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by alpaca128 1y ago
There's a rule against commenting about "tangential annoyances" like text formatting or bad UX on a linked website. It's possible a comment about GPT use might have been interpreted as that, but I would disagree - this h
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by alpaca128 1y ago
It's not fair but yes, it may help once AI users stop making obvious mistakes that give it away. At least until the publisher secretly runs the content through AI by themselves. YouTube already does that with short videos, making them
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Apple devices work near flawlessly with third-party periphery in my experience, what are you talking about? They have some questionable limitations at times (like iPads supporting Thunderbolt but not being able to safely eject USB drives),
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> What kind of 'shit' do they pull with Switch 2 they already didn't with Switch 1? The shit that the linked article is about, for one.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
I also found out the hard way that many modern powerbanks will shut themselves off if the charged device doesn't draw enough power, which means many smartwatches will simply not get charged by default. Supposedly that behaviour can be
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by alpaca128 1y ago
They had benchmarks before Labs as well and almost 100% of tech reviewers don't have this kind of equipment, so no, it's not necessary. But it definitely helps.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> make it very clear that video out is only happening with their dock What about it is "very clear"? It worked on the Switch 1, it's expected to work as it's USB, there is no error message, it just will appear that ma
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Would you rather have your phone refuse to charge for no apparent reason, or have it popup "slow USB charging" as it does when you connect it to a weaker charger? Nintendo unnecessarily chose to make their device partially USB-C i
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by alpaca128 1y ago
In my experience the one big problem on the Quest 3 is the user interface. I am still puzzled why they made a floating taskbar with tiny buttons that you have to hit with VR controllers. I have good eyes, decent hand-eye coordination and do
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Yeah, I've even had cases where DDG ignored my quoted string in the search. It's literally the whole point of the quotes but especially when it contains things like German umlauts it'll just accept any replacement letter for
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> "Exposing" word documents in the CLI Exposing contents is called a leak. Doxxing is exposure of a person's identity/address etc. There is no wordplay here that actually fits what this tool does. This is just a very
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> I doubt any of the top brass even uses computers these days looking at the decisions they make wrt Mac OS. I had a similar thought about the Microsoft manager who just claimed that in 2030 no one will use a mouse and keyboard anymore a
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by alpaca128 1y ago
The claim was about efficiency, not just power draw. In your comparison you talk about software compatibility, but the Mac can run Linux and many open source tools & apps found on it. So the Pi is only ahead if you arbitrarily limit the
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by alpaca128 1y ago
If LLMs cannot reliably deal with this, how can they write reliable code? Following an instruction like "don't do X" is more basic than the logic of fizzbuzz. This reminds me of the query "shirt without stripes" on
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Does speaking in your native language, speaking in a second language, thinking about your life and doing maths feel exactly the same to you? > Prove to me that human thought is not predicting the most probable next token. Explain the con
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by alpaca128 1y ago
When I used Windows Phone 8.1 I felt like I was typing text twice as fast as on Android. Better suggestions, more accurate keyboard inputs on the same screen size, and selecting an entire word was just a single tap which made fixing a typo
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> they focus too much on the first letter of the word They also do that in Apple Notes. On the iPad the search can only match word prefixes. So if you type "oo" and the entire note consists of just the word "foo", it
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Same reason many local US news sites etc just block anyone from the EU. They don't want to bother with GDPR and perhaps don't really get enough visits to warrant the effort either.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Block Save the King
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Also it sounds a bit challenging to be in multiple rooms at once and without sleep.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> they wont just lose that customer - they'll lose thousands of others too No, they won't. And that's the problem in your argument. Google landed in court for tracking users in incognito mode. They also were fined for not
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> My browser routinely asks me to enable location awareness. For arbitrary web sites, and won't seem to take "No, Heck no, not ever" as a response. Firefox lets you disable this (and similar permissions like notifications,
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Worse, Apple also still claims to care about the environment. While not allowing the iMac to be used as external screen, cutting its useful lifetime by at least a decade.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
OpenAI recently played a bit too hard with their GPT-5 announcement. Two bars with the same height but wildly different values, things like that. Such a lack of subtlety that their claim it was accidental is actually almost believable.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
That's achievable in multiple ways. A standalone window manager for example. KDE with all widgets removed and "do not disturb" mode should work too, but I haven't used KDE in a long time.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
A relative's Tesla totalled itself because of that feature. It suddenly auto-steered to the side, right beside a concrete barrier. The barrier won.
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by alpaca128 1y ago
Perhaps a more fitting variant would be that the trustworthiness decreases with increasing number of sponsored channels and ad frequency. Although I have never seen any video directly sponsored by Apple, Dell or HP for example, same for GPU
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> Well now the question is "How can you tell". And I don't think you generally can. You can, actually, with a simple rule of thumb: if it's being advertised on YouTube, it's statistically low quality or a scam. T
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> can a company make the world better by making proprietary software? If you assume a company that does not have any profit driven incentive to be anti-competitive and less accessible to some people, yes. But that's like assuming di
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by alpaca128 1y ago
> But most users don't care about fairness. They care about better software. Users care about convenience and familiarity, then perhaps (perceived) functionality. People who care more about quality are a niche, not only in the softw

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