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RootKitBeerCat··on Ask HN: Pros and cons of thinking in public vs. in private?
Question is flawed; thought occurs in the mind: the moment you share that thought you are portentously sharing ramblings of your mond you havent really thought through fully…

(TLDR: if you have a point; make it- thinking out loud sometimes is useful, but rarely in the online forum, unless you’re in DMs or something…)

RootKitBeerCat··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Twitter, lolololol, but you have to be hardcore
RootKitBeerCat··on Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
This is like a poorly templated LLM to make fake Wikipedia articles… nothing I put in provides accurate or realistic information
RootKitBeerCat··on Programming Games for Atari 2600
I thought there were going to be Atari 2600 games to teach programming concepts but this is pretty close so upvote
RootKitBeerCat··on Show HN: Stable Diffusion print-on-demand apparel
Add the ability to write a text prompt; accessibility wise - not everyone speaks the same or can be understood by basic speech to text
RootKitBeerCat··on Birdwatch, Twitter's collaborative fact checking system
Crowdsourcing content moderation always turns out real well
RootKitBeerCat··on It's time to admit self-driving cars aren't going to happen
You’re a monoculture
RootKitBeerCat··on Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?
Private angel investors watch from above all of the “clouds”
RootKitBeerCat··on Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?
Having spent about 200$ on credits… yes, it glues together your words through transformers into images… of snippets of the identified corpus of images it has… with some specific prompt phrasings having cool weighting for making really nicely looking glued together results… it’s a model: classical computing - everything is turtles and duct tape and rivets and glue, all the way down…
RootKitBeerCat··on Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
Hey yeah! Imagine like two small guys in a garage could like make a indexer for the web and call it a search engine and just make it work the best, and gain market dominance and become a little bit slower to innovate than authors “back in 2006” nostalgia…
RootKitBeerCat··on Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut
Who shares Microsoft’s “values”, and what are they?
RootKitBeerCat··on Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
A wasm web client based version of this would rock
RootKitBeerCat··on Tell HN: Google does not list application permissions in the Play Store any more
It’s like installing an app on your computer; your giving the app permissions to your computer… there’s so much Google can’t control that it’s dumb to blame them here… I’m not saying “every end user should be wary of their apps and test them all”, but basically… what’s the alternative? Build your own mobile os, and then side load and very every apk?!
RootKitBeerCat··on Signaling Gateways and Some Guys Words: A Global Open-Source Directive
An interesting collage / sci-fi “reality” that invites its readers to continue dreaming big and consider disconnections and connections through different forms of “human signaling gateways”
RootKitBeerCat··on Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink
This needs at least 1billion views: this is art and comedy at its highest form!
RootKitBeerCat··on Researchhub: GitHub for Science
Research Coin, puke...
RootKitBeerCat··on Et Tu, Signal?
A) it’s true, B) why does the world need yet another currency? Why didn’t they partner with Bitcoin or Monero or LTC, or ETH, etc...
RootKitBeerCat··on Permission.site
Async - clipboard: does this mean with a button press a site can copy what’s in your memories “copy”/clipboard functionality?!
RootKitBeerCat··on Ethereum “Tentatively” Schedules Major Monetary Policy Change
Title says it all: joke money tentatively decides to change entire monetary policy cause it sounds cool and makes it more like Bitcoin
RootKitBeerCat··on Delphi Method
Note: decentralized oracles don’t work, because that middle step of talk / signal doesn’t happen
RootKitBeerCat··on Gridcoin: An open-source cryptocurrency that rewards volunteer computing
The whole point of Bitcoin is that attacking it is costly... don’t fall prey to these cash grab pump and dump projects. Buy Bitcoin or monero.
RootKitBeerCat··on I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)
So did Devs just rip this off?
RootKitBeerCat··on Show HN: White-Label TikTok
This is evil genius level theft and I love it.
RootKitBeerCat··on If-then-else had to be invented
English had to be invented
RootKitBeerCat··on Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
Why Ethereum? Why not Bitcoin?
RootKitBeerCat··on Show HN: Team newsletter instead of sharing links on Slack
So is this designed to mine / crowd source “organic” user data in reading habits and trends for people who can’t keep up with the speed of slack, or store articles and reminders to read them on their own?
RootKitBeerCat··on Designing better data tables (2017)
Is there a framework or package, that out of the box includes the majority of these table features?
RootKitBeerCat··on Perfectly Cropped
There’s also some really bad “ML” that reorders everything in very unpredictable ways across different Apps / UI contexts that are very similar. It’s not the worst, but it’s definitely not reminding me of a simple Apple experience
RootKitBeerCat··on Python is not a great programming language
I think the adage goes “Python is the best at being the second best at... almost everything”
RootKitBeerCat··on Cross the world four times
And lastly hackernews: cross the world infinitely by allowing future generations to turn us into data
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