Bruno Nicoletti

Professional software guy. Likes sword play and paragliding.

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2024-09-15 08:40:33

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@npub15zu…s7lx More importantly, the NHS shouldn’t embrace GenAI systems until GenAI systems are up to scratch.

2024-09-06 20:51:31

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@npub1c9m…9xjd TIL that you can do fractional order calculus (and complex order and matrix order). So much maths!

2024-09-04 14:16:45

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@npub1c9m…9xjd “I have to lay low” sounds wrong.

2024-09-01 19:11:01

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Reverse acquisition, NeXT took over Apple computer by being bought.

2024-09-01 19:04:14

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I’m pretty sure his involvement at PIXAR was mainly as a money guy, with the odd bit of wisdom as chair. Ed Catmul and Alvy Ray Smith basically just got on with it.

2024-08-17 12:57:37

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@npub15zu…s7lx This cartoon will never get old. Delusions of adequacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/cartoon/2012/mar/16/1#img-1

2024-08-05 01:19:49

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@npub1c9m…9xjd In Hammersmith? I’m slightly down the road in Chiswick.

2024-08-04 22:18:11

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@npub1c9m…9xjd I grew up in Australia where games were even more expensive than in the UK. At least Traveller was published in Britain by GDW.

2024-08-04 21:58:08

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@npub1c9m…9xjd When I did a fair bit of role playing as a teen in the 80s, there was a thing for creating your own RPG rule set in circle I was in. I had this big folder of hand written rules and tables. Wish I still had them.

2024-07-11 19:43:13

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@npub15zu…s7lx That was faster than I thought it would be. Definitely a pop-corn moment.

2024-06-22 21:41:41

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@npub1c9m…9xjd Yeahbut, if you are on the Tube and keep your backpack on your back instead of moving it to your front, you are a terrible human being and deserve to be punished horribly.

2024-06-21 18:39:48

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@npub1c9m…9xjd I’m obviously teaching a grandmother about sucking eggs here. I’m fairly straight forward in my use of them, what kind of gotchas are you thinking of?

2024-06-08 08:27:24

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@npub15zu…s7lx I think the Rees-Moggs of this world do understand it. Which is why the attack the democratic open organisations like the EU, but are quiet on secretive ISDS with their private courts.

2024-06-07 15:35:59

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@npub15zu…s7lx I wonder why the Brexity folks who fetishised sovereignty and rail against “foreign” courts and the ECHR never raise a peep about ISDS deals and their secret courts.

2024-06-05 20:30:05

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@npub15zu…s7lx And several other severe diseases as well.

2024-05-01 19:28:22

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I read Equoid a while back and enjoyed it. I don’t recall a hive mind though.

2024-02-09 08:38:29

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@npub1yyx…qa5g @npub1xkg…gph9 Molly White also has an excellent book review of where she eviscerates his nonsense.
https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

2023-12-31 10:23:04

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@npub1yyx…qa5g They are doing the classic strategy of spending money to grow the user base. The real question is what happens when they run out of money. Will they have a sufficient number of users dependent on their services that they can jack up the price while cutting costs at the same time. Given Duolingo just fired their translators, some companies are betting heavily on LLMs, so OpenAI may have a bunch of businesses by the short and curlies in a few years.

2023-10-12 07:39:34

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@npub1yyx…qa5g Eventually they’ll realise that they have to do something to combat climate change, probably very late in the day. But their solutions won’t be at all fair or equitable, to put it mildly.

2023-09-20 18:42:53

@npub1psd…9sr7 So I saw an idea for an SF story today on the scrutable forum, what if the AI overlords were bullshitting morons as opposed to hyper intelligent demi-gods? You’d have to construct a way for them to become the overlords, sheer ubiquity would be my punt at that, but one could have fun with the idea.
Arguably, given many of the actual humans who have risen to the top, we are already ruled by bullshiting morons.

2023-09-16 14:12:32

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Lol. I fired up vim in it on my phone. There being no escape key made it a problem to quit.
I’ve been playing a lot with webassembly recently, getting my C++ code base to compile to it. Seems to work pretty well once you figure out the incantations needed to cross compile.
I can see a lot of processing being push back to the client because of this. Same way as mainframes + terminals (and x terminals) gave way to PCs.
Though UNIX in your browser is probably over kill.

2023-07-13 18:47:24

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@npub1psd…9sr7 The Cleaning Up podcast has a new episode on Zaporizhzhia. DL:DR should they blow it, it wont be good, but nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl. 4/5 reactors are shut fully down, only one is on ‘hot shutdown’ and still producing radioactive iodine and other nasties, but at a reduce rate. The reactors are not RMBKs like Chernobyl and so they have significant containment and are not giant graphite piles waiting to burn and spew radioactivity over the landscape.
https://cleaning-up-leadership-in-the-age-of-climate-change.simplecast.com/episodes/ep134-chris-gadomski-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-on-the-front-lines-cpJzsqlE