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by disqard 13d ago
This entire thread is amazing! It's like a kaleidoscope: Human words --> LLM Training --> chatbot-isms --> lovely parody catch-phrases (and this thread will get ingested soon, and be used to train...)
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by disqard 1mo ago
I didn't see anyone else link Keiji Matsuda's "Hyper-Reality", so here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
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by disqard 1mo ago
Yeah, Scratch helped bootstrap so many folks, but that was a generation ago -- I can't imagine exhorting children to learn to code with Scratch (or any other Visual Programming Language) in good faith today. If you're trying to ge
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by disqard 3mo ago
Yup, Dilbert's "easiest round of layoffs ever".
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by disqard 3mo ago
I have done the same for many years now, and I feel like it's going to be an annoying false positive for people like us. I remember when the "hacker vs. cracker" distinction went away because Hollywood co-opted the former and
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by disqard 3mo ago
Insightful, and scary! Imitating an imitation machine... even if no one is trying to intentionally do so, McLuhan's "we become what we behold" is inescapable.
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by disqard 3mo ago
Under-rated take, thanks for stating this! Not everyone can plough $$$$ into hardware right now (more power to those who can), so choosing to rent is an A-Ok strategy.
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by disqard 3mo ago
This sounds like PG's essay on the front page (today or yesterday).
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by disqard 3mo ago
"In many places birth rates are plunging despite marriage remaining near-universal and even though few women have formal jobs." This is not just about women entering the workforce, etc. Something is affecting Human society more &q
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by disqard 4mo ago
Good luck! Big fan of your work for many, many years. Thank you for the amazing resource that is Adafruit.
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by disqard 4mo ago
I'm so sorry to read about your experience in this thread. I will comment, that once you left, the next person who joined won't have the benefit of your experience, allowing them to be similarly exploited... and the cycle continue
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by disqard 4mo ago
I think GP is also specifically alluding to a recent surge of feeling like we're living in a post-Truth society now.
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by disqard 4mo ago
I'm not advocating for being this way... but if you're starting a company primarily so you can have an "exit strategy", then it is natural to primarily virtue-signal to Wall St (instead of "solve a real problem&qu
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by disqard 4mo ago
Among the tech giants, what is Meta's "AI play"? Is it: "we'll serve Black Mirror ads (generated via AI) into people's AR/VR glasses, since they'll wear them all the time"?
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by disqard 4mo ago
> bot behavior Freudian slip?
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by disqard 4mo ago
That's a pretty good steelman. I do think there's a gestalt (esp. among younger folks) of "AI is bad", to put it bluntly. An anecdote I saw today was: parent: we're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight. kid: oh
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by disqard 4mo ago
I imagine the meme "you are like a little baby, watch this", as the POTUS performs over 3700 trades.
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by disqard 4mo ago
He's smart! This is how one converts insider information into money. He also does not pay taxes! That makes him a good businessman. /s
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by disqard 4mo ago
Your comment made me go read TFA, and yes, that is rather pretty handwriting.
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by disqard 4mo ago
Your argument has merit. I'm just going to point out that NCSA Mosaic was released in 1993, and the hand-wringing over it being an absolute memory pig is more 1999 than 2019. But your overall point is well-taken.
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by disqard 4mo ago
I recommend this too! I like my Dell Precision T7910 (dual-socket Xeon FTW) a lot. What are you using?
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by disqard 5mo ago
I love this too! What do you think of the "halfway faked" devices like the Yoto player [0]? My kid uses it to listen to audiobooks -- it has no actual content on the card, just rfid telling the device (now set this as the current
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by disqard 5mo ago
I'm loving the Wodehouse references in this thread. In case there are folks unaware of it, there is an excellent TV series called "Jeeves and Wooster" (Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) -- highly recommended!
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by disqard 5mo ago
Right, I've also heard your (1) above expressed as "she basically stole from the wrong set of people -- rich and powerful". Kinda-sorta off-topic (but not really), it reminds me of Charlie Javice. She sold a database of colle
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by disqard 5mo ago
Maybe not bragged "we made them dance"? That gloating aged poorly.
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by disqard 5mo ago
Thank you for sharing your personal experience! I often think "I should get me one of those" (MNT Pocket, or similar form-factor), but with my visual acuity getting worse (got my reading glasses in the past year), my X1 carbon mig
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by disqard 5mo ago
Elon can remain a successful bs'er longer than you can remain solvent... or something like that.
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by disqard 5mo ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. So, lately I've been trying to decouple AI from Capitalism, and it's starting to explain a lot of things, like: * excessive hype * doing layoffs, and scapegoating AI * pushing AI
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by disqard 5mo ago
Wow, looks like you've put a lot of thought into this! I skimmed the breakdown, and you've inspired me try something along these lines... Thank You For Making And Sharing :)
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by disqard 5mo ago
I was trying to figure out why this article got flagged. Thanks!

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