idreyn

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Comment · 5 days ago
Still waiting for a 13 Mini refresh :(
Comment · 1 month ago
I am not sure which rail right-of-ways in the Bay Area could plausibly be justified for AV lane deconversion. Maybe the ailing VTA light rail?

But an "AV lane" will very quickly converge on the traffic characteristics of a regular road.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
These last few days, there has been a small stream of blogposts on HN expressing similar things, and I have enjoyed them all.

My question recently has been how to broach this subject with colleagues who really enjoy producing prose with AI. There is not yet a better cultural shorthand for this sort of thing than "slop" which is a harsh-sounding word and itself sort of a thought-terminating cliché. "I don't want to read what you didn't write" is maybe closer — but it needs a pithier and somewhat more encouraging encapsulation, like "I want to hear it from you".

Has anyone had good experiences setting up professional boundaries or team norms around AI-written docs?

Comment · 4 months ago
I'm rooting for this general class of technology as a platform for sensory augmentation for the blind. I don't know exactly what sonic encoding of spatial information is exactly ideal — I suspect it's something echo-like, only slowed-down — but it's going to be a hell of a lot easier to develop it and support it on commodity hardware. Please no Meta login, though.
Comment · 6 months ago
Grok is that you?
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
I think the more mainstream understanding of transhumanism is closer to "post-genics" than eugenics.
Comment · 8 months ago
Flash created a medium. The particular genius of the authoring tool gave rise to a whole style of animation and game and thing-in-between that only existed in its time and could have only been created with the tool at hand. Software should aspire to this.
Comment · 8 months ago
did we read the same post? none of what was mentioned was even in the realm of entrepreneurship or anything ethically hairy.

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