AlanYx

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by AlanYx 1y ago
The most important thing here IMHO is the strong stance taken towards open source and open weight AI models. This stance puts the US government at odds with some other regulatory initiatives like the EU AI Act (which doesn't outlaw ope
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Martinez hammers are fancy, but they're not a case where form overtakes function. They have a reputation for excellent weighting and every part is replaceable. The colors are functional too in the sense that they make it easy to tell y
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by AlanYx 1y ago
IMO doesn't reuse problems, but Terence Tao has a Mastodon post where he explains that the first five (of six) problems are generally ones where existing techniques can be leveraged to get to the answer. The sixth problem requires cons
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Liljedahl's "Building Thinking Classrooms" is the current poster child for this. Hugely influential in educational circles, but inconsistent with most of the reproducible research in cognitive science and likely quite deleter
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by AlanYx 1y ago
There's a deep beauty in that sentence that probably isn't apparent on the surface. The "popular prejudice" that Dickens was referring to about the Court of Chancery was, in part, that it had ponderously complex proceedi
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by AlanYx 1y ago
The Mona Lisa has been behind a thick bulletproof layer of glass since 1956. I'm kind of surprised actually that they haven't found a better way to exhibit it in close to 70 years. But the protective layer is a big part of why it&
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by AlanYx 1y ago
That's one of the reasons why they gate Gemini Nano with the "Gemini Nano Program Additional Terms of Service". Even if copyright doesn't subsist in the weights or if using them would be fair use, they still have recours
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by AlanYx 1y ago
I'm not proposing any kind of solution, just stating what the law currently is. A book purchased at a store is a purchase; content obtained from online services like Bloomberg or LexisNexis is typically licensed; more and more of these
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Copilot is powered by a Microsoft-hosted version of OpenAI's models. If you ask it, it says "I'm based on GPT-4, a large language model developed by OpenAI. Specifically, you're chatting with Microsoft Copilot, which int
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by AlanYx 1y ago
Fair use "overrides" licensing in the sense that one doesn't need a copyright license if fair use applies. But fair use itself isn't a shield against breach of contract. If you sign a license contract saying you won&#x27
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It was overcomplicated, but arguably it paved the way for Slack.
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People go to Teruel to see Albarracín (IMHO one of the most beautiful villages in Spain -- 100% worth the trip) and to make side trips to places like Valderrobres, Calaceite, Rubielos de Mora, Puertomingalvo, Cantavieja, and Mirambel. Tends
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It's definitely better for streaming, but the scenario you describe requires two other components (network attached storage and an Infuse subscription). It would be nice if you could just airdrop to device storage and play with an on-d
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by AlanYx 1y ago
It's an excellent device overall, but getting content onto the device to view is frustrating. Apps like VLC can have local storage, but the OS periodically purges locally stored content inside app storage.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
I feel that his movies post-mid-career have been trending more and more towards an emotional monotone. That's more of an issue IMHO than the predictable artistic approach that people tend to focus on. I haven't seen The Phoenician
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by AlanYx 1y ago
They're both good in different ways. The advantage of the Fit is largely in cargo height (with the magic seats flipped up), but for some other objects the 80s Civic is better.
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by AlanYx 1y ago
That option only works with Apple's XDR enabled displays (internal and external). For non-Apple external displays with HDR10, there's a separate "High Dynamic Range" toggle in the display settings in the display. On some
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by AlanYx 2y ago
This is for system-level permissions. In third-party apps, the app asks whether you want to enable X permission and then you get an OS-level confirmation request. It's not just in Europe. Likely they'll fall back in Europe to doub
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by AlanYx 2y ago
I've started to wonder whether there might be any internal resistance at Apple to the move to SwiftUI, which has brought some benefits but also a whole host of odd behaviors in all kinds of places. There's probably an alternate hi
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by AlanYx 2y ago
The original logseq developer was a heavy org-mode user prior to developing it. Though now that logseq is moving to a database backend rather than plain text files, it's becoming a different type of solution.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Thanks! That's an instant purchase for me. Looks like the APIs to permit this have only been available since Ventura.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Obsidian is a great app and probably the closest thing spiritually to org-mode for those who aren't interested in emacs, but Obsidian doesn't (currently) come close to the whole package. Just as some examples: outline-centric with
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by AlanYx 2y ago
They're still around. They spawned a whole minor industry of patent licensing entities.
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It's also comparatively worse than the raw numbers suggest because the customer base of Apple phones in Germany is much smaller than in the UK.
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by AlanYx 2y ago
Many people might not be aware of it, but Apple publishes a breakdown of the number of government requests for data that it receives, broken down by country. The number of UK requests has ballooned in recent years: https://www.ap
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For most of it, yes. There are exceptions, e.g., Health and Keychain, for which Apple does not have the keys even without ADP enabled.
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It kind of is the Chinese equivalent of a Marvel movie. No criticism intended though, it does that well. The 2023 Chinese film Chang'an is a better choice if someone is looking for a modern animated Chinese film with some adult depth.
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Nezha 2 still has fart jokes (and a sequence involving a joke about bodily fluids), but the quality of the animation is now top notch.
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Not even 1 qubit, just "substantial progress towards the realization of a topological qubit" (from the accompanying Nature paper).
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The NYTimes article says "the company built multiple topological qubits inside a new kind of computer chip" but the Nature paper says they're only making "substantial progress towards the realization of a topological qub

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