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by taffydavid 2mo ago
Francisco de Cuellar survived in Sligo, and escaped inland to O'Rourke's Castle where he got refuge and found 70 or so other Spanish survivors. The path he took from the shore inland is marked to this day by signposts and you can
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by taffydavid 2mo ago
Someone's already built #1. I've seen the demo, and it had a wow factor, but ultimately I don't think it'll revolutionize games. Would Skyrim be better if you could talk to ever guard about what they had for breakfast? W
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Zuckerbergs ineffectiveness was evident long before the examples mentioned in this article. He failed to counter the rise of Twitter, failed to combat misinformation during elections, directly contributing to the result of the brexit refere
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Spec driven development can help some, even for brownfield projects. You can have an LLM swallow up your entire project and spit out a spec, and then review that yourself. For any issue, start a brand new context, point it to the spec, expl
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
"I won't let a human clean my house because AI companies might be paying them to help train future housework robots" is some nuclear grade paranoia.
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
You're right to push back
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Great, now do a lawn mower!
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
If we ignore the price, which is astronomical and silly, then everything else is forgiveable, I think. Yes it's made from plastic tarp, which makes it lightweight and easy to manufacture or repair. Yes it's got low potential at gr
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
The price does seem steep for something so simple it could be modelled with straws in three minutes, but I don't really understand the rest of the negativity. Don't we want innovation in renewables? Shouldn't we be encouragin
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Back before LLMs they were stuffing Cortana in there. I don't know if they ever marketed that as AI but it was named after an AI character in a video game
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
I used to have a custom ISO of Windows XP using Barts PE and a bunch of other tools. It would install a fairly stripped version of the OS that ran really well on old hardware. I probably still have it somewhere, but I still ended up on Wind
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
The sad truth is Microsoft is so heavily invested in and indebted by AI, advertising and telemetry that the only way Windows lite would ever get the greenlight is if the company tanks, loses billions and pivots away from everything they&#x2
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
> Exactly, we need Windows Lite! Just Win32, media encoders, graphics drivers, CoPilot, and enough to run movie maker and Office, the rest is useless anyway! I know you're trying to make a counter point, but nobody wants copilot. Ou
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
What about electric babies
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
I think it's ironic because the old man is schooling the kid, but the kid in that scene literally wrote the words for the old man. Maybe irony is too strong, but it's amusing at least
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
I always thought it ironic that this beautiful speech about life experience was written by 2 20-something "scared shitless kid"s for Robin Williams to deliver.
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Fosslinux sucks on mobile web. Sentences flow off screen and you can't resize to read them. I haven't seen anything so bad in a long time. Had to use Firefox reader mode just to be able to read it
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
I love on-device transcription apps, but this looks like yet another AI generated whisper wrapper. I'm put off by the readme which is clearly LLM generated, with emdash all over the place and bits that smell of user questions turned in
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Its nice to see HN not shitting the bed over every openAI announcement anymore. Maybe we're finally taking these things with a pinch of salt
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
I think it was more that the change required was relatively simple, and the industry was sort of already phasing out CFCs anyway. Banning them in fridges and aerosols was mostly frictionless and a win for everyone. Turning the entire planet
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
People seem to (in)conveniently have no service in movies a lot, exactly when they need it
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
> That’s not even to speak of all the movie plots that would have been ruined. I clicked on all the links. Pretty much all of those movies could still work with wired technology. Even the one called cellular, in which a woman is trapped
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
If only climate change was as easy a solve
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
> Now is probably a good time to liquidate your pension, fly to a remote island somewhere, and live out the remaining 6 months or so of civilization in peace. > So maybe the open source apocalypse won’t happen yet. Sorry I wasn't
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Totally agree. That first chart is just four vertical lines, I can't figure out what the hell I'm supposed to be looking at without reading the article.
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
You think Web pages, crud and gui are a narrow use case?
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
If we were going to ban technology because it helped people make bombs we wouldn't have access to much anymore.
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
It could have, but George R R Martin famously uses Word Star and he surely has all that. Then again he's also about a decade late with the next book
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
Still sort of blows my mind that people regularly pay 600+ for new phones, and that's not even considered expensive. I've only ever bought refurbished or budget ones
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by taffydavid 3mo ago
This story can be found on plenty reputable news sources, can we please not give traffic to a hate speech rag like the daily Mail?

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