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hungryforcodes··on Samsung's AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos
Don't press "remaster"? It's just a feature...
hungryforcodes··on Samsung's AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos
A problem for who exactly? Asians seem to love it.
hungryforcodes··on John Glenn’s $40 Camera Forced NASA to Rethink Space Missions
The shuttle was amazing. Never has there been such a versatile space vehicle. It could repair satellites, act as a small space station and bring satellites back to Earth. Hubble wouldn't be a thing with out it.

All the other solutions currently are just kind of space buses (for equipment and people).

There are different estimates for the shuttle launch costs -- between $500m - $1.5b. However for LEO there couldn't be anything more useful. The SLS launch costs run between $2b - $4b. It hasn't done anything useful so far...

hungryforcodes··on Arduino Uno R4
Why would you need to add a level shifter. Almost every single i2c or SPI component I've used works just fine with the ESPs 3.3v or is 3.3v to 5v compatible.
hungryforcodes··on Arduino Uno R4
You can do exactly the same to an ESP32 / 8266.
hungryforcodes··on Coinbase issued Wells notice by SEC
OK. Clear as mud :)
hungryforcodes··on Coinbase issued Wells notice by SEC
What does that even mean?
hungryforcodes··on Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor
Sweden has all the wrong solutions to society's problems which they export world wide as the "Swedish Model".
hungryforcodes··on Unpopular Opinion: Don’t Use a Raspberry Pi for That
You can always run Espruino on your ESP32 -- a nodejs like environment for microcontroller. It works well and has lots of drivers for different components.
hungryforcodes··on Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine
I'd like to see it. As someone who's DJ'd a fair amount for large crowds (1000+) my value always seemed to be in choosing tracks that lit up the audience and made the set progress to a satisfying peak.

The technical aspects were always not that important.

hungryforcodes··on Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine
You have literally a prompt right there -- you should try it on ChatGPT.

"Please give me a business model like Uber, for bicycles, but better"

Let us know how it goes :)

hungryforcodes··on JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
This is a false analogy though. If you had a YouTube channel called Two Minute Full Orchestral Performances I would expect Full Orchestral Performances of two minutes, basically a musical performance.

Since we consume either articles (which are often rated as "This will take you 3 minutes to read") or video, the title is deceiving. Particularly as someone who finds consuming information infuriatingly slow in videos, and prefer to read or scan articles, I find it has a sense of irony to it.

hungryforcodes··on This Time It's Different
I'm not sure why you are downvoted. These are all great points.
hungryforcodes··on This Time It's Different
> Complaints about AI and automation are actually complaints about capitalism

No that's not it at all. Complaints about AI are actually complains about loss of control. In capitalism, communism or any other society you like to describe, if AI displaces people -- those people lose control over their lives and that gets very serious quickly.

hungryforcodes··on This Time It's Different
True but at least they have a job and some economic freedom. Without that job they would be reliant on other people. I'm not sure I see the problem here actually.
hungryforcodes··on Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
Single digits what? What are you measuring here? Files, lines, KLOCs?
hungryforcodes··on Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
Ok, but it has all this information already. So why is this surprising.

A real test of it's abilities would be synthesizing a NEW type of nuclear reactor.

hungryforcodes··on Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
So I just spent 20 minutes of my life going down this rabbit hole, including the google doc.

Full disclosure: one of my research areas in university was adolescents, and working exactly with these types of studies.

Anyways, the main theme which keeps coming back in this material is that the actual change begain in the EARLY 2010s, which is exactly what I'm saying. My assumption is that basically as social media started to focus more on visual content (photos and videos), people started getting weird feedback about how awesome everyone ELSE was, but you were not. Etc.

Keep in mind that teens are notoriously hard to study, and alot of this material is self reported. Many teens are basically always depressed and suicidal, and or become so for some small reasons such as the results of a report card or other such factor. This is why they are a higher risk group for this sort of stuff than say the average adult. At the same time you can't really shelter them too much, because it's the experiences they gain in adolescence that allow them to build their life toolkit.

Also keep in mind this is just US teens. The rest of the world is -- well -- the rest of the world, so the data cannot really be extrapolated to more than this country.

hungryforcodes··on The magic of traveling alone
Traveling with people is a nightmare. They always want to get up at different times to do things, see different things than you, stay longer at certain places or shorter.
hungryforcodes··on JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
Two minute papers-- but they are videos.

I feel like I am repeating myself.

Definition of irony...

hungryforcodes··on ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases
In what sense? Google has many revenue streams -- the year is 2023, not 1997. Just HAVING the number one search engine without ad revenues brings mind share, intelligence on trends, what people are searching for, advanced notice on possible disasters...the list is endless.
hungryforcodes··on ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases
> ...a better understanding of user queries.

No, lack of ads. Before content marketing, Google was pretty useful

hungryforcodes··on ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases
...not done well though. Dishes are much easier to do well.
hungryforcodes··on New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
Well, one junior anyways...
hungryforcodes··on New Twitter API pricing starts at $42,000 per month
...or FUNNY!
hungryforcodes··on JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
Definition: "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result"

A YouTube vblog calling itself two minute papers seems pretty ironic to me. The word "papers" is key here.

hungryforcodes··on JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
Right I agree with this. I hate videos too, it's the worst way to compress information.
hungryforcodes··on JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
Sure.
hungryforcodes··on Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
The online world is the real world now, or at least a large part of it.

Also meeting people in person is often annoying and damaging. I jest but, also not. :p

hungryforcodes··on Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
Connecting people with their peers is most certainly not damaging-- any more than socializing in general.

Facebook started off GREAT! I singed up almost as soon as it was available to the general public (remember it was just open to university students at first).

At that time my timeline was basically text only and the content came from only my friends. It was like a fun online party -- not unlike online chat systems from the old days.

Then mysteriously all the people I enjoyed interacting with, disappeared from my timeline. Then I started getting content vaguely unrelated to my friends. Then meme photos I didn't want, ads and now basically just videos I hate and am bored of.

So the original concept is fine. It's just where we ended up that is mind numbing and alienating.

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