Centigonal

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by Centigonal 5mo ago
On android, there is an OS-level feature that checks the cell tower to verify if you're allowed to create a hotspot. It runs whenever you try to enable the hotspot feature. On rooted systems, you can disable this check. There are also
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Is it WFH? I want to see economists investigate if WFH is behind this.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
What in the Microsoft Surface is this? Are they trying to frame a life-long dependency on Google's LLMs as a feature? Also, I find it funny that they have burned through the "chromebook" and "pixelbook" branding alr
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Working on an idiosyncratic tool that lets users use AI to help write statements of work without losing the high bar for accuracy and consistency that these documents require. Right now, it's somewhere between Typst and Gemini in Googl
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
FWIW Google Maps also has ads, although they're disguised as "sponsored" PoIs with greater visibility in search results
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Crazy jeremiad here. This never existed as a norm across the industry outside pockets like Bell Labs. Office Space was not a film about Google's pioneering new management philosophy.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
is this from Baggini or Adams?
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
yes - absent experimental confirmation, the effects attributed to dark matter may in fact be due to an unrelated as-yet-undiscovered phenomenon.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
I trust people like David Smith and companies like onX more than Apple when it comes to creating and supporting a top tier outdoor mapping app.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
it's Oracle.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Great memories writing games in TI-BASIC on sheets of loose-leaf paper to later transcribe manually into my TI-84+.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
crazy work from whoever at Alphabet is in charge of selecting domain names for their sites.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
the problem isn't one that can be solved with prompts. If I gave a panel of food and nutrition experts (human or machine) a bunch of pictures of food, they still wouldn't be able to tell if, e.g. a slice of cake was made with whol
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
maybe, but not always. I could make two identical-looking sandwiches with very different calorie content by changing the type and quantity of sauce on the inside of the bread. I could give you two "pasta with creamy sauce" dishes
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Context: there are a lot of very popular apps (e.g. Macrofactor) that are being promoted on social media and downloaded for exactly this feature (calculating nutrition based on pictures of food). The users don't understand that this is
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
You're right: the MapReduce pattern is very old, and it is well-known that applying it to AI training to enable geographically distributed training runs would be very beneficial. We haven't done it yet because model training workl
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Germany resisted Google Street View until 2023, which was something I thought was very impressive.
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
"UI" is a category that contains GUI as well as other UIs like TUIs and CLIs. "UX" encompasses a lot of design work that can be distilled into the UI, or into app design, or into documentation, or somewhere else.
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
it's a last gasp... except when it isn't, like with Google, youtube, facebook, reddit, etc
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
You mean you're not excited to use Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App?? (This is the real, official name for the AI button in Office)
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
Microsoft spent a lot of effort to develop a really powerful editing interface. If you can replace that interface with a text input box, then their applications moat becomes a lot shallower.
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
Just like fiber, just like power lines, just like... rail!? The ghost of Cornelius Vanderbilt is rubbing his hands in glee.
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
I think LOC and "writing code" are largely irrelevant as metrics of productivity in a world with LLMs that love to churn out overly loquacious code. I think the right way to explain the work done sounds something like, "I wor
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
Is your definition of bullish "believes the technology will be widely adopted across society and accrue significant wealth to its owners?" - if so, I think it's very clear how someone could be bullish on AI and not blockchain
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
I'll add to this by saying that globalization works as well as it does because the average person would suffer dramatically from a major war and the resulting breakdown of global supply chains. People who are wealthy enough to move any
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
Terrible day for people who sloppily use filesystem vocabulary when referring to S3 objects and prefixes.
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
Why did you create a bot that violates Wikipedia's existing bot policy?
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
One issue with this is that it mixes hypothetical formal logic style problems (where there are clear, inflexible rules) with real life examples (where group membership/traits, cost estimation, and causal attribution are less clear) wit
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by Centigonal 6mo ago
This is geohot's newest thing. While he's definitely a cowboy, he has shipped hardware successfully at Comma.

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