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ArekDymalski

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ArekDymalski··on Tiny Brutalism
The whole esthetics, the lighting, the plants - it's incredible.
ArekDymalski··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
This is the most comprehensive collection of first world problems I've ever seen. And hilariously accurate :)
ArekDymalski··on Glacier Mice
I would say they are features.
ArekDymalski··on New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
But it wasn't in the early cyberpunk works. When you consume them you can notice how important was the concept of "style", that characters were excited by the specific brands (implants, weapons, shaders, venues), associated them with social status etc. It was the 90s that brought contempt for brands to (paradoxically) mainstream.
ArekDymalski··on The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
I guess the good examples where music could be an important driver to the movies popularity (or revival of popularity) might be: "Requiem for a dream" and "Das Boot". Also for me personally - "The Mission" as incredible score by Ennio Morricone has brought me tia film I'd rather ignore. Other (also personal) example is " The Spawn" with it's mind-blowing OST.
ArekDymalski··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
I wonder how effective it finally will be. At first glance it reminds me painting by numbers a d I'm not sure if that will help the real painter to keep his skills and surely won't teach aspiring painter much about the craft.
ArekDymalski··on EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?
> Re. disclosure: How do they want to do it? It seems to be similar to a “disclosure” used in students’ works: “Source: internet”…

I think enforcing compliance with the law will be rather simple, just like it happened with GDPR, food labeling and many other regulations. But I wonder how will the disclaimers/declarations even be verified? The more I think about it the more I see open sourced (both dataset and weights) models as the only truly verifiable solution. And that makes it less attractive as a business foundation if. So we might end up with state-funded models working in similar fashion to museums it other culture/art institutions ensuring that original material creators are treated fair. But that will bring whole other set of challenges...

ArekDymalski··on Show HN: Btfy – a blockchain that uses weather observations
Very interesting idea. I really like the aim to eliminate the absurdal energy waste of standard Blockchain.
ArekDymalski··on A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return
it's time to re-read "The water knife " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife - but this time as a manual, not a fiction.
ArekDymalski··on Show HN: Elevators
Would you like to learn more? If you meant an aircraft elevator or a building elevator malfunction, tell me more so I can give you the right facts.
ArekDymalski··on Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
A lot of modern metal is mostly one note played rhythmically. And it is can sound awesome, however timbre is obviously part of this awesomeness.
ArekDymalski··on Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
that is really interesting idea. I'd be really happy to read such a site, as I very often wonder if current hype/prediction will be relevant in the future. But I always forget to check being flooded by more hype.

What would you need to start such a project?

ArekDymalski··on Show HN: A canvas-based note taking and organizer app
Congratulations on shipping your app! I like the design and the concept of avoiding forced hierarchy like folders etc. I think this concept is worth building on even more. For example do users really need a rigid hierarchy like post-it vs A4? What would happen if I would be able to click anywhere on the canvas and immediately write down the thought (just like in MS OneNote) and format this text after writing it down - give it a distinct background to make it that physical note feel? Personally I'd be happy as it would give more freedom. Now that experience is a bit broken - I can click anywhere on the canvas to create a post-it, but inside of it I need to click on the top row to even start writing. I hope this quick opinion will be useful/inspiring for you.
ArekDymalski··on Alternate clock designs and time systems
I used to think the same, as I was fascinated with the Swatch Beat time concept. Until I read this: https://qntm.org/abolish - the brilliant argument against universal time.
ArekDymalski··on A History of Menus Is a Menu of History
At least 2 of us :)
ArekDymalski··on Dark Sky Lighting
Also from the article "2 minute read". And I thought that those news about atrophy of attention span are exaggerated.
ArekDymalski··on Extinction-Level Capitalism
Everything went off the rails after we invented crackpottery.
ArekDymalski··on Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery
> how about using the "tracker" technology of yore?

now that would be a party I'd join to rock to some Dune/Orange or Purple Motion/FC tunes :)

ArekDymalski··on Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms
>If you were to have done this exercise for any business in 2022 it would have given that business a significant advantage.

Hmm, what about businesses that have done it in 1922? Because that's how old the methodology is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_mapping

ArekDymalski··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
As I have learned about Gaussian Splatting just a few weeks ago, I have (perhaps funny/naive/stupid) question: is there any progress or at least theoretical chance to have dynamic lighting?
ArekDymalski··on The people writing AI alignment policy are not whose work is being replaced
I am pretty sure that Altman is just a German version of Oldman. Sorry about ruining your intricate theory :)
ArekDymalski··on Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?
This is a very ingenious and interesting idea, presented in an esthetically pleasing way. However two related things make me curious. As the identified registers and arcs are very un-orthogonal how useful they are for your intended users? For example how their workflow/decision making process would look like if they discover that their script matches "The Crucible" in 78% and "The Graceful Endurance" in 82%? Also who is an actual target group? Creators themselves or rather agents, producers, editors and other execs or "gatekeepers"?

Edit: typo fix + "execs" added

ArekDymalski··on People Do Not Yearn for Automation
> But what remains when everything is automated?

The answer has been perfectly captured in this czechoslovakian cartoon made in 1984. https://youtu.be/6Mo8gQ89aEA?feature=shared

ArekDymalski··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
now , that's a name I haven't heard in... decades.
ArekDymalski··on Human Accelerated Region 1
Until they are cut down and bombarded with micro waves by the very same bi-pedal underlings.
ArekDymalski··on The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
it's very sad, because one of the results will be making people and organizations less accountable for what they publish.
ArekDymalski··on This year’s insane timeline of hacks
>Stacked on top of each other across roughly a hundred days, these events are something a historian of computing security writing in 2050 will probably file as a turning point, regardless of what else happens between now and then.

And yet, the public conversation around them has been quiet to the point of being strange.

There's a lot current events that once would have been considered historical: trip around the Moon, war out of nowhere, unprecedented explosion of kleptocracy l, enormously scandals and so long. Noone of these are moving much of the needle among general public.

Why? I think such indifference or rather apathy/torpor is a result of people becoming tired of constant stream of crises (either imaginary or real) that we're being flooded by. The capacity to react with something more than a shrug is finite. And I think we are being drained.

ArekDymalski··on Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
BLIK rocks. In addition to being a payment system for goods and services it can be used for instant private money transfers between individuals.
ArekDymalski··on OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
So much for the "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." I was naive to hope that now such laws would ever pass
ArekDymalski··on Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?
Perhaps one of the pages gathering projects that need help will be inspiring for you, i.e.: https://up-for-grabs.net/#/filters?date=6months&labels=&tags... or https://www.codetriage.com/ ?
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