afcool83

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by afcool83 5mo ago
...or convincing operators that jobs sent to their machines are legal, legitimate, and non-nefarious. I could not find disclosure on their site about the guard-railing or safety-systems at the point the prompt is gathered from users which w
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by afcool83 6mo ago
I still contend that the worst volume control UX is asking your teenager to turn it down…
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by afcool83 7mo ago
Amazing how analogous this is to the early Internet when people started running web servers out of their basement and then eventually graduated up to being their own dial-in ISP…
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by afcool83 7mo ago
Admirable idea and execution…but it does apply opposing evolutionary/economic pressure for AI-slop to become less detectable over time. AI will learn and adapt. Metaphorically speaking, it’s the Borg we’re dealing with, not the Klingon
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by afcool83 7mo ago
The basic search one gets out of the box is closer to regex matching than search. IMHO something like omnisearch should be sherlocked next.
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by afcool83 7mo ago
It’s a truly remarkable app you and team have built. I’m going to use the term _simple_ but please understand that that’s high praise. To me, obsidian is a thought-taking app, not a notetaking app. Thoughts are amorphous and incomplete no m
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by afcool83 7mo ago
Just for context, Steph Ango is the CEO of Obsidian. His approach to notetaking in his own app made the rounds in the PKM (personal knowledge management) community for how _counterintuitive_ it was. He eschews a lot of the common wisdom pus
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by afcool83 7mo ago
On the same week that an AI's PR was rejected and it turned around and published a hit-piece in order to pressure an open-source community to accept it's change [1]...on the same week...we are watching a human publish a hit-piece
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by afcool83 8mo ago
This is roughly my defense against anxieties about “missing the boat” on this stuff. If my life was complex enough to justify quote-simplifying-unquote it with a tool like this, I’d be quite excited about experimenting with it…but it’s not.
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by afcool83 8mo ago
It’s admirable to have standard morals and pursue objective truth. However, the real world is a messy confusing place riddled in fog which limits one foresight of the consequences & confluences of one’s actions. I read this section of A
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by afcool83 9mo ago
It’s more like the definition of “alien” broadened. It started out in the 1960’s meaning “humans with pointy ears and no emotions”, then in the 1980’s it was “squat humanoids with glowing fingers and a penchant for phoning home”, then in th
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by afcool83 1y ago
We do not have a freedom to movement _by motor vehicle_ in the US. It is a privilege licensed by the State and regularly revoked through due process or expiry. While your concern about mobility and privacy are valid, I would contend that pu
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by afcool83 1y ago
I live in one of the areas they are actively testing/training in. Their cars consistently behave better and more safely than most human drivers that I’m forced to share the road with. As semi-autonomous and autonomous cars become the n
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by afcool83 1y ago
Nah, dude. It’s exactly the right amount of subtle that I found it a delight to discover. Making the joke too obvious undercuts it!
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by afcool83 1y ago
…I read the whole article at OP’s link, many comments off this thread…I even clicked into the college course material in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468452 …and not once did it occur to me why it was called “wet
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by afcool83 1y ago
I don’t think they missed a mark exactly. Perhaps they hesitated to shoot when others took the shot. Marksmanship is about hitting the target, not firing first. I would not want a deeply embedded personal assistant that’s always on and lear
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by afcool83 1y ago
Can confirm. It’s a bit stealth but, by volume, it’s still a cracking business. It doesn’t get the headlines because it’s so so democratized.
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by afcool83 1y ago
Internally, product leadership at the time had a quandary when it came to IPv6: there was lots of expressed demand for it due to IPv4 depletion looming and “World IPv6 Day/Launch” only about a year or two prior… …but then, upon deliver
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by afcool83 1y ago
I would call markdown an “85% solution”. Not disparaging it at all by calling it that either. The ease of use it brings is incredibly valuable and, if it gets you rapidly through 85% of what you need done (and leaves you in a good spot to t
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by afcool83 1y ago
Honestly way more meaningful to the rest of us than major.minor.build ever could be
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by afcool83 2y ago
Flooding the zone with both reasonable sh* and unreasonable sh* is still flooding the zone with sh*. Notice the timing of his statement. Right in the middle of the largest sporting event in the US. Eyes were elsewhere and it brought them ba
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by afcool83 2y ago
I see an implementation of Hopcroft-Karp is disclosed in capablanca documentation. To help us understand your post further, could you explain its involvement? How are you able to achieve an approx ratio below sqrt(2)?
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by afcool83 2y ago
Something can be highly anticipated and utterly inconsequential at the same time. (See Star Wars Episode 1 as a primary example) These assassinations were tragic and criminal and shocking at the time, but one has to be Gen X or older to hav
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by afcool83 2y ago
This is likely inconsequential and a blatant attempt to steer our attention rather than let it drive itself.
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by afcool83 2y ago
At some point email went from a true communication avenue to just “sending this for reference”. Apps and services are adding their own notification inboxes and comment threads (or activity logs) and @-mentions as an interaction pattern so t
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by afcool83 2y ago
For perspective, 2055 is about as forward from us as these predictions are backward from us. Of all of the predictions about our future that exist now (AI/AGI/ASI, VR/AR, fusion, health and longevity, autonomous vehicles, hum
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by afcool83 2y ago
I do find myself on the “private first” side…but also keep in mind that those who grab for pitchforks in defense of privacy aren’t a representative sample of the typical user either. (A purely statistical statement). It’s very easy to confu
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by afcool83 2y ago
I would caution us all not to interpret this as “obese people must be corrupt” (when it’s more a discussion of correlation not causation in either direction). My kingdom for a dataset that included more countries than just the old soviet bl