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by opto 3mo ago
As a non-developer who really only uses computers to write and produce documents, why would I use typst over org-mode or $your_fave_markdown + pandoc?
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by opto 4mo ago
When there is a large portion of society that realises this is a way to say, "what if I had every social interaction in the setting I want, with the characters I want, with the response I want, where I say exactly the right thing"
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by opto 4mo ago
This way of encoding numbers is great. I knew the 7-4-2-1-S way to get 1-9 from 5 holes, and it is more intuitive to use, but once you write out the pattern for yours it is also easy to see
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by opto 4mo ago
You could also use Zatocoding, or superimposed codes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superimposed_code ) as a way to 'tag' cards. For example, many research facilities kept a stack of edge-notched cards as a wa
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by opto 4mo ago
What does that really mean though — ten more years of data centers exploiting local communities for their resources will mean that a computer might be able to teach people to tie knots, and reliably check their work... No government would a
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by opto 4mo ago
I mean only that I see no use for it myself, in my own work. I'm sure there are people working in roles around me who believe they get some use out of AI doing their work for them, and they will have to answer to auditors when they fin
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by opto 4mo ago
> AI is a tool. Use it appropriately Yes, but no room is made for people who see no use for it. There is a forced-consensus that this technology is useful, which I have to combat against at work. We teach in a very different environment,
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by opto 4mo ago
I am an instructor who helps deliver an apprenticeship. My new boss has been in our industry for about 20 years and is one of the most respected people in our company. They've just joined us to teach and are off doing a two week course
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by opto 5mo ago
Well in the 90s and early 2000s you really could make money as a small local artist in a niche genre. Think of the people who could cut 500 white labels of their new UK Garage tune and reasonably expect to sell them from the back of their c
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by opto 7mo ago
You just need a tickler file.
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by opto 7mo ago
In a completely different field, navigating ships at sea, the Collision Regulations which define how people must conduct ships at sea, they use the words "Shall" and "May" to differentiate legal requirements and what may
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by opto 7mo ago
Pay licence fee, read BBC news
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by opto 7mo ago
Replying for anyone reading this comment: Le Guin was a Daoist, but also, and concurrently, an anarchist. So much of her writing, especially The Word for World is Forest, parts of Earthsea, The Dispossessed, is informed by her anarchism. Ve
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by opto 8mo ago
I believe this is a solved problem and you were closest with the analog system. I'll outline my system so people might find it: You'll need: - A physical diary to track your appointments - A 'working' box to hold index c
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by opto 8mo ago
The forecastle of a ship is in the forward part of a ship — at the front, not the back. Looking at renderings of cogs, the 'castle' at the stern seems more to anticipate the modern bulk carrier, with an accommodation block with br
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by opto 1y ago
> I wasted several hours on occasions where Claude would make changes to completely unrelated parts of the application instead of addressing my actual request. Every time I read about people using AI I come away with one question. What i
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by opto 1y ago
I work as a merchant seaman and for our regular day's work everyone basically exclusively uses bowlines, round turn and two half hitches, and clove hitches. We'd use reef knots or single sheet bends for joining ropes.
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by opto 1y ago
I think most often people have some vibe coded stuff that kind of does what they want but they don't really understand what it all is and how it works, or any confidence it can be made into something useful, so rather than spending tim
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by opto 1y ago
I think this is a good point because "cheating at the work I have to do, as quickly as possible, well enough to not get fired" is the actual use case for AI for 99% of people. All the stuff you see in this thread about how kids ar
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Making Cut-Ups Like William Burroughs(williamfrancistucker.com)
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by opto 1y ago
Tell us more about the kitchen timer system!
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by opto 1y ago
If it would have taken you days to learn about the topic well enough to write a bad implementation, how can you have any confidence you can evaluate, let alone "correct", one written by an LLM? You just hope you are on a tractor
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by opto 1y ago
Am I being a completely delusional sceptic or do tools like this make no sense to anyone else? If you need AI to tell you about a guest and tell you what to ask them, why are you having them on your podcast? You don't know anything abo
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by opto 1y ago
Looks like a great project, and one sorely needed by people like me who find themselves trying to get hold of old books they can't get in their local library and that are too expensive to buy secondhand.
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by opto 1y ago
I carry 3x5 index cards and a pen with me everywhere I go. When I think of things I need to do, should do, or could do, I write them down. When I get home I see which ones are worth keeping. I put them in a box which has dividers for contex
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by opto 2y ago
I love the early generative artists: - Frieder Nake - Vera Molnar - Manfred Mohr More recently people like Casey Reas, who developed the language Processing, Jared Tarbell ( https://complexification.net ), and Anders Hoff ( https: