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by _carbyau_ 6d ago
Seems like a standing wave thing to halt airflow rather than "overpower with Bill & Ted's Awesomeness!". Depending on what they have going, it might be loud, might not.
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by _carbyau_ 6d ago
I hated Battlestar Galactica for this.
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by _carbyau_ 8d ago
> you get what you pay for I generally agree with your sentiment against trusting free services/things. I agree with paying for Kagi. But I can see why people try to be frugal with their money and use free services. The problem is h
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by _carbyau_ 9d ago
Yup. So often with AI output, I want to know the prompt the human wrote instead.
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by _carbyau_ 10d ago
Information density tho'...
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by _carbyau_ 13d ago
The thing about stats is outliers exist. Whether those outliers themselves are interesting is another matter.
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by _carbyau_ 13d ago
Curious, would electric flight be significantly quieter such that airport noise is significantly less of an issue? Or is the noise from turbulence through the air or something? I honestly would think they'd be minimising turbulence any
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by _carbyau_ 13d ago
Honestly, I want a little one for my lawn. Set the boundaries and let it go at midnight to quietly wander the lawn and spray the weeds. If it could spray into nearby garden beds too, so much the better. Being infinitely patient it could app
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by _carbyau_ 14d ago
> Or at least not outside of very upscale, niche products for wealthy consumers or businesses. Products that start life as "for the rich, first adopters" and work their way down the economic classes are a thing. Whether it is
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by _carbyau_ 14d ago
People think robots in terms of humanoid or number-5 style robots. I think it'll be more capable appliances at first. Like a lawn mowing device that also spots weeds and can spray them. Next iteration has arms to rip weeds out of the g
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by _carbyau_ 15d ago
You are absolutely correct that the LLM vs Regulation relationship would be adversarial. This is why there is the saying: regulations are written in blood. Mankind has been on a blast improving the understanding and engineering of stuff in
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
Again, engineers know what needs to be tested, how, to what degree, with which materials, and with what safety margin. Your widget that mankind may never understand. Well, that's just like anything else in the world. Engineers didn&#x2
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
I think we might be largely in agreement. LLM's should be used to speed up the drudgery, explore creative/evolutionary ideas, but.... > What's the dreaded impossible-to-replicate human advantage? Responsibility. Ultimately
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
> What existed in 1993 was a cultural blip, it's never coming back, so let it go. Ha! I am under no illusion it is coming back. But even though it flows like the unstoppable tides, ad money is not a requirement.
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
Engineers know what needs to be tested, how, to what degree, with which materials, and with what safety margin. AI can be trained on that body of work. But then AI has enough issues in output that it needs to be verified. Otherwise we&#x2
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
> It's not just Google, the Internet stops existing. Uh? No? The internet existed before being overrun by corporate presence. It still does. Advertising pays a lot, but take the ad money away and let it scale accordingly.
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by _carbyau_ 17d ago
We should rephrase things in % terms. IE this payout is X% of their net profit from last year.
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by _carbyau_ 20d ago
> Well they have had a lot of time to get their shit together, and its not even happened a little tiny bit. Yeah, they struggle... Though... the Unity-engine based Shadowrun(s)/Battletech were decent. Mechwarrior 5:Mercs (not Clans)
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by _carbyau_ 20d ago
I love Battletech. If the IP holders ever get their shit together and have a properly walking Vulture/Mad-Dog, I'm sold. Bonus points for laser tag capability like those tabletop tanks.
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by _carbyau_ 20d ago
I was thinking more of a make your own copy of their printer and run free software on it rather than theirs. It just seems like they don't have that much of a moat which is why they are guarding the software bit as much as they can.
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by _carbyau_ 21d ago
The article mentions reverse engineering the code. But is there anything to stop reverse engineering the physical printer itself, improving on it by 10mm build volume in each direction, and releasing that? It won't be a copy of the Bam
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by _carbyau_ 23d ago
When I ever have time... 1. Gain/find-someone-with crypto library use knowledge. 2. Jabber client with Iroh networking and E2EE. 3. Completely remove XMPP server dependence. 4. Allow users to exchange Iroh-Node-ID outside of jabber (QR
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by _carbyau_ 23d ago
The actual LLM benchmark - make a site as wonderful both in visual presentation and in code, while being as factually accurate as ciechanow.ski. If the LLM can create something that could be mistaken for that work, that's awesome.
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by _carbyau_ 23d ago
> So the solution from the authorities is to install syringe disposal containers. Given the cost vs the benefits, why not? A box mounted to a wall is a pittance. Feel free to elaborate your plan for the junkies that would be cost effecti
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by _carbyau_ 27d ago
The internet world really does run on trust-chaining reputation. A person who takes random things from a near stranger on the internet and runs it on their computer with no real safeguards is not a person I should hire. Which also means tha
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by _carbyau_ 27d ago
I don't think the issue is the time in prison. I think it is the criminal record. Other places in the world, once you've served your time you can often go right back to living. Not that it is easy but it doesn't hang over you
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by _carbyau_ 27d ago
> You need context to really understand a book or a work of art. You want to know what kind of environment produced it, what it's talking to. Play "Fuck Tha Police" for someone. Usually, they are shocked that someone would
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by _carbyau_ 29d ago
A patent was meant to give a solo genius a way to treat their idea as something tangible, at a time when logistics was much slower and the world revolved around the physical. Maybe they try to develop it themselves, maybe they sell the idea
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by _carbyau_ 29d ago
Watching my kid grow up I realise that despite the modern world having/wanting so many kids we really don't build affordances for them. Most kids 5-8 at the family dinner table are trying to eat from a plate at shoulder height. No
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by _carbyau_ 29d ago
With the billions he has, not a problem if he actually tried. When he dies, I while track the titles of news articles about the inheritance fight with mild amusement. I won't read the articles however...

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