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yummybear··on Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
I have very fond memories of fidonet: discussions, friends made, parties held. I wish i was back there :)
yummybear··on Please Use AI
As someone who uses AI constantly - mandated at work. I fucking hate it. I hate what it makes me become: a mall cop of creativity. Endlessly directing little agents with feigned authority.
yummybear··on Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper
Even further - could it download a distilled modeb runtime in response to your type of question - if we’re talking vacation planning download vacation.model for 10 seconds and then let’s talk?
yummybear··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
It’s even happening implicitly now when chat crawls some vendors site and proclaims their solutions as the answer to your question
yummybear··on The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering
Amazing to see people try to reinvent communication skills.
yummybear··on YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand
Well I couldn't think of a better steward for the brand than Perifractic
yummybear··on AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret
That all sounds nice, but if the government (US) doesn't honor it's own laws, what s to stop it from using unreasonable measures to coerce Amazon into doing what it wants?

This whole setup collapses when Bezos calls someone and says "you're fired if you don't do as I say", which he might if Trump leans heavily on him or threatens to take control.

yummybear··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
Do you think you, or anyone, have the capacity to understand changes you are making to a system developed over decades, that manages trillions and affects real lives, with only a few days worth of experience with the system?
yummybear··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
That's a rather cynical take on what may amount to actual human suffering.
yummybear··on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
He may be "SpaceX" (if that is supposed to mean super talented), but having a maximum of 1 weeks worth of knowledge about a system before starting to rewrite it seems extremely unsecure. This isn't a disposable rocket, this is a system that millions of people rely on.
yummybear··on World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
The skies may be brightening, but it seems the world is turning darker.
yummybear··on Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
These are some of the richest people debating whether to stop people from seeking to work elsewhere. Absolutely despicable. Hat's off to Palm for seeking the reasonably route.
yummybear··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
Don’t forget unsolicited porn and videos of soldiers being blown up
yummybear··on "Kawaii" tech logos by Sawaratsuki
The NextJS on is a real burn
yummybear··on Ingenuity had more computing power than all NASA deep space missions combined
That’s gotta hurt the radsafe equipment manufacturers
yummybear··on HTML First
Another web development prophet with quick solutions for simple cases.
yummybear··on How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (2016)
It’s amazing how little we know about how others dream and visualize:

Do you see 3d or 2d? Is there smells? Are there color? Is there sound? Do people talk? Can you feel touch?

yummybear··on DALL·E 3
That’s just until AI combines with CNC to produce unique sculptures. Which won’t take long.
yummybear··on US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
Actual weather balloon?
yummybear··on Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?
I want to know more actually. I want good use cases for it. For me it’s like being given google in 1995. How can I use it - what’s it good for, what’s it bad for and how do I formulate good queries?
yummybear··on Show HN: Generate commit messages using GPT-3
"Fixed some bugs I was told to"
yummybear··on My “favorite” magtape story
In a similar vein we recently had an issue with one employees monitors turning off when a coworker sat down. We traced it to the cylinder of the chair apprently making some electric disturbance. Our minds were blown for a while, but I remembered reading something similar.
yummybear··on Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny
I really thought someone (US?) had technology (satellites) that could pinpoint radiation sources, even of this magnitude
yummybear··on Rare “noctilucent” clouds appear over the SF Bay Area
I see them at least once or twice a year. Mammatus on the other hand...
yummybear··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.
yummybear··on Space explosion reveals possible hints of dark matter
It’s the ultimate counterargument to ”my actions don’t matter”.
yummybear··on Meta Quest Pro
I love "Adobe Acrobat" is the first app listed. I've always wanted to immerse myself in PDF forms.
yummybear··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
And again when USB-D comes along
yummybear··on Charl-e: “Stable Diffusion on your Mac in 1 click”
I have a mac a few years old, and now we start seeing M1 only software. My next computer won’t be a mac.
yummybear··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
The key word is "substantially" - there are plenty other competitors.
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