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by squidsoup 9mo ago
Your video of the ocean and Roger Deakins video of the ocean are going to be very, very different.
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by squidsoup 9mo ago
I think most people have the ability to express themselves through art, but if their first experience of trying to make something is using AI tools, they will never discover that they can make something genuine that reflects their experienc
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by squidsoup 10mo ago
If you’re referring to Lolita, the novel is written from the perspective of an unreliable narrator, that Nabokov very clearly holds in complete contempt. You would know this if you had actually read the book.
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by squidsoup 10mo ago
React allows for encapsulation of state in a reusable component, its more than just templating.
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by squidsoup 10mo ago
You may be surprised to learn that the answer to both of your questions is yes.
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by squidsoup 10mo ago
I'm concerned that the identification of genetic subtypes of ASD, as mentioned in the article, will lead to more terminations of pregnancy. We need people that see the world differently.
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by squidsoup 10mo ago
> A decade and a half is insane timeline in tech industry, and huge majority of users use Siri the same way today as 15 years ago, setting a timer or an alarm clock. Also quite good for making shopping lists, with some bonus amusement wh
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by squidsoup 10mo ago
Relay (and hence GraphQL) does solve some problems that have no immediate solution with REST - over/under fetching (data masking, fragment colocation in components) and automatic cache normalisation, but they are mostly problems you wo
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by squidsoup 11mo ago
Not mutually exclusive, if anything, coming to terms with that is liberating (see Camus etc).
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by squidsoup 11mo ago
Smart people understand that the experience of being a conscious being aware of its own suffering and mortality, is fundamentally tragic.
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by squidsoup 11mo ago
Interesting, thanks for the insight.
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by squidsoup 11mo ago
There is evidence for a surge in DMT production in some rats upon death: > In our previous studies, we have observed a marked elevation of some, but not all, critical neurotransmitters in rat brain during asphyxic cardiac arrest21, which
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by squidsoup 11mo ago
In the 90s, psychiatrist Rick Strassman proposed in his book DMT: The Spirit Molecule that large quantities of DMT (an endogenous psychoactive substance), are released into the brain upon death. I don't know that we have any clear evid
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by squidsoup 11mo ago
Having spent a year trying to develop against dependencies only provided by a debian release, it is really painful in practice. At some point you're going to need something that is not packaged, or newer than the packaged version in yo
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by squidsoup 11mo ago
pnpm v10 disables all lifecycle scripts by default and requires the user to whitelist packages. https://github.com/orgs/pnpm/discussions/8945
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Purely anecdotal, but most of the kids in my son's cohort, early 20s, have received what would be considered by most to be a good education, but don't read for pleasure. I find that worrying.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Where are you that you refer to a ball thrower as a “wanger”? I suspect anyone from the common wealth or the UK would find this quite amusing.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
> Krasznahorkai's own writing is lovely and lyrical I would describe his writing style as relentlessly oppressive, and hypnotic.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
The Hungarian poet George Szirtes, with no prior translation experience, translated his first two novels, over a period of many years. I can’t speak Hungarian, but both the Melancholy of Resistance and Satantango remain my favourite novels
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Ironically, I think Sátántangó might be one of Kraznahorkai’s shortest novels.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
In a similar vein, the novelist/film maker collaboration between Kobo Abe and Hiroshi Teshigahara was very fruitful, and produced some beautiful films.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
It facilitates the generation of political propaganda.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
No, the zombie context is actually not that relevant, given he says "We as humans are losing faith in themselves" in response to the AI animation. He's clearly disgusted by the entire concept of machine generated art.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
The problem is, it isn't their aesthetic, it's a resynthesis of the aesthetic of someone else's work.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Hard to interpret that comment as anything but racist. Chinua Achebe is widely considered one of the greatest modern novelists. He was 28 when he wrote Things Fall Apart.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Creative people with ambition and limited resources make good things today without this technology. All this does is accelerate the rate at which low quality "content" is produced by people that have no interest in learning a craf
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by squidsoup 1y ago
A little tangential to this announcement, but is anyone aware of any clean/ethical models for AI video or image generation (i.e. not trained on copyright work?) that are available publicly?
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Curious if has anyone had much success using web components within a react UI library? When building a component library on a bespoke design system, I'm quite pleased that I can rely on a headless library like RAC to ensure that the ba
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by squidsoup 1y ago
You don't even need RSC to fix waterfall fetching, relay solves this problem beautifully.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
A Love Supreme is a wonderful album, but Ascension and his later avant-garde work marked a new direction in jazz. Listening to Coltrane play his later work, feels to me like he had unshackled himself from the past, from the changes, and was

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