vagab0nd

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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
Thoughts on photography when it first appeared: "Not by the taking of a picture of any specific object, but by the way in which any random object could be made to appear on the photographic plate. This was something of such unheard-of
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
I had to briefly go back to Windows and I just couldn't understand how anyone serious can run an OS that just decides to reboot itself in the middle of the night.
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
Should I assume the GPT-5.1 it is compared against is the pro version?
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
If your competitor has a 5-year lead, and is working as hard as you are, or harder, then you are not gonna catch up any time soon. Also yes networking.
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
I work on multiple projects. While waiting for one response, I write the prompt for the next project. It's not perfect. Context switching is costly. And sometimes I zone in and forget to pipeline the prompts and have to wait longer tha
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
> I don't believe for one second that any of the deceased people listed here would want their likeness emulated in such a hollow, mechanical, and inhuman way for all of eternity. Would the mummy in the Egyptian exhibition want their
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
I don't think selling a useless product for ridiculous amount is a problem for Apple. I do think that selling an ugly product is a problem for Apple.
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
Sure. But "liquidation events" are not the events that give you the wins. The point of angel is to get in while the company is cheap. Dilution is part of the math.
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
Human perception is essentially 2D+depth. Shouldn't we be feeding the transformers 2D data? Like a convolution front-end? Instead of tokenizing images, shouldn't we be rendering texts?
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
But it does. That's the "auto refresh" feature. Zero maintenance after setup.
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
This year, I discovered SideStore on iOS, and its wonderful auto-refresh feature. Since then, I have written two iOS apps and am happily using them daily with zero issues. This plus the new Google announcement mean no going back to Android
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
It's pretty common I think. A thing is useful, but not intrinsically interesting (not anymore). So.. "let's move on"? Also, burn out is possible.
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
> The barrier isn’t the tech. It’s people. Maybe? Or maybe the tech is not superior enough (considering the overhead) so nobody cares.
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
I just want to say that the information density and the clarity of this short piece is off the chart. My next book will be Accelerando.
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
When reading, I often take a photo and ask GPT something about the text. I found myself doing this more and more. I'd love to be able to just "point and click" with AR glasses and will happily pay for just this feature.
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
That doesn't make sense. You are basically making money on the interest of "in-flight" fund. What does it have to do with stablecoins?
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
When I switched from Android to iOS, this was one of the things I missed a lot: the ability to write my own app and side load it on my phone. Even more so with the advent of LLM. Oh well, now I don't have to worry about that.
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
This is the inverse of the "$2000/mo tier", and I'm kind of disappointed TBH.
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Tesla Launches Ride Hailing Service in the Bay Area(twitter.com)
1 points by vagab0nd 1y ago|2 comments
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
Ok we now have "law is code". When can we have "code is law"? Write the code as source of truth and generate the law from it.
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
When can we have real-time price auctions for public roads?
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by vagab0nd 1y ago
How do folks deal with Pi-hole unintentionally breaking normal websites? I used it for a couple of months until one day I spent 30 minutes trying to log in to a payment website with no success. Then I remembered I had Pi-hole running. I kno
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
My favorite songs gravitate heavily towards 2 very different genres. This seems to confuse the hell out of Spotify. The "discover weekly" is comically bad no matter how hard I try to prime my library.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Can we just have a public ledger that everyone posts to, and then we each have an AI to selectively serve us contents we are interested in?
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Not inflation because it's a one time price increase. Inflation is the rate of change.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Bad future predictions: short-sighted guesses based on current trends and vibe. Often depend on individuals or companies. Made by free-riders. Example: Twitter. Good future predictions: insights into the fundamental principles that shape so
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
> But it simply doesn't matter bc we don't want their cars.. But is that cause or effect?
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
AI can be scaled so a company can increase productivity while cutting headcount. The limiting factor here is available compute and its price.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Exactly this. In fact, what's a distro if not basically a well-maintained app directory?
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
The paradox of mystery, when the mystery is too good that no ending can justify it.

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