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by rogual 7d ago
I wonder if it's still the case that, if I buy expensive Apple AirPods to use with my expensive Apple computer, I'm denied the ability to add them to Find My unless I also buy an expensive Apple phone. And I also wonder whether th
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by rogual 7d ago
I read the article. I read every word. Every sentence. Short little sentences. Some had three words. Some had four. But here's what I learned. Every sentence was dramatic. That rhythm! You're walking and talking with someone. They
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by rogual 2mo ago
I can honestly say I've never seen a young man with "GRIND HARD" tattooed across his forehead.
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by rogual 3mo ago
Scroll scroll scroll.. I'm sure the article will tell us what he said, won't it? Scroll, scroll.. won't it? Reader, it didn't.
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by rogual 3mo ago
I have a cron script which configures a today-only email address in Postfix. Mail sent to t20260617@foon.uk will reach me, but only for today. So, any time I'm giving away my email address against my will, which is most of the time, th
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by rogual 3mo ago
Wouldn't get nearly as much engagement.
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by rogual 3mo ago
"Loaded dice, rolled one word at a time" is when I twigged it.
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by rogual 4mo ago
If we had this tag it might also stop the comments from turning into another Great AI Debate every... single... time... It's lovely to see some Pratchett on HN, a nice chance to talk about our favourite Discworld books, but then the to
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by rogual 4mo ago
I agree, I think that's a good summary of the comments. It's more like: Person: Finds the article beautifully written. Comments: Doesn't find the article beautifully written. Now Comments looks less like an unreasonab
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by rogual 4mo ago
I must concede that when you take what I said and spell it wrong, it does indeed look very silly. It's a good point, and one I hadn't considered.
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by rogual 4mo ago
Are the comments really saying that? That the person isn't allowed to think it's beautiful?
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by rogual 4mo ago
How to get your AI company's blog to No. 1 on Hacker News: 1. Pick an author nerds like. 2. Tell Claude "Write an article about Terry Pratchett, in his style." 3. Don't even fix the faux-witty phrases that, upon closer i
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by rogual 4mo ago
The funny thing is, Pratchett would have a field day with this. I can imagine it now, one of his golems starts writing these bizarre things and becomes a literary sensation in Ankh-Morpork, and there's like one actual writer, William d
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by rogual 4mo ago
It's not remotely beautifully written. It reads as if someone prompted "Write an article called I Miss Terry Pratchett, and write it in his style." It's full of attempted Pratchettisms that, if you're paying attenti
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by rogual 4mo ago
Man I would love that tag. As an enjoyer of Pratchett's witty prose, seeing this is just sad.
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by rogual 4mo ago
I'm really surprised to see everyone praising the article. It's... it's slop, isn't it? > And then there are the memories [...] that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking ov
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by rogual 5mo ago
Fellow former British schoolkid here. One part that really sticks in my memory about "IT" class was when they were preparing us for an exam that asked "which of these are functions of an image editor" and we had to memor
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by rogual 5mo ago
What I'd love to see is videos of nontechnical folks using language models to create software. When I use them myself, I just see them crushing it and think, this thing is now doing my job for basically $0, I am no longer economically
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by rogual 5mo ago
Worth also noting that this chart has the bottom of the Y-axis cut off, exaggerating differences and making visual intuition basically useless.
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by rogual 5mo ago
First few paragraphs I was trying to guess how this was going to turn out to be a metaphor for AI. The modern disposable product is the LLM, right, and the cloth diaper is doing things yourself? But, no, it really is just an article about b
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by rogual 5mo ago
Inscryption, too. I didn't know it started as an LD game until after I played it, and it was great to see how much of the atmosphere and mechanics were already there in the LD version [1]. [1] https://ldjam.com/events&#
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by rogual 5mo ago
This is one of those bugs that taught me something, so I did this writeup. I hope it's interesting. I tried to write it like a murder mystery, showing you the bug first and then dropping clues until the reveal, so maybe if you're
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I learned something about GPUs today(foon.uk)
3 points by rogual 5mo ago|2 comments
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by rogual 5mo ago
I've been updating my game Blackshift ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/741110/Blackshift/ ). It released in 2020 but I've never stopped adding things and tweaking it. Recently I added mirrors that
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by rogual 5mo ago
I took the pilot one as an abstract logic type question where you're supposed to assume the premise is true, so I said yes and the page said I was right, because that's a "valid logical deduction" or something. Then ther
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by rogual 6mo ago
Weird article. The author talks about Unicode "public use areas" (which don't exist), clarifies that they're sometimes called "public use access" (a term appearing only in this article) and are invisible while
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by rogual 6mo ago
Good article, and I feel your pain. Sometimes it feels like there's no point creating anything anymore, because shitty people will just steal it. In case you're interested, though, I just wanted to point out that there are things
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by rogual 8mo ago
140. Good fun. I like how it teaches you things, too. I learned that toads are considered frogs, axolotls are salamanders, and that it's "anemone" not "anenome". If you type in Unicorn it accepts it as "Unicorn
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by rogual 10mo ago
It seems like AIs work how non-programmers already thought computers worked.
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by rogual 10mo ago
I don't have much to add to this right now other than to say this is really fantastic writing. I don't normally enjoy "my journey" kind of blog posts, but this one feels full of valuable insights, and I'm grateful t

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