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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

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

Currently using SDXL (through Huggingface Diffusers) on an M1 16GB Mac. Takes on average 4-5mins to generate an image. It's usable.

I discovered this song last Christmas, and it'll probably be my festive favourite for a long time. Moved me to tears on the first listen. Still does, sometimes.

RIP Mr Shane.

> until it becomes feasible to reduce it to a Google Glass-like form factor

Doesn't Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses do this?

> Didn’t they learn their lesson with the Concorde?

What was the lesson?

Kaparthy uploaded a 1hr talk to YouTube recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

> If the author also develops for Android, he probably knows what that's like.

Yes, the author is aware of the pain on the other side :D

I'm with you on this. Also, this hopefully brings the "Open"AI puns to an end. And now there's several fun ways to read "Microsoft owns OpenAI". :)

If OpenAI gets back to actually publishing papers to everyone's benefit, that will be a huge win for humanity!

In the "malice vs stupidity" debate, I'll say this is the former.

> Kenya Power, the firm that distributes power in Kenya, is now thinking about building transformers that don’t use oil. Such transformers are not widely used and cost about half as much as ones that do use oil.

There's a ray of hope, at least.

I remember one of my firsts.

My first smartphone was a cheap Android I got for school work, back in 2012. The first app I installed was Twitter. I went to Google Play on my laptop, hit "Install", and a few seconds later, a download was triggered on the phone.

No wires!

The experience then was uncanny. I was finally in the future.

Off topic: this is my first time hearing of rinse aids. It really feels odd (to me) that such a thing would exist. I thought we all just used water and a napkin.

I also have no experience with dishwashers, so how different is dishwater detergent from regular dishwashing soap?

Yup, pretty much this. Thank you!

I've had similar experiences working with people and my big takeaway is that communication is fraught with such little challenges.

Best way I've found to avoid this is to leave as little to assumption as is reasonable to.

A part of me thinks that some of the pitfalls in communication comes from culture, where different groups of people have different expectations of how much to leave to assumption, etc. Hard to really put it clearly, but I would love to read some research around this.

This was not very helpful, to be honest. From what I gathered, what you mean is that when elites are concerned about showing off their status, by pretending to be non-elite, it means inequality has gotten to a breaking point.

If that's it, then you could've been clearer.

> show up somewhere and seize a bunch of land and declare it's part of their nation

This is the root of your confusion. A bunch of people didn't just "show up somewhere and seize a bunch of land". This bunch of people were steadily migrating and acquiring land legally. The only real "seizure" happened within the context of war caused by their growing, legal presence on the land.

> No functional website

You surely don't mean web.telegram.com isn't functional?

Yes. Maybe a little too much. Poorly design URLs are my pet peeve.

Funny how your comment reads like my iPhone user experience (minus the "pay your access fee today!")

I personally do not have a problem with these serfdoms, as they meet a real, functional need. It does suck that there aren't as many easy alternatives for smartphones as there are for laptop computing.

I really love how the news is in a plaintext file. Just the content and nothing else.

> but few complained about bails out from tax payers.

I'm sure there were a lot of complaints...

> Yet they cannot refuse to do business with us...

I obviously know little about business and "trade", because this strikes me as odd. I mean, I get that it's contractual, but how could a well-written contract not anticipate a time when doing said business with you would be detrimental to the company forced to pay...

And, long term, such a situation hurts both parties, because if "this obligation becomes part of what kills them", the business on the receiving end also loses a customer.

> greenfielding just-JavaScript, though

There are still some frameworks that let you write fancy front-ends without a build-step and associated tooling. And there's people like me who prefer those since they meet our needs.

> Anyway, containers are nice, but they're not a replacement for profiles.

This, so much. Anytime I've brought up profiles on Firefox, I'm told about this alternative that isn't a replacement for the feature.

Safari is (finally) bringing this, so maybe the folks at FF will begin to see this as a feature worth investing in. First-class profiles support is one of the main reasons I stick to Chrome, despite trying to switch.

> It's just hidden behind a clunky UX.

That's part of the "problem" with Firefox's support of profiles. It feels more like an afterthought and less like a primary use case the product wants to surface. To approximate the functionality Chrome has, I had to bookmark "about:profiles" and make it my home page.

Chrome also added this nifty feature that lets you open links as a Profile, making it easy to switch.

These may seem like small issues, but the end up mattering.

TBF YouTube has gotten better (see sibling comment), but Google Meet is really what matters here for me. There's also offline mode in Google Docs, which I use regularly because I'm not guaranteed a good-enough connection wherever I go.

Firefox does some things better (like PiP video playback on most websites, like YouTube!) but others are so poorly done (like Profiles) compared to Chrome that it overall makes Chrome my first choice browser.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this is a big deal IMO. We're here because Chrome has been the better product for a long time. Firefox not doing things people want well enough will hurt its adoption, which will impact its capacity to influence the Web.

Add to Mozilla's perceived not-very-good management and you have a death spiral on your hands, and more power to Google and Apple to shape the Web towards their interests.

FWIW, first-class profiles support matters a lot: https://medium.com/sort-of-like-a-tech-diary/profiles-the-on...

Some Google services I regularly depend on (like YouTube and Google Meet) don't work as well on Firefox as they do on Chrome, in ways that actually matter. Besides that I think most websites work fine.

> the increasingly thick environment stack (the Expo layer, RN layer, UI framework layer, OS layer).

This is at the core of my difficulty with cross-platform frameworks for Android and iOS. Dealing with the first-party stack presents enough problems on its own. Adding more layers to that easily compounds the frustration involved in getting anything done.

Pretty much checks out with my own experience of successful entrepreneurs and profiles of people society/history has celebrated as "Great Men". I'm at the point where I'm convinced the world of business selects for psychopathic traits, and the kinds of personalities in the upper echelons are...wild.

This is likely not the same for other fields of endeavour; say, sports or student academics.

Defaults from the Huggingface repo, just copy-pasted. So, iirc 50 steps and the image is 512x512.

Edit: confirmed.

> Prompt length shouldn't influence creation time...

Yeah, checks out with my experience too. Longer prompts were truncated.