ElFitz

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by ElFitz 2y ago
> It's not the phone itself that they issue, it's the content. That was mentioned in Death Stranding. Quite a funny game which is, among other things, about connecting people and technology’s role and limits. It also attempts t
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by ElFitz 2y ago
I really enjoyed Peter F. Hamilton’s take on this in the Night Dawn Trilogy, with his Edenists. A bit hopeful, but intriguing.
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Certainly. But the lower the stakes, the easier it is to show integrity. Doing the right thing at no cost is easy. Integrity isn’t just about doing the right thing when no-one is looking. It’s doing right thing, even when no-one is looking,
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by ElFitz 2y ago
> Since I cannot install stuff from a third party on my iPhone without paying Apple (unless Apple says I can) Today, that’s only partially true, finally, depending on where in the world you live.
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It could work if we’re talking state-sponsored hackers. North Korea is well-known for that, although I’m not sure about ransomware, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia were into it too now.
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I meant something akin to recommendation engines like TikTok’s, applied to generative models instead of user-generated content. Start-off with generic, "one size fits all", generated content, using a few parameters such as rough a
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Except that’ll just be a fluke. The next thing isn’t a never-ending list of AI generated games stored somewhere that we’ll have to sift through somehow. The next big thing will be ephemeral games, created on the fly based on the context an
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by ElFitz 2y ago
This would be incredible for a game like Pokemon Snap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFCl1egmhRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbDXrD7v7a4
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by ElFitz 2y ago
I started calculating the bandwidth for a continuous stream of carrier pigeons carrying 256GB flash drives, at different frequencies. But the latency and loss rate would make it all worthless.
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They voluntarily shut down your and your wive’s personal and business accounts because six years ago you logged in on a computer on some former client’s premises and one of their former one-off contractors got banned for doing some shady st
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by ElFitz 2y ago
Not the GP, but since they mentioned high-functioning autism I’d guess they meant people with autism able to (very) successfully adapt to social expectations will likely forgo self-fulfilment in order to conform, without even necessarily b
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by ElFitz 2y ago
It’s a quote about how some people stop living their lives long before their body dies. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/11/03/not-buried/
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Not entirely untrue. The last time I had an Android, I rooted it, replaced the boot animation with a Tardis, installed some anti-virus / anti-theft app that silently forwarded all received sms to my other number (and realised after sel
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by ElFitz 2y ago
One could argue it’s a good thing: these people filter themselves out of our lives. It could almost make me wish for an Android.
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I get the "the whole planet is my home". It’s just that to me there’s no reciprocity. It’s a one-way thing. And no matter where I am, I know I’m just passing through.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
As a kid we never lived in a country more than a few years. Now, everywhere feels a bit off. And I feel a bit off everywhere. Which, you are right, isn’t bad. Just odd. Unmoored is adequate.
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by ElFitz 2y ago
> I also think a lot of people feel like the smartest people go way back and listen to the classical stuff. […] and for awhile I was kind of embarrassed by that fact That says a lot more about those who think that it does about than thos
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by ElFitz 2y ago
> and I don't think it's a moral failing that I don't listen to the latest stuff all the time I’ve personally enjoyed going the other way and exploring earlier and earlier singers and genres. Quite fun. For those intereste
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Wouldn’t that describe Pocket, Readwise Reader, Matter, or another one of those many apps? Edit: read too fast. Didn’t notice the automatic and systematic aspects.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> To do predictive correctly, you'd need to share logic between the server and the client. > > One possible solution […] is to write all game logic in gleam […] Rust, with Uniffi, can also be a good candidate. You’d be target
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by ElFitz 3y ago
You could run a LLM pass to "expand" abbreviations and acronyms before running it through text to speech. Although more expensive, it worked wonders for me with text containing units of measurement (°F, °C, m/s, etc).
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by ElFitz 3y ago
CloudKit uses the user’s iCloud storage for private containers and bills the developers (although it’s usually free) for "public" CloudKit containers[1]. [1]: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Funny thing; I recently realised even iOS can be used without any Apple ID. You will lose many features, including the App Store, Activation Lock and FindMy, but it works, and well.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> American physicians also work almost teice as many hours as their European counterparts which would increase their incomes. I’d be curious as to where you got that. I was personally suprised to discover that in Germany, doctors in univ
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> And we are moving to the cloud, so rather than some simple flask built api, learn and deal with FaaS stuff. And then good luck deploying updates. For me it’s been the opposite. My FaaS stuff just stays up despite my, at the beginning,
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> This is not a popular opinion among engineering types; we like things arrayed in black and white, passing tests and failing tests. This, however, seems to be a popular opinion. And one that I particularly hate.
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In some countries some read comics porn or erotica in the subway. I can’t say wether or not it is frowned upon there though. In other countries, souvenir shops sell genitalia-shaped pastries or bottle openers.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> I'm no expert - I don't know what happens when they come across a gap, the proceedings are suspended until legislators full it in I suppose? No, the judges rule with what they have, based on the case’s specifics and the &quot
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> It reminds me of an obsession I had when I was young (maybe 12 or 13) where I kept iterating on a design for a mini-sub I had hoped to build. I don’t know when that was, but nowadays it is feasible, for a kid [0]. Not sure how deep it
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by ElFitz 3y ago
It’s a hands—off database and auth service, initially intended to be directly accessed by thick clients, with little to no backend logic (although they have since added FaaS). When mobile apps started out, most had little to no online featu

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