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Comment · 1 day ago
Timing. A megabyte of "sleep 10;" would be read from the server more slowly when piped to bash versus written to a file
Comment · 13 days ago
I feel that AI does have individual taste (and even "personality"), but it's the same monotonous individual taste across all instances of the same trained AI. The sheer scale of its repetition turns it into a hated trope: like how we can immediately identify slop writing, diagrams, websites, etc.

I'm sure we've all met someone who has a unique speaking style and might repeat phrases or words unusually often, but that still doesn't bug us as much as "the honest truth.." or "load-bearing.."

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Comment · 3 months ago
Just glancing I would say it seems a bit different.
Comment · 3 months ago
I haven't tried on macos, but yeah, the biggest problem right now seems to be implementation differences with how embedded spaces are handled. Earlier, the biggest cross-browser issues were pixel alignments within the QR codes, but those seem largely resolved.
Comment · 3 months ago
Some details of how it works are in https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font/blob/master/design.md

Fair warning though: this was designed and implemented by an LLM, as an experiment to see if it was possible. I only guided it to a working solution by pointing out problems, and never dug deeply into its inner workings.

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Comment · 7 months ago
It is not a tricky problem because it has a simple and obvious solution: do not filter or block usage just because the input includes a word like "gun".
Comment · 7 months ago
My dad wears smart glasses because he's nearly deaf and the classes show captions for the person he's talking to. They're great. He doesn't use or care at all about the camera. Having the captions would be very useful to him in a courtroom setting. Collateral damage I guess.
Comment · 7 months ago
It's not enclosed in the final product. It is used during manufacturing. For example, you mechanically compress helium to get liquid helium, then when it depressurizes back to ambient pressure, it's -269 C, which is pretty close to "as cold as possible", and colder than any alternatives.
Comment · 8 months ago
Yeah, everyone learns differently, but for me this is a perfect way to better understand how GPTs work.
Comment · 10 months ago
> > some folks want to use lossless cut > In that case I would encourage you to ruminate on what the following in the post you're replying to means and what the implications are:

You may have misunderstood the comment: "lossless cut" is the name of an ffmpeg GUI front end. They're not discussing which exact command line gives lossless results.

Comment · 11 months ago
200mg/day is not a "very very small dose". FDA recommended maximum safe amount is 400mg/day.

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