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by coldtea 17d ago
>Do you want open ear (AirPods) or closed (AirPods Pro). Some people can’t stand having something in their ear.* Both versions put something in your ear. There are wireless earbuds that stay outside next to the ear, that are actually the
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by coldtea 17d ago
> for those who were holding out from Gen1 or whatever, adding pro features at a non-pro price is definitely incentivising. I’m not sure why we’re pretending it’s not. Because it's a non-feature even the cheapest $30 wireless earbu
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by coldtea 17d ago
"Their main competitor" meaning western Europe. Not specifically Germany or the UK. So the point still stands. Whatever growth US had in the 19 century, Europe self-destructing through WWI and WWII ensured US will be the lead in t
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by coldtea 17d ago
Yeah, it's corporate-feudalism instead.
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by coldtea 17d ago
Doesn't matter which task. Compare it with about 40-50t/s an LLM oneshots with, and it, and whatever task now takes X time, takes X * 40-50 with this.
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by coldtea 18d ago
Doesn't matter what it is in principle.
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by coldtea 18d ago
Not to mention their main competitor self-destructed twice in 1914 and 1939
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by coldtea 18d ago
> Not every application of AI is "do the creativity for me." However it can lead to AI "doing the creative for them" and them out of a job in the near future.
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by coldtea 18d ago
If you dont know what you'll use a personal computer for, don't get one. Either you're living the life in an analog way in some exotic beach or farm, in which case, great for you, or you're doomscrolling on your smartpho
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by coldtea 19d ago
I can tell just from the title that this text is AI generated.
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by coldtea 19d ago
If that was the case it would be a constant throughout history. And often it's also just "compared to 5 or 10 years ago" not 20s vs 40s or 50s.
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by coldtea 19d ago
> I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal. One would hope so, but there are countless people that believe this can't ever be the case, and it's just lack of personal motivation that's t
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by coldtea 19d ago
We know that the Mac has fine margins.
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by coldtea 19d ago
Windows dual boot meant millions of potential switchers, if not for anything else, as a list item to tell them "you could still dual boot". Asahi-on-Mac would bring in irrelevant numbers for a company of Apple's size.
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by coldtea 19d ago
That would sure improve morale...
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by coldtea 19d ago
> I'm thinking less about shame, as corporations are dead to shame, and more about if you can prove the TV stored a record of your bank details it got from text to speech. Then they'll get a joke fine, and continue as before.
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by coldtea 19d ago
> The age of shame is over. Current world goernments have flourished under the premise of being terrible, horrible, awful, evil enterprises that do bad for the sake of either being bad or enriching the bad - a consumer device with a ToS
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by coldtea 19d ago
> In an age where AI can search vast amounts of data having something in your home or workplace turning what it hears into text looks like a problem waiting to happen. That's understating the problem. With or without AI, this shoul
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by coldtea 20d ago
> I'm reading your comment with a certain disdain for analysis and theory, which I get - a lot of people come out scarred from music theory training, and I'm sorry someone hurt you that way. I'm fine with contentional mus
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by coldtea 20d ago
A counter argument to the typical "piss on TFA" HN top voted comment: (musician of many decades) the post IS music theory of the kind it purports to be, it's not misleading in the least, at worst it's incomplete (but nev
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by coldtea 20d ago
> The world fortunately works under a system that is durable to these problems The world works under a system that populations have suffered or even whole countries and empires perished because of systemic problems. If your answer is &q
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by coldtea 20d ago
How the above reads is you can't understand anything wider than your personal affairs. Or you believe that the world can't possibly converge on a bad technology or practice, and get bad outcomes out of it, while much fewer see pot
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by coldtea 20d ago
That will change things for him, or any others taking the same course. Hundreds of millions can't all become contractors, and realistically wont all become contractors. So the issue described is a real social issue, whether he can &quo
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by coldtea 20d ago
And those things also have virus like qualities
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by coldtea 20d ago
Both have quite a lot of impact if you're wealthy because they're combined with resources and time to do them. If you're not wealthy you can do them, but you have to sacrifice other things, and some of those you wont be able
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by coldtea 20d ago
Usually yes. But people will also sacrifice their health for their loved ones, for example by working hard unhealthy jobs, or for a mission that's larger-than-themselves.
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by coldtea 20d ago
> Time, quiet mind, slow mornings, rest without guilt, calm and boring days - are all the same thing - escape from being busy. This assumes being busy is common, which is actually not that common for an age of 60+. If there's anyth
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by coldtea 20d ago
They're quite softer in all kinds of stuff. The US is run by an aggressive madman and neocon/MIC combo in comparison (tarrifs, trade blackmail, Greenland, straight of Hormuz, the list goes on).
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by coldtea 21d ago
You make sound like we're stuck with it, but the franc and the sterling pound used to have a similar role for a few centuries each... these things change.
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by coldtea 21d ago
> Frets used to just be thick material (wire, strips of flexible wood or treated cord) tied around the neck of the instrument Movable frets (they kind that you describe) used to be guts. Just like strings used to be.

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