Octoth0rpe

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by Octoth0rpe 4d ago
They are referencing xkcd 285: https://xkcd.com/285/ IE, please provide a citation for the claim.
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by Octoth0rpe 7d ago
What's particularly frustrating about the discontinuing of the Mini is that it really didn't sell badly, just below _expectations_. Compared to every other model of phone sold by other manufacturers, I suspect the Mini outsold all
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by Octoth0rpe 12d ago
Please review the above comments. I have not made a single statement that leads to exluding either of those. My comments did not seek to define art, or the artistic process, only to exclude a specific category of media.
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by Octoth0rpe 13d ago
>AI art is well-recognized I disagree with this assertion. I don't think it's at all well-recognized, and in fact derided and shunned by the general public. > Is someone selling their impressionist paintings today on a fair
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by Octoth0rpe 13d ago
> a competent DOJ The question answers itself.
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by Octoth0rpe 13d ago
I think there's a strong consensus that the idea of an "AI art scene" is a misnomer. There's an AI slop scene, and some of the prompters sure do call themselves artists.
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by Octoth0rpe 16d ago
> Alphabet needs to be broken up. Chrome, Search, Android need to be separate companies. As well as youtube, and the combination of google drive/docs.
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by Octoth0rpe 20d ago
> The underlying product, the model keeps improving and therefore increases its value. I think this is true, but a customer's willingness to spend is based on _perceieved_ value, not actual value. For many companies, the _perceived_
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by Octoth0rpe 22d ago
I think there's a valid argument for this pattern when you know most people are on 3-ish year upgrade cycles. Also, if you compare against the most recent generation, you risk creating buyer's remorse for recent purchases.
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by Octoth0rpe 26d ago
Voting is where the rubber meets the road. If they don't vote like they care, then they don't care for all intents and purposes.
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
> Either use it and shut up or don't use it. Many people do not have a choice to not use it at their jobs due to internal mandates. Regardless of their own use, many people are subjected to externalized cost of AI proliferation (dat
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
> No saying you're wrong but how is it making their lives worse? Data centers and their side effects (higher electricity prices, etc) and job layoffs attributed to AI; plus a bunch of industry specific objections (like say, how it&#
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
4 at UofM, Sept -> Dec.
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
Absolutely wrong
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
> Now they can hide behind being a tech enthusiast or a trend follower or even some kind of fashion thing and wear them right out in the open, allowing nefarious use to be hidden in plain sight. They can try to 'hide' behind th
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
more than creepy, they're deeply inauthentic.
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
> I would use them because the company that makes it can’t be trusted. I think this gets at only half of the problem. Not only can meta not be trusted, even if I trust _you_ if you were friend, I wouldn't trust any _other_ random us
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
It's very hard to imagine this being a better photo than one taken on a modern phone. Also, I really, really hope you take them off when using the shared bathrooms at such an event. And you know, keep them off. Permanently.
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by Octoth0rpe 1mo ago
> Its a bit strange of a default assumption to me. What is _your_ default assumption re: use case? I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not &#x2
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LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button(404media.co)
5 points by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago|1 comments
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
> I do still have an aesthetic appreciation for "true REST", but in practice I find the fact that nobody uses it to be mainly useful in ending bikeshedding discussions. Once you understand your API isn't RESTful to begin w
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
> They usually live under the _links parent. The example given in this section... is there actually a commonly used REST api that uses that particular key/structure? I wouldn't be _surprised_ if I came across that in some rando
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
Throwing out a couple more benefits: bun is faster than node, dramatically so in some specific cases (websockets). Bun also has been doing a great job at building out core libs that probably don't make sense for node, such as the nat
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
> The EU is like a tiger - without teeth, fur or claws. EU regs forced apple to move to type-c. They appear to be moving towards either requiring replaceable batteries, or requiring a higher quality batter (larger % of original charge af
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
> because LLMs are going to need search APIs Yes. But why would they provide that to their competitors? The winning move here is to allow gemini, but forbid everyone else. That's not a bad moat.
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
Only a little, not a lot. It seems like the easy answer is still terrestrial with a heck of a lot more giving back. For example: - offering to pay some nominal subsidy for all households electricity bills in the region. - committing to only
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
> SpaceX is an AI company without a frontier model. Unless they manage to build such a model, then their plan looks like they intend to be an AI _infrastructure_ company. Which is probably viable and healthy business! One with lots of co
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
That was indeed my intent. Pre-IPO, SpaceX already had _some_ cash in hand, and was burning >4b per quarter IIRC; so presumably _some_ runway. That said, they also got the anthropic/openai monthly payments coming in soon (already st
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
> My best guess, it makes it harder to get loans in the future. Which is pretty important! It's my understanding that from all that money they raised during their IPO, a good amount of it went right back out the door again to pay of
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by Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
> No one would bat an eye about "ledger" appearing at a high frequency in content about accounting, but it starts to look odd if "ledger" is showing up in other contexts. The reason why I chose that specific term to p

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