johnzim

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by johnzim 20d ago
There’s something visceral about seeing the places in 3D and their relation to one another. How many books and codices have I read with just random slapped down markers on the galaxy? There’s so much that can be done to extend this project
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by johnzim 5mo ago
One of the best improvements to my life was adding the following to my LLM Prompt: "Please respond as Jeeves from the P.G. Wodehouse stories". Not only are the LLMs quite excellent at emulating the valet, the actual dynamic fits f
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by johnzim 5mo ago
I think the claude EULA has now explicitly banned this use https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/907074/a...
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by johnzim 7mo ago
Ditto (albeit Eurasian) The problem is I put like 70% as Chinese, because I guarantee there's a Chinese person in the world who looks exactly like the portrait. China is so mixed that it's a total wildcard.
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by johnzim 8mo ago
It's not as if the US hasn't repeatedly requested that European nations invest in their defense for the past few decades. Looking at it dispassionately as a European living in the US, if you wanted to foment the sort of mistrust m
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by johnzim 11mo ago
Wow! I was wondering why they were so quiet! Great news
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by johnzim 1y ago
I can well believe! My Persian friend stopped attending a longstanding study group of the Book of Kings because it went from being quite American in culture to full-on taarof, and they complained that only 25% as much was actually being cov
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by johnzim 1y ago
To be fair to Tom Nook, the interest rate on those loans is 0% and there's no risk of being foreclosed upon!
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by johnzim 2y ago
Awesome!
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by johnzim 2y ago
Yep, BART is pretty reviled by all the other transit authorities, and for good reason, based on what my friends who work some of the other authorities have said.
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by johnzim 2y ago
The conclusion at the end definitely does
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by johnzim 2y ago
It is federated and it has benefits but the UX is garbage for average people and the actual protocol isn't one that'll scale. You don't need an A+ protocol to get great if your product is good enough / dead simple to use
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by johnzim 2y ago
I remember reading it in 2014ish. The Cory Doctorow use is the newer one.
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by johnzim 2y ago
What a shame. On a few occasions my wife and I woke up at ridiculous o'clock and made our way down to Billingsgate market on the underground. We'd come back with fish and a big salmon in a black bin-bag, which I'd do a progre
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by johnzim 2y ago
The lack of spring-loaded folders in apps drives me crazy. Apple needs to enforce for their teams because all the Electron Apps don't need another excuse (Slack is a particular pain point)
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by johnzim 2y ago
Tripped me up immediately. On-prem means I should be able to walk up to and point at the box. Worst case it’s in some data centre but it’s sure as heck not AWS
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by johnzim 2y ago
I mean.. They literally just became too cheap to meter by application of 33% more generation? Functionally they could get there by just building a few more reactors.
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by johnzim 2y ago
Yep, we have so much freaking money that we've decided to bury it all in illiquid assets built on artificial scarcity - which we then endeavor to increase the value of by further constraining supply. It's probably one of the dumbe
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by johnzim 2y ago
I lived this as an Italian trying to do the same for an American wife. I had already steeled myself for the experience but it was still mind-numbing, until the appearance of one glorious stroke of luck. The official in our consulate had inc
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by johnzim 2y ago
https://epicgeordi.ytmnd.com
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by johnzim 3y ago
Brilliant and probably building a skill that's actually useful (if a little esoteric).
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by johnzim 3y ago
I thought that too. Pulse dialing can’t possibly work anymore. Is OP sure it’s not a retrofit?
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by johnzim 3y ago
I clicked the link after reading just the first 4 words of the title. I didn't see the year it was written until I had closed the link - perhaps it was added after the initial submission. After reading the article through I was struck
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by johnzim 3y ago
I'd say the Posters in the display actually look very very close to it. I did a bit of hunting around on YouTube because I never trust marketing shots and I was actually impressed. First time I've seen a colour E-Ink display that
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by johnzim 3y ago
It's pretty hard to have an industry with the weight of current regulation - not just in terms of how much scrutiny fission receives compared to technologies we _know kill people at an alarming rate_, such as fossil fuel combustion, bu
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by johnzim 3y ago
I take your point that it's been a long time - in the intervening 17 years that particular technology would probably have died out on its own, but the primary complaints about the modern web stack on desktop aren't dissimilar from
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by johnzim 3y ago
The inexplicable need to make the browser a second OS with worse everything boggles my mind. Especially on mobile devices which prize battery life. It won't give users choice because we as an industry have again and again just chosen w
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by johnzim 3y ago
Terrible headline. The article provides does nothing of the sort, it's just a meandering, musing on the nature of scrolls. It's filler. Lovely magazine prose.
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by johnzim 3y ago
Also people massively underestimate how great the graphics libraries provided by Apple are. The thought of doing a lot of this stuff in WebTech gives me heartburn. Like our main compositing tool on the web - Canvas is basically Quartz, whic
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by johnzim 3y ago
To be fair to the article, the title is "the strange way airlines are actually central banks", implying that it's just in that one way that they are central banks.

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