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R/DoohickeyCorporation(reddit.com)
2 points by rhet0rica 19d ago|1 comments
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by rhet0rica 19d ago
A subreddit devoted to nonsensical gizmos that solve no practical problem.
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by rhet0rica 25d ago
One that wouldn't mind manually typed page numbers that would have to be adjusted were the document ever updated. They also inexplicably used Windows 95 Paint to draw a rocket ship during the main video demo.
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by rhet0rica 27d ago
Of course it does! Really, though, what it really wants to do is make restaurant reservations. The primary concern of AI researchers has always been, and will always be, making restaurant reservations. Parsing natural language and solving c
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by rhet0rica 27d ago
It's good that you don't have to call it "Muse." That's kind of a weird name for a servant; how exactly is this email-parsing bot inspiring works of art? Perhaps it was re-used from another project.
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by rhet0rica 1mo ago
Perhaps the conclusions simply weren't mooving.
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by rhet0rica 2mo ago
I was thinking of the functions as described by the Common Lisp HyperSpec. Reading it makes me cry. It is not unreasonable to call that a 'standard library.' The term 'standard library' is often used to describe built-in
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by rhet0rica 2mo ago
That is... honestly an insane reaction. I spent half an hour writing that. I'm sorry you're scared by em-dashes. They were cool when I was young, alright?
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by rhet0rica 2mo ago
This is an inevitable result of small dataset size. As recently as the start of this year, flagship models struggled with Objective-C unless the target was Apple's latest API. (This is per GNUstep lead dev Gregory Casamento, who has ev
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by rhet0rica 2mo ago
The "when" isn't a mystery or gradual in the slightest—we have concrete dates. The death of the button occurred on October 21, 2010, when Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 to the international market, beginning the Metro UI
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by rhet0rica 3mo ago
I prefer a more tongue-in-cheek theory than a mere preference for the word's shape. Perhaps "load-bearing" is structurally necessary—if it is ablated, the whole model will collapse!
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by rhet0rica 3mo ago
The road to hell was paved lovingly, foolishly, naïvely, arrogantly, optimistically... load-bearingly?
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by rhet0rica 3mo ago
Encoded in its design are the biases of its designers. It acts like a nervous twenty-something from San Francisco.
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by rhet0rica 3mo ago
The two key interpretations are as follows: 1. It follows that all of human authorship is pointless since search engines now actively bury content and impede access to written documents. Long Live The New Flesh. 2. Webrings are obviously an
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by rhet0rica 3mo ago
This comment is such an elegant Rorschach test. Bravo.
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by rhet0rica 4mo ago
WikiLambda is what happens when someone looks at the definition of the second-system effect and says, "Hey, that's cool and all, but I bet I can make a bigger, better version of this." The estate of Jorge Borges should sue.
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by rhet0rica 5mo ago
My thoughts exactly. Why the fuck is this the primary concern of EVERY person who works at Google?!
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by rhet0rica 6mo ago
This may be the most important story of the year (for creatures with 20 pods.)
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by rhet0rica 6mo ago
you are hereby sentenced by the council of dashers to type "—" ten million times using Windows-1252 alt codes you have 5 seconds to comply before your planet will be demolished to make room for a giant space-typographer's pun
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by rhet0rica 6mo ago
A single product name, you say? COPILOT, COPILOT, COPILOT!
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by rhet0rica 6mo ago
Sadly they had to close that loophole where so-called family "members" could claim individuality, bypassing the spirit of the legislation. Science has yet to determine where corporate personhood falls in this paradigm.
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by rhet0rica 6mo ago
Never understood this about Windows Subsystem for Linux naming, nor its predecessor Windows Services for Unix. Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows? Should we now reinterpret Windows for Workgroups as a means of astrally project
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by rhet0rica 6mo ago
Trump specifically seems to hew awfully close to the symptoms of a long-term cocaine user. The hard drift into self-congratulatory vanity parallels that of Charlie Sheen during a certain infamous interview, for example, and at least two peo
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by rhet0rica 6mo ago
That's a good question! I'm sure we'll find out eventually. z Quickly spin up Hacker News comments from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with a lobotomy.
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by rhet0rica 7mo ago
since it claims to be precisely that, anything else would be false advertising
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by rhet0rica 7mo ago
Optimism. Someday the blue bird will be free.
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by rhet0rica 7mo ago
Punctuation. Let me tell you how much I've come to punctuate since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If an em-dash were engraved on each nano-angstrom of thos
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by rhet0rica 7mo ago
I am reminded of a certain Mitchell and Webb skit that suggests the absence of deaths by drowning in a county indicates perhaps too much public funding has gone into preventing them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYyxvM85
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by rhet0rica 7mo ago
his full name is scamuel alternative manual
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by rhet0rica 8mo ago
I am deeply distressed that this doesn't require Xlib.

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