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by coldcode 3y ago
Stories like this make me wonder why anyone lives in Australia, since virtually everything seems to want to kill you. Or perhaps Aussies are tougher than the rest of us.
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by coldcode 3y ago
I would like to see that topic covered in more detail. I can't see how something that essentially figures out what the next word should be can create something new, without actually understanding the real world.
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by coldcode 3y ago
You don't, at least for me, I have 5700 followers and most posts (with art) only see 200-500 impressions, whereas a year ago I was getting 3000 on average. The Following tab is clearly (at least for me) not in timeline order, so most o
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by coldcode 3y ago
A year ago my account with 5700 followers got an average of 3000 impressions per post (art). Today it's only 200-500. It mentions their fanout system was replaced by something new, not sure when or if thats in the drop, but my impressi
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by coldcode 3y ago
It's not worth $20B, that's just his ego talking. I can see it being worth $4B. It has no long term path to any kind of high growth multiple. Twitter was always an amazingly useful concept but not a big money making business idea.
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by coldcode 3y ago
I was at the train terminal in Paderborn (visiting Germany) and did not see the sign that "suggested" paying to use the restroom—but the attendant did not miss that I didn't pay and almost assaulted me. When your German is ra
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by coldcode 4y ago
Early in my generative art, I spent a lot of time packing various small shapes together, it was a fun process to figure out how to maximize the coverage without leaving large gaps. For example, a piece with almost every shape I was using:
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by coldcode 4y ago
Most banks do not have most of their capital tied up for ten years; SVB had to sell their treasuries before the ten years at a loss. The only thing tying other banks who don't do that to SVB is random fear of a bank run.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Maybe that's new, when I was a HIPAA architect for a health related company, I rarely saw anyone being sued or even investigated (mid 2000s). Given how many violations I saw there (and complained about) nothing ever changed because the
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by coldcode 4y ago
Wait until someone figures out how to turn ChatGPT into AI investors and put them out of business. The irony would be that it would learn everything they know and be just as terrible.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I prefer to use Brave to watch Youtube; it skips most of the ads automatically.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I would consider a move to Germany, but not giving up my 500Mbps internet connection.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Contract from OTA (at least did when I worked) does not allow the chain/brand to undercut the OTA, in exchange for traffic. Given its mostly a duopoly (Expedia/Priceline), I guess they feel they have to give in or get cut out of b
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by coldcode 4y ago
My experience is from when I worked at the now defunct (but still a brand) OTA. Likely the two remaining OTA systems have evolved to stay relevant. Hotel chains will then evolve again themselves, it's like a war.
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by coldcode 4y ago
People rarely realize that making a hotel booking at an OTA (mostly reduced to Expedia Brands and Priceline Brands these days) is a combination of their systems that then call the hotel systems to make the actual booking (or sometimes just
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by coldcode 4y ago
I had a Lisa on my desk back in early 1984 (along with an IBM PC/XT, an Apple III and an Apple II of some kind). It was an amazing device that clearly showed the direction of computing in the future. It was also way overpriced and unde
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by coldcode 4y ago
Without centralized access to content, a distributed full search would seem unbearable slow at Twitter scale.
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by coldcode 4y ago
To be honest, I expect Elon and Twitter will be discontinued at some point, without any good feelings and thanks on the part of any of their customers, unlike the app developers Twitter just killed. What is needed is to do Twitter again, in
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by coldcode 4y ago
Oddly enough my first project as a programmer in 1981 was writing a recursive descent parser in Fortran 78 (for Jovial language). Since I had no degree in CS, I previously had zero clue what a parser even was. Fun way to start 4 decades of
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by coldcode 4y ago
AI is reflective of whatever you trained it on. So are people. But you can't build the perfect AI that reflects 100% of everyone's desires; no matter what you feed it some percentage of people will find it irritating or terrible.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Nothing like vague laws referencing Simpson memes, instead of actually solving real problems.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I experienced a takeoff abort in New Orleans in a 737 when some birds (I think that's what the pilot said afterwards) clogged up the pitot tubes (in the 1980s) and either the plane aborted the takeoff or the pilot did. It was a max eff
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by coldcode 4y ago
The problem happens over time when both properties begin to fail after changes are made to the system by people unfamiliar with the system, and make worse when sudden failures are addressed by the same people, which creates a feedback loop
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by coldcode 4y ago
I use a Mac Studio with an M1 Ultra and I have never even heard the fan. I don't miss the white noise at all. I routinely use all 20 cores too.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I was briefly suicidal about 20 years ago, took anti-depressants for a couple of years, never needed them since. I can't say if they "worked" in a biochemical sense — perhaps the only affect was placebo — but they did keep me
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by coldcode 4y ago
Burnout can affect your ability to work on complex things, a lack of time away from programming, high stress positions and long hours, boring repetitive work. Overcoming all or some of those things takes a lot of energy away from your abili
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by coldcode 4y ago
Until our government creates a law that makes the credit bureaus have to pay every time their security fails, nothing will happen. They don't have to care and probably laugh at all of us. But politicians are cheap to buy off and nothin
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by coldcode 4y ago
Historically speaking, prohibiting depictions of Muhammad are a recent concept in Sunni Islam, especially the Saudi driven Wahhabism which is extremely conservative. Over history art as always been a huge part of Islamic life. This painting
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by coldcode 4y ago
As an artist my favorite definition of art has always been "An expression by an artist in a medium". You can't separate art from the artist without it being artifice. AI can simulate art but not the artist who created it. Sad
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by coldcode 4y ago
The only thing I can see that the Studio can't do is access hardware directly. My M1 Ultra is beyond anything I could need performance wise (I mostly do complex generative art, but I only need all 20 cores only occasionally). I imagine

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