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buggyipadmettoo··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
I've known people who chose minivans specifically for carrying motorcycles.
buggyipadmettoo··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
It wouldn't be satisfying to you either, as you'd be dead.
buggyipadmettoo··on Attention is all you have
Youre hearing ads as a paying user?

My biggest complaint re Spotify was poor shuffling, hearing the same song over and over. Finally resolved by using Spotipy to regularly re-order big playlists, and just disable shuffle.

buggyipadmettoo··on The Amazon tax
Embarrassed anyone on hackernews can't formulate an argument, resorts to ad hominem
buggyipadmettoo··on The Amazon tax
Force means "coercion or compulsion, especially w the use of threat or violence".

If "not paying someone x dollars" = force, then at this moment, I'm forcing 6 billion people to do something.

buggyipadmettoo··on Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
I built a solution for this (in 20 mins with the help of Gemini!).

1. use Google App Scripts to duplicate all the convos saved in your google drive to another folder, and append each ".txt". Mine runs every day.

2. enable API in google cloud console, install google-api-python-client on desktop,then created a workflow in Alfred to search from desktop.

Now I can search my AI Studio convos + content just as fast as any other file on my desktop : )

buggyipadmettoo··on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
https://shottr.cc/
buggyipadmettoo··on Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look
I know it seems low effort but I spent a good ten minutes reading through your other comments looking for an explanation for your post. It reads as so obviously written by an LLM.

I have no doubt you're a real person, and that all those things you claim are true. Almost all of your posts are clearly written by a thoughtful human.

But then I see that occasionally, you post something that looks nothing like your other posts, and exactly like it was written by an LLM. I love learning from ChatGPT too, but I'm curious about your mindset if and when you have it speak for you here. Is the goal to use ChatGPT to educate us? If so, why not give it credit?

Everyone here knows how to use google and ChatGPT (and a majority of us could whip up a script to auto-post LLM responses). It seems like most of the internet is already "dead".. don't give it HN too, please, stick to posting thoughtful human stuff!

buggyipadmettoo··on Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look
Just swap out "my take, for what it's worth" For "according to ChatGPT"
buggyipadmettoo··on Find Your People
Just gotta compare it to the risks of not having a family to take care of.
buggyipadmettoo··on Google is winning on every AI front
I thought genini 2 flash API was free (for personal use at least)? I just created an iOS shortcut to call it, and didn’t pay anything.
buggyipadmettoo··on Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
I assume the “enslave” question is meant to allude to the fact that, since nothing is actually free, when demand outstrips supply, at some point “making it free” can only mean forcing people to provide it (financially or personally).

If “x should be free” was a solution to anything, why stop at education? Let’s make everything free!

buggyipadmettoo··on The Demoralization is just Beginning
? Limit the money supply? It just deflates (grows in value), right?
buggyipadmettoo··on How to boss without being bossy
Agree.

Ive owned several businesses and probably hired about 100 people in my life. Ive never commanded a single one.

These are voluntary relationships. I’m paying for their services. I don’t command the waitress to bring me a drink, and she doesn’t command me to pay her.

Why would I ever issue a command? Either you’re choosing to work with me, in which case you want to provide me with your service, or we’re not working together.

buggyipadmettoo··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
Solution: use a memorable password for one of your cloud services. One that does not require 2FA. Keep a copy of password db there.
buggyipadmettoo··on Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution
If you’re talking about honeybees, they are livestock. And they travel something like 2 or 3 miles from their homes, not more. if i decided to move next year, everyone in my neighborhood would see and alarming 75% drop in bee visits. And im just a hobbyist, keeping about 3 colonies.
buggyipadmettoo··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
It takes me 1hr 20 mins to debone 6 Costco chickens, portion the meat into 1.5lb bags, throw in the freezer, start the pressure cooker for bones, and clean up (except for the pressure cooker/bone stuff I might do tomorrow)

That’s 66 servings of .25lbs of meat.

Tips: wear gloves, do it while they’re warm, shred by hand. Add salt and lemon juice to taste (and preserve) before freezing.

buggyipadmettoo··on Important Coding Habits
The stretch picture in the article might be the worst imaginable for someone with a herniated disc. Need to be bending the opposite way!
buggyipadmettoo··on I Am Leaving
It’s British humor. They think just being sarcastic is funny.
buggyipadmettoo··on Killing Community
And? Imagine, for example, a comedian who pokes fun at all groups exactly equally. There are infinite types of people, he wouldn’t be able to say a word. Different things are different and that’s not inherently wrong.
buggyipadmettoo··on Killing Community
No. Even those formerly traumatized can later become resilient to words.
buggyipadmettoo··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)
I appreciated it.
buggyipadmettoo··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
Same. Use it everyday for majority of my G searches, never once seen a captcha (except when using VPN). OP, are you logged in to google? I am. Wonder if that’s the difference?
buggyipadmettoo··on Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days
I was wondering the same and asked gpt to explain it to me the other day. Basically it’s all one process, there aren’t 2 modules (understand and generate). The “understanding” is perhaps like the generating in reverse. Rather than generating the next word from a statistical process, it’s defining the statistical process from the next words of the input.

But as I explain here, even reviewing that conversation we had, I think maybe gpt and I were both hallucinating and feigning understanding. Cuz I still don’t get it. It still seems far too magical to fit this explanation.

So my next best guess: we’re a simulation, GPT is magic, and our creators are just having fun introducing more and more magic into the system.

buggyipadmettoo··on Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment
I made an account just to say me too. (Safari, iPad) never seen that before