danhite

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by danhite 1mo ago
or, if you're a stoned bird, perhaps bootstrap your modern skillz by ... a session prompting Claude to quickly write all of: a forth style assembler for wasm targeting a forth written in 6502 machine code (not assembly) targe
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by danhite 1mo ago
> This should be "This should be 'You're thinking'." don't you think? Reflexively, I think it should be more like ... javascript: `This should be "You're thinking".` ; // to p
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by danhite 1mo ago
The word Apocalypse is on the table and if you agree that ignorance of History invites Doom then my brief perspective here may appeal to you (otherwise tl;dnr) ... From the AI Apocalypse Is Here essay: ... the truth that widespread inte
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by danhite 1mo ago
also from ^ article on Lockheed Martin Corp space shuttle software group ... Importantly, the group avoids blaming people for errors. The process assumes blame - and it's the process that is analyzed to discover why and how a
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by danhite 2mo ago
> The exercise didn't necessarily feel easy to deduce within the 20 minutes I tried, I admire your breakdown, and I felt your pain. My frustration was with opening a new tab for each sample because I was too lazy to transcribe rolls
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by danhite 2mo ago
Apropos, from Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018) ... The shareholders won't be happy. Sorrento: It's not our job to make them happy. It's our job to make them money, but once we launch this littl
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by danhite 2mo ago
At least one human has functional tetrachromacy (ie 4 cones of retinal perception not 3) ... The dimensionality of color vision in carriers of anomalous trichromacy (2010) https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=
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by danhite 2mo ago
> I think the editor just liked the juxtaposition of "humanoid robots" and "human workers". or perhaps we are far enough along this timeline that the AI editor preferred the distinction for the story title?
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by danhite 2mo ago
> It is based on the premise of making work easier for workers. The objective is to thoroughly eliminate waste and shorten lead times to deliver vehicles to customers quickly, at a low cost, and with high quality. ^ = from your linked To
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by danhite 3mo ago
The hover-text for the OP's linked xkcd cartoon is : I find that when someone's taking time to do something right in the present, they're a perfectionist with no ability to prioritize, whereas when someone took time
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by danhite 4mo ago
In case you actually mean you want DF website font-size increased, Gruber actually has a page for that as a site-wide setting ... https://daringfireball.net/preferences/
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Copyright Office Rejected My Attempt to Copyright a Tweet(techdirt.com)
5 points by danhite 4mo ago|2 comments
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by danhite 4mo ago
R.I.P. Copyright It seems to me that copyright doesn't exist anymore as a reasonable notion and effective right for an individual creator--A.I. being the final stake through the heart
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by danhite 4mo ago
> What used to look professional now looks generic. What used to look weird now looks human. > The signal you want to send isn’t “I spent effort on this,” because that signal is now cheap to fake. The signal you want to send is “a hum
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Comments Are More Important Than Code–Jef Raskin (2005)(queue.acm.org)
3 points by danhite 4mo ago|1 comments
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by danhite 4mo ago
> Good documentation includes background and decision information that cannot be derived from the code. It is hard to imagine any foreseeable software or robot that could collect this information from the people involved with a programmi
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The Sociable Robot – Proto Magazine (2009)(protomag.com)
1 points by danhite 5mo ago|1 comments
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by danhite 5mo ago
> "People think they want to interact with a robot that totally mimics a human, but they really don’t," Simmons says. There were those used to try hard, carefully yet hopefully, to learn how robots, computers and "artifici
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by danhite 6mo ago
> Maybe nobody will read it. These comments are now many hours old and HN has a way of walking away once they have had their turn shouting into the void. All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The o
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by danhite 6mo ago
Google's blog post promoting what their Stitch AI can do for you to rapidly design and make a UI by voice in realtime has this gem [1] : > You can easily extract a design system from any URL [1] https://blog.google/i
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by danhite 6mo ago
Kudos on your site effort and I immediately see your point. In fact I took your topmost entry with no helpful site/update tags and dove in a little to try to understand why a RSS friendly blogger might not be passing along ~ tags for b
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by danhite 6mo ago
Isn't this a simple compute opportunity? ... > March 15 there were 1,251 updates [from feed of small websites ...] too active, to publish all the updates on a single page, even for just one day. Well, I could publish them, but nobod
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by danhite 6mo ago
While XML/XHTML aren't spec'ed/evolved to support your fun font sans attribute challenge, certainly modern html does ... <p> <style> @scope { font-family: "Arial" ; } </style>
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by danhite 6mo ago
Some things never change ... "Send the Marines" -- satirical song lyrics by Tom Lehrer (1965) and in the public domain https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/send-t...
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by danhite 6mo ago
Rather than just looking at Apple's motivations as to address ~new customers, I'd like to point out Mr. Gruber surprised himself: > I am in no way arguing that the MacBook Neo is an iPad killer, but it’s a splendid iPad alterna
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by danhite 8mo ago
Also earlier credit due to Isaac Asimov in Second Foundation [1953] "... The same basic developments of mental science that had brought about the development of the Seldon Plan, thus made it also unnecessary for the First Speaker to us
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by danhite 8mo ago
finally found a non-paywall version of your SDAM [1] cited: (A)phantasia and Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory: Scientific and Personal Perspectives. https://oro.open.ac.uk/53222/1/53222.pdf
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AI and the Coming Cognitive Ecological Collapse (2016)(rsbakker.wordpress.com)
3 points by danhite 8mo ago|1 comments
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by danhite 8mo ago
> AI constitutes a particular threat because no form of human cognition is more heuristic, more cue dependent, than social cognition. Humans are very easily duped into anthropomorphizing given the barest cues, let alone processes possess
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Netflix Ruined Korean Dramas Forever [video](youtube.com)
5 points by danhite 8mo ago|3 comments

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