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by afavour 9mo ago
The 10000ft perspective on AMP was correct, the lived reality was awful. And the technical implementation used can't be divorced from everything that surrounded it: Google's place in the industry with regard to search engines, ads
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by afavour 9mo ago
> If I can do it, anyone can. Right, but they don't. Not to mention a significant portion of the target market are children whose brains are still developing. Smoking is a vice. Anyone can stop smoking any time they want. But it was
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by afavour 9mo ago
A clear difference here is that Apple creates the TV+ shows and they don't create the News+ content. And I really don't think they want to get into the news content creation business.
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by afavour 9mo ago
In fairness Apple did come up with a custom JSON format for articles: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applenewsformat The problem is that people don't use it. I imagine it's a chicken/egg thing
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by afavour 9mo ago
I grew up outside the US. I have a distinct memory of using the Factbook for homework assignments and being told it is a reliable source of information. That shapes people's perceptions of the US and the CIA from a young age.
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by afavour 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power
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by afavour 9mo ago
Feels very short sighted, the Factbook is a great example of low cost soft power.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Pretty sure OPs point is that Tesla has shitty results, has a CEO that lives “any publicity is good publicity” as a mantra and the company valuation is through the roof.
729.
by afavour 9mo ago
Eh, he also spent $35m on marketing, most other documentaries get a couple of million at most. So, sure, it's breaking records by tweaking the inputs on a previous unseen scale.
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by afavour 9mo ago
It's very curious to reflect on the change in Bezos over the last decade or so. No, The Washington Post doesn't make money. But surely he never bought it under the expectation that it would. A billionaire buys a newspaper for othe
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by afavour 9mo ago
Right. Like I said, that's not logical, that's just legalese to gain access where you didn't have it before.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Right, and pressing your finger on a fingerprint sensor is also revealing a password, just via different means.
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by afavour 9mo ago
That is genuinely the current state of law, yes. There's no real logic at work, just attempts at clawing back control whenever a new gray area appears.
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by afavour 9mo ago
It was known that Grok was generating these images long before any action was taken. I imagine they’ll be looking for internal communications on what they were doing, or deciding not to do, doing during that time.
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by afavour 9mo ago
You and I must have different definitions of the word “immediately”. The article you posted is from January 15th. Here is a story from January 2nd: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98p1r4e6m8o > Have the othe
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by afavour 9mo ago
I’m sure Musk is going to say this is about free speech in an attempt to gin up his supporters. It isn’t. It’s about generating and distributing non consensual sexual imagery, including of minors. And, when notified, doing nothing about it.
737.
by afavour 9mo ago
I’m sure Musk is going to say this is about free speech in an attempt to gin up his supporters. It isn’t. It’s about generating and distributing non consensual sexual imagery, including of minors. And, when notified, doing nothing about it.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Unfortunately you led with the claim that Musk cares about freedom of speech, a claim so laughable it renders anything else you say unbelievable.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Will it, though?
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by afavour 9mo ago
This is not encouraging car use
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by afavour 9mo ago
The thing is: at the end of the day, making absolute statements about the inevitability of future success is a fool’s errand. Musk has a documented history of failing to deliver on promises, timescale or no. So it’s best to engage in some a
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by afavour 9mo ago
> American markets are hyper competitive Eh. Brand new markets, perhaps. But established markets in the US favor incumbents and encourage monopoly.
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by afavour 9mo ago
As soon as a statement contains a timeframe estimate by Musk you know to disregard it entirely.
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by afavour 9mo ago
He says he is going to launch data centers in space. We should all know better than to take him at his word on that by now.
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by afavour 9mo ago
I worked on a web app that used AS3 and Adobe Flex for UI. It’s crazy to think about how powerful that framework was and it was twenty years ago now. No, it was never right for public facing web sites but it shined making internal admins. H
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by afavour 9mo ago
So wait this thing is real? Calling it notepad.exe gave me the impression that it's just an elaborate joke about how you can code any program in Notepad...
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by afavour 9mo ago
But the fact remains that if Apple abandoned Swift tomorrow the language would almost certainly wither and die.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Yes, in my experience the Apple bias exists in all the articles and how-tos you read in a way that can trip you up. It’s been years now but I wanted to create a Set with weak memory in its keys. Everything I read said “oh just use NSHashTab
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by afavour 9mo ago
Really feel like this ought to have been named Wensleydale. (this is awesome)
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by afavour 9mo ago
And yet, it’s flagged. I wish I was surprised.

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