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by coldcode 2y ago
The ENG button on the bottom left only seems to translate basic boilerplate, not any description or other content. Browsers do a decent job of translation. But the only thing you can do is search for stuff, there is no way to browse at all
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by coldcode 2y ago
Right, and how will LLMs determine what data they are "collecting" was written by themselves or other AI's. Eventually all AI content will be AI content derived from AI content. Is that a good answer?
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by coldcode 2y ago
That assumes you understand or realize what the system actually does. Sometimes the what is not obvious to the outsider observer. I once worked at a place that developed a new software development process designed to streamline internal dev
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by coldcode 2y ago
The engineers were overruled by the executives because NASA was pissed at the company for messing up their plans.
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by coldcode 2y ago
StupidSecurity.Yeah I wonder if Booking is mostly third-party contractors or if they have employees. If the latter, then this is likely known inside, but executives don't care. If the former, it's possible executives don't kn
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by coldcode 2y ago
Zume failed big time. I wonder if anyone will ever get it to work. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-failed-428-m-robot-pizza...
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by coldcode 2y ago
This article has dropped off of HN while I was making a comment.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I used Affinity Photo in my generative art; I also own Photoshop and use it for a few things, but it's rare. AP is faster at many things that matter to me, the UI is much cleaner, and it suits me just fine despite occasional issues (mo
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by coldcode 2y ago
Back in my early days doing iOS, I worked for a travel company. The web team at one point used IBM TeaLeaf (I'm not sure what it does today), which took screenshots of the web app's web pages and sent them to the company so they c
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by coldcode 2y ago
I went to an Italian restaurant while visiting London and sat for 30 minutes before asking why no one was taking my order; they said, oh, you have to order online. But there were no signs or anything. So, the next two nights, I went to the
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by coldcode 2y ago
The charm of old-world cities, with hundreds or even thousands of years of history, becomes their worst enemy as tourists overrun everything trying to get that historical viewpoint. Then, businesses take advantage of the desire for "ol
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by coldcode 2y ago
I think it's a good use for AI. AI's making ads that AI's watch to enrich Google execs. Who needs people?
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by coldcode 2y ago
I searched for how to use a massage ball (my back hurts) last week and got a giant page full of ads and ad-like sections for buying one with barely any articles at all. That is not a search engine; it's an ads engine.
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by coldcode 2y ago
At least you can replace it quickly if you find it broken. Back then, we could only afford to make an update once. When you mailed out the update disk, you had to charge for it ($10 or so, disk, mailing container, printed instructions, post
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by coldcode 2y ago
Between 1987 and 1993, I prepared around nine master disks for two Mac apps. I always used a fresh floppy and had a long list of checks to ensure the disk was correct. Thankfully, all came out right, especially when some were used to make 1
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by coldcode 2y ago
Not yet; my tools and processes are not ready for animation. But I plan to work on it eventually.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I am a generative artist, but I write my tools in Swift, and the algorithms and math differ from those of other generative artists. In addition to the generative elements, I also include manual image manipulation and digital painting. I wro
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by coldcode 2y ago
Not if you live in an HOA. When I had a house, you couldn't change your lawn to anything but grass or let it die or go wild, and where I lived, during the summer two weeks of not mowing was almost beyond what a riding mower could tackl
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by coldcode 2y ago
I could not imagine a life where my brain was so full of tiny details, even if some were put there deliberately. I find programming so fills my brain sometimes that I forget simple things like "did I take my pills earlier" or bill
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by coldcode 2y ago
Doesn't an AI search engine cost more in terms of energy? I would also wonder how it avoids being tainted by a web of other AI results of various qualities that it is indexing. It would appear to become more expensive to operate, thus
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by coldcode 2y ago
In the end, some movies get great press and reviews, and no one cares; some get shitty press and horrible reviews, and it wins the box office. An artist creates art, and everyone else then gets to decide whether they like it or not. You nev
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by coldcode 2y ago
I spent 40 years as a programmer, but I always looked for ways to use creativity and imagination and never be a rote coder. Despite having success in my last job leading a small team building a strategically important piece of code (if it d
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by coldcode 2y ago
Go to China and violate a serious law. Do you think they will ignore it? Or someone from Mainland China who comes to the US who violates a serious law here. Will they be arrested and possibly convicted? Every country has laws that others fi
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by coldcode 2y ago
I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal 1.0 for DOS at the West Coast Computer Faire, where Borland had a little booth. Still is the most productive IDE I have ever used; that sucker was insanely fast. Of course, programming is a lot more complex t
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by coldcode 2y ago
I experienced a 3.8 (I think) in Dallas some years ago, 30 stories up. It was likely caused by oil drilling action in the area, as Texas is not an earthquake zone if I remember correctly. It was not fun, no dampers in that building.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I wish I had kept my Fortran 78 code from 1981/82 to see if I could get it to run on this. It was a Jovial programming language source code formatter. Not exactly what you should use Fortran for, but that's the only choice I had.
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by coldcode 2y ago
It seems to have issues for me (Safari), at least this morning, complaining about being unable to get a user. Maybe too many people are trying it. Looks like a 500 error.
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by coldcode 2y ago
It appears the ship lost power twice before hitting the bridge. I doubt the captain could do anything with no control.
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by coldcode 2y ago
It's not a terrible language; it just requires a little different thinking. In 1988/89, I learned to write a postscript generator with no dev environment, just reams of paper. Debugging was hard since you had to add debugging prin
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by coldcode 2y ago
Whenever I read a story like this, I wonder what people thousands of years from now (if there are any) will think of us.

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