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by brookst 27d ago
Sure, in the same way that anger against guns is misplaced, in the US, because the US is unique in the world with its social psychosis around guns.
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by brookst 27d ago
Oh way before that. But the mating displays about every company being a conspiracy are about Reddit era, IIRC.
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by brookst 27d ago
Yikes. I can’t imagine it without passthrough. You have to take it off to move around at all?
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by brookst 27d ago
Agree, it’s basically the Apple Lisa all over again. Innovative, but not mass market. But I think Apple learned some things from the Lisa, even though it barely sold.
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by brookst 27d ago
Sorry, I should have been more verbose. I meant: isn’t the entire history of technology just people deciding that it’s less effort to make a tool to do a job than it would be to do the job?
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by brookst 27d ago
Isn’t all of technology just laziness writ large?
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by brookst 27d ago
Remind me if AVP is proof that they have no creative spark or proof that they only do boring stuff that will sell 20m units?
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by brookst 27d ago
This place has become Reddit with how easy it is to farm upvotes for any “evil corpos” take, no matter how clueless or inane.
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by brookst 28d ago
In the US flock is routinely used by law enforcement personnel to stalk exes and for other abuses. Are police in those other countries equally untrustworthy?
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by brookst 28d ago
Source for “a few thousand”?
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by brookst 28d ago
Does the city have exclusive jurisdiction over those projects? Honest question, not familiar with NYC government housing. Some places have county, state, or federal preemption.
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by brookst 28d ago
By “police state” people generally mean one where day to day behavior, speech, and thought are tightly controlled by the government. Not so much police per capita or building codes. We can debate whether the government has a legitimate inte
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by brookst 28d ago
How would you specify this regulation? It’s very hard to regulate outcomes when the component steps are legal. Not saying we shouldn’t try, just saying that path is well-trodden and rarely works. See: media consolidation, etc IMO it is much
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by brookst 28d ago
Wait how is review capacity not increasing? AI review is not a substitute for human review, but it is helpful. I’d posit that more code reaching review has already had an AI pass done by the submitter, and then many/most reviewers use
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by brookst 28d ago
You really believe there will be less demand for AI in the future?
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by brookst 28d ago
It will be really fun if it turns out that AI simulating quantum effects in a classical computer genuinely is quantum and only collapses to classical with human observation. (yes, I know why it doesn’t work that way, but it would be fun if
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by brookst 28d ago
Same meta as many businesses for hundreds of years: use capital investment to hire labor, use labor to produce goods (including breakthroughs), sell goods and leverage patents. How many patents do IBM/etc have?
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by brookst 28d ago
Wait, how does one of these new extended range EV’s have the complexity of both systems? To me it looks like it has the complexity of a pure EV with generator in the back seat, and the charging cord plugged into the generator. Which does aw
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by brookst 28d ago
It’s the banknote thing: at some point a great forgery costs more than the real thing.
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by brookst 28d ago
Fair point on the forwarding being non-disable-able. But I don’t see any privacy issue there. The forwarder provides observed obfuscated ID and location, which seems less fraught than even the signal strength metadata returned to cell tower
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by brookst 28d ago
I’m surprised. I’ve definitely seen random people claiming total extinction next week, starting years ago. Then again those guys (why is it always men?) with megaphones on street corners going on about the end of the world are nothing new.
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by brookst 28d ago
Religion does pretty well with the long term risk of hell if you die, the antichrist, etc. a substantial portion of human output has gone into those things over the millennia.
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by brookst 28d ago
Are you saying at anything that can solve longstanding math problems necessarily has the means, motive, and capability to kill 8 billion people in just 3 years?
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by brookst 28d ago
Or, read it, and remember the openai researcher who deeply, truly believed GPT3 or whatever was sentient. The fact that people working in the space think it’s going to (eradicate poverty / usher in utopia / kill us all) is not a s
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by brookst 29d ago
Apple (and Google, and most others) process wake words on device. Imagine the technical complexity and expense of a billion devices streaming audio that is like 0.01% wake words.
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by brookst 29d ago
Mesh network typically means… a network. Unidirectional, best-effort, randomized IDs are not a network. And of course you can block the tracking yourself, even though nobody is actually tracking because Apple can’t tell who owns what ID. Ju
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by brookst 29d ago
Never buy hardware based on expectations of future features, especially if there’s no promise from the vendor.
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by brookst 29d ago
That is not how AirTags work. They do not reach out to Apple servers at all. AirTags broadcast an encrypted ID. Phones build lists of ID’s they’ve seen and send the list to Apple. There is no routing, no ability to send arbitrary data, no a
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by brookst 1mo ago
Sure, agreed on both counts. But to the extent government officials have a duty not to lie to the public, that duty extends to facts, not political opinions. I find the courts a perfectly reasonable way to adjucate e.g. the actual water vol
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by brookst 1mo ago
That’s like saying no programmer relies on computer science. Sure, at some level of expertise you’re not sitting there saying “oh, I should name variables sensibly and encapsulate functionality because computer science says to”; they are do

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