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bcoates commented on Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf   disneyparksblog.com/disne... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
wombatpm · 2 months ago
The only thing worse than not getting the concept car, is getting the concept card after it’s been through the development cycle. Pontiac Aztek comes to mind as an example
bcoates · 2 months ago
I thought that, aside from being among the least visually appealing mass-produced cars in history, the Aztek was pretty well received -- basically an early version of the "the American lusts for some combination of a Gremlin and a Wagoneer" idea
bcoates commented on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)   apalrd.net/posts/2023/net... · Posted by u/mahirsaid
LeoPanthera · 2 months ago
My problem with IPv6 is that my ISP (Xfinity) won't give me a static prefix, so every now and again it changes.

Unlike IPv4, my LAN addresses include the prefix, so every time they change it, all my LAN addresses change.

Combined with the lack of DHCP6 support in many devices, this means reverse DNS lookups from IP to hostname can't be done, making identifying devices by their IP essentially impossible.

bcoates · 2 months ago
Is reverse dns even a thing outside of irc and forgetting to give command line tools the "don’t be slow" flag?
bcoates commented on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat   isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechu... · Posted by u/rguiscard
notepad0x90 · 2 months ago
meet tastes great and all, but I wonder where science is at (if at all) on making original food that tastes good. How about food that doesn't taste like any natural food we've had, but still tastes really good?

Jell-o (gello?) is a good example, nothing tastes like it naturally. Why aren't there tasty food that are original in terms of taste and texture but good for health and the environment? I suppose part of the struggle is that food is entrenched into culture so much. burgers and bbq are inextricable from july 4th and memorial day for example.

bcoates · 2 months ago
The taste/texture of jello is just collagen (roughly, "meat stew flavor"), fruit juice, and (tons of) sugar. It’s just an extremely heightened version of natural flavors. There is nothing new under the sun.
bcoates commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels   bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
tohnjitor · 2 months ago
The worst aspect of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport was the sliding bathroom door. Almost everything else about the place was really great but the bathroom door wae 1/2" from the face of the wall and bounced off the end of the slider track.
bcoates · 2 months ago
I think it's an unavoidable consequence of the space constraints they're working with.

On the plus side, when I dayroomed there it was dead silent and the room had blackout curtains.

bcoates commented on The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends   michigandaily.com/arts/di... · Posted by u/gnabgib
randerson · 3 months ago
And yet, Sony Pictures is working on a Labubu movie. The meme-fuelled peak may be over, but the final death of the labubu is a long way in the future.
bcoates · 3 months ago
Sony released an angry birds movie more than 5 years after peak interest, they're a trailing indicator
bcoates commented on Ask HN: Scheduling stateful nodes when MMAP makes memory accounting a lie    · Posted by u/leo_e
bcoates · 3 months ago
Memory pressure (and a lot of other overload conditions) usually makes latency worse--does that show up in your system? Latency backpressure is a pretty conventional thing to do. You're going to want some way to close the loop back to your load balancer, if you're doing open-loop control (sending a "fair share" of traffic to each node and assuming it can handle it) issues like you describe will keep coming up.

This is a Hard Problem and you might be trying to get away with an unrealistically small amount of overprovisioning.

bcoates commented on X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run   hindustantimes.com/world-... · Posted by u/ourmandave
jiggawatts · 3 months ago
To a billionaire, hiring a few hundred Nigerians to upvote and share their propaganda is so cheap that it’s like you buying a cup of coffee.

They use professional paid services from these low labour cost countries all the time for publicity or to control the narrative.

By some estimates 20-60% of everything you see on social media is generated by a bot farm, depending on the forum in question. An analysis of Reddit showed some subreddits are 80% AI generated.

bcoates · 3 months ago
It doesn’t have to be and almost certainly isn't some billionaire. Formulaic spicy political nonsense is reliable engagement bait and it's easy to churn eyeballs into (small amounts of) money. It's not even unique, there are similar grinds about sports, religion, cute animals, subculture jokes, etc.

The "control the narrative" stuff is mostly a PR campaign by social media intelligence companies trying to make their services seem more valuable than they are.

bcoates commented on Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays   emilysneddon.com/fran-san... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
bcoates · 3 months ago
"Unlike New York, Chicago or L.A., which each have one, maybe two, San Francisco and the greater Bay Area have over two dozen"

Whaaa...? Los Angeles has a whole rat's nest of overlapping agencies, (mostly different cities and like 4 kinds of train for some reason)

bcoates commented on Agentic pelican on a bicycle   robert-glaser.de/agentic-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
lubujackson · 3 months ago
What I take from this is that LLMs are somewhat miraculous in generation but terrible at revision. Especially with images, they are very resistant to adjusting initial approaches.

I wonder if there is a consistent way to force structural revisions. I have found Nano Banana particularly terrible at revisions, even something like "change the image dimensions to..." it will confidently claim success but do nothing.

bcoates · 3 months ago
A thing I've been noticing across the board is that current generative AI systems are horrible at composition. It’s most obvious in image generation models where the composition and blocking tend to be jarringly simple and on point (hyper-symmetry, all-middleground, or one of like three canned "artistic" compositions) no matter how you prompt them, but you see it in things like text output as well once you notice it.

I suspect this is either a training data issue, or an issue with the people building these things not recognizing the problem, but it's weird how persistent and cross-model the issue is, even in model releases that specifically call out better/more steerable composition behavior.

bcoates commented on Agentic pelican on a bicycle   robert-glaser.de/agentic-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
kfarr · 3 months ago
I mean at some point you have to evaluate the content on its merit and they have a point — a chain is functional not just decorative in its precise placement.
bcoates · 3 months ago
That phrase template isn’t just overdone—it's something some text models are obsessed with. The em-dashes, the contrastive language—these are signs of LLMs being asked to summarize or expand a compelling blog post.

u/bcoates

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