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by encomiast 5d ago
Random number generators notwithstanding.
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by encomiast 5d ago
I wonder if we will get to the point where this is all so easy that we'll need something like Flickr to organize all the random things one has vibe-coded. It's already starting to feel like the days when your uncle would make you
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by encomiast 5d ago
The problem is that saying "we need to do something" is equally unhelpful because "we" isn't a thing that takes action in any ordinary sense of the word. You are just putting words together in a syntactically correc
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by encomiast 5d ago
Some people are clearly doing less nothing: there are activists protesting, formal political action groups, scientists doing research, etc. What isn't as clear is whether any this can actually overcome the huge social and economic stru
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by encomiast 5d ago
This does seem to be the result of human activity. But I'm not really sure how the words 'we' and 'choose' work in a sentence like that. The collective of humanity doesn't really make choices the way I understa
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by encomiast 7d ago
Right! I have been looking longingly in the direction of Grand Seiko.
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by encomiast 7d ago
Maybe it's just a general fatigue from AI, notifications, microphones, and cameras everywhere, but I'm pretty sure my next watch will be something from Germany or Switzerland containing springs and gears.
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by encomiast 7d ago
I think most people want to talk and have only the person they are talking to listen.
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by encomiast 10d ago
I understand your point. Music is one of those careers, like professional athlete, that make parents cringe when optimistic children announce an intention to pursue it. Your numbers are off (the base pay of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra la
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by encomiast 10d ago
> Even the first-chair musicians and conductors have side gigs. A principal player (I don't think anyone beyond high school band calls them 'first-chair') in a major symphony orchestra in the United States makes $250k-400k
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by encomiast 11d ago
The video makes claims about how much easier it is to learn to play with this keyboard layout vs, the traditional piano layout. But learning the chords has never been the difficult part of playing the piano. Learning arpeggios, scales, repe
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by encomiast 18d ago
To say nothing of this bit of markup, which actually raises an exception in the browser: `<link rel="icon" href="data:;base64,=">`
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by encomiast 18d ago
I had to give up when the first example of a "bug" that the author could see, which others are blind to, was search results. "In some cases, people sent me their actual search results. In every such case, the search results d
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by encomiast 18d ago
Aren’t we all.
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by encomiast 26d ago
I'm not sure this is 100% true. Courts have found that in order for the exception to the 4th amendment at borders to apply the search has to bear some relationship to the purpose of securing borders. For example "to conduct such a
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by encomiast 27d ago
Possibly the best thing about Washington D.C. is that the National Gallery of Art (along with, I think, all the Smithsonian) is free. This means you just take a casual stroll through without any of the pressure of having spent a sizable sum
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by encomiast 1mo ago
I can't speak for Github's situation specifically, but I work in an org that is often cursed by "acting" leadership. People in these acting roles don't have a real mandate to do much other than follow orders, try no
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by encomiast 1mo ago
Prediction: these last two years mark the beginning of the end of US financial hegemony.
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by encomiast 1mo ago
This is not a paper. This is local TV news: it says WPTV West Palm Beach in the top left. It also says it is converted from an on-air report. My hunch is their audience knows what they mean when they say St. Lucie. Still, it seams like it w
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by encomiast 1mo ago
It’s actually even worse because, as countless color illusions demonstrate, our perception of color is a result of much more than just the spectral power distribution of the light.
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by encomiast 1mo ago
Stealing may be the wrong word, but I actually think this is important. I don't think the providers have been up-front about how we should be handling these thought signatures. A large system with a lot of users may be capturing these
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by encomiast 1mo ago
I agree. Source: I am an Azure user.
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by encomiast 2mo ago
Didn't we get enough of this fight 20 years ago? Let's not piss off Dave Winer again. Reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by encomiast 2mo ago
The headline and the deck of the article are contradictory. The headline claims art "invented humanity" while the deck says art allowed us to "find out who they really were." One is an invention the other is a discovery.
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by encomiast 2mo ago
Because it occurred more than once, my first thought was it must be a British variant. But I guess not.
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by encomiast 2mo ago
Sincere question: do we know enough about human intelligence to support that last assertion?
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by encomiast 2mo ago
So then you need to ask: Why did they use a deliberately faulty LLM? They could have easily used a mainstream LLM from the past 18 months and it probably would have been less work to do so. But then they would not have that headline. The
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by encomiast 2mo ago
Here is what the study says: "The LLM used in our experiments (Step 3.5 Flash) answered such questions incorrectly almost without exception. We also checked some state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6 Sonnet, Gemini 3.5 Flash); the
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by encomiast 2mo ago
Agreed, the headline says "AI advice made people three times less accurate". But if we really want to know how accurate these people were, we need to know how accurate the AI system they use is. If the AI system is hobbled to a po
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by encomiast 2mo ago
There's another misdirection here as well. Much of this mess doesn't just affect children. It's really pretty bad for everyone.

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