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coreypreston··on Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job
Weirdest comment I've ever seen here.
coreypreston··on Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown
Pandoc does this very well.
coreypreston··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
I can empathize. I recently tried to cancel Adobe Indesign. Every human stuck to the same script despite me stating 'no' up front after the first time it offered. They would confirm my intention, then when I stepped away they would cancel the chat because I was 'away' and did not double confirm that I wanted to cancel. That happened to me twice. By the third time, the sandbag was - 'You signed up for a yearly subscription, if you don't take those two free months, you will incur a early cancellation fee.' I never signed up for a yearly subscription and told them 'not accepting that'. As a gesture of 'goodwill' they waived it.

I could not understand all the Adobe hate before, but they made a neutral person negative with that experience.

coreypreston··on Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
You're cramming an analogy into your point. Systems like economy and people dont fit into an electrical diagram.
coreypreston··on Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]
No question. Thanks for thinking of 27B.
coreypreston··on The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred
Not a huge fan, but their the source of my favorite song about nuclear war, if that were even a genre -

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ys8eavDzCLC4CjwN8pAUP?si=1d5...

coreypreston··on Google needs to stop throwing good money after Bard
'Samesies' is a viable corpo strategy, right?
coreypreston··on Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model
Asked what the proper dough-weight for garlic knots:

Open AI: 2 ounces Bard: 2 pounds

Not impressed with Bard at all.

coreypreston··on Caitlyn Jenner Is Right: I'm with her
Well this is garbage.
coreypreston··on Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc
Do you have any more details about how you integrated Pandoc into your pipeline? A post or something?
coreypreston··on Docker in 10 Minutes
Question: How do you manage multiple container types (VMWare, Docker) from a single interface? Am I dreaming?

I'm intending on setting up a R Pi 4 as a container for a few smaller projects. Am I shooting myself in the face by using Pi?

coreypreston··on Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder
Really? This is what you come to comment with? Off topic and unrelated?
coreypreston··on Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team
Same here, W3 pales in comparison, which is not to denigrate their work. It's been helpful many times.

MDN just has more accessible writing and notes on best practice.

coreypreston··on Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
They're 6 months away from becoming a case study in squandering momentum.
coreypreston··on 25 Years Later, 'Star Wars: Dark Forces' Is a Forgotten Gem
Who forgot DF? Maybe young'ns too young to remember playing it when it came out.
coreypreston··on GoFundMe CEO: One-Third of Site's Donations Are to Cover Medical Costs
"free stuff" is a pretty flippant way to describe a social service covered by taxes.
coreypreston··on Millennials Will Get Sick and Die Faster Than the Previous Generation
Could have been rewritten as a tweet "Study tells us status quo is untenable"
coreypreston··on ‘Don’t leave campus’: Parents use tracking apps to watch their kids at college
If an 18 year old is willing to be controlled like this, then perhaps they should be.
coreypreston··on Ask HN: Would you switch to a 4-day-a-week schedule if you could?
Give yourself some credit, you might not use it productively initially, but once that was out of your system...
coreypreston··on I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
Precisely my thought process when giving up FB. Sure I'll miss the timeliness, but when I hear the great news or even bad news, I can be there with my friends to celebrate or empathize in person. Quality over quantity.
coreypreston··on Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry
Was the book ever published?
coreypreston··on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big
Whataboutism.
coreypreston··on California wants Silicon Valley to pay you a data dividend
You sound even-handed.
coreypreston··on Reeling from algorithm glitch, Instacart institutes $3 minimum fee for drivers
That isn't a bad idea, but not exactly something drivers can rely on.
coreypreston··on Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
Microsoft takes earnest shots at hardware, it might not always work out but I appreciate the effort.

Long live the Zune!

coreypreston··on OpenChird – An Open Source Platform for IoT with Support for LoRaWAN
Came here to ask how OpenChirp differs from TTN?
coreypreston··on Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
That does, thanks for sharing.
coreypreston··on Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
That's a romantic way to look at technical debt! :-P
coreypreston··on Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
What do you see as an issue in technical writing, if anything past not concise or well written?
coreypreston··on Vonnegut’s Asterisk (2013)
Dean-Dean-Dean, sorry I meant ding-ding-ding...
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