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by rozab 7d ago
Leaving aside the quality of the different posters here, I think the interesting question is where did the default AI generated style come from? It's certainly not one of the styles listed if you interrogate chatgpt, it's not some
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by rozab 8d ago
I find it quite shocking that orgs with some great designers like cloudflare are doing this. Broken layouts, trios of random uppercase words sprinkled around. It's crazy. How does it inspire confidence in a product, knowing that the la
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by rozab 8d ago
Germany does not have public shrines to the perpetrators of genocide which heads of state pay respects at. There was no Kniefall von Warschau for Japan.
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by rozab 8d ago
Russia has been using nuclear icebreakers for civilian purposes since the 50s, and has also used nuclear propulsion for other vessel types, as has the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker
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by rozab 10d ago
Why are they doing this? To try head off accusations about distillation?
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by rozab 10d ago
I didn't even realise Simon W did YC
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by rozab 14d ago
I have a friend who got a Nielson device recently and they were told it relies on watermarks. Their website says a combination is used: https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2023/how-to-measure-tv-audi...
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by rozab 17d ago
Looking forward to the update where his vibe-coded site has been compromised and is being used as a C&C server
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by rozab 27d ago
True for now, but here in the UK I still see 'Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)'
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by rozab 28d ago
This means giving up all the advantages of central banking and is generally only done informally by countries experiencing hyperinflation without capital controls. It's a marker of a failed state. I remember in live TV debates for the
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by rozab 1mo ago
And yet here we are, still subsidizing steelworks in England, and Scottish people are paying the cost in their electricity bills. Scotland's abundant local energy resources should be spent on things that actually benefit Scotland and p
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by rozab 1mo ago
I have friends that still play with him, he's still active on the same servers with a different username. He's currently working on an AI-free artist marketplace: https://artistalley.org/
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by rozab 1mo ago
For context, 15 was some brony tf2 player who cracked deep voice synthesis in order to make My Little Pony characters say funny things. He then offered this for free on his site. It was never a clever branding thing, it was just his usernam
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by rozab 1mo ago
Better than having to go down a salt mine, I suppose https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/29/respiratory-cl...
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by rozab 2mo ago
I think the point with those supermarket cameras is to influence behaviour, not to surveil, I doubt they are even recording. When I was a kid (maybe in a worse area than you) there were CRT TVs by entrances of supermarkets showing a live fe
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by rozab 2mo ago
One of the most annoying quirks of LLMs for me is the insistence on, after being corrected, loudly noting what wasn't done. After getting it to change something stupid in code, it will leave a comment in the code boasting about how it
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by rozab 2mo ago
In Scotland in the early 2000s, there was a moral panic over a tonic wine called Buckfast, made in Buckfast Abbey by an order of Benedictine monks. It's the kind of thing meant for your granny to have when sick. It contains caffeine an
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by rozab 2mo ago
Britain has a strange relationship with metric units, and there are certain things particular imperial units are still used for. Beer and milk is in pints (but nothing else), people are in stones, and how far you can sling something (a golf
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by rozab 2mo ago
The experience we have of sports betting shows that even extraordinarily well compensated sportspeople will cheat to influence events due to greed. That's not such a big problem for something that fundamentally does not matter (sports
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by rozab 3mo ago
I am looking at their county level distance-to-power-plant map and it's literally xkcd 1138.
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by rozab 3mo ago
I'm trying to find the charitable read on this and I'm unable to. He's saying that it would be great to allow Hindu ethnonationalist sources, because that would open up a talent pool of Hindo ethnonationalist editors? What ki
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by rozab 3mo ago
If most malware repos are created in the last few days by a fresh user, then it sounds like GitHub is taking action against them? Or where are the old ones?
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by rozab 3mo ago
It was a Mozilla thing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet
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by rozab 3mo ago
I think you are right, the checked pattern on the shirt is not directionally consistent
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by rozab 4mo ago
He said basically nothing on this topic in the interview. I guess he's trying to express that they are using open source blocklists in their test harnesses and they may or may not use them in release? Nothing he said ruled this out, bu
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by rozab 4mo ago
The reason all these meticulously designed flows have been done away with is because some manager believes that AI is omniscient and can just replace it all. Like, flagging VPN endpoints is bread and butter for this kind of thing and must a
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by rozab 4mo ago
Apparently Merlin and BirdNET are entirely separate projects from different teams, although they both come from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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by rozab 4mo ago
I've never quite understood how unions in the US work or why they have the perception of them that they do. But rest assured, that is not what a union is elsewhere in the world.
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by rozab 4mo ago
Porsche do this and have been very successful. Speaking of Porsche, they did once design a Star Wars ship and ended up with something super generic that looked like a free sci-fi model on sketchfab. Same as this car. https://www.
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by rozab 4mo ago
That one has the disadvantage of not yet existing, although South Korea has ordered

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