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Comment · 1 month ago
Let that sync in
Comment · 1 month ago
A game where you're narcoleptic and keep falling asleep at random unannounced times. While taking a flight from A to B, you wake up at different times entirely, on the same (or an equivalent) flight, seeing whatever was going on back then. Sometimes it's a flight with the Wright Brothers, sometimes you're flying during WWII, and sometimes you might just be on the plane heading towards the twin towers (right as you wake up back on your own original flight). Maybe even some mini-games where you might have the chance to foil a hijacking in progress, or maybe you need to be "the doctor on the plane", or maybe you wake up as the guy that's carrying the crying baby. You never know when, where, or who you'll wake up as.
Comment · 1 month ago
The value to Google - sure. But the market value of the exploit itself - the black market I think is a factor in that regardless of what Google offers.

The value of something is dictated by what _the market_ offers, and just because Google throws a lowball price because _they_ don't value it doesn't necessarily mean that the value of the exploit itself is as low as they dictate.

There will always be someone who would screw Google just for the love of the game, and if they got a better price from elsewhere, I don't see why _morality_ would really play that big of a role. It all comes down to incentives, and if Google doesn't incentivize doing the good thing enough, then someone _will_ incentivize them to do the bad thing just a bit more.

Comment · 2 months ago
I feel like there’s parallels to be made for everything that has potential upside without clarity into the “downsides” unless you yourself get into them. Now when AI can “do everything”, everyone* (exaggeration) wants the potential upside of (1) being a software engineer, (2) being a write, (3) being a solo business owner, etc without wanting to put in the effort to learn how to do it.
Comment · 2 months ago
No, that I think would be Match.com or something along those lines. This is like the grandfather or grand-grandfather of Tinder, but not even intentionally.

What I find funny is how an Estonian proverb/saying would fit here quite nicely: “don’t try to teach your grandfather how to have sex.” In this case, the grandfather didn’t need teaching - it was molded by the era into what was necessary.

Comment · 2 months ago
Trending towards the Homo Amens Mechanicus: the mechanical thoughtless human. What a goal
Comment · 2 months ago
What might the “parameters/layers to gates” ratio look like? My naive and uninformed guess would be that 1B+ parameter would also need a 1B+ gate FPGA, but according to google they typically range from tens of thousands to several million (which would still be a fraction of a billion).
Comment · 3 months ago
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Comment · 3 months ago
That’s the thing - his side quests have nothing to do with weed (aside from him occasionally mixing it in) - Twitch streaming, a cooking show with Martha Steward, a kids songs and nursery rhymes channel (Doggyland), and so much more.

And then lizard man is what… going to the gym, grilling in his backyard, and going live on facebook. Essentially just trying to show us that he TOO is a Real Boy

Comment · 3 months ago
It’s second top, so it’s almost as good, especially considering my lack of meaningful addition to the conversation about Cuckleburger
Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah, that seems to be the general pattern across vi-emulation. However, back when I was on IntellJ stuff (pre vi-emulation), I was already quite deep into the plethora of keyboard shortcuts within IntelliJ, so although you couldn’t do everything with just vi-emulation, you could still do essentially almost everything without leaving the keyboard. Not the same as full blown vim, but it was a solid workflow in my eyes.

The main reason I switched was because of finances and hardware limitations, as I’m now rocking an 8GB M1 MBP

Comment · 3 months ago
IntelliJ actually does (did) have quite solid vim emulation, at least from my experience of using it before going full into neovim (now on Emacs, btw)
Comment · 3 months ago
No, that award will forever be bestowed to Snoop Dogg, at least in my book
Comment · 3 months ago
I love how the closer we get to “the edge of the Reality”, the more it sounds like the ramblings of someone that got their hands on some of that GOOD stuff

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