sebastiennight

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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
I do love the idea that Pi contains all of us. It means everytime you put on a wedding ring, time a pendulum, look at a rainbow, or land on a spherical planet, you can whip out your ruler and get access to every single human that ever lived
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
It is not a machine, in this case. It's you, the customer, doing the work of the cashier. Driving a car yourself is not "the machine doing the work of a bus driver".
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
The irony can be amusing, but one could easily argue that "turning their idea into software" did not require them to raise $400M (indeed, they did it without this raise). And it could also be argued that "serving 60 million p
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
This is AI-written and while some of the methods might work, a lot of it is hallucinated and would not bypass any guardrails put together after 2023.
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
Notice how in your own example, the anti-particle is not the particle, and Bob is not adastra22.
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
If you do not think there is a difference between "your reflection in a mirror" and "you", it opens so many fascinating questions. I'm curious: - Do you think a live video, shown on a phone screen, of you, is "
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
Not to be too pedantic, but these requests would not be exactly the same. There is a bit of indexicality in "Would you hand me that item ?" that might cause it to be interpreted as an actual question rather than a request, a
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
This is a "load-bearing" issue recently. I think the idea is packing more information into fewer words, but the result is a word salad that is somehow simultaneously very dense in adjectives and adverbs, and still way too verbose.
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
... The same way I might call something "gardening" or "weeding" when I do it, but for some reason, environmentalists call it "destroying the Amazon rainforest" when bulldozers do it to 27,000 km2 of vegetation
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
I'm 100% sure my (human) executive assistant can be tricked into mistakes with the appropriate phishing or social engineering, however the scope of tactics that can be employed for it seems limited to way fewer dimensions (eg, clear te
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
If there is any way that customer support tickets make their way into your JIRA pile (which might not be the case now but is likely to become the case as your desire to automate will increase from those successful first results), then there
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
IIUC, so far the supplier has only ended up needing to send samples and a quote to a prospect, and no sale has actually happened. So as of today, everyone is showing a net negative result except whichever company sells the Grok bot tokens.
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
The unwanted effect of AI overviews, in my experience, is turning their users into very-confidently-wrong arguers of everything. The upside is that telling said users to double-check the sources usually results in them realizing the AI over
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
Instructions unclear, I just burned my Retina.
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
Challenge accepted: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/move...
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by sebastiennight 2mo ago
Ah but see, exploiting a Chromium API has let us know you've got this second screen on the side, so we're centering the div on your overall work space. PS: if you switch from the touchpad to a wireless mouse, we'll move the d
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
You answered this: > So, bombing civilian boats rather than intercepting them, then bombing the survivors, is not what it looks it is. Would you like to explain what it is? With > Sure. Drug and human traffickers don't operate mi
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
Would you care to share any source indicating that any of these civilian boats that were destroyed, were carrying human traffickers (but, apparently, not any trafficked victims)?
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
> It has since been opened by 26% of my subscribers, that's 4,600 people Sadly, open rates are no longer a useful metric in the absolute, at all. Some email providers will block all tracking pixels (so those people look like they ne
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
> human traffickers Wait, I might be a bit out of the loop here, but are you saying that "double tapping" boats loaded with victims of human trafficking is "stopping criminal behavior"?
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
Thank you! My coauthor Brad and I were subscribing to Ghost just yesterday ; we're going to adopt your model.
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
This strategy for your legacy would not have been successful with stratoscope.geocities.com (RIP 2009), skyblog.com/stratoscobe (died in 2023 with no data export path offered), Posterous, MSN Spaces, Vine, and many others. I am willing
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
Hi Simon, I'm not sure I get it completely. If I get it, you're basically using Substack as an email platform. So the blog (the "original") can use Wordpress, Ghost, whatever ; and this is the canonical place that all ar
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
> These businesses weren't paying someone to make a flier. My very first gig out of engineer school was updating the website and flyers for some nightclub in Paris. I was terribly paid, badly treated, blamed for everything despite t
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
It did, however, perfectly get across your point about SNR, in a way that regular browsers can't possibly appreciate.
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
> Over-regulating AI wouldn't be the equivalent of limiting nuclear arms. With your analogy, which I don't think is the best one to make, it would be like regulating the study of nuclear physics. We do, I believe, regulate uran
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
> Disturbing AI aside this tasted just like waking up at home and my mom cooking spam for breakfast. Well one could argue that the menu now features _more_ spam than the actual dish.
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
As someone who was using TTS to listen to this thread, I can tell you this specific post is about 8 minutes of life I will never get back. I'll email you the bill
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
Cue the usual "EU is killing innovation because of all of those pesky tech and privacy regulations" thread where non-EU citizens and bots try to convince you that all EU consumers are clamoring to get access to this treasure trove
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by sebastiennight 3mo ago
What I get from your two excerpts is that prediction engines, which provide liquidity to a truth-finding market by offering an incentive for inside knowledge to be revealed, are a totally fine and accepted use case I guess? As a reminder we

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