Zanni

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by Zanni 3mo ago
This isn't unique to code or AI. In creative writing courses, we were asked to give thoughtful critiques of (human written) stories and excerpts, and often I felt as if I were doing more work than the original author. If you can't
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by Zanni 4mo ago
I wish this pope would stay in his lane. The only opinion I want to hear from him is whether AI can be baptized.
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by Zanni 5mo ago
I used to feel this way, but I reconsidered my threat model. You know what format is "locked in"? Physical books. Can only exist in one location at a time. If you loan it out, you can't read it until it's returned. Subje
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by Zanni 6mo ago
Exactly. I'm happy to see NASA get back in the game, but this is basically just a test flight. I'll get excited for the next one. ("Hey, kids! We're going to Disneyland! We're going to drive all the way around it be
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by Zanni 7mo ago
That video is 54 minutes long. Maybe, if it's the basis for your argument, you could post a summary?
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by Zanni 8mo ago
This article [1] claims a "3-line improvement" on the vision chart. It wouldn't be helpful for me (moving from 20/600 to 20/300, I'd still need correction) but would be a huge win for someone in the 20/50
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by Zanni 8mo ago
Electric cars make no sense. Reusable rockets make no sense. Autonomous cars make no sense. Data centers in space make no sense. <--- You are here. Humanoid robots make no sense.
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by Zanni 8mo ago
Fred Lambert at Electrek has become an unreliable reporter on Tesla. I don't know where his bias stems from, but it's unmistakeable. Lambert claims David Moss couldn't find a Robotaxi ride without a safety driver. True enough
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by Zanni 8mo ago
Valid point if your ratio is correct, but I suspect it's the other way around.
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by Zanni 8mo ago
If the cost per ride is 35% cheaper than Uber/Lyft, then that money stays in the local economy, just in the hands of the consumer rather than the gig worker. Currently WayMo is more expensive, but I see that changing as they scale. And
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by Zanni 10mo ago
Jhonen Vasquez was previously best known for Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, an insanely dark graphic novel. I'm still stunned that the powers that be thought he should write an animated children's show. That said, I love Invader Zim
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by Zanni 10mo ago
Peter Lik has a strategy sort of like this. It's still a limited edition of, say, 100, but the price increases as the edition sells out. The last print to sell may be 100x or more the first.
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by Zanni 10mo ago
That lost shot (Falcon 9 transiting the sun) is my favorite. I've got a print of it in my office, waiting to be hung on the wall.
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by Zanni 1y ago
He wrote several more books (including a sequel/second edition of Code Complete). None of them had the same impact, though: https://stevemcconnell.com/books/
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by Zanni 1y ago
Carefully distinguishes between PYREX and pyrex. Immediately launches a discussion of Pyrex.
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by Zanni 1y ago
Why your [ultra-light hiker] friend suddenly has [the world's lightest] power bank. I remember Colin Fletcher, years ago, writing in The Complete Walker about trimming the borders off his paper maps to save weight, which seemed like an
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by Zanni 1y ago
Awesome - I didn't know this!
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by Zanni 1y ago
Tesla screens switch to dark mode at night.
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by Zanni 1y ago
Depends enormously on the implementation and use case. My daily driver is a Tesla Model 3, which has a big, beautiful touch screen. But I almost never touch it while I'm driving. Anything I need to control can be handled by voice com
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by Zanni 1y ago
You don't have to share your phone, or its secrets, to use this. At the TSA checkpoint, there's a screen that says specifically what information they're asking for, you tap, and your phone shares that. You never lose physical
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by Zanni 1y ago
The significance of blue books is that, in addition to being bound, they were handed out in class (and numbered) so you couldn't sneak in notes or pre-written pages.
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by Zanni 1y ago
Well, yes, but it's also pretty dependent on what you eat. From the article: "Additionally, the summarized study did not record the timing of snack and water consumption." A carb-heavy snack before a meal is going to result i
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by Zanni 1y ago
This is an unfortunate stance for science-fiction authors to take. I understand the frustration with generative AI displacing artists and authors work being harvested as training material, but ChatGPT was used here just as a sort of text-
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by Zanni 1y ago
I don't understand the point of standardizing language around specific numerical ranges when they could just use numbers .
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by Zanni 1y ago
Makes sense. I like to feel the road when I'm driving, but if the car is driving, I'd prefer the ride to be as smooth as possible.
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by Zanni 1y ago
What professionals are doing this work already? As I understand it, this is something that can only be done by AI (or by shooting the movie twice in different languages).
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by Zanni 2y ago
Abuse. Twitter/X allowed bold text recently for a few days, and a number of monetized accounts immediately started making all their posts ALL BOLD ALL THE TIME to stand out. Feature dropped soon after.
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by Zanni 2y ago
If you have ebooks from other sources, like Project Gutenberg, you can still load them on your Kindle.
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by Zanni 2y ago
Fun, but more suggestive of Steadman (illustrator of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other things) than Pollock: https://www.npr.org/2014/04/27/307285367/artist-ralph-steadm...
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by Zanni 2y ago
The distinction that ericjmorey is making (I believe) is that the reward is not guaranteed, only the opportunity.

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