cwillu

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by cwillu 3d ago
Selling out has now been decoupled from the artist.
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by cwillu 4d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine#Real-life_analogues
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by cwillu 4d ago
I hate that 2010 is 16 years ago
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by cwillu 4d ago
That ship sailed 20 years ago.
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by cwillu 4d ago
I paid for Kagi a couple months, and was rather unimpressed with the quality of results.
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by cwillu 4d ago
Calculators are widely used yes, but calculators most certainly do not exceed human capacity on a broad range of tasks.
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by cwillu 5d ago
One problem with well performed sarcasm is a noteworthy tendency to darken the text colour on hn
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by cwillu 5d ago
Plenty of people are discussing that.
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by cwillu 5d ago
“Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.” -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by cwillu 5d ago
You (conveniently?) left out the words “across a a broad range of domains and tasks”.
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by cwillu 5d ago
When it turns out the doomers don't tell us that, will you acknowledge that you don't actually know what you're talking about?
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by cwillu 5d ago
Conveniently, there was more than a single short sentence to run it on.
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by cwillu 5d ago
It seems to me that syntax highlighting that isn't very close to 100% accurate is anti-useful.
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by cwillu 5d ago
Pangram reports 100% ai
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by cwillu 6d ago
A friend bought a rowing machine; turns out you can't use the fancy magnetic resistance element without agreeing to the app's terms and entering a credit card. I really tried to convince them to return it…
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by cwillu 6d ago
Bold of you to assume there is real information behind this.
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by cwillu 7d ago
And yet it was posted as a reply to someone saying that it still feels like oatmeal.
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by cwillu 7d ago
Yes, but what does that have to do with the article?
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by cwillu 7d ago
“Dairy” is a technical term for a category of goods that is broader than milk and milk-related products. (Yes, I know.)
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by cwillu 8d ago
Who on earth reads 2 pages of an all-text article, and decides at that point “you know what, I want to watch a video; oh good, here is the article in video form, just when I needed it!”?
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by cwillu 10d ago
“We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in ‹whatever›” is something developers love, and users fear.
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by cwillu 11d ago
I have an FP-10 keyboard 3 feet from me that requires that to generate a midi message with a velocity of 255 at the lowest sensitivity setting, and not much less than that at the middle-low setting. If I hit my computer keyboard as hard as
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by cwillu 11d ago
> it's not like velocity sensible keys are expensive or overly complex to produce Oh, my sweet summer child; music instrument keys are mechanically not the same thing as a computer keyboard. There are moving parts involved that n
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by cwillu 11d ago
A tenth of that gets you a basic but solid 88-key Roland FP-10; that's something they will sell a shit ton of and which shares components with several other pianos. It's also worth noting that a piano or piano-like keyboard will b
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by cwillu 12d ago
“Now notice that you are being watched. The image is watching you look at it. It knows what it is doing.” What in the SCP…
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by cwillu 12d ago
It's like arguing that a brain, or the information encoded into it, cannot possibly be intelligent, because it stops working if turn off the blood flow.
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by cwillu 12d ago
It can be a problem, while also not being this problem.
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by cwillu 13d ago
Saying “I'm having trouble understanding” is not the same thing as “this is trivial”.
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by cwillu 13d ago
It's impossible to tell the “it's all marketing!!11oneone” folks anything.
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by cwillu 14d ago
It's not ridiculous, and it happens regularly.

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