borgdefenser

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by borgdefenser 1y ago
In the US, Apple has done an all time great job marketing their products. I don't think there is much more too it. "If I didn't buy Apple it would hurt my career". Obviously, completely absurd but how else can you grow a
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I feel exactly the same way about this "I'm using AI as a cognitive amplifier. I'm learning at a much faster rate than I would without AI." I just don't know how much is actually being replaced though. I think of co
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I can feel this already with my own use of language models. All the questions I had before language models, I have answered with language models. That doesn't mean I have no more questions though. Answering those questions opened up 10
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I love data visualization but it very much reminds me of shred guitar playing, something I also use to very much love. What non-guitar players are complaining about the lack of innovation in shred guitar playing? It is just not something th
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I notice I have been using the Google AI summary more and more for quick things. I had subscribed to Perplexity for a month to use their deep research. I think it ran out earlier this week but I am really missing it Saturday morning here. T
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
Prompting is not a myth. The words of the prompt matter huge. The problem with this prompt to me is not that it is not in a full sentence but that it isn't exact enough. Probabilistically, "rust" is not about the programming
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I always thought the same until I got one. It is a really good product. It especially stands out if on a diet and going to eat a lot of chicken breast. Steak I wouldn't cook in it but it makes great chicken. Especially on a diet that y
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
It is also a problem that the projects are not realistic. What are you going to rebuild a banking mainframe system from the 1970s at home in your bedroom for fun? I don't think it matters anyway. A 14yo thinking strategically like this
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
No, you just live in a bubble of smart and really driven people. The vast majority of people's passions are partying, sex, alcohol/drugs, watching sports, gossiping, generally wasting time. Things that mostly This whole line of th
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I am reading a great book right now. The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China by Ralph Sawyer. I am not sure I would listen to anyone but Ralph Sawyer at this point in English on the subject. China is not going
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
For $0.015 a minute it has to be. The books I am listening to now wouldn't even be $10. Any future price drops then will really make this a no-brainer. The Elevenlabs pricing to me makes it completely useless for audiobooks that I just
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I was on usenet in 1995 but I have heard that was too late and usenet already sucked then. In all fairness too, my 17 year old self who knew basically nothing about the world ,really did add absolutely nothing of value to the usenet discuss
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I am always listening to audio books but they are no good anymore after playing with this for 2 minutes. I am never really in the mood for a different voice. I am going to dial in the voice I want and only going to want to listen with that
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I think we know we can't solve the problem so we are just more interested in the optics. If the soccer mom switches from a gas guzzling SUV to another ridiculous size and weight electric SUV, they have done their part optically. I feel
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
I think using your last name, counter intuitively makes discussion less civil. In a form like this, if someone is insulted, it is just the idea and words that have been insulted. When using your last name, it is the real person's ident
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
This is actually the complete opposite of what I want. I would love to go back to people not using their real name and an internet that is wild, free and maybe even a little bit dangerous.
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by borgdefenser 1y ago
Thank you. That sounds perfectly sensible.
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
Krita is vastly better if you come to it from photoshop. I doubt there is anything that couldn't be done in either and it is simply a matter of time spent in the UI and personal preference.
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
I would think the health care system really needs something like this though to avoid disaster. The worst thing I have read about nursing is someone online saying the lucky people were the ones who failed out of their nursing program. It se
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
To me, it is the easiest trade in the world right now. Long NVDA on a market volatility spike. "AI is dead", "the high is in". It is obvious to me we are going to get to "AGI" in this bull run. Maybe it is comp
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
My strangest memory were these videos from China of people just falling over dead in the street in early 2020. A guy just standing there and then does a face plant on the street. I really have no idea what that was all about.
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
I am quite a Nirvana fan but I just think this is totally absurd. Nirvana's impact on the actual sound of music I would say is really not that much. It is really Sonic Youth that had a much bigger impact on the 90s sound than anyone. I
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
Much of this is because there is not much of a recorded music industry before 1950. Miles Davis Kind of Blue was one of the best selling albums of the 50s. The #1 best seller though of the decade is the Elvis Christmas album. By the 60s, Si
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
We had the perfect size electronic music events in America. After a certain size, a party is not better, it is worse. By 1996 even MTV had Amp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amp_(TV_series)
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
As a 90s American teen this is completely absurd. It is literally the peak of the music industry as a whole. The American 90s rave scene was also absolutely amazing. Big enough to have parties every Friday and Saturday but not too big to at
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
I have family that work in trades and this is just not true at all. They are literally focused on retirement, pension and next time off once past the apprentice stage. Why? Because the work is terrible. Really demanding physical work in ter
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
Coffee even more so. I worked at place before that didn't have coffee so people would walk to the coffee place in groups that took 15-30 minutes. Sometimes twice a day. It became a routine part of the day, everyday. Like literally thro
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
If you read Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Schumpeter, published at the end of the depression and during WW2, most of his predictions were spot on economically besides solving the housing problem. There was a housing problem then to
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
People in the major cities practically live in their own society in America. $200k is a huge amount of money in most of America based on geography. In the major cities though it is not just the cost of living but the feeling of being wealth
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by borgdefenser 2y ago
I think it just depends how into industrial music a person is/was. Reznor's genius to me was in taking industrial music and making it catchy, radio friendly and basically pop. Completely commercial compared to anything I can think

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