ball_of_lint

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by ball_of_lint 5d ago
Ooh! I also have this (but didn't know the name)! For me, I'm pretty sure it's related to having just awful seasonal allergies as a child - I'd quite often get stuffed up and have an unfortunate amount of pressure in my
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by ball_of_lint 5d ago
https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightma... > One hypothesis joins the two.
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by ball_of_lint 6d ago
On one side, yes we don't have hard evidence that intentional plagiarism is exactly what happened. On the other side, the lack of evidence is pretty damning. Only OpenAI can try to prove that they came by these results legitimately, an
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by ball_of_lint 7d ago
If it's cloud compute that would be otherwise unused, the business is not paying for the electricity or wear. And they specifically put it in terms of marginal cost - Yeah there'd be an improvement from reselling this idle compute
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by ball_of_lint 7d ago
"choosing" is the keyword here. You have to reason probabilistically. There was a point at which lot of people would have put 100% or 99% confidence that covid came from a lab leak. That's the conspiracy theory side. A lot of
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
What is mutually exclusive about those two things?
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
UI and UX. Auth. Out of the box apps get their own domain name. Try it out and see
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
As soon as you add multiple instances you have to consider concurrency for every app you add, which is a huge cost on the app development side.
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
Yeah, it was called Openhost for a while before changing to Cloud in a Bottle. Either filename works. It proxies requests from the user to installed apps, and adds a header 'is-owner'. Apps have to be built to respect that header
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
The project itself is open source and doesn't have any AI features. Also while Imbue is in some sense an AI startup it does have a very different ethos from a lot of tech companies: https://imbue.com/about
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
Looks like the account in question is deleted now - do you have the original username?
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
It so deeply frightens me that we have had people do AI boxing experiments, conclude that boxing an AI is not possible for strong AI, and now that there are large companies training these models the security thinking is "Yeah, we'
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by ball_of_lint 15d ago
Profitable for who? I think there's immense value+profit for our society in having multiple choices for what browser and browser engine you use. If you have many options, then Chrome killing adblockers with Manifest v3 is a much smalle
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by ball_of_lint 19d ago
Same. I wonder if there's something I don't understand here? But afaict it doesn't seem to involve autistic people in particular?
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by ball_of_lint 19d ago
This is a terrible take. Were the Allied powers antifascist?
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by ball_of_lint 19d ago
In the case of Reddit, Instagram, X, etc. Often those 'certain functions' are the whole site/app itself. Which is pushing me to not use them at all.
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by ball_of_lint 20d ago
It is: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-mus... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/x-whi... https://www.bbc.com/news&
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by ball_of_lint 21d ago
So first, there is at least some validity to calling it a nazi app. Elon Musk owns the app, and he gave a nazi salute during a speech for Trump's inauguration. People disagree about it but it is a well known and discussed thing, not a
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by ball_of_lint 22d ago
Wow, uh, not the level of discourse I expect out of HN.
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by ball_of_lint 22d ago
When fighting Nazis, it's quite valuable to be able to hear what they're saying and know where they're going.
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by ball_of_lint 22d ago
Yeah, my experience has been that different browsers and wifis (and VPN status) get different results, even within the same day. Definitely happening more frequently today than a few weeks ago though.
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Claude has a "Concise" output style(code.claude.com)
4 points by ball_of_lint 26d ago|1 comments
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by ball_of_lint 26d ago
I've seen a lot of people complain recently that Claude outputs are super verbose - maybe this setting will help.
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by ball_of_lint 27d ago
Instant pot went through bankruptcy, at least in part because they made a good durable product. The durability resulted in them not geting many repeat customers. People liked it so they bought one and it just worked for years and years, qui
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by ball_of_lint 27d ago
Because there's (at least a perception of) less money to be made making a product that doesn't break within a few years. As an example of this, look up Instant Pot.
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by ball_of_lint 27d ago
It shouldn't be illegal because it's stupid, it should be illegal because it's a needless artificial restriction that the product would be functionally identical without. It would literally have cost them less development tim
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by ball_of_lint 27d ago
On the Bose one: Consider if your laptop was paired to it's specific charger and would refuse to charge with any other cable or charger. Lose or break your charger and suddenly your $2000+ laptop is irreparable. That seems obviously st
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by ball_of_lint 1mo ago
It turns out that best of 2 random draws outperforms best of 1, best of 3, and best of all in many load balancing scenarios: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html It's a bit unintuit
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by ball_of_lint 1mo ago
I find the technical reasons for this quite dubious.
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Reddit will require you to login to access old.reddit.com(reddit.com)
6 points by ball_of_lint 1mo ago|2 comments

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