alec_irl

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by alec_irl 1y ago
What is the purpose of this? It seems designed to muddy the waters of reality vs. falsehood and put creatives in film/tv out of jobs. Real Jurassic Park moment here
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by alec_irl 1y ago
i don't personally see messages with an LLM as being different from, say, terminal commands. it's a machine interface. it sounds like you're anthropomorphizing the chat bot, if you're talking to it like you would a human
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by alec_irl 1y ago
> how you copied that long text from your distraught girlfriend and asked it for some response ideas good lord, if tech were ethical then there would be mandatory reporting when someone consults an LLM to tell them how they should be res
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by alec_irl 1y ago
I would highly recommend that anyone interested in reading manga on an e-reader check out the boox page: https://shop.boox.com/products/page I have had this for a year and change and use it interchangeably for books an
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by alec_irl 1y ago
This is alien to the way I use tech and repulsive to my human-first values.
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by alec_irl 2y ago
Honestly really sad that so many people are so paranoid from years of being fed right wing propaganda that they block much-needed investment coming to their community. I grew up in Michigan and I know towns like Big Rapids - like much of th
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by alec_irl 2y ago
How quickly do you think that manufacturers could set up American fab plants? Domestic chip production on the level of TSMC is several years out even if all available resources were directed toward it now.
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OpenAI Sora: Expectations versus Reality(wheresyoured.at)
4 points by alec_irl 2y ago|1 comments
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by alec_irl 3y ago
Sincere question - and maybe I'm missing the point here - but why not just write stories yourself?
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by alec_irl 3y ago
The comment you're replying to is referring to the video game industry crash in North America in the early 1980s. Basically the market was flooded with games of poor quality due to a lot of factors, including Atari's complete lack
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by alec_irl 3y ago
The big story with this new Zelda game, and why it is able to include so many deep and interlocking systems on top of a staggering amount of content, comes down to institutional knowledge at Nintendo. Many of the people working on or giving
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by alec_irl 3y ago
Hey thanks for your Pocket cores, man. I really appreciate how fully featured the SNES core feels, even if it doesn't have save state support. You're doing the lord's work!
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by alec_irl 4y ago
Hard to overstate Godard's importance to the film world, both as a critic and a filmmaker. As a critic with Cahiers du Cinema he and others championed many forgotten Hollywood films and established one of the first recognizable 'c
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by alec_irl 5y ago
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fsto... Non-paywall link
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If you’ve rented a car from Hertz, there could be a warrant out for your arrest(usatoday.com)
24 points by alec_irl 5y ago|1 comments
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by alec_irl 5y ago
unrelated, but nice username!
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by alec_irl 5y ago
Surfside, an full-service ad tech company focused on the cannabis industry, is hiring for engineers like crazy. Remote/hybrid/onsite/whatever works, based in NYC with employees across the states, we're looking for engine