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Comment · 21 days ago
I could have done many different things as a career - I chose what I do because I love(d) it. I think many of us were raised believing that a job you love is not a job and we’re now grieving the loss of fulfillment that came along with doing something you love and getting paid for it. I spend far more time working for people I don’t know than I do with my family or my hobbies, and perhaps I was foolish enough to think I’d escaped from wasting my life doing something I despise. You are correct that we can all seek fulfillment outside of work, but for those of us that used to get it there it hurts, or maybe it’s just me.

I know things get worse before they get better - but some of us are at the point in our career where we likely won’t be around to see it get better again.

Comment · 24 days ago
Where do you live that you know the people in your neighborhood?
Comment · 1 month ago
I don’t understand why people jump so readily to seeing intelligence here. Science fiction has as a core, central trope that humans will debase and devalue other types of life they do not understand. Even the storied Commander Data has to fight for the right to self-determination (probably the best episode of STTNG by the way - ‘The Measure of a Man’). We were so worried that we’d undervalue intelligence when apparently our knee-jerk response is to overvalue it. Perhaps this has changed over time and we’re now primed by science fiction and instincts towards social justice, but I worry that we’re really just undervaluing ourselves.

The one thing this 2023 article gets partially correct imo is that any intelligence we see in AI (as of 2026) is our own - not that it’s a mirror but that the intelligence comes from the way that the words are put together, which comes from written human language created by (allegedly) intelligent creatures put in as input in both the training and prompt, among other places.

Rearranging and repeating the words, even in context, does not intelligence make. I’m not even convinced that you’re intelligent, dear reader.

Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks for taking this up. I’ve been following along on GitHub and I see the newly supported models. I’ve also picked up a b&w model for testing, should arrive in a few days. Is the Libra build in a separate dev branch? Are folks generally communicating via issues?
Comment · 2 months ago
Gladly - I don’t think the differences are substantial, seems mostly to be config specific to the screen parameters. Would be happy to help test.
Comment · 2 months ago
Read the porting document - do we think this would be a difficult port to the Libra Color? I’m reluctant to order a Clara BW in addition, but also not sure I know enough about the ecosystem to contribute a working port. Anyone interesting in teaming up to take a crack at it?
Comment · 2 months ago
This is excellent - I’ve been looking for a reliable way to get a manga reader onto my Kobo for a while now, specifically one that can directly connect to sources like MangaDex. The alternative I’ve settled on is to download to my PC, bundle with KCC into a cbz, upload to Dropbox and then download onto the device’s local storage. It takes far too long. I’ve been considering writing something myself but I’m not familiar with the device hardware or OS… this is definitely going to save me a ton of time. I don’t care if this was created with LLM assistance, I’m just happy to have a viable alternative in an approximately closed ecosystem.
Comment · 2 months ago
“On the wire, each label is stored with its length in front, 3 api 11 thenodebook 3 com 0, and the final 0 marks the end of the name, where the last dot would go.”

Am I the only one that doesn’t think of this as ‘api.thenodebook.com.’? What does the LLM mean by the zero after .com marking where the last dot would go?

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I really like Hover Zoom+. I’d be willing to pay $7,000 to $8,500 USD for each kidney you’d be willing to sell. Once we know the size/functioning we can determine exact figures. Happy to buy both if you no longer need them, you probably barely use them anyway.
Comment · 3 years ago
As a 15yo in the mid-90’s I was a member of and courier for a group called FaTe. Did it all over a 28.8k and later 56k modem. It was so much fun and I never once considered actually getting caught - it never felt real and the friends made along the way were worth it, at least in my case. Went to college and gave it all up. Studied a science but came back to IT and get paid today off of the skills I started learning back then.
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree with your sentiment as well as with the parent comment. I think it’s mostly young relationships that aren’t like this, or rather relationships we have when we’re young. I would wager that 99% of people have had or will have at least one relationship like this in their lives before we learn healthier ways of being with another person.

Anecdotally, long term relationships where one party improves significantly often do not last so it’s good advice to improve yourself before you find the right person.

Comment · 4 years ago
I was going to comment something similar - I think the messaging around this needs to be more clear. It feels like I’ve been seeing serious security folk push the unqualified use of password managers for years now. Better hope granny never needs to use SSH.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Prove it, you partisan hack. :)

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