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by apercu 9mo ago
I dunno, my take is that Apple isn’t outsourcing intelligence rather it’s outsourcing the most expensive, least defensible layer. Down the road Apple has an advantage here in a super large training data set that includes messages, mail, pho
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by apercu 9mo ago
> Aligning with the linked post, I've found that tab hoarding is directly connected to exceedingly poor bookmark UX/UI in browsers It's also related to the fact that since ~2010, the quality/efficacy of "search&q
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by apercu 9mo ago
> Restrict data collection? It would kill all startups and firmly entrance a terrible provider monopoly who can comply. That's a terrible argument for allowing our data to be sprayed everywhere. How about regulations with teeth that
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by apercu 9mo ago
In Canada (on many mortgages) you are only allowed to prepay a percentage per year, if you pay off your mortgage in a shorter window the financer claws back interest they would have made within that term.
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by apercu 10mo ago
I find this interesting - before we switched from 5/4 aspect ratio, it was hard to find the puck because the camera was always chasing - but if you know hockey (e.g., watch enough of it) there are a lot of cues about where the puck is
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by apercu 10mo ago
Fair. Everything has nuance.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Fair question. The technocrats are less than trustworthy.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Modern GPU's often have on device firmware, secure boot chains, microcontrollers, etc. If you don't control silicon design, firmware signing and update pipelines you can't meaningfully attest to what the advice is doing.
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by apercu 10mo ago
If that happens, hardware trust becomes non-verifiable. We will also see talent pipeline erosion. Just further Western industrial policy failure.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Right? I want to see the problem ticket variance year over year with something to qualify the data if release velocity is more frequent.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Culture varies.
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by apercu 10mo ago
When I was first learning Perl after being a shell scripter/sysadmin I produced a lot of code. 2-3 years later the same tasks would be way less code. So is more code good? Also, my anecdotal experience is that LLM code is flat wrong so
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by apercu 10mo ago
The U.S. isn’t anti-socialism, it’s anti-public benefit. We’ll socialize losses for banks to pay bonuses, but funding shared infrastructure that serves citizens is a bridge too far.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Damn, that's Ontario costs (where the insurance industry is locked in to "No fault" which whether good or bad costs good drivers more.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Interesting, when I was in high school I could not afford car insurance so I didn't't even bother with a drivers license, motorcycle license and insurance was like $80/yr. (that was a while back though).
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by apercu 10mo ago
I may attribute this to a single individual in charge. I think he is very mad that he is an advertiser.
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by apercu 10mo ago
I guess I am luddite-ish in that I think people still need to decide what must always be true in a system. Tests should exist to check those rules. AI can help write test code and suggest edge cases, but it shouldn’t be trusted to decide wh
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by apercu 10mo ago
Meta prints money as an ad company but clearly resents being one. VR was a ~$100B+ attempt to buy pivot, and it’s generated ~single-digit billions in revenue. The tech worked maybe, but the vibe sucked, and the problem was that people don’t
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by apercu 10mo ago
I worked in Canada for 18 years still have Canadian clients 3 years after coming back to the US, no one bats an eye over whether you use American or British spelling in documents. No one. Ever. This is more manufactured outrage. I wish the
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by apercu 10mo ago
> I’m starting to wonder if this approach is fundamentally at odds with today’s market. I don't want to project, but outside of video gaming, I'm seeing people in my personal networks pull back from digital more and more - not
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by apercu 10mo ago
Curious where you live? The only place I ever paid insurance premiums that high (and not quite that high) was in Ontario. I pay $70.
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by apercu 10mo ago
I agree. It would be hilarious if we weren’t all strapped to the hood of the same car.
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by apercu 10mo ago
Absolutely, my favorite “job” was a medical device manufacturer in the Midwest. Unfortunately we got bought.
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by apercu 10mo ago
The current administration will do anything to distract folks from the corruption, fraud, grift and incompetence. And it works!
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by apercu 10mo ago
As far as I can tell most conservative argument points seem to be about the price of gas. If there is a democrat in the whitehouse, the price of gas is astronomical. If there is a republican in office, gas is far cheaper somehow than what I
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by apercu 10mo ago
Sharing your data (personal issues) with Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg instead.
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by apercu 10mo ago
"Economists are a short hop up from astrology along the line of how much science things are." LLM advocates that say that this tech is magic and hours away from human intelligence are a short hop up from astrology along the line o
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by apercu 10mo ago
What a great read. Thanks.
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by apercu 10mo ago
It's not just AI mania, it's been this way for over a decade. When I first started consulting, organizations were afraid enough of lack of ROI in tech implementations that projects needed an economic justification in order to be a
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by apercu 10mo ago
"If claude code's revenue grows faster than cost, it will become profitable." No shit?

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