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by aftbit 4mo ago
>LolasLakehouse >43 points 33 minutes ago >Heard on ramp frequency. United appeared to tell the captain of a different United flight that there was a Bluetooth device with a “certain four letter word” (quoting) on the plane causing
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by aftbit 4mo ago
People _avoid_ buying Macs for ideology.
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by aftbit 4mo ago
True, I was being a bit loose with my terminology. Some tools reward customization more than others. Machine tools and 3d printers are often used to produce parts, mods, and upgrades for themselves, for example. Screwdrivers aren't usu
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by aftbit 4mo ago
If you're ideologically willing to use a Mac, you're really not the market that the Framework is targeting. Apple has always had some of the best hardware. Where they really struggle is in respecting user choice and allowing power
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Like what? Portrait mode? I have a Pixel 8 which I believe does something else to fake depth maps.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Smartphone grade lidar == FaceID ?
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by aftbit 5mo ago
I came here to complain about this. Please read `LANG` like everything else :)
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by aftbit 5mo ago
On my Android, I aggressively mute or uninstall any apps that send push advertisements. I haven't seen one in more than 6 months now. If they think they need to advertise to me, I think I need to do without them.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Anecdotally, it still happens a ton to me. They also still make super simple logic errors that they immediately reverse when pressed. For example, I asked Opus 4.7 last night how to cool off my room without making it too humid inside (indoo
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by aftbit 5mo ago
The marginal cost for _users_ (on a token plan) is $0 but not for the AI company supplying that token plan.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
$ / 1 million tokens
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Except DeepSeek's official service is _less_ expensive per token, which suggests they're underpricing it substantially as well to attempt to draw more attention / more data.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
"Attention is all you need" - the larger bet is that by releasing your models open-weight, you'll get more attention and mindshare than if you tried to jump in to compete with the major closed providers, and the value of that
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Which city? IMO having public transit and good sidewalks would be amazing for older kids in the 12 to 16 range. I grew up in a small suburb, connected to the world only by a busy 40 mph street without sidewalks. I was basically trapped at h
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Yes and no. Just take a look at the OpenRouter providers page: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro/providers Deepseek v4 Pro is much cheaper when provided by Deepseek itself, likely as a combination of
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by aftbit 5mo ago
The marginal cost of AI is not 0. That's one of the big differences between this and older SaaS software. Inference costs a lot of money. Even if you're looking at just capital depreciation, it's quite expensive. I suppose it
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by aftbit 5mo ago
What about it? Energy production basically has to equal energy consumption in the medium term, so if the grandparent comment is correct, it is 2x per capita. Dunno how trustworthy this source is, but it says ~35 MWh/person in China and
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by aftbit 5mo ago
I wish Deepseek could read images. I've been having good luck guiding it around on personal projects, but anything that needs to render to a screen really needs to be looked at to see bugs.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Free market competition? This is a pretty classic pattern. Leaders capture market with quality but run into trouble scaling, followers compete on price and availability. Given time, leaders eventually run out of upgrade runway and find them
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by aftbit 5mo ago
And yet despite the ban, China's contributions to Bitcoin mining remain very large. https://cryptonews.com/news/china-doubles-down-on-crypto-ban...
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Not only that, but they wrap the links in their email with click tracking provided by domains that have nothing to do with them (Mailgun or whatever). So even if you try to introspect the links you're clicking, they seem to go to a sca
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by aftbit 5mo ago
I got a coinbase scam from @akamai.com once. One of their acquisitions had a bad SPF I believe.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
I'm still on X :laugh:
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by aftbit 5mo ago
A* used to be called AI, now it's just an algorithm. AI is anything that is hard to do and we barely understand. Once we grok it, it's just an algorithm.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
One I've personally done is wake-word detection for a local voice assistant. Not sure what exactly "great" is as I don't benchmark unless someone's paying me, but for my personal use case, good enough precision&#x2F
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Shut up and take my money.
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by aftbit 5mo ago
“We'll send only a brain"
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Yeah, I don't understand why they made that announcement then didn't actually release it. All of the heat, none of the archival benefit...
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by aftbit 5mo ago
What's Signal's planned response to this? Or what about older tools like GnuPG or OMEMO for XMPP?
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by aftbit 5mo ago
Is Graphene vulnerable to these exploits?

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