raydiak

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by raydiak 11mo ago
That's a pretty blatant public admission that corporations fundamentally regard intelligent entities as profit sources.
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by raydiak 1y ago
On behalf of the actual majority who lost elections to gerrymandered districts, electorates, and blatant disinformation campaigns...yes this. Me too like an AOLer
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by raydiak 1y ago
Review the guidelines; this type of slander is well afoul of them. Go ahead and get the last word in if that's important to you, as I won't be wasting any more of my time on this thread or your destructive attitude. Comparing diff
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by raydiak 1y ago
I vaguely recall having a few similar complaints about Perl's PDL back in the day. Makes me wonder why we can't also support something closer to syntactically loop-esque constructs to express the same things without the need for s
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by raydiak 1y ago
Calling a spade a spade is not condescending. You still haven't addressed the consequences of NOT doing something about Google's monopoly. You continue to ignore the fact that multiple comments from the person you were originally
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by raydiak 1y ago
Review the guidelines. That level of snark and vitriol is wholly unacceptable on this site. That is why I comment here instead of, say, X. Disagreeing is not condescension. I keep stating facts, and you keep circling back to emotional asper
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by raydiak 1y ago
You still haven't addressed the consequences of NOT doing something. Perhaps you've never heard the expression about "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." It's an aphorism, a
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by raydiak 1y ago
That's a fair point. If we saw a downward trend in google search usage in the last year or two, it might support your theory. Whether AI and search are similar enough to call them competitors, at least right now, is highly debatable. I
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by raydiak 1y ago
The lawsuit focuses specifically on search and search advertising. So the answer to your question is Google Search. Note that a legal monopoly is not the same as the extreme simplification of "zero other options". "In law, a
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by raydiak 1y ago
https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share looks pretty clear to me. If this suit turns into another nothingburger, that moat probably extends from here to the AI apocalypse.
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by raydiak 1y ago
You're not entirely wrong, though I was also playing it up a little. Meant to be read more like a standup comedy bit, some part honest opinion and some part exaggeration. Someone told me a long time ago that laughing at my own jokes is
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by raydiak 1y ago
It is clearly directed at this specific project, given that it is attached to this specific HN item. And grow some manners.
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by raydiak 1y ago
This is a straw man, nobody asserted that the consequences should not be considered. Clearly, whichever way we proceed there will be considerable consequences; I doubt there is any dispute about that. Your argument seems to fail to acknowle
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by raydiak 1y ago
That makes total sense. I can see why many would be more Clippy tolerant if they hadn't had to explain its interruptions to other people and/or turn it off and move on with their day several dozen times or more.
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by raydiak 1y ago
Thanks! Sounds like a reasonable prediction. To me, crazy animated stuff in the wrong context is a component of bad UX. Though I learned web design by interning under a literal Nazi, so my design opinions may be a bit...extreme. Perhaps I c
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by raydiak 1y ago
To me, the value of these types of projects is specifically that they are self-contained and local-only. That's the only kind of interaction with it I'm comfortable with right now. I mostly jumped ship on commercial software a lon
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by raydiak 1y ago
I'm glad! :) I do actually feel some less exaggerated version of what I wrote, but the excess in the verbiage was largely comedic. If you look it up pretty much anywhere, you'll find that there's a very large camp of us Clipp
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by raydiak 1y ago
I'm in the exact same boat as you describe, except it was some other precompiled local-only project instead of this one that I tried a few months ago. That's why I said I like projects like these, because it's a fully private
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by raydiak 1y ago
Which part of my original comment made that a question worth asking? Thought I had already expressed that fairly clearly.
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by raydiak 1y ago
I'm all for these prepackaged local-only AI projects. Much more my speed than corporate cloud services. Real shame this one went down the path of choosing an embodiment that makes me want to shoot holes in my screen. It's even wor
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by raydiak 1y ago
You sure wouldn't want them spying on you, stealing your data, chewing up your resources for shady profit schemes, or making your machine unbootable. Better to leave that to the experts at Microsoft and FAANG since all those features c
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by raydiak 1y ago
Besides the words "Japan" and "solar", the headline has nothing at all to do with the content of the article or technical reality, and sounds more like the beginning of an anime story arc. Like someone prompted an AI wit
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by raydiak 1y ago
While I agree with some of the points here, the aloof tone-deaf consumerist mentality reveals either ignorance of, or more likely indifference to, the transformative juncture we've reached and/or the possible perils. If all you fe
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by raydiak 1y ago
I think you meant "indignant". Besides that, I pretty much agree. Got pretty defensive about the only questioning comment on the post when I looked too. Harsh reaction to a fair point, and then contrary when somebody pointed out i
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by raydiak 1y ago
Far less than double. Putting one rotor directly in the turbulent wash of another is nowhere near as efficient as two well-separated rotors, for a number of reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra-rotating_propell
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by raydiak 2y ago
So everyone's fine installing opaque binary blob drivers which run in kernel space on their desktops and laptops and not even having root access to their own cloud-controlled phones, but some undocumented low-level ESP32 commands which
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by raydiak 2y ago
Silly physicists spent generations trying to confine plasma with magnets and lasers when all along we could have just used plastic wrap.
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by raydiak 2y ago
Exactly. Put another way, tensorflow is not an AI. You can build an AI in tensorflow. You can also resize images in tensorflow (using the traditional algorithms, not AI). I am not an expert, but as I understand, it is common for vision mode
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by raydiak 2y ago
The demo shows deterministic physics with no input, which gives me various suspicions. But I agree, it is clearly updating most or all of the screen for every frame
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by raydiak 2y ago
I don't pretend to know anything about HP calc hacking (did a little TI BASIC for fun, that's not even remotely similar). But doesn't this come up in all kinds of daily situations, graphical or otherwise? You only recalculate

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