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by bredren 3y ago
>underscoring the narrative that the company’s biggest victories were initiated under his predecessor, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs What does the author consider to be a victory? Tim Cook was elevated because he had the operational capabi
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by bredren 3y ago
Why does this idea matter, when open source models and tools are moving at the speed they are in already? Wouldn’t such licenses create even greater incentive to develop and release models and tools outside the regulatory environment?
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by bredren 3y ago
> All local, no cloud, complete privacy. This is already felt in use of Stable Diffusion, where M2 is fully capable offline. Anything that can be done to reduce the need to “dial out” for processing protects the individual. It erodes the
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by bredren 3y ago
I suspect the experience of using it is muddled visually and in the UX. The fast presentation allows them to gloss over this.
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by bredren 3y ago
>That's a lot of AI generated content - the entire above-the-fold area is consumed. Does this negatively impact Google's ad revenue by usurping its visibility with their own generated content? It has to! I only use Google if dd
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by bredren 3y ago
The length of its existence is interesting, but by todays standards, the farm may have been just as unsustainable as it was at its onset. Notably, the Smithsonian article only asks about recent changes affecting the farm. Slavery was common
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by bredren 3y ago
It is because of a set of contributing factors: talent, org disfunction, high bar for exacting product expression of a refined brand, and more. This article is paywalled, but put to rest the “why is Siri so bad still?” question for me. [1]
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by bredren 4y ago
I built and sold a parking enforcement product that uses ALPR from a mobile app. In my customers experience, cars missing “normal” license plates (those without special characters or sports themes) are few enough to not make an impact on br
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by bredren 4y ago
I use DeWalt cordless tools and did not know this existed. Probably cool if on the go a lot but steep otherwise. The article you linked mentions it at the end, but all of their flex batteries should include this port by default. I suspect D
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by bredren 4y ago
https://archive.is/1sIQf
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by bredren 4y ago
I also clicked through but immediately abandoned wondering: What’s the state of container based ML deployments? Can I take a container orchestration if these services and just put them on a vps w a GPU and run this? Is there secret or just
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by bredren 4y ago
I was also in that burn ring. Repeating this story, with no factual detail unnecessarily dredges up a dark and traumatic event for so many people. To suggest Hsieh would be associated with or have been influenced by the person who died that
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by bredren 4y ago
In long search routines or deep research I often use quotes to find pages with specific language. DDG has been my default engine for years now, but by the time I am searching at this level I often have added a !g along the way and am workin
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by bredren 4y ago
Can you describe what it is and why you made it?
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by bredren 4y ago
This is interesting but all of the site content reads like it was written by AI. It is verbose and doesn’t sound like an actual person. Consider just editing it down by half and reading it out loud to see if it seems like something you woul
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by bredren 4y ago
I agree it wasn’t a dud, it was just way too late. It was followed far too closely by iPhone / iPod touch. Gates was at the debut of the product though. I had an original Zune in Brown and helped organize the first pre-release public z
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by bredren 4y ago
Open AI faces the same liability concerns though. I think IP concerns are low on the list given past success of playing fast and loose on emergent capabilities of new tech platforms. For example, WhatsApp’s greyhat use of smartphone address
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by bredren 4y ago
This is an old playbook from Facebook, where the company creates rules that they know they can not detect violation of. This gives the company plausible deniability while still allowing ~unrestricted growth. Persistent storage (in violation
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by bredren 4y ago
It’s much easier to imagine progressed applications powered by recent AI that would provide outsized civic weaponry. Identification of unusual circumstances or anomalous public records seem ripe. But more straight forward and customized adv
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by bredren 4y ago
I use the XDR Pro Display and have wondered if these will work as a replacement for a large high res monitor. I tried productivity / desktop on my quest 2 and it was awful.
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by bredren 4y ago
Have you worked out in Supernatural on oculus? Go back over old threads here where people describe it as life changing. I used supernatural for many months, and yes it does get sweaty—-you have to wear awkward vr sweatbands. But the experie
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by bredren 4y ago
The Reality headset apparently addresses this with an external display that shows the user’s eyes. It seems hard to imagine how this could possibly be enough to satisfy the waiter scenario you’ve described. But my understanding is that it a
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by bredren 4y ago
I agree w parent that the end user is who matters--Siri is just not very good at answering what seem like basic questions. What made google amazing was it settled conversational disputes or provided instant (if limited) familiarity on a sub
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by bredren 4y ago
Same experience. Worked perfectly fine before. I wrote w LS support, it is a Ventura-related issue. They've made a request, but it appears Apple has yet to address the problem. This, unfortunately, is a major problem for my use of LS.
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by bredren 4y ago
Do you use Spaces in MacOS? LS seems to have trouble popping transfer attempt warning modals even if set to all desktops.
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by bredren 4y ago
I think apple made a choice a while back to yield software engineering workflows outside Swift to Microsoft. I had expected Apple to produce its own version of GitHub, but the space is apparently too messy. The earliest value of open AI is
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by bredren 4y ago
AI in support of user interface has been downright awful. IIRC, Siri has the lowest customer satisfaction out of any other product at Apple. However, the company has deployed machine learning in support of its neural engine which has a huge
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by bredren 4y ago
If it were not for the impending headset, Apple would look a wee bit caught out as well. I suspect once Apple turns toward gen ai, all of its other advantages (infra, hw, instal base, services, etc) will propel it to forefront.
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by bredren 4y ago
The waiting list signup does not allow you to pick Pycharm, which previously has had a GitHub copilot plug-in.

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