al_borland

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by al_borland 5d ago
My concern with Muse, and all these AI shopping tools, is that we'll end up in a world where inventory drops to 0, orders are placed by the business based on the number of bots in the queue, and as inventory is made available, it is im
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by al_borland 5d ago
Maybe the baker got up and started baking every day at 4am, year-round. Sunrise changes throughout the year. Sunrise in December and July are not the same thing. To set the clock, they’d need a reference for the solar time to clock time for
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by al_borland 5d ago
This assumes the people fixing the clock know how to tell time based on the movement of the sun. In the story, the baker was the only one left with that ability, as others left the skill behind when the clock became the authority. This prob
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by al_borland 5d ago
They are probably getting this based on your IP address, which many sites do when actual location data is disabled. This kind of thing has been around for decades, long before the browser could get actual location data.
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by al_borland 5d ago
HBO, on their “ad-free” tier shows ads for their own content before almost everything. I reached out to support about this and they said they don’t count those as ads. These companies are all scum. They shift definitions and make the servic
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by al_borland 5d ago
Filebot used to be open source. I bought it on the AppStore, it was a way to support development and I figured it would give me easier updates that would just happen in the background. When Apple moved to ARM, the App Store version lagged b
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by al_borland 6d ago
Even if I had an actual human person assistant, there would be parts of my life I would want to keep private.
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by al_borland 6d ago
12/17. Due to the speed, I felt like I was just randomly guessing, but 70% correct seems better than random guessing. I did suspect some things. How mundane the AI images were felt like a means to trick people. It doesn’t seem like mos
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by al_borland 6d ago
I suppose you could say, “they are both doctors” or “they are all doctors.” Those sound fine to me, depending on context.
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by al_borland 7d ago
Not to mention a long delivery time gives people more opportunity to simply go to the store and get something, while they’re out running other errands. I live in a well populated suburban area. If I’m willing to actually leave my house, I c
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by al_borland 7d ago
Are those the ones people waste time on? Social media seems to be the biggest culprit, and shouldn’t be shipping with any phone, or require any hoops to remove.
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by al_borland 8d ago
A person isn’t becoming a master in the new field if the LLM is doing all that for them. New areas are where it is most dangerous to use an LLM, as a person can’t tell when it doesn’t align with their views (because they don’t have any yet)
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by al_borland 8d ago
> Full Android. Every app you already use, there when you need it. So it still requires a user to have self-control. If people had that, they could just uninstall the problematic apps from the phone they already have.
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by al_borland 8d ago
Sure. The thing with the Gates Foundation is that it was able to handle billions. Most charities aren't equipped to effectively manage and deploy that kind of wealth. The Gates Foundation made it easy for billionaires to send a large l
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by al_borland 8d ago
That’s now in limbo https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/warren-buffett-...
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by al_borland 8d ago
What do you mean by this? Soft skills have value. I saw an amazing dev let go because he lacked the soft skills to explain his project to upper management in a way they could understand and care about. A month after he left, those same mana
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by al_borland 9d ago
It was buried in the FAQ. It’s available in these countries. Albania, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British
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by al_borland 9d ago
I wonder what would happen if you sent Meta an invoice to cover the cost of their usage.
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by al_borland 9d ago
It is true that very few people proactively care about backups. It’s like flossing. People know they’re supposed to do it, but in the moment it feels like a waste of time and energy, when there are more important things to do. When data is
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by al_borland 10d ago
There are things I’ve made that I wouldn’t have made without AI. But I don’t feel like it’s “nerding out” or “tinkering”. I get the end result, but I don’t learn anything or become more capable in the process. As a result, I get very little
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by al_borland 10d ago
It looks like you can use ScreenTime to hide it.
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by al_borland 10d ago
I need to give an email and create an account without any real information about what’s on the other side? Hard pass. If this is a learning platform, step 1 would be to teach potential users what it is you’re offering and why they might wan
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by al_borland 10d ago
Trust is earned. Stealing all the content possible to train the models, then advertising that the model created from that stolen work will be used to eliminate everyone’s jobs, destroys any and all trust. Earning back the trust of the publi
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by al_borland 10d ago
My dad was programming professionally at that time. He’s retired now and he loves AI. It’s a constant topic of conversation and he even teaches classes to other seniors at the community center. They had to move him to a bigger room, because
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by al_borland 10d ago
How would they decide which 5GB gets backed up? A partial backup also gives a false sense of security, as it’s not a backup. There are other services that will backup photos on iOS to the cloud, some for free (at least at one point, not sur
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by al_borland 10d ago
The weather app for new precipitation and wind forecasts that can be seen in the 10 day forecast, without having to tap on every day for details. A power button was added into the control center on iOS (top right corner). Maybe this existed
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by al_borland 10d ago
You seem to be optimizing for storage space, while others are optimizing for their preferred reading experience.
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by al_borland 11d ago
It reads like the whole thing was vibe coded and 0 work was done beyond what the AI spit out.
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by al_borland 11d ago
If it’s web native, anyone can just use it. If it’s a capsule, they first need to download the capsule app to associate the file extension with the OS and have it launch, right? That feels like a big barrier, almost like a Java runtime.
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by al_borland 11d ago
Even if it’s technically legal, it’s the court of public opinion that will matter. I could see certain businesses banning them, or offices not allowing employees to wear them. I think I will think twice before having certain conversations w

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