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by coldtea 3mo ago
> But China’s industrial dominance is also the government immiserating its people Didn't they bring hundreds of millions out of poverty, and built amazing cities and facilities in the past 30 years? > Domestic consumption in Chi
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> People think this doesn’t matter, but GoPros are used all over in aerospace. If we replaced the brand with Insta360, that puts a big attack vector all over the place. In what way exactly? The camera will magically communicate to the m
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Strange how you didn't read them then, based on your rude and false response to my comment.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
You do, when you're responding to "Do you even know how drivers work? (I'm guessing no, based on this comment)". I'm merely giving them back their toxic comment right back.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
There was malware for systems with 1/1000 the userbase of Linux. Even Amiga and Atari had plenty of it, macOS when it had 2% share, and others.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
First of all, drivers don't have to run in kernel space. Do you know that? I'm guessing no, based on your comment. Second, we're not talking about the drivers per se, as those aren't what shows you ads, it's the con
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> On Windows out of the box they kind of work, but you really need a manufacturer's software suite to take full advantage of them, and that software suite is, surprise, an advertising and analytics platform, a situation I think both
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> And then what, ever single gaming mouse/keyboard config is going to appear in the Windows UI dialog? Yes. Via some standard protocol to show checkboxes, radio buttons, drop down selections, etc.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> If you have thoughts, they come out sharper and faster. No, they come duller and increasingly dependent on the LLM doing them for you. And that happens to the generations that learned to code earlier without the LLM. What would happen
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by coldtea 3mo ago
It's a discussion, it's not a panel to further scientific inquiry. Sentiments and opinions also further a discussion.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> and it worked great since it would pull all necessary drivers after installation without you going hunting on the internet like in the Windows XP days. A driver shouldn't be a front-facing program that shows ads of any kind. It s
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by coldtea 3mo ago
And people think macOS sandboxing is "hyperbolic"
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Async-programming style single-core concurrency would still look like parallelism to an outside observer :)
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by coldtea 3mo ago
This is about multiple speech streams. More specific from the mere ability to process multiple sensory streams in general.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
"No"
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by coldtea 3mo ago
It's a case of the biggest blockbusters, with the biggest budgets, like the MCU movies or Fast and Furious and such, looking like crap vfx wise. Same for movies at every level. VFX can be more subtle (e.g. how Fincher uses it), but it&
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by coldtea 3mo ago
It's logical for slop to exist. It's bad when slop production is automated.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured The industry haven't matured except until a certain point. Then it declined. Modern visual effects are worse than practical effects in their heyday.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
I mediocrity was a visual style.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> What new or existing metric would better assess test coverage than line coverage and branch coverage? Substance coverage - testing the actual logic, edge cases, etc. Not mere lines.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
I have been seeing such trivial shit getting submitted and deleting them from the test suites, but it's disheartening to see that the devs didn't have the better taste to see those LLM "tests" are so trivial they border
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Quite prudent. By that time the AI financial bubble will have burst anyway.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
You call them back on the actual number - e.g. the official number of the bank, or the contact number of your friend, or the phone of your kid, etc, that you know or can find independently. Not any old random number they give you.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
How much "customer service" are we getting today, and of what quality?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> I don't see how sleep regularity is a factor you can change as willingly as visits to the fridge In some cases it might be hard (e.g. insomnia), in others it might be as easy as e.g. changing your schedule, or stopping binge-wat
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Couldn’t this effect be classic cause vs correlation? Sometimes changing the correlated item, also affects the cause, through a link of causual changes. E.g.: "Night visits to the fridge linked to high cholesterol". Now, tha
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by coldtea 3mo ago
"People complaining slavery makes the world a worse place would be fully happy if they were slave owners" Probably, but just proves people can ignore bad things when they benefit them. Not what it pretends to prove, that the thing
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by coldtea 3mo ago
One reason seems obvious/intuitive: because their own output matches their own biases, that is, is a direct result of their model walks.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> 'A superior must decide like a superior. A subordinate must remonstrate and support like a subordinate.' Everyone has their own role and position, and when those roles collapse, the order of the community collapses. Sometime
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by coldtea 3mo ago
If finding a new boss was that easy, we wouldn't have people job hunting for months and getting 0 responses...

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