tsylba

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by tsylba 4d ago
My problem with AI is not that they aren't useful, John. Like everything else in life the question is what we shape ourselves to be as a culture, as a community, what is the path we want to take. It's not on the same scale than di
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by tsylba 8d ago
Yeah, but every activity is a human activity, so you could ditch the adjective. And then the thing with exponential growth is that the last thing is worth than the previous one for its potency for destruction. While it's true that, all
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by tsylba 19d ago
That's nice however I'll be surprise you can patent a few transformation matrices for an effect present in the public Zeitgeist since more than a decade. The core of the technique being Gaussian Splatting I guess I wonder how you&
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by tsylba 20d ago
I am the same, the sad reality is that companies don't (really) aim to change our (old folk tech peoples) behavior, they are aiming to make a new normal for the next generation of consumers.
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by tsylba 1mo ago
Like for an espresso machine or a printer, the incentive is put on the consumables. Peoples trust Steam and their frequent sales, not so much XBox and the rest of the platforms, so if you want to frequently buy a plethora of games, old and
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by tsylba 1mo ago
Wait, you can't play Minecraft on GNU/Linux anymore? I've bought the things for 10 bucks when it was still an alpha on TIGForum, it's been decade since I played the game but it never required us to be on a proprietary pl
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by tsylba 2mo ago
Tangential but I've recently discovered that an app I've written and published on F-Droid has been forked and put on Google Play with ads on by some Chinese forefront along side a lot of other open source apps without any mention
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by tsylba 2mo ago
Are you just posting every links you come across everyday without checking them to farm 'karma'? It's like the fourth entry level computer graphics API tutorial you post in 48H.
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by tsylba 3mo ago
The whole piece feel like vibe farming by some youngling piecing together part of the hacker culture as seen by the media in the 90s with some reddit or vintage tumblr trends on top. I resonated with a lot of themes it tries to capture but
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by tsylba 3mo ago
I'm always saying it's better to finish on a good note rather than a bad one, "<Insert Bad Things> but <Insert Good Things>" (eg. "You're stupid but I love you" vs "I love you but you&#x27
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by tsylba 5mo ago
Frugality is a state of mind, feeling guilty about it is not a frugality problem more than a labeling one. It's the same for climate change, a lot of people want to feel good about themselves labeling them ecological when they're
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by tsylba 5mo ago
I'm under the impression, maybe wrongly so, that every other week we saw a primer on some basic CG stuff: Bézier curves, Fourier transforms, Dithering, Tonemapping, ..etc, of themes being fetched from a pool of maybe 10 items that cycl
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by tsylba 5mo ago
I find it quite interesting that peoples talking on a website called "hacker news" find it fine that a company selling you an OS make it harder for you to install app not approved by them, notably so when there is enough scare scr
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by tsylba 5mo ago
Albeit I agree with the general thesis, I find it funny that the very next sentence after the author say: > the moment I find something that crosses my desk which starts with “it’s not this, it’s THIS”, I immediately click off and move o
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by tsylba 5mo ago
Personally I use stars in two ways: 1) It's interesting and I want to keep track of it for possible future use and 2) It's a fantastic idea and kudos to you even if I'll never use it. As a side note it's kind of disheart
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by tsylba 6mo ago
I can understand how a technology, this one or any others, can be a fun and interesting tool, a creative one even, but a few things bother me a lot about it which all can be summarized as what Ivan Illich called "Tools for Conviality&q
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by tsylba 7mo ago
It's funny and beautiful because I recognized the sounds from my country but less so those from other places, which obviously might be a bias due to me seeing where the pointer is at any moment but can also simply be explained as diffe
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Writers Against AI(paulkingsnorth.substack.com)
2 points by tsylba 7mo ago|0 comments
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by tsylba 8mo ago
This make me think of the GitHub spamming issue. See, my GitHub email is not my main address, and when I got some it's either from a user of one of my repository or from a marketing team that extracted thousand of address from starred
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by tsylba 8mo ago
It's a lot of words to say "it's well done texturing".
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by tsylba 9mo ago
> This is one of the best things about writing online: your future friends will seek you out. Do I live in the same reality as the author? is that really a thing as in "it happens regularly enough to be mentioned as if it was"?
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by tsylba 1y ago
You guys using convoluted git commands when a single line of subversion works: svn checkout https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/trunk/tensorflow/ex...
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by tsylba 1y ago
> Imagine how many small donations are made to some non-profit cause and then up being wasted on paying for fancy proprietary fonts. I can imagine they'll take the angle it helps improve the "brand-awareness" which suppose
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by tsylba 2y ago
I understand it's a meme, but you're not "touching grass" if you need the mediation of an app to do so. It's engineer logic 101, when technically true does not mean ontologically true.
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by tsylba 2y ago
Interesting, in my experience LLMs hallucinate so much on stuffs I know about that I instinctively challenge most of their assumptions and outputs, and found out that this kind of dialectic exchange bring the most out of the "relations
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by tsylba 2y ago
It's funny because I rarely seen this (wrong approach) done anywhere else but I pick it up by myself (like a lot did I presume) and still am the first to do it everytime I see the occasion, not so for optimizations (while I admit I tho
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by tsylba 2y ago
> All of this led to quite a vicious backlash against me personally, with countless angry comments about and directed at me across YouTube and social media, which included many death threats and threats of violence (although I should be
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by tsylba 2y ago
As cool it might get to badmouth the new generation and how everything is getting south, I have found more and more attempts to get back to a more convivial and humane approach to medias, especially of the literacy kind, with Reviews and Jo
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by tsylba 3y ago
Grifter content creator in fear for their revenue stream.
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by tsylba 3y ago
Your writing style is the inspiring level kind.

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