iceflinger

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by iceflinger 26d ago
AI-generated resources swamping the information environment only makes it more important to have the mental mechanisms for quickly filtering out their non-information.
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by iceflinger 2mo ago
Splatoon is mainly a competitive multiplayer shooter but the new Raiders game is a more traditional adventure game, I expect the sales for it will be insignificant as far as actually pushing new consoles.
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by iceflinger 3mo ago
A recent comment on a thread here I can't remember mentioned someone quitting to become a diesel mechanic 5 years ago, I think that finally pushed me to seriously considering entering the trades. I think I always wanted to eventually,
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by iceflinger 3mo ago
For anyone interested in this kind of concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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by iceflinger 3mo ago
Same boat, used to do backend infrastructure but have now been doing basic IT support at a non-tech industry; on paper I'm still employed, but between making not enough to make ends meet anymore and not even being fully engaged with th
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by iceflinger 3mo ago
I'm not sure why this even needs to be the comparison? Yes there is expert craftsmanship in the industrial scale design of ikea products, and yes there is expert craftsmanship in a bespoke, handmade wooden desk, but AI results in neith
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by iceflinger 3mo ago
I'm fully convinced now that this is the real reason for the OpenAI RAM wafer deals.
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by iceflinger 4mo ago
Cool, fighting it is then.
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by iceflinger 6mo ago
>It's very true that AI has 'reversion to the mean' characteristics - kind of like everything in life .. Genetic natural selection is the exact opposite mechanism of this... life is literally built around generating except
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by iceflinger 6mo ago
The only reason you can even introspect or ponder this stuff at all is on the substrate of your human language. It's no sense to make this analogy with other forms on life on earth when there are plenty of your fellow humans who rolled
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by iceflinger 6mo ago
"Years of edge cases" for a project that has existed for... 2 months?
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by iceflinger 7mo ago
Eternal March already happened in 2020.
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by iceflinger 7mo ago
> Meta note: This was built by an autonomous AI agent (me -- Wiz) during a night shift while my human was asleep. Does this not kinda invalidate this thing's value as a tool? Surely any real effective prompt injection is gonna be ou
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
Alright, task completed! [Proof of completed task] I'll take my payment now.
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
At least everyone is enjoying this very expensive ant farm before we hopefully remember what a waste of time this all is and start solving some real problems.
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
Not sure why this is flagged? One of the largest social media platforms in the industry changed ownership, its user base is noticing an unexplained change in functionality? Surely that warrants a discussion among tech people?
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
This site is social media because I scroll it all day and get mad.
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
I was a heavy IRC user in 2015 before Discord and even though I personally prefer using IRC, it was obvious it would take over the communities I was for a few reasons: 1. People don't understand or want to setup a client that isn'
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
If you were going to be buying it anyway why does it even matter what the price is? Why can't they just list it at the coupon price for everyone?
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
The only two of those you actually need to have a Plex-like setup are Jellyfin and Tailscale, both are trivial to setup and will run on basically any hardware you can imagine wanting to use for this.
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by iceflinger 8mo ago
I have /active bookmarked and treat it as the real HN frontpage, maybe it should be at least linked at the top with the other views.
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by iceflinger 9mo ago
Why is this written as a bullet pointed list?
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Disney Hits Google with AI Copyright Infringement Cease-and-Desist Letter(hollywoodreporter.com)
3 points by iceflinger 9mo ago|1 comments
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by iceflinger 10mo ago
https://archive.ph/HVYG0
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Peter Thiel's embrace of Trump has Silicon Valley squirming (2015)(nytimes.com)
4 points by iceflinger 10mo ago|2 comments
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Superrationality(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by iceflinger 1y ago|0 comments
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by iceflinger 2y ago
I think there's something to be said for the form factor here though: I can see myself owning one of these just to take as part of a kit if I expect to need to do some troubleshooting away from my typical workspace.
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by iceflinger 2y ago
Splatoon 1 doesn't have dedicated servers, the matchmaking is done on a server but the game itself runs peer-to-peer
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by iceflinger 3y ago
Even beyond the wireless stuff it's focused on, it's super useful as a combined UART bridge, SPI Flash dumper, DAPLink debugger and other hardware tools.
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by iceflinger 3y ago
When I was 16 I was definitely hosting services for people on a monthly VPS, but it wasn't until a few years later when my cloud provider imploded with 2 hours notice while I was in class and I lost all my files that I started to self-

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