gabriel666smith

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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
Yeah, I started off with looms too, and got frustrated with them. My current hunch is that it requires a Z axis. Google Earth, for example, manages to convey quite a lot of interesting variables simply (and has maybe been underutilised as a
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
It would be incorrect to amend your work based on the opinions of people who have chosen to spend some of their finite time on Earth being openly rude to you about your work on the internet. If people don't want to use the free softwar
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
You might be interested in language models the same way lots of great artists in the past have been interested in generative art. Burroughs would be an example. More broadly, you might be interested in language models because they are new,
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
There are a lot of negative comments already - many are not in-keeping with the HN guidelines. Hopefully this won't end up getting your Show HN post flagged. The strength of feeling in those comments - such as this one - is really inte
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
Pedal-assist electric rental bicycles are huge here in London. It’s a relatively big city geographically, and it’s really nice to be able to do 5 - 10 miles in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt and not arrive at a social event in a sweat. The
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
When going downhill, any bumps which result in severe movement in the frame that bring the rear wheel closer to the saddle might be problematic, even without full suspension. Hard to say. I’m a road bike guy but I’ve definitely seen some fo
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
>LLMs are the best approximation of magic we have. I don't think the alchemists suddenly became scientists, or died off to make way. It was a gradual transition. They didn't quite work out how to transmute lead to gold, but the
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
Ah, interesting - no idea about mosquito range, or if disease can transmit between mosquitoes, but probably puts a cork in that idea. Thanks!
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
Awesome, thanks for these. I wonder if you couldn’t distribute heavier parts across a swarm - perhaps separating the sender and receiver(s) - running the wave at an angle (or many angles simultaneously) to the surface. The sources mention m
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by gabriel666smith 1mo ago
Whilst being aware that the civilization in question ended significantly before European arrival in South America, I have two questions that hopefully someone smart here can help with: 1. The spread of disease (smallpox specifically) being
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
I was being a tad intentionally ungenerous for fun. Thanks for taking the time to clarify. Your "science made them men" point feels astute, compact, and one that feels familiar, as if I've come across it before in some form,
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
I can understand being interested in it from a Modernist perspective. It's both a new technology that maps a geometry to existing language - which is very interesting from several literary theory POVs - and represents a new kind of typ
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
> Over this period, the number of books with observed sales in a quarter grew 19.2-fold, while quarterly revenue grew only 8.9-fold. That's very interesting, and not as dramatic a dilution as I'd expected over the period (2023
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
> your two examples are of men whose early adulthoods were shaped by large scale global conflicts, yet you totally dismiss the author's idea that the easy rewards of high status and pay in tech could lure young thinkers into a kind
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
Quite. If the author's argument had been: "Gabriel Smith specifically is wasting some of his finite life commenting on this post on HN - which is for nerds" then it would at least have been partially accurate, if a little cir
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
> It's a lot less hard to imagine a person with the potential to be the next Hemingway staying home because they're satiated by diving headfirst into the MCU I disagree - I don’t think the MCU and its ilk are satiating enough i
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
> but instead [the potential intellectuals] are drawn to the easy honeypot of modern middlebrow culture because it is too nerdy, too attractive, too omnipresent, to ever leave. What a strange conclusion. Ignoring auteur theory (the idea
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
My personal politics are very economically leftist - I’m closest to a Luxemburgist. I find this (Nolan as conservative; Bane as Occupy) interpretation a bit tired, to be honest. It’s often repeated but I think it has aged badly. Bane has ‘O
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
lol, nice. I think AMZN can revoke your ownership of my work at any point, but your sale is still chalked up towards the total, which seems more like a very expensive library to me except with no incentives (other than user retention) for A
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
Really nice. I think we might have similar backgrounds. Say hi sometime if you like. Feedback: I couldn't work out how to begin audio - it didn't autoplay in Arc (which might block autoplay) but then maybe is also be hiding some s
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
I’d agree, but would argue that Nolan has a unique (almost Delphic) talent - for better or worse - amongst contemporary Hollywood directors for capturing and reflecting contemporary and near-future textures and preoccupations, and this alon
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
“In book form” is a really important part of what you’re saying. I’d bet that people, on average, read more words per day in 2026 than at any other point in history (unless it peaked slightly pre-TikTok and other video content becoming more
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
I think there are tonnes of errors and repetition at the top of this essay. 'Glorious' repeats across two of the opening sentences, for example. The title, combined with this, has provoked me into live-editing it. I've turned
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
This looks great for accessibility specifically. My fiancee is partially-sighted, so (while not directly related) I'm extremely supportive of developments in assistive tech. There's a lot of difference to people's lives that
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
>So the main reason for a windows view is to use Grok's subscription over the API correct? Yeah, spot on. I literally wrote a Chrome extension to download -> grab last frame -> navigate -> reupload as new start frame, lol.
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
Man, this made me laugh a lot. Thank you for that.
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Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music(github.com)
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
Nice! Because the Grok subscription is the cheapest-per-second video offering (that I'm aware of) but doesn't provide API access, I'm often moving between the browser and editor (typically Final Cut). It feels cheaper by orde
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
Yes - I think the idea of 'citizenship' feels increasingly abstract and outdated to anyone who only rarely noticeably interacts with the entity they pay taxation to, typically solely in moments of extreme crisis. 'Noticeably&
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by gabriel666smith 2mo ago
The metadata matters in a different way. A single piece with a single composer can be interpreted very differently, over time, by different conductors and orchestras. This means classical music is very badly organised in most streaming apps

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