thenberlin

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by thenberlin 3mo ago
Two things: A) With great power comes great responsibility + making the world better through eradication of diseases, heightened food and economic security, improvements to the stability of nations, access to shared research and information
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by thenberlin 11mo ago
This is somehow the most Hacker News thread I've ever seen and I love it.
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by thenberlin 1y ago
If an LLM is what's going to teach me a new language, why would I ever pay some middleman $100-200 a year for an app wrapper? This guy doesn't seem to realize that embracing AI-first doesn't just put his employees on the chop
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by thenberlin 1y ago
Entirely uncritical state controlled or substantially aligned media masquerading as news is always bad and should be criticized. See also almost anyone called on in White House press briefings these days. Plus, you are saying it like all pr
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by thenberlin 2y ago
I don't know how long ago that was, but I've been a Pixelmator user for at least a few years, and it's leaps and bounds ahead of where it was when I started with it. Coupled with Photomater -- its cousin app -- they're c
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by thenberlin 2y ago
Though way less likely to turn it into a cursed subscription zombie.
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by thenberlin 2y ago
Putting concerns about future states aside, congrats to the Pixelmator team. I've been using the app for years and it's a really great piece of software, well designed and well built. It's always been incredible value for the
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by thenberlin 2y ago
A deterrent to prevent additional whistleblowers from coming forward? If the issues are as massively systemic as facts to date suggest, it seems like there might be a number of other shoes that could drop. Boeing's reputation (as well
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by thenberlin 2y ago
I don't think you refuted the underlying point so much as gave cause to it. The idea isn't that simply stupid people rise to the top, it's that people who are capable of gaming a system without providing for or attending to t
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by thenberlin 3y ago
Really cool idea and generally solid execution -- I would totally use this. That said, a couple bits: 1. I can't seem to click the events on the map in Safari on Mac. 2. The map doesn't load at all in Brave (I even dropped the tra
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by thenberlin 3y ago
This comment has some real "startup based on some light prompt engineering atop ChatGPT gets put out of business by ChatGPT's latest feature" energy.
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by thenberlin 3y ago
Wow, thanks for that -- that's an excellent slide deck.
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by thenberlin 3y ago
Yeah, no kidding. This is what LLMs are not meant for 101 -- it'll get a lot right, a solid amount of the time (spare me the anecdotes), but the idea that someone who doesn't know anything about a topic should take its output for
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by thenberlin 4y ago
Think "employment contract."
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by thenberlin 4y ago
When you get them all, it's "Queen Bee." I've only ever gotten it once -- for whatever reason, the puzzle just clicked that day -- but it was extremely satisfying.
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by thenberlin 4y ago
Psst, there are actually five.
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by thenberlin 4y ago
Yeah, +1 to Spelling Bee -- that game is great! That said, this post needs a SPOILER tag.
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by thenberlin 4y ago
Big +1 for Code by Petzold. Just started the 2nd edition that came out last month and I'm blown away by Petzold's ability to pack in meaningful, interesting information without sacrificing readability.
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by thenberlin 4y ago
Man, I know this wasn't really the intention of the comment, but I just read through that thread and got a little nostalgic. Crazy that was like 13 years ago. Sheesh.
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by thenberlin 4y ago
Yeah +1. This is impressive and I would have used it in a heartbeat for a new project I'm involved in, but the inability to even consider commercialization means going this route is dead in the water. Will be looking elsewhere.
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by thenberlin 4y ago
Could not agree more. I've shilled it three times in the past week alone. And I've also taken to mentioning it in any README involving env vars. Awesome tool.
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by thenberlin 5y ago
Yeah, same here -- serious 90's nostalgia in the best way. This is awesome.
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by thenberlin 5y ago
Haven't done any codebase spelunking, but their FAQ at the bottom of the page states it pretty clearly: "Who provides the Brave Talk service? The Brave Talk service is provided in partnership with 8x8. And the service is built on
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by thenberlin 5y ago
How is she being cynically abused by the people calling for her freedom? You think that in itself is western propaganda? Also, it's absurd to equate what she's done to any form of violent extremism or the Jan 6 rioters -- that&#x2
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by thenberlin 5y ago
Huh, so trying to open up access to real information (instead of, you know, propaganda) about what was happening on the ground in the early days of a pandemic is now being a "Western propagandist?" Would you have said the same if
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by thenberlin 5y ago
Yeah, the whole "she should be more polite about it, and really she brought this on herself for not accepting the terms of a made-up agreement she was not actually offered that's not actually mentioned in the article" thing i
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by thenberlin 5y ago
Because it's in the article? And you can certainly find out all about it elsewhere on the internet? What are you insinuating as the alternative, by the way? She's doing it for kicks?
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by thenberlin 5y ago
** as the only available form of protest against her detention, arrest and conviction for the sharing of information from ground zero in the early days of what would become a global pandemic
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by thenberlin 5y ago
Well, honestly, this looks not great. The "writing" is iffy and the "facts" in the generated content in demo video are questionable at best. Who would use this besides maybe content farms? I'm neck deep in research
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by thenberlin 5y ago
This is incredibly cool. Looking forward to loading it up. Reminds me a bit of Reaktor's builder environment, but based on that demo video, it seems like a more useable, better thought out version (and you can't beat that price &#

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