thom

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by thom 7d ago
AI curated lists of homogenous websites, flayed to their bare bones to inspire the utterly uninspired. The internet is better and weirder than this, even in these dark hours.
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by thom 7d ago
I remember losing sleep when I bought my RTX Pro 6000, but somehow they keep going up in price, and waddya know I’ve even done real work that appreciates the VRAM size.
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by thom 7d ago
What about... queries?
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by thom 8d ago
Well look, the wall is already losing every point by volleying your serve so I feel like I'm on pretty strong ground here already. But give me an exact specification for your curved wall and I'll tell you how I'd beat it.
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by thom 10d ago
How do you disseminate that information to humans?
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by thom 13d ago
Yes? You just hit the ball so that every return is out. It’s very easy.
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by thom 13d ago
I don’t like being this person, but you can very easily beat a wall at tennis.
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by thom 22d ago
Yes. Note taking apps were very much the precursors of modern agentic coding.
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by thom 23d ago
Yeah, I've always had the problem in Emacs that I know some quality of life feature would be possible to implement, but it'd take me hours or days so I just end up going back to work. With gptel, I've been able to really take
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by thom 29d ago
Talking of being softlocked on a boat crossing: https://www.kensblog.com/update-on-our-journey-through-the-n...
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by thom 1mo ago
Still unclear what your point was. There was nothing politically unifying about Brexit. Individual politicians weren’t even consistent in their support or opposition to it. The closest we have to a unifier now is centrist and Left politicia
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by thom 1mo ago
Different cruise in the Bay of Biscay but hello!
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by thom 2mo ago
The problem with sports betting is that if you really want an edge (at least in something like soccer) you could easily end up dropping six figures a year on data licenses to have a decent model and be able to find worthwhile bets across al
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by thom 2mo ago
Cantona.
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by thom 2mo ago
Amazed you’re continuing with this bit tbh.
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by thom 2mo ago
Imagine, if you will, that it's a necessity for a healthy internet forum that people not be performatively obtuse in order to score points. That forum might continue to exist, but it would stop being a fun place to hang out.
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by thom 2mo ago
You’re probably right, but I’d also bet some things that we’re about to sweep aside will turn out to have been necessities and we’ll find it very difficult to bring them back.
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by thom 2mo ago
My first job out of university was with a large local news organization. It's the only place I've worked that had beer on tap in its cafeteria (from 11am). You haven't seen workplace alcoholism until you've worked with a
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by thom 2mo ago
Allowing bad actors to act badly against all but the most sophisticated users is exactly where lawmakers should be stepping in. Sorry you find that controversial.
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by thom 2mo ago
A lot of UK sites (Reach local news stuff) now explicitly say take cookies or pay, which tbh I always thought was illegal.
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by thom 2mo ago
Not everything is about taking information in?
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by thom 2mo ago
Perhaps I am the only person well served by the modern music industry, but I absolutely love Apple Music. The new music playlist it gives me each week has introduced me to hundreds of new artists and dozens of songs that rank up there with
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by thom 2mo ago
Ah yes, the missing seventeenth way to validate function parameters.
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by thom 2mo ago
Always loved this. There are still parts of the UK where you’ll have no data offline navigation is great, and the walking paths are better than you can get elsewhere.
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by thom 3mo ago
I quit in June. No real absurdity, I'd just spent two years after we were acquired feeling bad about leaving and abandoning everybody, or that's what I'd tell myself to not feel like a coward. Either way, out now, trying to b
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by thom 3mo ago
I loved Bazzite for hardware compatibility out of the box but the necessity of flatpak made it enormously inconvenient as a general machine. CachyOS sounds worth checking out if I still want to game but also occasionally do real work.
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by thom 3mo ago
Do we have a sense for what proportion of text is actually retrievable from these scrolls?
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by thom 3mo ago
Sure as shit won't answer them without that though.
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by thom 3mo ago
I agree that saying that they have now trained on lots of proprietary data allows them to muddy the legislative waters further than they already have. What a happy coincidence!
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by thom 3mo ago
No, you just parroted an increasingly popular talking point, the entire purpose of which seems to be to absolve AI companies of the enormous theft that put them in the position to hire experts in the first place.

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