FiddlerClamp

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by FiddlerClamp 7d ago
Tech has the following issues to greater and lesser extents: * It gets in the way: confirmations, notifications, features that don't exist and can't be added, even when they're asked for repeatedly. * It stops listening: free
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by FiddlerClamp 7d ago
Or, it's greasing the wheels of free-association until people skid out of control. And since the 'world' of the chat is mostly epistemologically closed (except for Web search), there's no absolute tether point. Everythin
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Drawing the Line on AI – Bluesky Thread(bsky.app)
2 points by FiddlerClamp 9d ago|1 comments
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by FiddlerClamp 9d ago
Thoughts on using meta tooling to build a process for organizations: Values -> Monitoring -> Evaluation -> Tripwire -> Enforcement Our values are subjective across substrates, but are relatively consistent internally. We can bui
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by FiddlerClamp 1mo ago
I still think stylus support (both hardware but especially software) is going to be a killer app for these things. They've gone in the wrong direction for now, but some of the Asian phone companies (Huawei?) still have stylus support.
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SwitchBot Kata Friends AI Pet Review: Useless If You Don't Pay Up(gizmodo.com)
1 points by FiddlerClamp 2mo ago|1 comments
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by FiddlerClamp 2mo ago
"No physical toy, especially if it’s branding itself as a companion with a personality and soul, should include a killswitch that deactivates its core, best features if you stop paying up."
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by FiddlerClamp 2mo ago
Can't wait to get my next employer's name tattooed on my forehead.
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by FiddlerClamp 2mo ago
Wondering what's going on with Canada. I checked out their site yesterday out of curiosity and most products were listed as out of stock.
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by FiddlerClamp 2mo ago
Also the Data General One (poor screen aside).
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The $11B Casino-Style Economy Built on Players Who Can Never Cash Out(bloomberg.com)
3 points by FiddlerClamp 5mo ago|0 comments
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Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated(techcrunch.com)
367 points by FiddlerClamp 5mo ago|389 comments
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by FiddlerClamp 6mo ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Willing to relocate: Not at present Skills: I'm a novelist. Published. Good writing, weird writing. If you need a fiction writer who doesn't write using GenAI, check me out. Work: https://www.g
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Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'(bloomberg.com)
123 points by FiddlerClamp 6mo ago|152 comments
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by FiddlerClamp 10mo ago
I think it was a one-two punch: 1. Snoopy becoming Flanderized, as in the "Happiness is a warm puppy" stuff from the 1960s. 2. Introduction of Woodstock the bird. That meant Snoopy and Woodstock went off and had their own adventur
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by FiddlerClamp 10mo ago
Interestingly, Peanuts started with a focus on Shermy and Violet as the 'straight men' and young(er) Charlie Brown as the comic upstart. Snoopy shows up fairly soon, but he doesn't even seem to be CB's pet for the first
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Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse(platformer.news)
257 points by FiddlerClamp 10mo ago|375 comments
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by FiddlerClamp 10mo ago
VITURE's Immersive 3D already offers this for several platforms (for VITURE glasses).
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by FiddlerClamp 10mo ago
Fireflies.ai co-founder and CTO writes a LinkedIn post about how their 'AI that joins meetings and takes notes' was him and the CEO joining the meetings and taking notes manually.
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by FiddlerClamp 10mo ago
I remember my Compaq TC1000 well, a pen tablet convertible running Windows very sluggishly with a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Nice promise, execution not so much unfortunately.
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by FiddlerClamp 10mo ago
You're too late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulgari_Connection Here's an exercise - why do you think this approach failed?
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by FiddlerClamp 11mo ago
I also like how people can submit their own presets for each soundscape with comments, so you can see what worked for others. My only wish is for a smooth fade-out when leaving a sound generator page, or a way to cross-fade between them.
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by FiddlerClamp 11mo ago
Android, too. I've contributed to the Web site, but not the Android app (as yet).
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by FiddlerClamp 11mo ago
I'm a longtime fan of Web-based myNoise: https://mynoise.net/
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by FiddlerClamp 1y ago
And who's going to be able to afford to see them, when all the jobs are gone?
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Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects(gizmodo.com)
11 points by FiddlerClamp 1y ago|9 comments
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by FiddlerClamp 1y ago
Reminds me of the 'interactive' video from the 1960s Fahrenheit 451 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOs8U50T3l0 For the 'you're right!' bit see: https://youtu.be/ZOs8U50T3l0?
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by FiddlerClamp 1y ago
My Google feed (the one that shows up on some Android phones) is 90% articles that could be answered in the headline: "This one ingredient improves the taste of your potato salad." Of course you have to click through and read, rea
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Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it(twitter.com)
143 points by FiddlerClamp 1y ago|53 comments
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by FiddlerClamp 1y ago
I remember these! A board game I played as a kid in the 1970s, "The Inventors," had chicken eyewear protection as an invention. Pic available at: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/817261/the-inventors

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