sollewitt

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by sollewitt 9mo ago
Your snipping is making it look broader than it is: you can’t misrepresent someone as being supportive of your product or cause, and you can’t distribute software that makes, or make yourself, likenesses of other people without their prior
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Adding insular script like it's 1626(djmurphy.net)
91 points by sollewitt 9mo ago|6 comments
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by sollewitt 9mo ago
It’s an Easter egg, also for Times New Roman and a few others.
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by sollewitt 10mo ago
> This is a story about what happens when you ask a machine a question it knows the answer to, but is afraid to give It’s a story about how humans can’t help personifying language generators, and how important context is when using LLMs.
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by sollewitt 10mo ago
On the island of Ireland those people _are_ the overbearing Brits.
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by sollewitt 10mo ago
The N900 was my peak “mobile computing is awesome” device. I went to see District 9 in the cinema in Helsinki. Uh oh, the alien parts are only subtitled in Finnish and Swedish and my Finnish is not up to that. I installed a BitTorrent clien
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by sollewitt 10mo ago
I'd guess every soda gun at every bar in the world would work the same?
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by sollewitt 10mo ago
> The commercial citizen, his goal is to make money, compete and to do so by bending the rules and using any means possible. This conception of "citizen" is even more depressing to me than Homo Economicus. There are values asid
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by sollewitt 10mo ago
It's not that it's hard, it's that it's stupid - it's based on a misunderstanding of the physics involved which completely negates any of the benefits. It's the opposite of engineering, where you understand a p
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by sollewitt 11mo ago
Caffeine is a weak base, the acidity in coffee is from other compounds in the bean. (Tasty, tasty compounds)
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by sollewitt 11mo ago
Really easy, I've just forgotten again.
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by sollewitt 11mo ago
I chose to read this as a really good satire on the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
AI industry: please _please_ get it together with naming. There shouldn’t be this much overlap between this, a dataset, and a massive image model which was already given a garbage name to begin with. Don’t get me started in how “agent” is a
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Data centers.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
“You may not know about the issue but I bet you reckon something, so why not tell us what you reckon. Let us enjoy the full majesty of your uninformed ad-hoc reckon” - David Mitchell.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Pebble-bed reactors are incapable of catastrophic failure, and molten-salt reactors have negative feedback loops with increasing pressure. Nuclear doesn't have to mean the same designs that were used in the 60s.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
I buy Gary Stevenson’s diagnosis that the root cause of the rising cost of everything is increasing inequality and industry capture by the wealthy. There are two sides to this. The first is, hospitals are owned by investors, and have to inc
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by sollewitt 1y ago
It captures not understanding what you’re doing crossed with limited AI understanding which means the whole thing is running on vibes.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
There’s that study that found Italian families who were wealthy during the renaissance are still wealthy. Sweden had a very powerful monarchy (the dominant Baltic power at one point) and an aristocracy but never a revolution. I’d expect a l
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Good thing we're not doing anything silly like heating the entire planet. That would be a very alarming finding if we were.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
I think _not_ having Elon Musk is worth a couple of hundred billion in 2025, the guy has become a random liability generator.
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by sollewitt 1y ago
> Nothing in this is really difficult. Providing drivers for all the hardware and peripherals that all work together in all the permutations is properly hard. I’d argue it’s the root issue. Google can test each ChromeOS release against t
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by sollewitt 1y ago
I worked on a project exploring this idea and an issue is that while each step in a user journey (get restaurants near me, show me menus, make an order, show me on a map) could invoke a distinct service, provided by different providers that
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Ahhh! 15mg/kg is much more reasonable!
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by sollewitt 1y ago
They gave the mice 15mg, which is about a low-medium dose for a human. But humans weigh about 2000 times what mice do, so the effects were observed at about 2k times a reasonable dose. 1) Those mice must have been completely out of it. 2) T
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by sollewitt 1y ago
> How do you know what chipsets are compatible with your phone? >Hearsay! At least for straight USB-C to Ethernet adapters, despite all the manufacturers there are really only two chipsets, one by Asix and one by Realtek. If you manag
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Coordination Headwind: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
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by sollewitt 1y ago
Valuably you also get demonstrable _insecure_ status - half the pain for our org of log4js was figuring out where it was in the stacks, and at which versions. This kind of accounting is really valuable when you're trying to figure out
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by sollewitt 1y ago
There is a similar effect in parts of SFUSD where some of the schools with more poor students are bucking trends: https://sfparents.org/sfkidscantwait/ (SFUSD overall has something like a 10% poverty rate and a 3% marg
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by sollewitt 1y ago
I will defend the honor of dotted zeros! I really like the zero in Space Mono, I think that nailed the retro future aesthetic. IMH(and no design school)O when the character is oblong and the dot is a circle, it creates a similar contrast t

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