awkwardleon

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   by awkwardleon 7d ago

   Agree with the weakness, but the benefit of provenance is still there. You can't tell if the picture that person took is of an AI image, but there's some value in saying "I took this" and being able to prove it.
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   by awkwardleon 8d ago

   I was at a company acquired by IBM, and left within two years. When asked by HR at my exit interview why I was leaving I honestly answered "Lotus Notes". My reasoning (which I ranted on extensively for the rest of the interview) w
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   by awkwardleon 2mo ago

   Thanks for this! I created a Spotify list for future reference: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3QbfwerjjiFUvip6Xbkbq6?si=...
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   by awkwardleon 4mo ago

   FWIW these worseonpurpose articles have been popping up regularly, consistently accused of being slop, and the purported author has been called out as a Palantir AI shill. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779481
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   by awkwardleon 5mo ago

   There's so much lock-in/captive-audience on these platforms I don't see this happening with mobile phones as they exist today. The only thing that will crack it is the "Next Big Thing"™, and who knows what/when
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   by awkwardleon 5mo ago

   I like Kurt Vonnegut's take on this: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions
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   by awkwardleon 6mo ago

   I don't know whether to upvote this or downvote this.
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   by awkwardleon 7mo ago

   I believe the point was these companies benefited greatly and specifically from basic research funded by the government: they should therefore "give back" in kind (vs simply contributing to the tax base and relying on a government
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   by awkwardleon 8mo ago

   Maybe too old to be applicable here, but the TRS-80 Models I and III (and probably more models) had no way to address pixels. You had to use semigraphic characters to emulate larger blocks at sub-character resolutions. https://bu
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    by awkwardleon 10mo ago

    "Make good choices!" /That should do it