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pattiluponeon Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

I learned from Jeopardy! that this is called algospeak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak

pattiluponeon Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

That was a lot of fun. Top 74%, woohoo!

I should really get in the habit of playing this game and geoguesser.

pattiluponeon BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet

The link is now down it appears.

pattiluponeon My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

It reminded me of the Church of Scientology lashing out at a Suppressive Person.

pattiluponeon Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression

I could use a triple-bling study...

pattiluponeon Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

I want a version of this for manga (for translation). Right now I think the go-to lightweight inpainting model for anime and manga is LaMa which is several years old now and it feels like there is room for improvement.

pattiluponeon Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

Similarly, I've gotten a few reasonable results by asking for Microsoft Office 2007 style or the Windows Vista file explorer, stuff like that.

pattiluponeon I love my Bluetooth keyboard

Is that you in the photo? You know, from the back, you kind of look like Conan O'Brien.

pattiluponeon Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

WOW. Quietly editing the 4-year-old blog post is super slimy, holy crap. Also seems like since this story was published, they edited the 4-year-old blog post again. The story points out

>But the explanatory paragraph at the bottom of the same post still says the old ones: Inclusion and Transparency. Crandell’s name is still on it. The post now contradicts itself, and nobody wrote a new one.

Looking at the post right now, they've corrected it to Innovation and Trust.

pattiluponeon Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

I get it and I'm not trying to get down on you, but I've seen people around say this and it bugs me.

I don't know Japanese at all. Sometimes I use LLMs to translate discord messages into Japanese so I can communicate with Japanese people. Then as verification I translate the messages back (with different LLMs) and they usually come out as a near-verbatim version of what I wanted to say. In other words, they don't come out in the chatgpt style of writing.

If I'm able to do that, then chatgpt should be able to fix your English without chatgpt-ifying the whole comment.

pattiluponeon US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Can smoking tobacco be banned in multifamily complexes currently? I'd think the policy would be the same.

pattiluponeon Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection

I tried it with Nano Banana 2 through the API just now, and it was content filtering me on both white and black images.

pattiluponeon Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins

I opened up Hacker News and I saw this right at the top, and I assumed it had started happening to everyone. I thought, good thing I'm not running Claude Code right now.

pattiluponeon Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages

There's a dropdown on Google Translate that lets you choose "Advanced" mode or "Classic" mode. Advanced mode uses Gemini but it's only available for select languages.