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Francisco de Cuellar survived in Sligo, and escaped inland to O'Rourke's Castle where he got refuge and found 70 or so other Spanish survivors. The path he took from the shore inland is marked to this day by signposts and you can follow it yourself. Granted he didn't leave us a Strava trail but roughly speaking we know the way they went.

We know what happened to him in amazing detail because he escaped north, to the Hebrides, through Flanders, Dunkirk and eventually back to Spain where he lived out his days.

O'Rourke was executed by the English for harboring survivors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Cuellar

Someone's already built #1. I've seen the demo, and it had a wow factor, but ultimately I don't think it'll revolutionize games.

Would Skyrim be better if you could talk to ever guard about what they had for breakfast? Would you ever be able to shake the knowledge that it's just an LLM pretending?

I'm not sure how best to put this. I think for me at least, I get the most enjoyment out of discovering my way through a story that somebody else wrote. This is maybe why I don't like multiplayer games as much a single player experiences. I want another human to tell me a story, and I love the feeling of uncovering the little pieces of story and wondering if I've got it all and how much more there is. If an LLM is just randomly making it up as it goes, I'm not discovering anything. I'm not hearing a story. Instead, I'm just having a transient conversation with myself.

I guess it's equivalent to the difference between visiting an art gallery, versus watching a computer generate fake paintings. One has human intent behind it and that makes it compelling, the other is soulless and empty

Zuckerbergs ineffectiveness was evident long before the examples mentioned in this article.

He failed to counter the rise of Twitter, failed to combat misinformation during elections, directly contributing to the result of the brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump in 2016

Spec driven development can help some, even for brownfield projects. You can have an LLM swallow up your entire project and spit out a spec, and then review that yourself.

For any issue, start a brand new context, point it to the spec, explain the issue and explain if it's a regression.

Also on it might seem like an obvious one, the more test coverage you have, the more your llm can tell if something has broken or if there's been a regression without needing to eat up context.

All of these things can help but there's no perfect solution.

"I won't let a human clean my house because AI companies might be paying them to help train future housework robots" is some nuclear grade paranoia.

You're right to push back

Great, now do a lawn mower!

If we ignore the price, which is astronomical and silly, then everything else is forgiveable, I think.

Yes it's made from plastic tarp, which makes it lightweight and easy to manufacture or repair. Yes it's got low potential at ground level but that makes it far safer and simpler to install.

This design or a variation of it could be built with PVC pipe and plastic bags and deployed in a field for next to nothing, bringing power to a community that didn't have any.

It's insanity to want to charge near 5k for this, but if this was an open source / free thing we'd all be championing the ingenuity

The price does seem steep for something so simple it could be modelled with straws in three minutes, but I don't really understand the rest of the negativity.

Don't we want innovation in renewables? Shouldn't we be encouraging this kind of thing, trying out different designs to the traditional windmills and trying to make something easy to build, scale, install and operate?

Back before LLMs they were stuffing Cortana in there. I don't know if they ever marketed that as AI but it was named after an AI character in a video game

I used to have a custom ISO of Windows XP using Barts PE and a bunch of other tools. It would install a fairly stripped version of the OS that ran really well on old hardware. I probably still have it somewhere, but I still ended up on Windows 10 because most of the software I wanted (games, electron apps) wouldn't work on it anymore.

But I genuinely miss having the ability to take the bloat out before you ever install the OS

The sad truth is Microsoft is so heavily invested in and indebted by AI, advertising and telemetry that the only way Windows lite would ever get the greenlight is if the company tanks, loses billions and pivots away from everything they've been pushing for the last decade.

And then maybe we could get the dream that is Windows lite

Exactly, we need Windows Lite! Just Win32, media encoders, graphics drivers, CoPilot, and enough to run movie maker and Office, the rest is useless anyway!

I know you're trying to make a counter point, but nobody wants copilot. Out of everyone I've talked to in the last year, across a broad spectrum of Windows users from sys admins who make me feel like a caveman down to my parents, nobody trusts AI and nobody wants AI in their OS or apps.

An AI free Windows would be an instant hit, but it would fly in the face of everything Microsoft stands for, so for that reason, it'll never happen

What about electric babies

I think it's ironic because the old man is schooling the kid, but the kid in that scene literally wrote the words for the old man.

Maybe irony is too strong, but it's amusing at least

I always thought it ironic that this beautiful speech about life experience was written by 2 20-something "scared shitless kid"s for Robin Williams to deliver.

Fosslinux sucks on mobile web. Sentences flow off screen and you can't resize to read them. I haven't seen anything so bad in a long time. Had to use Firefox reader mode just to be able to read it

I love on-device transcription apps, but this looks like yet another AI generated whisper wrapper. I'm put off by the readme which is clearly LLM generated, with emdash all over the place and bits that smell of user questions turned into talking points.

Why not the Fn / key? It's the obvious one-finger choice, but on macOS the Fn key emits no real keypress — only a hidden hardware flag — so

And

macOS permissions (read this if the hotkey "does nothing")

Sorry but I can't see a reason to use this over something tried and tested like Handy, which is free, open source, on-device, does post capture correction and isn't limited to whisper (you can use parakeet v3 which I find way better than whisper)

Its nice to see HN not shitting the bed over every openAI announcement anymore. Maybe we're finally taking these things with a pinch of salt

I think it was more that the change required was relatively simple, and the industry was sort of already phasing out CFCs anyway. Banning them in fridges and aerosols was mostly frictionless and a win for everyone.

Turning the entire planet carbon neutral is so much harder a problem.

Also the fossil fuel industries have been trying to bury research on global warming since long before social media existed

People seem to (in)conveniently have no service in movies a lot, exactly when they need it

That’s not even to speak of all the movie plots that would have been ruined.

I clicked on all the links. Pretty much all of those movies could still work with wired technology. Even the one called cellular, in which a woman is trapped in an attic with a broken landline phone and manages to connect wires and dial a random number.

Yes I'm nitpicking. I guess I'm glad we have Wi-Fi and all, but don't try to sell me on it as a crucial plot device

If only climate change was as easy a solve

Now is probably a good time to liquidate your pension, fly to a remote island somewhere, and live out the remaining 6 months or so of civilization in peace.

So maybe the open source apocalypse won’t happen yet.

Sorry I wasn't at the last doomer meeting, when did we decide good open source models are a harbinger for the apocalypse?

Totally agree. That first chart is just four vertical lines, I can't figure out what the hell I'm supposed to be looking at without reading the article.

You think Web pages, crud and gui are a narrow use case?

If we were going to ban technology because it helped people make bombs we wouldn't have access to much anymore.

It could have, but George R R Martin famously uses Word Star and he surely has all that.

Then again he's also about a decade late with the next book

Still sort of blows my mind that people regularly pay 600+ for new phones, and that's not even considered expensive.

I've only ever bought refurbished or budget ones

This story can be found on plenty reputable news sources, can we please not give traffic to a hate speech rag like the daily Mail?