EdgeExplorer

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by EdgeExplorer 2mo ago
Agree. I wouldn't change a thing. There are so, so many unscrambling words games. If someone just wants to casually unscramble words, they can find something more to their taste. As implemented: There is a clear "game over".
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by EdgeExplorer 4mo ago
Heh, joke's on the author. I've built both a flashcard app and a notes app using AI, and I've learned more Polish in 6 months than other languages I've studied for years. Jury still out on the notes app. But of course he
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by EdgeExplorer 4mo ago
Seriously. My experience with 15 years of home ownership is probably more like 3% per year. I don't think I've ever had even a single year where 1% was accurate.
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by EdgeExplorer 4mo ago
This is a pretty niche problem compared to the every-ticket-of-every-big-show scalper problem. This affects <1% of ticket buyers. Scalpers currently affect 100%. Seems like a pretty reasonable trade-off. Also, solvable. Everyone needs an
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by EdgeExplorer 4mo ago
Heck no. The world would be a way better place with no personal automobiles. Trains, yes. Even trucks and buses, sure. Cars, nooooooooooo. Cars are among the most clearly net-negative inventions to come out of industrialization. They should
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by EdgeExplorer 4mo ago
I'm somewhere on the pro-AI spectrum (great tool, let's use it *where we've evaluated it and it's the best tool for the job*), but... 100% agree. AI is a tool and outcomes should speak for themselves. I'm not impres
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by EdgeExplorer 4mo ago
Indeed. "AI-enabled pointer" is misdirection. This isn't an AI-enabled pointer; it's sending screen to AI, which yes, includes pointer position. The AI doesn't live in the pointer. The AI lives, apparently, so thoro
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by EdgeExplorer 10mo ago
Facebook has a real name policy and is a prime example of internet-fueled insanity. Why does deanonymization not help Facebook be a more positive place?
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by EdgeExplorer 10mo ago
> Ablation (Latin: ablatio – removal) is the removal or destruction of something from an object by vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other means. Examples of ablative materials[clarification needed] are described below, in
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by EdgeExplorer 10mo ago
My point wasn't supposed to be that copyright is bad (or that it's good), just that the business logic of fighting the sharing of lyrics is incomprehensible to me. That aside, I think there's a lot more complexity than you&#x
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by EdgeExplorer 10mo ago
I'm not one of the downvoters, but it may be this: "Many sites have been doing that for decades and as far as I know record companies haven't gone after them." Record companies have in fact, for decades, been going after
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by EdgeExplorer 10mo ago
The obsession with protecting access to lyrics is one of the strangest long-running legal battles to me. I will skip tracks on Spotify sometimes specifically because there are no lyrics available. Easy access to lyrics is practically an adv
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
There are better answers in the linked book. :) But no, nothing is sacred. Not only that, from a historical perspective, the current pace of language change is shockingly slow because of the impact of media. It would not be at all unusual
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Words-Move-English-Still-Literally/dp...
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The State of React and the Community in 2025(blog.isquaredsoftware.com)
5 points by EdgeExplorer 1y ago|1 comments
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
Tried it out. The categories require way too much trivia / pop culture knowledge for me to be interested. I can look at the items and know right away that I just don't know and no amount of thinking will get me there. This really
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
My proposition is that likes are very different from the non-verbal responses you describe. Non-verbal responses can only happen in 1) an existing conversation with 2) a small group. Likes often happen 1) in place of conversation and 2) wit
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
What do I say to my cousin that I see a few times a year but would like to maintain a connection with? Do I just randomly send them pictures of my food and posts about what I've been up to? Do I send an occasional random banality like
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
Yes , but with better UX.
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
"Hitting" with any of your friends is precisely the type of interaction I want to suppress. The way you know if what you say to your friends in real life is interesting to them is if they engage with it. If your feedback mechanism
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
The problem with social media is that it encourages influencers broadcasting to followers over friends mutually interacting and winning over contributing (Great post here about ordinary / competitive conversation: https://ne
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
Avid go player with some basic familiarity with other classic abstract strategy games here. There are some interesting ideas here but it feels like it's lacking a driving force pushing the game forward. It seems like the players can ju
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by EdgeExplorer 1y ago
Whoa. This is really cool. I've thought a lot about markup / configuration languages. Aside from types (won't get into typed/typeless here) there are basically just a few possible structures: lists, maps, tables (lists o
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by EdgeExplorer 2y ago
Also worth mentioning... even if you're trying to do "ordinary conversation" on the internet, someone is going to come in and steer it to competitive. I think that captures what keeps me off social media. I enjoy a good ordin
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by EdgeExplorer 2y ago
Sign language is not gestures. This is covered in (among many other places) the introduction to the Wikipedia article on sign language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language
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by EdgeExplorer 2y ago
Obviously you could train some kind of neural net to calculate any function, but this would never make sense for a well-known function like sine. Neural nets are a great solution when you need to evaluate something that isn't easy to a
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by EdgeExplorer 2y ago
Because I don't universally prefer light or dark in all cases at all times?
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by EdgeExplorer 3y ago
All language is "random stuff arbitrary people make up". "Rules" are just discovered patterns in the arbitrariness of language, convenient ways to capture and communicate how most people within a certain linguistic conte
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by EdgeExplorer 3y ago
This thread is a great example of how, even with an explicit author's note, different people will always interpret things differently. So I guess I'll add my interpretation. This is neither a horror story nor a story about AI safe
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by EdgeExplorer 3y ago
https://www.protolabs.com/ does this all day every day, but your iterations for fine-tuning you should probably try to do by finding a local 3d printer.

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