Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 2y ago
My wife's grandmothers house here in the US, built around 1952, has rounded corners in a lot of the ceiling and doors. It is quite nice.
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by Zelphyr 2y ago
I agree that Windows 2000 looks the best. I inherited a system that was running Windows Server 2003 that we have since replaced with up-to-date software. We needed to do it, of course but, the Windows 2000 UI was way better than what we h
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by Zelphyr 2y ago
Microsoft not being able to make up their mind resulting in a cluttered and nearly unusable UI? Who has ever heard of such a thing?!
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by Zelphyr 2y ago
Actually, if you're a direct shareholder then you have a direct voice that they will listen to if enough people do the same. So, rather than sell, use that voice to demand change.
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by Zelphyr 2y ago
I put off letting my kids have a phone until 14. They had tablets before that. If I could have done it all over again, they wouldn't have gotten any kind of device until at least 16. At best they would have gotten a flip phone.
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by Zelphyr 2y ago
I know this sounds defeatist but, I don't know why anyone even bothers to report things like this anymore. Meta doing something they're not supposed to do, even after promising they'd never do it again? This isn't news
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by Zelphyr 2y ago
I really hope the Bay Area keeps this attitude, and that other places adopt it if they haven't already: "I live in the Bay Area. I'm biased, but this place is full of awesome engineers building things and you can just walk up
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by Zelphyr 2y ago
I can think of one solution to the "too few players" problem. Break them up.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Just one minor note about your website: it breaks the back button.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Can you specify where you think they're chasing their competitors? I ask because it seems to me that's how they've always operated. There were other computers before the Mac, MP3 players before the iPod, cell phones before t
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Lol. Amazon doesn’t care. This is pure PR. I bought a refurbished Nest Protect from them once. It had a giant “Certified Inspected by Amazon” sticker right in the box with a First Alert smoke detector nestled inside. Amazon got conned and d
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
The vocal gymnastics of these people who perform The Star Spangled Banner have, in my opinion, made it intolerable to hear anymore. I really wish for once someone would sing it without adding all the notes in the scale to it.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I haven't used GitHub Copilot in awhile but I find ChatGPT is decent at generating the boilerplate for a new project but it does degrade the more I use it on that project. Often I have to either give up using it or start a new chat an
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I don't trust Microsoft as far as I can throw them collectively but it doesn't come as a surprise to me that they are doing this any more than it would if I were to hear that OpenAI, Google, etc... are engaging in this behavior. T
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
This. I'm a touch-typist but I still find myself fumbling around trying to find where to put my hands when I first start typing while in an environment. I don't do that when I can see my keyboard in my peripheral vision though,
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
As an aside, and I said this in a thread yesterday but, what I'm hearing about Kagi (I've not used it yet but I'm signing up today to try it out) and the contrast between the Sora and Gemini 1.5 announcements make me genuinel
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I believe that if a company treats their employees with respect (automatically give them cost-of-living raises without them having to ask for it, for example) and like humans instead of cogs in a machine, keep them intellectually challenged
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I can't help but worry that this will make it too easy to create movies and the product will be of much lower quality. There is precedence here in the music industry. A recent report came out that said that about 70% of music sales w
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Not to mention, the Gemini 1.5 Pro announcement was almost all technical talk whereas Sora is light on text and heavy on demonstration. I'm actually worried about the future of Google at this point. They really seem to be struggling u
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I wonder if there is anything in the recent Hollywood strikes that will prevent the studios from dong that?
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I didn't realize that. Thank you for the clarification.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Except they keep trying to shove AI into everything they own. CoPilot Studio is an example of how laughably bad at it they are. I honestly don't understand why they don't contract out to OpenAI to help them do some of these inte
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Agreed. It's amazing how much of a head start OpenAI appears to have over everyone else. Even Microsoft who has access to everything OpenAI is doing. Only Microsoft could be given the keys to the kingdom and still not figure out how
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Microsoft 365
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
How does it work? Can you give some examples? Also, you might want to seed the site. It looks pretty barren and uninviting right now.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
I would prefer they stop being borderline con artists.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Listening to podcasts like “SmartLess” and “Literally! With Rob Lowe” I find it interesting that these celebrities all regularly lament the virtual non-existence of great comedy movies and TV anymore.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
Anything they acquire and leave alone seems to do well (like those projects you list) everything else is almost comically bad. Made worse by the absolutely atrocious support that they've outsourced to Tata Consultancy.
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by Zelphyr 3y ago
ROFL. I'm sorry but that's such a Microsoft thing to do.

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