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Opinions are my own. Everything I say comes from my fallible human neurons, modulo catastrophic failures of autocorrect.
Well, if it's my memory at fault then I apologize. My memory of the comment I replied to didn't include the initial qualifying phrase with either word choice.
You edited your comment while I was replying, and merely copying the license does not cover many other possible restrictions.
Many open source licenses levy restrictions upon the acceptable use of the software. Those restrictions may include attribution requirements, up to and including a requirement to include the license when redistributing the code; they may forbid using derivative works for commercial purposes; they may require the downstream project to utilize the same license. Open source is not the same thing as "anybody can do anything they want forever."
A FAQ, a tooltip, and attribution at the bottom still don't square with my own personal definition of 'front and center.'
I did use Claude to refine the prose
This is like saying you used WD-40 when brushing your teeth to provide the highest quality cleaning. LLMs do not 'refine' prose, they contaminate it.
(Note that this is not a general purpose argument against the usage of WD-40. But it's an industrial lubricant, not a toothpaste.)
I've heard of this before but never tried it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gitfs
There's some really cool ideas here. Yet, it's very strange to read a post about writing that it's entirely apparent that Claude wrote, without attribution.
The things Claude talks about in this article (and the way it talks about them) mirror my experience with Claude Code, with unit tests and with version control. They come together into a startlingly powerful paradigm.
...But using LLMs for prose? There's a horror to it. A loss of one's voice.
You know what they say, when you presume you make a pres out of u and me
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The short answer is that it's a very, very longstanding convention that would be a nightmare to change and wouldn't provide any benefits. It's hardcoded into the kernel and who knows what other programs will always assume UID 0 -> root.
There's some further reading on Stack Exchange. [1]
1. https://superuser.com/questions/626843/does-the-root-account...
who happens to agree with every talking point of the established media and global bureaucratic regime
Can you point me to where he expressed agreement with the global bureaucratic regime? Interested to educate myself.
Related to that is the ability to watch games using the game-client too.
Halo 3's in-engine replay system was the high water mark of gaming for me.
An oz is ~29.57 ml (mililiters), so I think perhaps you meant that you made 1.7 l (liters)?
I'm in the same boat. The thing is that I like the first half of the animation when it matches the speed to the keyboard gesture. The second half of the animation after you let go, the speed suddenly slows. It feels like an attempt to skeumorphically adapt those drawers you can't slam, that have an air cushion that blunts the momentum and have magnets to draw it the last few millimeters shut.
If I could just "slam" back and forth with the three finger gesture I would be happy. Nothing is going to break from slamming my workspace side to side, I don't need to be protected. Those last milliseconds of the animation, when keypresses still don't point to the target space, are really annoying. I would like to just remove the "air cushion"/modify the bezier defining it. I get how it's supposed to feel 'high end' but it's nonsensical in context and just gets in my way, even if it's in a tiny way.
We’ve created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance threshold: mastery of simple physical tasks. It improves average success rates to 99% on tasks where previous models achieve 64%, completes tasks roughly 3x faster than state of the art, and requires only 1 hour of robot data for each of these results.
Taken at face value, this seems like quite an achievement.
Announcement video: https://youtu.be/SY2xyrmV44Y
As time goes on I watch more and more videos of robots folding laundry faster and faster. Strange to think that one day, maybe not too long from now, people will stop taking videos of robots folding clothes.
I'm able to hit it both on and off my VPN.
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google
https://downdetector.com/status/google/
https://status.search.google.com/
What DNS resolvers are you using? Are you behind a firewall you don't control?
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electrohydrodynamic (EHD) fiber pumps directly into the muscle system, EFMs operate silently and untethered, eliminating bulky external equipment such as pumps, compressors, and tubing that has long limited the portability and practical use of fluidic soft robots.
Science article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438
YouTube demo: https://youtu.be/8h4UEZTyres
I watched this on YouTube the other day. Another beautiful example of the creative power yielded from building within constraints.
"chrome uses 2gb of ram"
these days individual _tabs_ are using multiple gb of ram.
Ctrl-Shift-T usually brings that tab right back at least
The Woes of Writing Markdown (And the wishes of SquiggleMark) is an essay about some of the technical and artistic challenges inherent to writing ergodic text using markup language. I posted her story Weave Me Another Cocoon last year[0], and it's a fantastic example of how art can push the limits of a medium.
But the real superpower of pandoc is that, much in the way switching to neocities escapes the prison-roads of locked down platforms, switching to pandoc escapes at once the restrictions of both rich text and standard markdown.
If you aren’t familiar with my work, then when I said I loved the details disclosure element, or that I’m experimental writer doing creative things, you could have brushed it off as a cute yet idle exclamation or an otherwise meaningless remark. If you aren’t familiar, then gaze upon Weave Me Another Cocoon and let its depths ensnare you.
And that, finally, is what this year started me down the road to writing my own markdown parser.
On my first try I got "British", "You sound like a native English speaker with an British accent."
I'm good a enough actor to fool a robot!
This is a whole project to get into, but what you're looking to do is build a teletype.
https://www.instructables.com/From-Antique-Typewriter-to-a-F...
It can be done, and on the Unix end as long as it's hooked up as a tty you can just dump text into it, but you won't find any simple off-the-shelf modern hardware to do this.
That's hilarious. It's so close!
It's a shame that the four-letter-long username namespace on HN is getting polluted by crap like this.
Do you have a different definition of 'drawback' than I do?
Alas, my think-meat is fallible and forgetful. I shall have to refresh myself and give it another watch.
Quite right; please forgive the error in transliteration.
It's admittedly been years since I saw it; I don't remember the entire mitigating bit about covering for his wife, but a lot went on in that series finale and I've had covid a few times since.
I like your read on their dynamic as foils to each other; I'll have to give it another watch with your read in mind.
Ah, I should have made that clear, yes. We derived some unintended humor from the mismatch in cultural expectations, but Broadchurch is as serious as a heart attack.
(Didn't stop me and my wife from yelling MELLAR!! at each other across the house for weeks afterward.)*
*(He yells his partner Miller's name a lot in his Scottish accent.)
This is directly relevant to my wife's and my reading of the David Tennant & Olivia Coleman vehicle Broadchurch.
David Tennant's character is notably very bad at his job; that's why he got exiled to a backwater town. He bungled his last case so badly it made national news. In an American police procedural, we would either have some mitigating explanation for his failure, or at least some gritty vice or personal demon that was the real reason he got demoted.
In Broadchurch, Tennant's character just sucks at his job. Every episode of the show conforms to a formula where he gets suspicious of one of the other characters in the show and we spend the episode wasting time while it's finally determined that the suspect of the week is actually innocent. I have to say, it makes for entertaining television. It also resulted in my wife and I chorusing aloud, every episode, "he's SO BAD at his job!!"
(Minor Broadchurch spoilers) At the end when he finally catches the big bad, it's not because of anything he did. A coincidence and some carelessness on the part of the big bad lead to the mystery being solved. Also, every other character on the show had already been ruled out.
Since watching it we've kept a lookout for protagonists who embody the "everyman in way over his head who accomplished virtually nothing himself" archetype. It's fun to know Adams held forth on the very subject.