Lettering(kleinletters.com)
1 points by rgovostes 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rgovostes 7mo ago
If you read the transcript it repeatedly made the incorrect assertion (hallucinated) that it’s totally normal for Claude Code to use Base64 armoring. It’s not surprising it can “read” Base64 though; such was demonstrated back in GPT-3 days.
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by rgovostes 7mo ago
To demonstrate the seriousness of their commitment to Windows quality, you can now move the taskbar to the left side of the screen. No no, it's not vaporware, they even included four screenshots. Everyone can rest assured now.
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by rgovostes 7mo ago
I'll admit ignorance here, but I've been skeptical of the claim that new construction drives rents down. What I actually see is: a luxury apartment building goes up, surveys the market, and sets its rents 30% higher for the privil
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by rgovostes 7mo ago
It is a fantastic book. The author was a spectator for much of the treasure hunt. The adulation of Thompson is amusing in light of the fact that, 15 years after publication, he was arrested for defrauding his investors. Thompson himself p
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Treasure hunter freed after decade of refusing to reveal site of shipwreck gold(cbsnews.com)
4 points by rgovostes 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rgovostes 7mo ago
CUREE, the Curious Robot for Ecosystem Exploration, is another autonomous underwater vehicle built around the Raspberry Pi 4: https://warp.whoi.edu/curee/
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by rgovostes 8mo ago
It's hard to find any fault with the M1 models released 5 years ago. According to second-hand listings on Swappa, US$1200 would get you a capable M1 Max; the equivalent M5 Max is US$3600.
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by rgovostes 8mo ago
I can't believe Apple expected the 13 mini to be a hot seller; most people holding out for a small phone probably would have already bought the 12 mini just a year prior. The 13 mini was an incremental update -- basically just alleged
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by rgovostes 8mo ago
My recent experience with Cash App made it apparent that something is really going awry at Block: My decade-old account was suspended, despite no suspicious activity and being in my full legal name and address and connected to the same chec
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by rgovostes 8mo ago
> I wrote SQLite, and I think it should be pronounced "S-Q-L-ite". Like a mineral. But I'm cool with y'all pronouncing it any way you want. :-) — D. Richard Hipp
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by rgovostes 8mo ago
Setting aside the style, I think you asked for more output — 5,000 words — than your prompt supports, so the model repeated the same details over and over to stretch out the story after it hits the major notes. Obvious tells are repetitive
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by rgovostes 8mo ago
Always try to consume a balanced news diet of The New Yorker and The New York Post.
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by rgovostes 8mo ago
Not to be overlooked: The "Related Artifacts" section at the bottom has 8 drafts written between January and June 2005. https://stevejobsarchive.com/artifact/steves-drafts
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
And if you use it long enough you'll get reminders to celebrate grandpa's 113th birthday because the only way to remove entries from that calendar is to delete useful data from your contacts.
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
I had eSIMs get screwed up on my iPhone a year or two ago when I deleted an expired eSIM. It asked me "Do you want to update contacts to use <the SIM I just deleted>?" and I knew I was in trouble. I did successfully use a ba
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
What the hell happened to Protobuf anyway? Go look at their repo; it’s positively byzantine. There are two or three different Python backends.
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
Sadly it is true. It’s called Flex Lock or US Carrier Flex Policy: https://www.usmobile.com/blog/what-is-flex-lock/ The gist is that it allows a third-party seller to stock a bunch of identical, not-yet-locked pho
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
I have a few app subscriptions that are under $5/yr, like Parcel, and always purchase the latest release of Acorn for around $20/yr. I use those apps frequently and hope those rates are supporting the independent developers who ma
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
In the classic MacOS days you could use the included Script Editor to record your interactions with applications like the Finder, generating AppleScript to replay the actions you took like resizing windows or creating new folders on the des
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
This makes no difference, because I can’t remember the last time I installed an app other than for the occasional airline. From 2008-12 it was genuinely exciting to see what new apps were being released every day. Mobile games from that era
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
I reinstalled my system and attempted for weeks to get Time Machine to complete a first backup. Every time I started it, the progress bar would fill up about 60% and then stall, and eventually kernel panic if the system was left idle for ho
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
I have a 1.2T photo library. Carrying that around on my MacBook requires an $800 upgrade to the SSD. Time Machine's job is to back up my data, it's not strictly to make a 1:1 copy of local storage. It should back up my cloud data
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
> Slow motion videos are also not proprietary, they’re just a plain video file. I haven't looked into the implementation details, but Photos lets you adjust the section of the video that is played back in slow motion. I thought if y
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
My concern with backing up iCloud Photos with anything but Apple Photos is that there are some proprietary formats like Live Photos and slow mo video for which exports are lossy. Also, Apple Photos stores all edits non-destructively, so &#x
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
Ah, I guess not then. I revised my comment. Maybe it was DBeaver, after all.
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by rgovostes 9mo ago
A business analyst friend of mine and SQL novice was given a multi-tabbed editor like this (edit: apparently it was not this brand-new app). We found it difficult to track which query and results tabs are linked, whether they've been r

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