Yay! Voted.
Yay! Voted Dan Lyke / comment 0
Yay! Voted.
"progress" Dan Lyke / comment 0
@cxiao The version of this that made the situation click for me was tech people saying "ha ha! people are so sloppy about this stuff, they're saying they hate 'data centers' just because they don't like AI! but they need data centers to run their apps!". But the person saying this forgot to wonder whether people *like* their "apps" or whether they just use the "apps" because the non-app way of doing it has been taken away
Net life positive Dan Lyke / comment 0
More Wrong: Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive (Via)
Palantir CTO Says Some AI Researchers Are So Sure It Will Cure Cancer They’ve Started 'Smoking' — Warns Both AI Extremes Reflect ‘Social Delusion’. The other side of "both" is AI doomerism. I'm standing by my feeling that being a meat proxy lacks future value.
Now this is how you do a political Dan Lyke / comment 0
Now *this* is how you do a political ad:
(would love to find a better links for the video, the ad is for https://shakeup-la.com , the LA chapter of the DSA)
SS United States to be sunk in November Dan Lyke / comment 0
In linking to Philadelphia Inquirer: The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November, Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social noted:
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
Charleston AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
Remember back in the early days of computers, there were computer stores in every strip mall...
Bring us the AI you already use. Our Charleston engineers build skills, connectors, and plugins into it — or fix what is broken — and hand you a working AI before you leave the lab.
Okay lazyweb my voice teacher and I Dan Lyke / comment 0
Okay, lazyweb, my voice teacher and I need a break from "Moody's Mood for Love". Suggestions for vocally difficult, musically interesting songs?
Moody's has been good for definition in long runs (great fun asking Logic to analyze notes and looking at each one sharp or flat), and timing.
AI observations Dan Lyke / comment 0
A good little thread from tef @tef@mastodon.social on being a meat proxy.
it's funny how i got told "you will be left behind" and as it turns out the skill you need to develop is simply spending more tokens when any problems occur
Eric Eggert @yatil@yatil.social
Oh man, don't y'all also hate it when rogue potato chips break containment and access your stomach?
There's just nothing you can do.
We already had a job in software engineering that involved giving vague instructions and expecting a quick answer, not understanding what the computer is doing, letting technical debt balloon then being surprised when it costs you, and being easily bamboozled by a shiny demo: it's called management.
Browser choice Dan Lyke / comment 0
There are particular annoyances this misses (Munging PDF downloads!), and a good feature to add to attract users would be better reader mode (or maybe that's just uBlock), and also, Brave? Really? but a good read.
I didn't leave Firefox, it left me.
David Timothy: Firefox Didn’t Just Lose the Browser War. Mozilla Slowly Gave It Away | HackerNoon. Via.
Also, truth: :: Asta :: @aud@spectre.asta.lgbt
old browser wars: netscape vs microsoft
new browser wars: browser vs you
OpenAI's FFT breakthrough isn't really Dan Lyke / comment 0
A friend with whom I walk for coffee once a week has been working on Rinzler Synth, and I've been a little unhappy with the direction that SquareDesk has been going and thinking about audio processing a bit, so when the extraordinary claims about the Fast Fourier Transform came about I was intrigued. This is a good dive:
Ben Recht — arg min : Faster Fourier Transforms
The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.
Via.
trip down memory lane trying to find a Dan Lyke / comment 0
A trip down memory lane trying to find a hobby shop of my childhood lead to finding mention of my dad leading a design of a sulfur hexafluoride gas-insulated transformer. And a neat history of an industry now gone.
https://ethw.org/Archives:Transformers_at_Pittsfield,_part_1
Sell being the middle-man Dan Lyke / comment 0
Today's "duh, of course": LR @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
that is an attack angle i hadn't even considered yet, which i just learned is actually happening:
1. be scammer
2. advertise claude API access
3. route user requests to cheaper model
4. extract secrets from logs