aftbit

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811.
by aftbit 2y ago
Google wants YouTube to be a place for cat videos and shitty listicals, where people escape from their lives to laugh and be influenced by advertisers. If your content is even remotely confronting, advertisers don't want it, and Google
812.
by aftbit 2y ago
Interesting stuff. I like the idea of giving each device its own network. How does this interact with things like casting to a TV or printing to a printer?
813.
by aftbit 2y ago
Oh yeah I missed that. So a desktop computer can't play? Lame.
814.
by aftbit 2y ago
Did you try on a laptop without wifi enabled?
815.
by aftbit 2y ago
Mmm I wish I could find a Psion 5mx or modern clone for a reasonable price. What a cool piece of hardware, especially the keyboard.
816.
by aftbit 2y ago
I don't even understand what was built in emacs. A "message router"? Its job was to take messages in from a set of links and transfer them out some other set of links? How did it know what links led where, or how to make prog
817.
by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah except the electric ones that I've used kinda suck. I have an electric leaf blower from Ego and a gas backpack one. The electric one is awesome for blowing the grass off the driveway after mowing or other light tasks. OTOH I used
818.
by aftbit 2y ago
Because it probably was. I believe you can pay ZDNet for placement.
819.
by aftbit 2y ago
Me too, but I'm comfortable being in the ~nobody club. Basically everyone uses the browser bundled with their phone, right? Whether that's Safari or Chrome or whatever Samsung ships these days.
820.
by aftbit 2y ago
Or this quote from Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars: "We're like dwarves in a waldo[.] One of those really big waldo excavators. We're inside it and supposed to be moving a mountain, and instead of using the waldo capabil
821.
by aftbit 2y ago
Someone needs to hurry up and build a von Neumann probe already.
822.
by aftbit 2y ago
Foolish short-sighted take. Imagine if the same opinion held during the age of sail. There's literally more resources than are currently controlled by our entire planet in the asteroid belt, and a lunar colony (at least a refueling sta
823.
by aftbit 2y ago
Things like this make me want to install some kind of heaters near my most prized plants. The power cost would be pretty high, and they wouldn't be sufficient to make it through the winter or anything, but they might allow us to weathe
824.
by aftbit 2y ago
Why does OpenAI think that sexting is a bad thing? Why is AI safety all about not saying things that are disturbing or offensive, rather than not saying things that are false or unaligned?
825.
by aftbit 2y ago
Or from Zones of Thought series, Applied Theology, the study of communication with and creation of superhuman intelligences that might as well be gods.
826.
by aftbit 2y ago
>Who cares? This stuff feels magical. Magical! On one hand, I agree - we shouldn't diminish the very real capabilities of these models with tech skepticism. On the other hand, I disagree - I believe this approach is unlikely to lead
827.
by aftbit 2y ago
Maybe they will finally stop moving buttons around meaninglessly in Android. I can't believe someone looked at the Alarm UX and thought "Stop" vs "Snooze" was easier than "Dismiss" vs "Snooze". O
828.
by aftbit 2y ago
I made a PR https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/pull/7
829.
by aftbit 2y ago
> Now, it's fairly obvious that rotating by say 22.75˚ is the same as rotating by 45˚ and then -22.5˚ - i.e. we can break up a rotation into smaller parts, with both positive and negative components. Wouldn't that be rotating b
830.
by aftbit 2y ago
Firefox on Android too, though probably ~nobody uses that.
831.
by aftbit 2y ago
Well I think it depends on the situation. If you're trying to post something they have already built good defenses against (e.g. child porn, or maybe mocking the king of Thailand), you'd probably have better luck with the handbill
832.
by aftbit 2y ago
I think perhaps you're underappreciating the difficulty of physical distribution. Having one's voice heard has always been the domain of the rich and powerful. Sure, platforms control promotion and discoverability today, but I dou
833.
by aftbit 2y ago
TL;DR: Download an app, then click a button on the car, and hope they're honoring your request. Live in CA and you can ask for your profile under CCPA. Otherwise... too bad. Or find the cell modem and hack that thing out of there.
834.
by aftbit 2y ago
Let's hope for more like airplane MFDs and less like iPads.
835.
by aftbit 2y ago
A lie flies while the truth only crawls. Or maybe, a lie rides on horseback while the truth walks.
836.
by aftbit 2y ago
There has never been a situation where all had more equal access to speech than today. Printing presses were expensive and complicated machines, and distributing handbills was far slower and riskier than tweeting. Today, anyone can make a w
837.
by aftbit 2y ago
Why?
838.
by aftbit 2y ago
Anduril vs Palantir - fight!
839.
by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah if we had some kind of unlimited propulsion systems, the Expanse trajectory would be optimal in so many ways. Forget about transfer orbits - just point at the target and burn. The Expanse subreddit has a lot of people doing math on suc
840.
by aftbit 2y ago
Also apparently tethering traffic doesn't go via the VPN? That's a silly choice too.

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