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fluxem··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Why does everyone love AI and is impressed by AI quality but when the time comes to admitting that they use the magical AI, no one wants the watermark?
fluxem··on Ask HN: How do you juggle side projects vs. "just for fun" projects
I don’t. I have other hobbies that don’t involve staring at a screen all day
fluxem··on Cool website to remove the paywall on any article
Maybe a paywall is there for a reason
fluxem··on Daunting papers/books and how to read them
Just don’t read it then. You are not the intended audience for that book. It’s ok to not to read a book
fluxem··on Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
That’s because no one wants to draw degeneracy. You read stories about what artists had draw because “rent was due” and just shake your head
fluxem··on "LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"
It’s great for all the people still living in 1992. The rest want good collaboration tools with a grammar checker
fluxem··on Stop the same song from autoplaying every time you plug your phone into a car
Also, I cannot believe that some cars (looking at you, Subaru) don’t have a pause button, only mute. Not an issue when you’re playing to music. But when you are Listening to an audiobook, it’s another story
fluxem··on The CEO and the Three Envelopes (2010)
Add two more envelopes:

“Blame covid “

“Blame market conditions”

fluxem··on Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'
CUDA = C++ on GPUs. Compute shader - subset of C with a weird quirks.
fluxem··on Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]
It boggles my mind that github search is case-insensitive and doesn't search the whole words. For a search term getInfo it will return: GetInfoCell

Don't get me started about how it's harder than it needs to be to limit the search to your own repos

fluxem··on I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
Here’s an idea. Instead of the rod being parallel with the wall, have multiple small rods perpendicular to the wall. They can easily accommodate full size coat hangers. Problem solved
fluxem··on Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default
Mark my words, 2023 is the year of Wayland
fluxem··on Typing fast is about latency, not throughput
I wish my productivity was bound by my typing speed and not my thinking
fluxem··on Meta to charge for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram in Europe
People here moaned that they despise ads and gladly will pay not to see them. Well, this is the opportunity to do so
fluxem··on Roughly 80% of Grades Given at Harvard Are in the 'A' Range
To get to Harvard, you need to be a valedictorian or close to that. And not every valedictorian gets to go to to Harvard. It’s not a surprise then that Harvard is full of overachievers with straight A’s.
fluxem··on Is giving people cash working? Six months of Denver's Basic Income Project
Of course Basic Universal Income works in experiments. You select a group of people and give them money for some time. To be honest, it’s no longer basic nor universal. It’s just income.
fluxem··on Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine#Reactor_acci...
fluxem··on Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant
Nuclear subs and air carriers are part of deterrence strategy. So, most reports will be classified, unlike for nuclear plants. Never the less, we know about numerous accidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submari...

Also, let’s not forget about Hanford site, which was part of the US nuclear program

fluxem··on Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant
Good news is that nuclear energy is safe and has zero long lasting ecological effects! Also management and governments are always competent. Otherwise, we would be in big, big trouble
fluxem··on How to compete with Patreon
I'm not convinced by the arguments.

Do the majority of creators want anonymity? I don't think so. They can set up a company and hide behind it if they do. Being an anonymous platform invites tax evasion and money laundering. Do you really want to deal with that?

Why would I open up an API so that competitors can swoop in? What benefit that would provide to me? No one will use API over UI.

The author clearly wants a donation platform that caters to a very niche group of users. I would guess there are less than 100 people in the world who want it (and do not need it)

fluxem··on Deepfakes start ringing in voters' ears
No, they don’t. Vocal impersonators are a thing since forever
fluxem··on AMD may get across the CUDA moat
I call it the 90% problem. If AMD works for 90% of my projects, I would still buy NVIDIA, which works for 100%, even though I’m paying a premium
fluxem··on One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cycling
Go outside, touch the grass and ride on the streets.
fluxem··on The anatomy of a Godot API call
You clearly weren't on reddit. Everyone there will urge you to switch to Godot even though your game is almost finished and Godot doesn't have feature parity.

It reminds me of the linux debate:

- A: I hate Windows telemetry

- B: Then switch to linux. It's as good

- A: But it doesn't have a good video editor.

- B: You should develop your own video editor and share it with the community

- A: Ughh... I just want to edit my videos...

I use linux and love it, but there are users who need Windows or Unity.

fluxem··on California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
When you legalize all the drugs, junkies magically transform into pharmaceutical consumers
fluxem··on California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics
Well, because it is
fluxem··on No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy
> There are plenty of disabilities that don't allow people to use technology

What I meant is that the majority of people don’t have a disability that would prevent them from using technology. The ones who do, should and do get assistance

> Not to mention, there are plenty of people who are religiously or ideologically against new technology

If your religion or ideology is to live in an ancient world, by all means do. Just don’t come to the 21st century and complain that you cannot enjoy the modern society

fluxem··on First new US nuclear reactor in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
It’s brings a lot confidence that a nuclear power was built through a legal loophole.
fluxem··on The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse
Why does Wikipedia need Twitter/Mastodon?
fluxem··on The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy
But, but, I was told piracy actually helps the publishers

https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-can-boost-digital-music-sale...

You cannot eat the cake and have it too

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