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How Apple Is Making Your Older iPhone Run Faster and Stay Alive Longer(wired.com)
3 points by apparent 4mo ago|1 comments
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by apparent 4mo ago
> The article does a good job debunking the myth Perhaps that is in the eye of the beholder. I thought it was quite unimpressive. There were several anecdotes that appear to be cherry-picked, and some claims that are just wildly implausi
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The Mirage of the Gifted Child(nymag.com)
4 points by apparent 4mo ago|3 comments
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by apparent 4mo ago
The article you linked is from last month, when the issue was just starting to pop. This article is a different story about substantive developments that have occurred in the last couple weeks. Perhaps it should be "related" inste
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UC to consider reinstating SAT after faculty say students are deficient in math(latimes.com)
7 points by apparent 4mo ago|3 comments
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by apparent 4mo ago
It is funny how things that were completely ordinary 100 years ago are now considered luxury items. I suppose it's because they're used for leisure instead of as work horses/transportation, and because feeding/housing&#x
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by apparent 4mo ago
No, my horse broke down so I've been stuck at the farm.
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by apparent 4mo ago
That's a fair point, though I still feel like it's a very roundabout way of saying "Y is going to die because X is going to use it so humans won't want to use it as much".
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by apparent 4mo ago
I find the title confusing/misleading. "X has come for Y" typically means that X is out to get Y, at least to me. It doesn't generally mean "X is starting to use Y now".
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AI Has Come for Serif Fonts(wired.com)
2 points by apparent 4mo ago|3 comments
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by apparent 4mo ago
TBD. Probably depends on whether what you're paying for is access to their lawyer-level LLM, which they would run it through, or for actual expertise. Probably for important deals, detailed human review will be expected. Maybe the real
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by apparent 4mo ago
Except the library outperformed the professors, which is quite a bit more impressive.
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by apparent 4mo ago
I think that within a few years, most lawyers will expect that clients will have run contracts through an LLM prior to sending them to outside counsel. Emails will be along the lines of: Please see attached contract we received from [counte
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by apparent 4mo ago
Oh for sure. I have even been solicited by companies that do such a thing, and brag about how they reword every email so it doesn't get flagged as spam.
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by apparent 4mo ago
I have had mail from other gmail users, whom I had emailed and received emails from, sent to spam.
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by apparent 4mo ago
What surprises me most about gmail and AI is that they seem really quite bad at filtering out obvious spam. I get so many messages from people I have never heard from, on relatively new domains, with endings like "if this isn't re
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by apparent 5mo ago
Wouldn't you pay taxes every year, so N would never be ≥ 1?
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by apparent 5mo ago
You'd just end up arguing about when the property appreciated. The owner would say it all happened since the last tax payment was due. It would also complicate the home buying negotiation. People would look at your recent tax payments
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by apparent 5mo ago
It depends on how the $ is spent. If it's spent on "free preschool" then it benefits parents who use the free preschool. These are by definition not the people paying this non-resident-only tax.
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by apparent 5mo ago
> increase the cost of hotel rooms and reduce the cost of owned-housing Reducing the cost of $5M+ homes will slightly help some wealthy people who live in NYC, and there will be a modest trickle-down effect into less expensive properties
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by apparent 5mo ago
> helps create some liquidity in the housing market (the goal) Is that the stated goal? I thought the goal was to generate revenue from the tax. It's true that triggering sales will create a one-time boost in sales-related taxes, bu
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by apparent 5mo ago
How will this deal with videos that are just b-roll and then AI audio? I end up seeing a lot of those when looking for educational videos for my kids. Basically, if a video was posted after 2023, and the narrator is not visible in the first
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by apparent 5mo ago
I wonder if the 28% more visits was mostly among existing users. I skimmed the article and it didn't look like this was broken out. It would be much more impactful/impressive if they brought in a bunch of new users, as opposed to
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by apparent 5mo ago
Funny that its failure is in being too chubby, when Ive was famous for making Apple products overly thin (think butterfly keyboard).
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by apparent 5mo ago
I heard they didn't want it to be functional while charging because then people would use it plugged in all the time. They wanted it to be clear that it takes a little time to charge, then you use it unplugged. Might make more sense if
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by apparent 5mo ago
I think the reference to wireless charging was to their rumored-but-never-released product that was going to allow charging at a distance, not mere magsafe charging.
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Meta released a new Reddit-like app called Forum(engadget.com)
4 points by apparent 5mo ago|1 comments
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by apparent 5mo ago
The IBS trick is a new one. But given the brain-gut connection, and the susceptibility of kids to suggestion, I wonder if some kids will actually develop intestinal difficulties as a result of fake diagnoses.
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by apparent 5mo ago
Yeah I would guess part of the reason for the increase in unemployment is that there are many silly masters degrees offered now. Would be interesting to see the unemployment rate for masters that have been around for a while.
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by apparent 5mo ago
I think the kids who get to go to camp or Israel for free are beneficiaries. It's not like all of the money goes to executives' salaries, right?

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