martythemaniak

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by martythemaniak 4d ago
Well, they're all editable, only question is if you like it and if the fruit skinn itself is good. I eat most kiwis with the skin on because it's a nice tart/acidic contrast to soft sweet insides, but some kiwis have extremel
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by martythemaniak 4d ago
Same. I have a promo plan that's currently $3/month, which gets you a model that's almost opus, very fast speeds, and very generous limits. There's no Gemini pro model currently, so you gotta pair that with a 20 openai p
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by martythemaniak 4d ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." A lot of the problems with SV these days is that the exec class (and their fandom) thinks that because they are smart a
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by martythemaniak 5d ago
For real, you just gotta go on Haqq Social and it's just endless deranged AI slop, these people are crazy.
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by martythemaniak 8d ago
This is a great idea! Utilizing the world's most advanced software on piles of the most cutting edge hardware, you could do something amazing like give it "write a simple Web2.0 style page with a list of updates from my friends in
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by martythemaniak 8d ago
I watched South Park for almost 20 years, but stopped about a decade ago. Have the creators ever reconned with their role in normalizing and popularizing.. the current situation? What I mean is, SP is one of most prominent cultural examples
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by martythemaniak 9d ago
Have you ever wondered the same about other scams? Who else do you think was shaped "correctly"? Also, isn't affinity fraud most types of fraud?
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by martythemaniak 12d ago
The intense anti-DC sentiment shouldn't be surprising - NIMBYism is the only viable mechanism available to people in the US. It doesn't matter if you're worried about Glonzo or have real concerns, they must be expressed in NI
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by martythemaniak 13d ago
I reject that for simple reasons of linear time. The GFC happened in 2008 and Dodd-Frank passed in 2010. Since then, there have been no large, notable regulations passed and Dodd-Frank was watered down a bit in 2018. While Sarbanes-Oxley di
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by martythemaniak 15d ago
I'm not disagreeing with you exactly - there are obviously reasons for doing all those things and on the surface they may seem sensible as well. But there are also good reasons why you'd do the exact opposite and my point is that
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by martythemaniak 15d ago
Well, we don't see a slight trimming of workforces, we see 20-80% layoffs in most cases with good financial performance. You see breathless claims of AI doing all the work one year, tokenmaxxing, then less than a year later everybody s
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by martythemaniak 15d ago
I'll give you my diagnosis, which is derived from this: https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-t... The thing to realize about the SV executive class is that they have constructe
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by martythemaniak 16d ago
Some important notes - Google updated their maps faster than the USGS. https://apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ shows Lake Ontario - Google made this decision, there is nothing automated about this - Apple will do this as
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by martythemaniak 16d ago
This may sound a little wacky, but one potential use case I'm considering is robotics. Say you want to use a fine-tuned mid-size VLM model right on the robot. You pretty much have to use the Jetson line, which has a great ecosystem and
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by martythemaniak 19d ago
Framing Trump/MAGA as some kind of divine retribution against the sins of liberals great! All bad things are caused by liberals, because MAGA is mere reaction to their actions. MAGA have no mind of their own, and thus no responsibility
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by martythemaniak 20d ago
> We use AI where semantic understanding and flexibility are useful, such as interpreting less structured information or understanding what in an unfamiliar scene is relevant to a procedure. Once the system knows what physical inter
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by martythemaniak 20d ago
I'm having a hard time seeing the recent AI layoff mania as anything different.
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by martythemaniak 20d ago
There's also a great Great Art Explained feature on her: https://youtu.be/wgSBtXNJjhs
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by martythemaniak 22d ago
Gerrit. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time
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U.S. tried to restrict Canada's ability to get new trade deals(cbc.ca)
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by martythemaniak 25d ago
Question for Americans: do you guys understand what's happening? The thing to keep in mind is that the current trade agreement was negotiated and signed by Trump himself. He has spent the last 18 months seeing what a terrible deal it i
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by martythemaniak 26d ago
I have to post my rant every time Idiocracy gets mentioned, so feel free to downvote (it is the best way to spend my karma!) What we're seeing is fundamentally nothing like idiocracy - the similarities are only surface deep, but the st
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by martythemaniak 28d ago
You got RFK because half the population thought they were unique snowflakes who could not abide by the same simple rules as everyone else. The price he'll extract is significant impacts on health, wealth and well-being.
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by martythemaniak 28d ago
Is that when you entered that era? Or did you enter it when you were a newborn in the hospital, or a kid entering school?
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by martythemaniak 29d ago
If people downvoted pedantry, everyone on HN would have negative karma. No, it's something closer to The Parable of the Green Grocer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless . The MAGAfication
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by martythemaniak 29d ago
Well, there's an unspoken rule in SV/HN circles about when the take Trump's idiocies seriously and when to ignore them. For example, "Gulf of America" and "Department of War" you're supposed to take s
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by martythemaniak 29d ago
> random blogger with high school math literacy He's actually a well-known and widely promoted political activist on X. His niche is using technocratic language and a whiff of 'analysis' to advance MAGA policies.
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by martythemaniak 29d ago
I think declaring the Straight of Hormuz a US territory will solve this problem.
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by martythemaniak 1mo ago
I'm skeptical that you can derive these conclusions from those assumptions. Here in Canada they are required to post the caloric content of the hot dogs, so even a 10% change in content will be obvious. A 37% cut means they would have
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by martythemaniak 1mo ago
For my current project, I tried going with a non-traditional style I personally liked, I call it "Soft Neo Brutalism". You can see it at: http://www.frost-e.com I generally wanted web 1.0 simplicity, lots of contrast,

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