belugacat

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by belugacat 3y ago
Most non technical people in my circles lose their messages every few years, when they change phones.
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by belugacat 3y ago
A lot of open source projects suffer from “pet project” syndrome. Some maintainers have very strong opinions about how/what things should be done regardless of actual user demand or feedback, and there’s no one with the power to rebuff
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by belugacat 3y ago
Honestly, the real mystery is why so many people are confused about “why, despite universe seeming so vast, there are no signs of other alien civilizations” in 2023. We have all the elements for answers if we focus on what we know, and forg
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by belugacat 3y ago
Exactly this. Even to this day, Nintendo is very smart about almost never discounting their flagship games - and when they do, it’s by a small percent, sometimes with strings attached, not the crazy “90% off” tactics many other developers&
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Chromoscope.net: explore our Galaxy and the Universe in a range of wavelengths(chromoscope.net)
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by belugacat 3y ago
commercial design needs to hit a set of 2 contradictory goals: 1) be as boring as possible so people can make sense of it quickly and efficiently in a world where there are countless other things competing for your time and attention 2) sta
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by belugacat 3y ago
It might well be intentional. Scientists like those weird double entendre titles; it's especially noticeable in paper titles in academia, which often follows the format ("project name: punny phrase vaguely explaining the project&q
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by belugacat 3y ago
> I think a simple piece of advice (stolen from Tuft) is to not use colors unless you really need to. Funny, read your comment as my copy of Tufte's VDoQI is open to page 154: "Color often generates graphical puzzles. Despite o
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by belugacat 3y ago
The classical optical camera does not capture anything. It is a light sealed box, with a pinhole for a lens. As an optical system, it interacts with electromagnetic waves that go through it, that's the only 'reality' you can
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by belugacat 3y ago
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”
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by belugacat 3y ago
I'm a photographer, and for years I've been pixel peeping at photos taken on phones with "portrait mode"; many years after the first introduction of the feature, regardless of the implementation, results still look crumm
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Edward Tufte critiques the original iPhone interface (2008) [video](youtube.com)
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by belugacat 3y ago
It's funny how these things work. There are many inventions that, looking back, could've happened centuries earlier purely from a resource/physical constraints point of view (of course, scientific knowledge doesn't work
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by belugacat 3y ago
I do visual work (graphic/UI design, photography, video editing) along with programming and there is no display with the resolution and color fidelity of the XDR at its price point. I got one shortly after release, and if it stopped wo
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by belugacat 3y ago
This is why the reductionist argument of "your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs/outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it" of AGI proponents always fell flat to me. It's now becoming clear t
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by belugacat 3y ago
The link points to an article titled “ Greening the Void: Climate Change and Political Legitimacy”, the submission is titled “ Ridley Scott: Our Anglo-Saxon Maximus”.
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by belugacat 3y ago
It’s a big deal because he’s extremely charismatic and well connected and that matters much, much more for a tech company’s success than some programmers like to think.
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by belugacat 3y ago
Thinking you can develop AGI - if such a thing actually can exist - in an academic vacuum, and not by having your AI rubber meet the road through a plethora of real world business use cases strikes me as extreme hubris. … I guess that makes
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by belugacat 3y ago
This article: https://www.noemamag.com/ai-and-the-limits-of-language/
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by belugacat 3y ago
Right now this requires API tokens and being dependent on third party companies that will cut off your access if they decide they don’t like you. The moment these models can run locally on the kind of cheap hardware that phone scam operatio
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by belugacat 3y ago
Walls and floor/ceiling not being parallel (old house) tripped me up when I modeled my perfect kitchen in abstract 3D software land and then tried to make it happen in real life.
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by belugacat 3y ago
The premise reminds me of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429385
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by belugacat 3y ago
Link?
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by belugacat 3y ago
+1 The switch has really proven that this hybrid handheld formfactor is the future. On the software side, Proton has been the savior that liberated PC gamers from Microsoft’s iron grip. The space is getting really exciting now that there ar
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by belugacat 3y ago
Quite a few bridges were burned to form the company, an acquisition would be a surprising development.
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by belugacat 3y ago
Imran wasn’t an exec, just an IC designer.
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by belugacat 3y ago
> “Whenever his facts are broadly correct, they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously,” the anthropologist wrote in a scathing review […] When a computer scientist se
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by belugacat 3y ago
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't
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by belugacat 3y ago
The day Valve falls, for whatever reason (greed, incompetence, some impossible to predict market shift/tech innovation... Gabe doesn't have decades and decades left as CEO after all) - the open world of PC gaming as we know it wil
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by belugacat 3y ago
It certainly adds insult to injury that the ACM Digital Library redesign from a couple years back has been a huge downgrade in usability across the board.

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