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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
It will make me a mac owner for the first time in 25 years. I was just looking at a mac book air yesterday but I just can't get over the complete ripoff of a memory upgrade from the base model. 16 gig starting at $599. I honestly don&#
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
Murray Gell-Mann - "The quality of information" lecture on youtube from 1997 is also worth a listen. Murray basically points out how much communication in general is really just exchanging errors for no reason. I suspect this is w
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I would personally like to a join a breakaway HN for people who actually want to use these tools. "AI positive Hacker News" or something like that. There is just really not much point in reading anything on AI here. I get it, AI s
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I have been deeply involved with monitoring my diet and nutrition for almost 40 years now. My own metabolism and body is so different than when I started 40 years ago. Current nutrition "science" is basically studying ensembles of
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
There is a problem too that scientism has a dual meaning. There is the belief in science as the best means to get at the truth and then the pejorative of using science as a type of orthodox religion. So for the true believer in the pejorati
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
You wouldn't have to be a professor of music for this. Chopin has a unique style and it is a waltz. This would have been a trivial question for any piano music lover. The only reason I might not have have guessed Chopin first is it see
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
This latest update to Sonnet is super impressive. We are really already past the point of being able to discuss these matters though in large groups. The herd speaks as if all LLMs on all programming languages are basically the same. It is
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
You can't run a 120 billion dollar bond trading operation with like 4 people. That amount of money is a huge amount of work to manage no matter what you are trading. The simple explanation of how they do this is that they don't ha
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
It is a ridiculous article but did you really expect more? Journalism is really a type of opinion piece, social lubricant in 2024. The purpose is so you and I have something to talk about and connect when we would not have other wise. Did e
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
You could even say it started with things like Thomas Paine's pamphlet propaganda. It seems the problem is we have a system that was born from the printing press and this system simply doesn't work in the age of the internet. All
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I think this is actually a deeper issue. The CEO would trust the personal assistant to do this if they have a deep trust in the assistance competence. They would also need to know the assistant has a deep enough understanding of the their p
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
It is clear to me that people who make these comments, simple don't use the models much. To say it is faster to get information from Google than the latest update to Sonnet is simply absurd to me. I might have even agreed a few months
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
These are basically narratives from Romantic fiction of the starving artist that are still being repeated as if they are not just fiction. Of course, the starving artist can not be well paid. That would imply they are not a true artist, the
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
It reminds me when I was young thinking I couldn't get a date because I didn't have six pack abs. Then when I got in really good shape I thought it was because I didn't make enough money. When I started making money I thought
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
It is rather comical. Everyone knows that panning for gold is a fools game so we have a gold pan/shovel bubble. It is like having a massive lumber bubble and calling it a real estate bubble because someday we might actually build those
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I would think there is some kind of information entropy and scaling laws at work. It could all be represented by a graph but it is a huge measurement problem. Minimize the variance of what with a business unit? It is not clear to me there i
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
This type of thinking is why we are ultimately doomed. Yen is not the world's reserve currency. It won't matter until it does. Then the consequences are unimaginably devastating when it does. It will be reflected in the 30 year bo
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
Exactly. I remember the first time someone had an iphone. It was with a whole group of people and everyone was simply amazed by it. The use cases couldn't be more obvious. If you gave me an Apple Vision Pro, I literally have no idea wh
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
An even better example is the city of Chongqing. Looking at pictures of Chongqing from when I was in high school, I would say what stands today is simply not possible. Yet there it is. If you cut out consultancy firms, we would still not be
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I think we need to stop making an argument about personal rights with the drug war and make it about what most of this document is about. The drug war is empowering the most dangerous organized crime gangs ever created. They could be dest
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I am an amateur but the reason I love React is because there is so much learning material. Robin Wieruch's The Road To Learn React book started with building a HN reader. I think Claude/ChatGPT works exceptionally well with React
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
Krita destroyed Gimp years ago. This debate is always by people who obviously don't even use these tools. No one would compare GIMP to Photoshop in 2024 that has any idea what they are talking about.
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I haven't used Photoshop in about 15 years. Gimp was never close to Photoshop Krita on the other hand is basically everything I remember about old Photoshop. Even the keyboard shortcuts are pretty much the same. The price is quite righ
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I think I have only been on camera 3 or 4 times since 2020. The value has always been in the audio or what someone is sharing on their screen. Video is mostly a distraction. If it is my meeting then video is going to be disabled for everyon
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
Absurd comment. No one is going into a hash bar basically to not smoke weed.
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I love it. The only thing I would want different is to maybe give control for the number of stories on the page so I could only view 10 at a time if I wanted? For me it seemed like more effort to skim than HN but I am not sure why that is.
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by shadowmanifold 2y ago
I am on track to lose about 40lbs in 2024 and I suspect the main variable is really as simple as we have mastered the art of making really incredible tasting food. It is so pervasive though it is hard to tell until you go on a really boring