rpdillon

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by rpdillon 3d ago
Yep! We used to call it "twist and shout". Tons of fun.
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by rpdillon 3d ago
> nagging question that if it’s so easy, why would the clients not do it by themselves? It's easy if you're already an expert at software engineering and know how to leverage AI. For people like that, it's a phenomenal upg
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by rpdillon 4d ago
I used to go on here about Sceptre TVs, because they are relatively cheap and dumb as a brick. Was just shopping for one because of this LG news (wanted to replace my old one from 2014), and while Sceptre still lists them on their website,
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by rpdillon 4d ago
Non-drivers benefit from roads and vehicles, since they are part of society. Many non-drivers order from Amazon, for example, and are reliant on someone being able to actually deliver what they ordered. I'm responding to you, because t
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by rpdillon 4d ago
Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. No one reads the ToS anyway. Just stop buying TVs, now that Sceptre stopped delivering the last models of consumer dumb TVs.
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by rpdillon 4d ago
Thanks for posting this. I did a lot of research yesterday into the model card and the implications of the architecture changes they made and I was hoping to find discussion about that here. I haven't seen any besides your comment. V4.
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by rpdillon 4d ago
I'm an OpenCode Zen user and I picked it over Go because opencode actually hosts those models and can make assurances about how the data is handled. OpenCode Go is a subsidized service that sends all of your data out to third-party pro
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by rpdillon 4d ago
They pay scraping sites for results, including SERP API. When I pointed this out, last time Kagi was discussed on Hacker News, an employee of Kagi said that they're trying to build their own internal index, but he didn't provide d
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by rpdillon 4d ago
It's probably mixed. I think Vizio's financial statements suggest they lose money on TVs and make it up on user data, but I'm not sure this holds for other manufacturers. I agree with you that TVs have gotten much cheaper t
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by rpdillon 4d ago
LG's statement: > ACR uses audio fingerprinting technology using the TV’s internal audio processor (not a speaker) to identify content and does not collect screenshots, screen recordings, video recordings, voice recordings, or other
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by rpdillon 4d ago
Agree. I don't think folks think clearly about how their setup scales computationally when they are choosing their stack. I've been writing a lot of software designed for drop-dead simple self-hosting lately (can run CGI-bin or a
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by rpdillon 5d ago
> majority of big tech companies have been treating user data like radioactive waste for 10+ years. They're collecting more than ever.
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by rpdillon 5d ago
Yep, still can't get over how I missed the obvious arrow in the FedEx logo (it's embedded between the "E" and "x") for so many years. Super clever!
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by rpdillon 5d ago
I guess "hype cycle" is an accurate description, but it feels overly negative, in the sense that we now have a revolutionary technology that's still quite young and moving fast, and folks everywhere are trying to figure out h
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by rpdillon 6d ago
All of the early data shows that self-driving cars from Waymo are safer than the average attentive driver. This is not the average driver, since of the 36,000 deaths a year from accidents in the US, about 12,000 of them are due to alcohol o
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by rpdillon 6d ago
> If you react that strongly and violently to the idea of alcohol being banned, you might want to look into your relationship with alcohol. There are two reasons for a violent reaction like this, only one of which relates to your relatio
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by rpdillon 6d ago
Well put!
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by rpdillon 6d ago
Two copies means two copies. I have a copy, my house burns down, your copy is fine. Hashes have nothing to do with it.
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by rpdillon 6d ago
It's great except for the side button durability. I had to throw my latest Pebble out because of that.
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by rpdillon 7d ago
The failure mode is not people that are supposed to work eight hours a day and then only work seven or six. And I don't really think of them as slobs or slackers. What they do is they come into the job and they turn the crank. They don
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by rpdillon 7d ago
Yeah, I'm on Android and I have F-Droid for the time being, and I'm planning to register myself as a power user, but I think the writing is on the wall and the mobile ecosystems. My side projects that I've been building are n
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by rpdillon 7d ago
Sure. I think copyright is broken far beyond just the length of it, but let's focus on the length of copyright. There's a phenomenon called the Copyright Cliff, where works published from the early to mid 20th century are unavail
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by rpdillon 7d ago
For one event, yeah!
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by rpdillon 7d ago
> But i see a very similar trend already in the few months ive been lurking and the few weeks ive been commenting, ive seen what looks like political based moderation rather than conduct based. Good moment to pull specifics from hn.algol
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by rpdillon 7d ago
Yes, I think we agree... I think they're using it for both marketing and to test the viability of it and get player feedback, but I do expect LNF to have at least some substantially similar mechanics to NMS for this reason.
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by rpdillon 7d ago
Ride share companies use all kinds of techniques to off-board drivers that they deem unsafe. This can be as simple as tracking the driving record and accidents, but they also use the accelerometer in the driver app to assess the location of
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by rpdillon 7d ago
Yeah, I meant the marketing effort for No Man's Sky since that's where the money is. They need to continually attract new players.
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by rpdillon 7d ago
The enhancements they're making to NMS appear to be backports from the Light No Fire engine, so my impression is that they are releasing updates to No Man's Sky as a marketing effort while the actual technical work is predominantl
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by rpdillon 7d ago
Same. My side projects are coded almost exclusively with the Deepseek V4 Flash 07/31 in omp, and it recovers beautifully in every case. I'm using OpenCode Zen.
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by rpdillon 8d ago
I think we're agreeing, but you seem to be spinning things: 1. BUSL does not allow production use. Additional Use Grant (optional) is necessary to allow this, and is typcially accompanied by a revenue limit, setting a trap for any busi

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