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For that matter, I don't think any other Apple products are so out of line with competitor's prices. Airpods, iPhones, and iPad are also about the same as Samsung/Google stuff. MacBooks are marked up, but still in range of W
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My hope is that the Vision Pro is like the Apple Watch. It launched without a clear idea of why people would buy it--originally Apple tried to sell their bland aluminum box as a fashion accessory--and it was only after multiple iterations t
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The potential is amazing, and it's what has gotten so many people to sink so much time, effort, and money into developing these things ever since the Oculus devkits. But the hardware isn't there yet either. If it keeps enough mome
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That's in r/Soundbars, which is naturally rather favorable. The outright dismissals I've run into come from the much larger r/hometheater, which is also the source of most TV audio buying guides.
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The recommendations aren't bad, they're just overkill. Makita makes great tools, but depending on the tool, cheaper ones are fine for most purposes (cheap er , not cheapest, I've seen too many Ryobi contraptions start smoking
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They'd still be usable by devs. We'd get VS code on the App Store and some kind of iOS-style ability to run unsigned binaries on some limited number of computers with an Apple Developer subscription. As for why Apple doesn't
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Let me give an example: soundbars for TVs. Reddit will tell you to never buy one, because a dedicated speaker system sounds better at the same price. This is true-ish. However, a speaker system requires a large, heavy A/V unit, lots of
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Macs would become unusable because so much software doesn't come from the App Store. If they can get enough market penetration through other means first, that wouldn't be a problem. It would break all kinds of development processe
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I have, and I don't believe that higher courts will ever go along with it. Microsoft lost their initial case too, and was ordered to break up at the time. Appeals courts prevent real change like that from happening--see the fate of the
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The compromise in question is called equal temperament, and it's quite interesting if anyone is curious.
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The internet has worsened this phenomenon. I, like many other people, have gotten into the habit of appending site:reddit.com to Google searches as search quality declines. This gives better results from actual humans (usually), but it also
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It's unlikely that the US will force Apple to make EU-style changes. It's been 26 years since the DOJ went after Microsoft and lost, and corporate regulation has only grown weaker.
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Even worse, a lack of software and market penetration on the Mac App Store is the only thing stopping Apple from disabling non-App-Store applications on Macs like they do on iOS. They've already implemented the technical side of it un
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Yes, over the past few decades, that sentence applies to every institution I can think of. Academia, government, business, religion, medicine... I don't know why administration has turned into such a plague, but it keeps absorbing larg
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I'm aware. And the App Store is a prime example of the corporate culture causing the problems these extensions mitigate.
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It's unfortunate bordering on ironic that both of these are available only through the App Store.
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I'm surprised Patreon is going along with this, rather than disabling purchases on iOS like other companies. iOS backers must be a significant portion of their revenue.
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IBM has been heading toward the ground for thirty years, and they never seem to hit it. Whatever problems they have, they are both diversified and deeply entrenched in all kinds of government and S&P 500 systems and processes, to the po
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A lot of these are symptoms of the root cause: a bad product. Ultrabooks aren't a terrible concept; they're the Wintel version of Macbook Airs. Making a non-Apple Apple device is a fine business strategy, and Samsung has made plen
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One of the problems lies in the way RLHF is often performed: presenting a human with several different responses and having them choose one. The goal here is to create the most human-like output, but the process is instead creating outputs
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The average person isn't so blind they don't see the changes. The frog-boiling experiment is a myth. When there are state-spanning fires that darken the sky across the whole country every year, and hurricanes strong enough to shut
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I don't think increasingly poor mental health has much to do with climate change, but the threat of nuclear war is a bad comparison. Bombs either fall or don't. Climate change is a creeping, progressive issue that's visibly w
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There's been at least one sketchy self driving startup that drove their LiDAR hard enough they burnt holes in journalists' camera sensors at CES. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/man-says-ces-lid
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Succeeding as an author, actor, or tennis player is a much greater challenge than starting a company. There are millions and millions of companies succeeding well enough to keep their owners afloat. The chances for creative careers and prof
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People care about the effects. For example, you can install adblockers on every version of Firefox except for the one on iOS.
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You can only change your browser in the EU, since three months ago, because of their consumer protection laws. In all other countries, the "browsers" on the App Store are only skins on top of a crippled version of Safari.
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> reinventing the wheel with an extra library/Accelerate Framework/MPS solution that nobody knows about and has to convert models to use. This is Apple's favorite thing in the world. They already have an Apple-Silicon-only
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Apple doesn't have as much of an advantage as it appears. Their Neural Engine are fast and getting better, but modern machine learning models need another resource: fast RAM. Unfortunately for Apple, their whole product stack is segmen
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As it says in the paper, they already did the research with less limiting prompts. All models were tested with another prompt that gave only the question and no further instruction, and a third prompt that asked the model to consider its an
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The "only output the number" prompt was one of three they used. The others were one with no instructions beyond the question, and one that explicitly told the model to show its reasoning and check for errors.

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