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by ElFitz 4y ago
In the same way all these American websites’ address forms insist on having everyone on Earth input a state. Or it’s equivalent. Even when there is no point to it, it makes no sense, and the country doesn’t have an equivalent.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Oh! That is neat. Based on screenshots? Wouldn’t have thought of that. I have many questions, about backup and disk space. I’m going to give it a try. Thanks!
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Oh, I certainly appreciate being in one. Much more quiet and less bumpy. But one doesn’t need to own or event rent a Mercedes for that. While I can see how it could be reasonable for a professional driver to use such a car, I fail to see ho
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Why should I want a new Mercedes? Do they truly want people that will happily just throw money down the drain for appearances’ sake? I’m interested in many ridiculously expensive things. But a car sure ain’t one.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
> "Oh, if only I ran a system that archived everything I browsed so I could build my own personal search engine that could search on just what I've ever looked at." Well, that makes two of us.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Please do enlighten me as to how and where I aggressively stated anything here. In the meantime, I will gladly point out that anyone who actually read said garbage article couldn’t have helped but notice how the author, very quickly establi
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by ElFitz 4y ago
> If anything, human life got remarkably longer in the last century. Well, yes and no. That we live longer than our ancestors seems obvious and is a very common belief. And average life expectancy has indeed increased. But it really isn’
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Or perhaps cancer is better treated in California. Or perhaps palliative care is better in California. I’m not Californian, and I seriously doubt what I just wrote. But there most certainly are more factors that need to be considered here.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Most of my SwiftUI pet projects are snappier than macOS’ settings.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
> even though it isn't really necessary for anything. It is one of the best, if not the best, way of letting users know what their action will lead to, and of letting them explore the range of available actions. By behaving similar
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Thank you for that fascinating read!
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by ElFitz 4y ago
> Hard for me to imagine how AI would be able to create something as unique and human as D'Angelo's Voodoo (esp. before he existed) There’s always that immortal randomly typing monkey with a typewriter thing [1]. And, in our ca
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by ElFitz 4y ago
They already do, with varying levels of performance and success. See deforum[1] and andreasjansson‘s stable-diffusion-animation[2] [1]: https://deforum.github.io/ [2]: https://replicate.com/andreasjansson&#x
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Oh, my bad. And while it does make sense, it indeed doesn’t mean what I intended to write. So "stack the odds in its favour” then?
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by ElFitz 4y ago
> The Chinese government doesn't play fair No government or organisation does, and I wouldn’t fault any state for doing it’s best to edge it’s bets.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Reminds me of some constraint programming example I read yesterday: https://mlabonne.github.io/blog/constraintprogramming/
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by ElFitz 4y ago
The Beatles are back! Joking aside, the Beatles may almost be like xkcd. In that they just might have a song for most if not all of the most basic human interactions and emotions. Here, "Hello, Goodbye". You say, "Yes",
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by ElFitz 4y ago
Quite a few complex solutions (mostly unknowingly) used by vast amounts of people have come from pure volunteer open source work. How much we can expect that to continue is a whole other matter though.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
It’s incredible how many systems are basically two silos that sometimes somehow sync in a totally custom manner, when we have so many ways of keeping distributed systems in sync. Especially true for mobile.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
1.5 years old 12 Pro, 83% battery health. But I mostly do iOS software engineering, so the device spends most of it’s time plugged in. In a few months, it won’t even need to try to stay under 80% anymore. It just will.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
They also never stop building. And when they do stop, it’s only to tear down a building so they can build another one in it’s place.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
See https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
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by ElFitz 4y ago
I have no idea on how to figure out a startup’s valuation. But I wouldn’t compare an infrastructure / platform like Stripe to B2C nice-to-haves for rich-ish people like Uber or Lyft or cute expensive jokes like Peloton.
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by ElFitz 4y ago
> but void of any real intent. I’m in no way convinced we have actual intelligence in current AI. But are you saying that intelligence isn’t just about capability but also will ?
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by ElFitz 4y ago
The text GPT-3 generates can be quite uncanny. I could sometimes swear it almost seems self-aware. Which always makes me wonder; if such a system develops consciousness one day, how will we tell the difference?
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by ElFitz 4y ago
So, setting aside the backend’s own architecture, the heavier the clients, the more we are in a distributed systems configuration?
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by ElFitz 4y ago
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_sh... And this quote, from the wikipedia article, sums it all quite well: > "I know many people in other countries are scratching their hea
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Ask HN: Web apps and mobile apps and back end = distributed system?
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by ElFitz 5y ago
And now the rest of the world will be very happy learn that they will once more have to silently deal with the aftermath of America’s latest political trend. After banning world-famous paintings from Facebook because they dared show a brea
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by ElFitz 5y ago
It’s funny; I never thought of it as a desirable behaviour. To each their own!

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