johnecheck

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by johnecheck 9d ago
How much time, money, and human effort has been spent on the Pepsi/coke advertising arms race? All for what? To maintain the same market share they've had since the 80s? What a waste.
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by johnecheck 25d ago
Usually? Dude, you're implying that most impoverished people deserve it without providing a shred of evidence. You saw it, huh? Sorry, idk what you saw, but your anecdotes are no basis for making such a sweeping and important claim a
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by johnecheck 1mo ago
I'd imagine the operational capabilities of nuclear submarines are somewhat confidential.
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by johnecheck 1mo ago
Depends on how well the canister insulates it. Steel conducts heat fairly well; it'd get hot inside but I'd guess some airflow around the canister would probably keep it from getting hot enough to cook the electronics. (definitely
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by johnecheck 1mo ago
Given that his company has already released open models, I find it funny that, as you described it, his remark communicates absolutely nothing whatsoever. Not sure what the question was, but this was an artful non-answer.
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
Better be using ghostty ;)
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
> Are they actively working against PWAs, or are they refusing to spend resources supporting another technology? What difference does it make? I'm hardly surprised that they won't dedicate engineering resources to tech that thr
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
We don't actually disagree, our definitions of 'web app' and 'browser' just differ. Personally, I find it absurd to say that PWAs (progressive WEB APPs) cease being web apps when installed, but whatevs. The importan
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
Wow I had no idea, thank you for your well-reasoned critique! I can tell you're very capable of evaluating the merits of complex socio-technological systems. Your wisdom is unparalleled; now I see we all should just keep using X and Gi
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
Installed PWAs still run in a browser, they just don't show you the address bar so it looks and feels like a native app. (UX) To all your points about a 3rd party intermediary, fair! Such an intermediary can be valuable. But whether we
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
> If you do it like this, then I count it as a mobile app, not a webapp. This is pretty funny distinction to make. It's hardly a surprise you find web apps inferior if you define them so. Whether through a store or browser, your com
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
Why?
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
There are many reasons to prefer an app, most of which are ways OS makers have crippled web apps for reasons that TOTALLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO with the fact that they get a 30% cut if the user chooses the native app.
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by johnecheck 2mo ago
Is there a relevant recent HN discussion or is this comment just in bad faith?
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by johnecheck 4mo ago
Not saying you're wrong, but I'll note why inference might dominate despite everything you mentioned. A given model is trained once but applied N times. A large enough N will dominate training, no matter how complex and costly it
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by johnecheck 5mo ago
Huh. What are the odds two chess-themed roguelikes launch the same day? I haven't played either yet, but I assumed this was about Gambonanza when I read the title. ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509230/G
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by johnecheck 5mo ago
sifa.id aspires to that. Wishing Guido (gui.do) the best.
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Bots Among Us(7hird.dev)
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by johnecheck 6mo ago
Seems like the solution is to either not incriminate yourself online or get plausible deniability with a pseudonym.
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by johnecheck 6mo ago
Personally, I really like that my feeds aren't getting that level of granular detail. I prefer the explicit control I have with 'Show more like this' and 'Show less like this'.
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by johnecheck 7mo ago
You're describing Liquid Democracy[1]. Seems challenging to implement but definitely an interesting idea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
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by johnecheck 8mo ago
Trust is subjective! Let's establish trust in each other rather than rely on one-size-fits-all solutions. Personally, I trust my friends, family, and some public figures and institutions to varying degrees. I want to see social experie
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by johnecheck 9mo ago
It's X, not twitter. That system is directly controlled by a single man for his own benefit; we should use the name that reminds us of that. He openly promotes himself and those that pay him. If you think Musk doesn't have an admi
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by johnecheck 9mo ago
We're not sinister, we just have these metrics that we prioritize at all costs, up to and including child well-being!
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by johnecheck 9mo ago
> There are trust issues all the way down. Nonetheless, we must somehow build trust in others and denounce the undeserving. Some humans deserve trust. Will these AI models?
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by johnecheck 9mo ago
That's unbelievably stupid. But then again, so is not renting out the space at the market rate so you can pretend it's worth more than it really is. So... good luck, I guess?
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by johnecheck 9mo ago
If someone generates a massive essay with AI, you don't have a moral obligation to do anything. If you want to argue that the reasoning in the essay is incorrect, I do expect you to refute the reasoning instead of merely attacking the
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by johnecheck 9mo ago
> Even if the conclusion is broadly correct, that doesn't mean the reasoning used to get there is consistent. This is the conclusion of a reply that focused entirely on critiquing OP's style/AI use instead of their reasoni
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by johnecheck 10mo ago
I strongly suspect it's the latter, though someone please chime in if I'm wrong. Even so, this is a real advancement. It's impressive to see existing techniques combined to meaningfully improve on SOTA image generation.
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by johnecheck 10mo ago
It's funny, this release comes right after the Gemini 3 release that coincided with day 1 of Microsoft's Ignite conference.

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