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by xk_id 2y ago
Desire is a function of the separation from divinity.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Damn. What about crypto? The holy trinity that will fix everything. Please, they must be able to fix something, anything!
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by xk_id 2y ago
Well articulated, but this thesis hinges on a critical mass of people not being able to see through it. I might be underestimating how manipulable the average consumer is, but for now I think this vision of the future is just a VC wet dream
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by xk_id 2y ago
Can’t believe people still treat this kind of messaging about AI as expert opinion and not as advertising in its purest form. I guess those are the same people who see something profoundly meaningful in machine generated strings.
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by xk_id 2y ago
It amazes me the level of nihilism needed to talk about this with casual indifference.
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by xk_id 2y ago
It’s veiled spam and i don’t know why HN isn’t outright prohibiting it
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by xk_id 2y ago
No need to reinvent the wheel. Just exclude from the index any websites which trigger the behaviour of uBlock Origin. Job done.
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by xk_id 2y ago
No advertising? You probably mean billboards, but openAI’s advertising includes making a very big fuss about the “dangers” of a stochastic text generator. Advertising is whatever gets people to think about your product. But the demand was c
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by xk_id 2y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful explanation. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this and your post convinced me that FreeBSD with virtualisation for occasional use of linux software is the right choice for me.
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by xk_id 2y ago
VCs spend obscene amounts of money trying to manufacture consumer demand for a fake product, then we are left arguing for years about it. Such a waste of time.
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by xk_id 2y ago
> This is kind of already the case in more closely integrated federations of a similar kind And it is already the case in western countries. Learning english is more or less mandatory at this point, while democracy is being influenced by
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by xk_id 2y ago
Your theory about EU intentionally destroying cultural identities, isn’t supported by any document published by the EU or any conference transcripts. No EU official has ever described this to be the goal. I’ve only heard about it in far rig
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by xk_id 2y ago
> No, the end is to destroy national identities and cultures I was referring to the official position of the EU, which is verifiable in their public documents; I don’t care about far-right propaganda. People of course are free to care mo
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by xk_id 2y ago
When the question of whether to join the EU, the brits were actually manipulated by their politicians, who presented the EU as an “economic” project. This perception never went away, so when the EU proceeded as it had intended from the begi
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by xk_id 2y ago
> numbers sanctify the crime That’s a gorgeous quote! Something Lord Henry in “The picture of Dorian Gray” would say.
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by xk_id 2y ago
> it's a brutalized self-sabotaging entity that has disillusioned the general public to veer rightwards It hasn’t, it only disillusioned those people (like the brits) who didn’t understand the purpose of the EU to begin with. The ec
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by xk_id 2y ago
> So much mindshare across games like Tetris and Mario 1 Because they’re real games and not 2TB of textures with regurgitated gameplay and microtransactions
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by xk_id 2y ago
> tools that are practical will win mass adoption This is a very naive view. Deployed capital fabricates adoption and the current state of consumer tech is a great case study for this. Rational demand in consumer markets is a fantasy.
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by xk_id 2y ago
> You (and people like you) need to realize what makes Windows, Android, and iOS/MacOS successful: It's because they enable users to use computers as practical tools. What makes this cancer “successful” is the insane consumer e
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by xk_id 2y ago
Right, I'm in a similar situation here. I'm trying to read journal papers in the terminal. Previously, I've considered using pdf2htmlEX[0] to generate a layout-preserving HTML5 + CSS version of the PDF; then rendering it in t
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by xk_id 2y ago
Absolutely not. He is piggy-backing on the landmark work by other groups; he just re-applied it to the eye organ. The doxycyclin-based approach which this kind of studies are using can't be translated for clinical application in humans
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by xk_id 2y ago
Sinclair is a revolting person, with little professional dignity, who shamelessly manipulates his audience in interviews, spreading misleading scientific information, out of desperation to promote his personal brand.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Just wanted to say I really appreciated the readability of your code. It was very easy to dive in, understand how it works and how to modify it.
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by xk_id 2y ago
How strange, I’m the complete opposite. I’d never go back to letting corporates dictate how I engage with content; I even avoid recommender algorithms for the same reason. Being able to choose is so valuable to me.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Yeah that is the dream
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by xk_id 2y ago
Unfortunately these two don’t track head movement. An essential feature is being able to position (and size) an arbitrary number of virtual screens in 3D space around you. Otherwise it’s pointless, just a normal screen in front of your eyes
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by xk_id 2y ago
NeoVim has additional scripting functionality over Vim actually, which is why some of their plugins aren’t compatible with Vim. So OP is referring to Vim over the likes of vscode, jetbrains etc
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by xk_id 2y ago
What we need is a cheap, “dumb” headset which simply mirrors screens from the computer (including virtual ones), with low latency and in crisp resolution. No standalone apps, no gesture controls, etc. Just plug it into your computer and sta
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by xk_id 2y ago
But the user experience sucks far more today. People are opting out. That’s how bad it is.
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by xk_id 2y ago
I used to feel a lot more excitement in 2000 than i feel now.

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