thecosas

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by thecosas 15d ago
Interesting thing to ponder: How much time, money, energy (et al) is being used in the (now) ever-escalating war between generating and detecting AI content? This goes for HR, education, code review, on and on.
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by thecosas 15d ago
I know some would label this view as "Luddite" with derision, but learning some of the background of the actual Luddites, the parallels are hard to ignore. If you're interested, 99pi did a solid episode recently [1]. Yes it&#
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Token economy(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by thecosas 3mo ago|0 comments
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Stop sign(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by thecosas 3mo ago|0 comments
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Ancient Philosophy, in Plain English(thinkplain.ai)
3 points by thecosas 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Biggest Bundle? How everyone is wrong about AI(asymco.com)
3 points by thecosas 6mo ago|0 comments
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The Comeback of Small Conferences(flarup.email)
1 points by thecosas 6mo ago|0 comments
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Misguided Optimization(seths.blog)
2 points by thecosas 7mo ago|0 comments
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Apex: A unified Markdown processor for all major flavors in one C tool(github.com)
2 points by thecosas 9mo ago|1 comments
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How to eat with others – Mike Monteiro(buttondown.com)
2 points by thecosas 10mo ago|3 comments
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by thecosas 10mo ago
Looks like someone made a project to hook LLMs to Zork with some learning along the way: https://github.com/gudlyf/zork_ai_player
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by thecosas 1y ago
Got me with this one.
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Cory Doctorow: "centaurs" and "reverse-centaurs"(locusmag.com)
124 points by thecosas 1y ago|36 comments
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by thecosas 1y ago
Yep, I think vertex is one of the companies trying to tackle an encapsulated set of insulin producing cells. Neat stuff!
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by thecosas 1y ago
Despite that, glad to see it in a human subject. I’ve had T1D for more than 30 years and have seen every headline under the sun with a “cure” always sometime in the next 5 years, so my expectations are properly tempered. Still excited by it
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by thecosas 1y ago
There are also loads of tests for antibodies now; some are even (gasp) free for qualifying people. More here: https://www.breakthrought1d.org/early-detection/#screening-o...
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by thecosas 1y ago
I know a few news sites have low bandwidth versions, which are arguable way better than the auto-play video and ads plastered across their “normal” sites. A couple examples: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr
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by thecosas 1y ago
Perhaps those of us voicing no opinion at all are the crazy ones.
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MyHeritage – Improved LiveMemory(blog.myheritage.com)
1 points by thecosas 1y ago|0 comments
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by thecosas 1y ago
Shows resolved as of Jul 14, 2025 - 23:20 UTC
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by thecosas 1y ago
Looks like they have it listed as of a few minutes ago: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/28r0vbbxsh8f
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by thecosas 1y ago
Looks like this other post hit the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565836
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by thecosas 1y ago
Maaaaybe not https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/28r0vbbxsh8f
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by thecosas 1y ago
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/28r0vbbxsh8f
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by thecosas 1y ago
> But part of the nostalgia of sitting there listening to the rumble of the little hard drive is gone. I remember this being a key troubleshooting step. Listen/feel for the hum of the hard drive OR the telltale click clack, grinding
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by thecosas 1y ago
I can see people using this to have their websites (or apps) fit into the design of Apple's OS 26 design language. Neat!
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by thecosas 1y ago
A neat project you (and others) might want to check out: https://kiwix.org/ Lots of various sources that you can download locally to have available offline. They're even providing some pre-loaded devices in areas where
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The Irrelevance of Hari Seldon(macsparky.com)
6 points by thecosas 1y ago|2 comments
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Ready for Wildfire(readyforwildfire.org)
2 points by thecosas 1y ago|0 comments
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The Seven-Year Rule(macsparky.com)
92 points by thecosas 1y ago|82 comments

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