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Nicobo robot companion: less than a tool, more than a toy(nippon.com)
1 points by anigbrowl 2d ago|0 comments
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The Downside of Robot Solutionism(programmablemutter.com)
3 points by anigbrowl 2d ago|1 comments
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by anigbrowl 4d ago
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
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by anigbrowl 4d ago
two weeks
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by anigbrowl 5d ago
The time cost to the thousands of people putting in long hours to organize against bad ideas is a measurable loss to the economy. It's very clear that the system itself is deficient because it massively rewards first movers, incumbents
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by anigbrowl 5d ago
The open ledger and profit-sharing for contributors might be an even more interesting innovation than the IDE itself. I like my existing IDE but Rune looks very nice so I'll certainly give it a whirl.
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The emerging AI paper-review arms race(arxiv.org)
1 points by anigbrowl 5d ago|0 comments
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by anigbrowl 6d ago
If it's worth writing about, it's worth using your own words instead of cranking out pages of AI slop. I'm not willing to evaluate these claims because it's so obvious you started with our conclusion and prompted an LLM
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by anigbrowl 6d ago
It's not software; it's the fact that most managers/administrators are not software developers (although they may have some programming ability). so they stand in teh same relationto their development team as cusomers complai
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by anigbrowl 6d ago
Another day, another Sony hate thread. It's not that I endorse Sony's legal/business practices, but rather than these sort of hyper-asymmetric claims are the norm in modern commercial contracts. Perhaps its coincidence that t
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by anigbrowl 6d ago
"Xenos could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this solar system before. There could be Xenos anywhere." The hot plasma wind felt good against his dispersion field. "I HATE XENOS" he thought. Sweet
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by anigbrowl 7d ago
My immediate reaction to his The doomsday virus has a first-mover advantage over the vaccine. The time that people start to drop dead from the virus is the time you start to make and distribute a vaccine. Even if AI can design and synthesi
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by anigbrowl 7d ago
You can keep folding it and it keeps the same aspect ratio. Scaling becomesa simple matter of multiplying everything by 2^+/-n.
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by anigbrowl 7d ago
Proportions absolutely matter for displays, both for aesthetic comfort and for efficient scaling. Most of the world uses ISO216 and its pleasing 1:sqrt(2) proportions. Leveraging aspect ratios with wide acceptance is a win both psychologic
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by anigbrowl 7d ago
I like the concept and the development choices seem sensible even if they're not my favorites (although I think missing Python is a mistake). The text feels very LLM generated though, and I reflexively discount the value of anything pr
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by anigbrowl 7d ago
Historically murals in that area have been planned, agreed with the property owners, and funded by local nonprofits or donation drives. They're community projects, not renegade takeovers. Using scare quotes to delegitimize it is a chea
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by anigbrowl 7d ago
But that's pretty much what that institution does. It might not seem that impressive because it's a neighborhood rather than a city- or state-level institution, but they've been going for decades and organize things like mura
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by anigbrowl 7d ago
I am not arguing in favor of corporate apps or smart TVs (which I would not want to buy either). I'm just looking at things from the perspective of the unfortunate person doing tech support, not their corporate overlord.
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by anigbrowl 8d ago
It's funny how you keep trying to drag in other examples to support your position. Am I suppose to ignore the history and special great power support for both places in Asia and imagine that their economies just naturally developed tha
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by anigbrowl 8d ago
The mystery is whether AI solved it on its own or just took the final step using a lot of novel work done by a small number of mathematicians who were using AI to test their ideas incrementally. there's a big difference between oneshot
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by anigbrowl 8d ago
They did not 'fail to thrive', they had different starting conditions and developed along different paths. They were not as thinly populated when colonized and indigenous cultures were farther advanced, eg Aztec civilization had a
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by anigbrowl 8d ago
Of course those are possibilities, as is having a landline. People pranking tech support lines is also a possibility and I suspect a more common one.
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by anigbrowl 8d ago
So we meet again, wall of text. I thought I had killed you in Istanbul.
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Hakken: Predicting future discoveries to fill gaps in today's knowledge(arxiv.org)
2 points by anigbrowl 8d ago|0 comments
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by anigbrowl 8d ago
Given how few people have landlines they probably thought you were trying to prank them.
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NYC opens 9-11 records portal, revealing new information about toxic conditions(abc7.com)
7 points by anigbrowl 8d ago|0 comments
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by anigbrowl 8d ago
The US would have thrived on any system because it started the game with a continent whose indigenous population was small, pluralistic, nomadic and technologically backward, and whose natural resources were abundant or completely untouch
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by anigbrowl 9d ago
Finally, an app that manifests social media as the psychic nightmare it resembles.
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by anigbrowl 9d ago
The end state is aesthetically pleasing. The game, not so much, I found the cuts on the tiles unpleasant to deal with (especially the ones that shaved ~2 points of ~20 point text) although I solved it in the end. I did like that once you h
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by anigbrowl 9d ago
And then entities litigate to have those laws overturned on highly abstract theoretical grounds, alleging that they violate the framers' intent in drafting the Constitution, or exceed enumerated powers or whatever.

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