coreypreston's comments

coreypreston | 9 months ago | on: Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job

Weirdest comment I've ever seen here.

coreypreston | 1 year ago | on: Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown

Pandoc does this very well.

coreypreston | 1 year ago | on: Google Pixel 9 Pro

I can empathize. I recently tried to cancel Adobe Indesign. Every human stuck to the same script despite me stating 'no' up front after the first time it offered. They would confirm my intention, then when I stepped away they would cancel the chat because I was 'away' and did not double confirm that I wanted to cancel. That happened to me twice. By the third time, the sandbag was - 'You signed up for a yearly subscription, if you don't take those two free months, you will incur a early cancellation fee.' I never signed up for a yearly subscription and told them 'not accepting that'. As a gesture of 'goodwill' they waived it.

I could not understand all the Adobe hate before, but they made a neutral person negative with that experience.

coreypreston | 1 year ago | on: Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?

You're cramming an analogy into your point. Systems like economy and people dont fit into an electrical diagram.

coreypreston | 1 year ago | on: Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]

No question. Thanks for thinking of 27B.

coreypreston | 1 year ago | on: The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred

Not a huge fan, but their the source of my favorite song about nuclear war, if that were even a genre -

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ys8eavDzCLC4CjwN8pAUP?si=1d5...

coreypreston | 2 years ago | on: Google needs to stop throwing good money after Bard

'Samesies' is a viable corpo strategy, right?

coreypreston | 2 years ago | on: Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model

Asked what the proper dough-weight for garlic knots:

Open AI: 2 ounces Bard: 2 pounds

Not impressed with Bard at all.

coreypreston | 4 years ago | on: Caitlyn Jenner Is Right: I'm with her

Well this is garbage.

coreypreston | 4 years ago | on: Converting Markdown to ePub or Mobi Using Pandoc

Do you have any more details about how you integrated Pandoc into your pipeline? A post or something?

coreypreston | 5 years ago | on: Docker in 10 Minutes

Question: How do you manage multiple container types (VMWare, Docker) from a single interface? Am I dreaming?

I'm intending on setting up a R Pi 4 as a container for a few smaller projects. Am I shooting myself in the face by using Pi?

coreypreston | 5 years ago | on: Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

Really? This is what you come to comment with? Off topic and unrelated?

coreypreston | 5 years ago | on: Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team

Same here, W3 pales in comparison, which is not to denigrate their work. It's been helpful many times.

MDN just has more accessible writing and notes on best practice.

coreypreston | 5 years ago | on: Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying

They're 6 months away from becoming a case study in squandering momentum.

coreypreston | 6 years ago | on: 25 Years Later, 'Star Wars: Dark Forces' Is a Forgotten Gem

Who forgot DF? Maybe young'ns too young to remember playing it when it came out.

coreypreston | 6 years ago | on: GoFundMe CEO: One-Third of Site's Donations Are to Cover Medical Costs

"free stuff" is a pretty flippant way to describe a social service covered by taxes.

coreypreston | 6 years ago | on: Millennials Will Get Sick and Die Faster Than the Previous Generation

Could have been rewritten as a tweet "Study tells us status quo is untenable"

coreypreston | 6 years ago | on: ‘Don’t leave campus’: Parents use tracking apps to watch their kids at college

If an 18 year old is willing to be controlled like this, then perhaps they should be.

coreypreston | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Would you switch to a 4-day-a-week schedule if you could?

Give yourself some credit, you might not use it productively initially, but once that was out of your system...

coreypreston | 6 years ago | on: I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media

Precisely my thought process when giving up FB. Sure I'll miss the timeliness, but when I hear the great news or even bad news, I can be there with my friends to celebrate or empathize in person. Quality over quantity.