ClapperHeid

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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
Wow! --there's a lot of rose-tinted spectacles going on in this comment thread! Flash was a security nightmare, acessibility crippled, non-searchable, flashing bleeping abomination. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if people had
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>with its psychological and visual impact, the calculator adds an entirely new dimension to such entertainments, transforming them into some of the most refined, stimulating, gratifying, inspiring, enjoyable, and spectacular enterta
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
Next week: * Michael Gove announces ban on "standing up too quickly". * BBC links to a series of scare-mongering articles on how a "standing up too quickly head rush" can lead to dizziness and feelings of paranoia. * A m
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
They've seized cryptos from exchanges and from impounded computers. They can't seize them if you haven't got them on an exchange and you have your secret keys well hidden.
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
The original principles behind crypto are sound. If you're happy with your government; being able to know everything you spend your money on, being able to seize your assets, being able to freeze your bank accounts, being able to preve
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
From my dabblings in interacting with ChatGPT and Bard, I think it marks a very important leap forward in technology. But not in any kind of "intelligence" as we'd generally understand it. After using any of these chatbots fo
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
...or it could be the usual "plausible deniability": * Offer X, Y and Z. But if it ever comes to light, you weren't speaking for us. Personally I find it difficult to believe that someone would be allowed to "go freelanc
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
I'm sure the US will be delighted to bail Switzerland out. Along with the rest of Europe, which is also destroying itself for the US's benefit. Unrequited love is so poignant!
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
Similar discussion from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246751
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
I think it's worth sharing the announcement from DPReview itself [0] just for it's puke-making spin on "We've all just been sacked" ---- Dear readers, After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closin
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>More importantly, I see many more interesting if irrelevant things. I remember the early days of the web also had this kind of a feel. >So , I'm excited. And it feels good to see this kind of excitement in others I act
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>at what point is the rest of the world... I told you. Just up by the shops here.
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate." I'd say that complaining about " a submission" is a different kettle of haddock to complaining about "a type of submission".
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
An attitude that does you credit m'lord
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>I've seen this on reddit but not here. Did you try either of the two links at the bottom of the original post?
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>Where do you get off? Next stop. Or you can drop me just by the shops here, if you want.
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
OK. I knew I was asking for someone to do this, when I posted the original question. So I thought I may as well save you the trouble and get my retaliation in first! Yes, "I asked AI...." the above question. And here is the repl
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>Can you not ignore these things that disinterest or annoy you, using your own facilities? See my reply to fabianholzer below, for why these type of submissions are harder to ignore or filter out.
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
Let's hope so. I have a custom uBlock Origin filter list which blocks keywords on HN, to improve the signal to noise ratio a bit. Your comment just reminded me that "NFT" was one of the terms I added a while back. Unfortunate
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Should HN Ban “I Asked AI to Create...” Type Submissions?
42 points by ClapperHeid 3y ago|27 comments
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
I'm not saying these are bad, but they don't look at all like photos to me. More like digital paintings made from photographs.
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>Speaking at the launch of the new-generation Hyundai Kona, Sang Yup Lee, Head of Hyundai Design, said the new model deliberately uses physical buttons and dials for many of the controls ..because the move to digital screens is ofte
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>ChatGPT can often correct it's answer, if a mistake is pointed out I've wondered about this myself. As you say, ChatGPT often responds instantly with an incorrect answer to a question. and then, if you "ask it to
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
Typical Chinese. Stealing antler technology from deer to advance their evil communist mice!
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
I feel your pain. I've been to the same kind of corporate drudge-fests. But sometimes the free food includes chessecake.... which almost makes up for the ennui.
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
I was going to reply and say "You wouldn't see a cyclist riding down the road with headphones on, blissfully unaware of what's around them..." but then I thought back to my cycle commuting days and remembered a fair fe
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>You're willing to waste my time today; you'll probably be willing to waste it tomorrow, too. So I won't be back. Cut to the next day. Everyone at HN having a massive party with loads of free food, booze and drugs.
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>How to Create Suspense as a Writer I'll tell you tomorrow! PS: Once again, original article title has beeb changed. It is "How to Keep Your Readers Interested" Why? Just why?
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
Remember back in the 1970s; if you ever saw anything on the news about China, it would feature rank upon rank of cyclists pouring through Peking's great thoroughfares, with nary a motor vehicle in sight. We all laughed at how backward
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by ClapperHeid 3y ago
>As a tip for dealing with cyclists: continue your movement as a pedestrian: they'll go around you. Most pedestrians have headphones in/little awareness of their surroundings, and as a cyclist I always assume I'm invi

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