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by rm_-rf_slash 24d ago
When you’re in VRChat you can be your fursona
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by rm_-rf_slash 5mo ago
My mother is going on 5 years with multiple myeloma, a cancer that would have offed her in 5 months if it weren’t for advances in maintenance chemotherapy. Medicine has done amazing things in my lifetime.
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by rm_-rf_slash 7mo ago
It can also backfire. AI slop ads and marketing material imply cut corners and poor quality products. If a bakery isn’t going to bother touching up its AI slop banner, I don’t expect their cookies to be great either.
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by rm_-rf_slash 10mo ago
AI research has always been a series of occasional great leaps between slogs of iterative improvements, from Turing and Rosenblatt to AlexNet and GPT-3. The LLM era will result in a few things becoming invisible architecture* we stop apprec
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by rm_-rf_slash 10mo ago
Phreaking in 2025
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by rm_-rf_slash 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what would the minimum specs need to be in order to run this locally? My PC is just good enough to run a DeepSeek distill. Is that on par with the requirements for your model?
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by rm_-rf_slash 1y ago
I’m not sure it’s one or the other. Firing off a prompt to Claude Code and letting it rip can be great for productivity but I won’t pretend I’m reading every line it writes unless I have to. And yet if I’m inquiring into a subject matter I
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by rm_-rf_slash 1y ago
Cursor and Claude Code were the asskicking I needed to finally get on the typescript bandwagon. Strong typing drastically reduces hallucinations and wtf bugs that slip through code review. So it’ll probably be the strongly typed languages t
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by rm_-rf_slash 1y ago
Could put it in a ChatGPT project description or Cursor rules to avoid copy pasting every time.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
I understand a significant portion of Tesla’s sales are in China and there is fierce competition from homegrown firms like BYD. TFA mentions this but doesn’t get into much detail.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
“When you loan money to a friend, be prepared to lose the money or the friend” is a maxim I’ve lived by and has guided me through some tough decisions over time.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
I’ve also seen this happen in NYS. Tenants do the craziest shit (selling showers to crackheads and discovering a near thousand dollar water bill was one of the tamer tales), fight tooth and nail to stay, and leave the place uninhabitable wh
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Boston was a mess before the big dig. Enough ink has been spilled over how long it took, but just about everybody agrees the city is better for it.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Not SK in particular but the point of all of this in general, especially for those who have reached such heights. 63 is a young age to die in a rich country, especially for a corporate titan. Warren Buffett has been at the helm of Berkshire
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Heart attack at 63. What a shame. Guy worked at the company longer than I’ve been alive and all he has to show for it is an inheritance and obituary. Makes you wonder what we’re working so hard for.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Russian helicopters in the early days of the Ukraine war had “To Berlin” painted on them in Cyrillic.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
I’m not surprised most of their usage is for coding tasks, but I wonder if that reflects a kind of selection bias. HN and programming subreddits rave about Claude for coding, so it’s possible that a lot of developers use Claude for coding,
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Advertising?
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Grocery shopping is just a use case for people to wrap their heads around. Everyone has to eat. If they demonstrated a big value add like automating CRM a smaller subset of professionals would be absolutely awed but most people would be scr
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Korea is not the best example to prove your point. SK is per capita equivalent to Japan[1]. The Korean War was a tie and in the long run it’s clear which side is better off. [1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
I can’t think of any way where a social media app using bots to discourage wrongthink doesn’t come across as dystopian, and also a little sad.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Is a startup that has to make do with the funding it has abusing the system by hiring an H1B? “Raise more money” is not an acceptable or reasonable answer.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
When I was an Apple intern, Tim told us that technology only has an impact when it changes behaviors. Otherwise it’s a “gimmick.” I wonder which behaviors Tim has changed from using Apple Intelligence?
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
When populations age and shrink, everything becomes more difficult. Fewer working hands have to support more elderly retirees. Less spending means less development, less maintenance, things break down and nobody can afford to fix them. Enti
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Not exactly the same, but Basil II of eastern Rome had his enemy soldiers blinded after a decisive victory and sent back to Bulgaria to be a burden. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kleidion
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Looks neat! I don’t work in construction but I know folks in civil engineering. Are there applicabilities with Fresco you could see in that domain?
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
It’s all fun and games until you have to share your books with the SEC.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
As a software engineer, you don’t have to. But Hollywood does. Lots of producer/PA/VFX work is being rapidly automated and the genie is not going back inside the bottle.
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
Something the article didn’t mention was that the handful of core AI startups (LLM building not just API wrapper) like Anthropic and OpenAI are raising MASSIVE amounts of money, on the scale of billions to tens of billions. Is it possible t
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by rm_-rf_slash 2y ago
AI was overhyped in the 1950s with the perceptron. Machine learning advances in fits and starts. As soon as it looks like it’s out of steam something novel comes out. Circa 2010 all the effort was on perfecting SVMs to the point where 1% po

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