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by com2kid 7mo ago
> Had they built a better, more intuitive product, they would get fewer support calls and wouldn't be struggling with costs. As I mentioned, due to high support costs we worked to improve the UX and we ended up dropping our support
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by com2kid 7mo ago
I edited my comment above and explained, that $20 is an amortized cost representing everything that goes into picking up that phone call.
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by com2kid 7mo ago
People demand free support. When I worked at Microsoft, it cost over $20 to have a human customer support agent pick up the phone when someone called in for help. That was greater than our product margin. Every time someone called for help,
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by com2kid 7mo ago
The advantage is being able to plug in new models to each piece of the pipeline. Is it super sexy? No. But each individual type of model is developing at a different rate (TTS moves really fast, low latency STT/ASR moved slower, LLMs m
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by com2kid 7mo ago
When you buy them and set them up you are told this many times. The onboarding screams at you that everything you do is used for training AI. Maybe this changed since I set mine up, but I felt so damn informed I was getting tired of tappi
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Everyone predicted twitter would crash and burn within months of the layoffs. It didn't. Anyone who has worked at a large company knows that 1/2 the staff there is stuck keeping the lights on because it is easier to hire a warm bo
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by com2kid 8mo ago
> They were rare, and special, and you'd have a few photos per YEAR to look back on. The feel of photos back then, was at least 100x stronger than now. They were a special item, could be given as a gift. But once they became freely
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by com2kid 8mo ago
The book archives are a big one as well, all the journals that have been published digitally throughout the 2000s, and all the newspapers. Though with some types of models (specifically voice) it has been discovered that a smaller high qual
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Sometimes I like to imagine what this would be like if the technology had appeared 25 years ago. First off, nonetheless open publishing stuff. Everything would have been trade secrets. Next off no interoperable json apis instead binary APIs
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by com2kid 8mo ago
I fired off an email! Best of luck with the product launch, I've worked in consumer HW before, it is brutal!
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by com2kid 8mo ago
My point is the tech is nothing new. Every person holding a cellphone up in their hands could also be pointing a camera around at people, a camera with much higher fidelity, computing power, and one that can take much longer videos. This is
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by com2kid 8mo ago
The thing is computing has become fun again. Weird and wild cases, crazy water cooled setups, insane keyboards with new types of sensors being developed all the time (not only are analog keyboards a thing now, there are multiple types of an
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by com2kid 8mo ago
This is the best use case for them IMHO. So many wonderful shots taken in the moment, and I don't have to see the world through a phone screen for fear of missing a cute picture. Quality is iffy and framing is hard, but I'd rather
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Not only that, but smart glasses have terrible recording time limits. A cheap $30 pinhole camera with a SD card will far surpass meta glasses in recording capabilities. Hidden cameras have been a thing for a long time now. Stick one in a pa
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by com2kid 8mo ago
The majority of those microwaves pulse the power on and off at intervals, sometimes very long intervals (measured in seconds!). Good microwaves, with an inverter (see the thread above!) actually adjust the power being output. You can even
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by com2kid 8mo ago
I love inverter microwaves so much. I got a cheap one at Target for maybe $100 or so. I almost never use full power, typically I go for 50% or 60%. Food heats through evenly, every time. I try and tell friends about it and they all think I
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by com2kid 8mo ago
> Microsoft has never been about "pure technical excellence". We had wonderful machines (Unx ones and then stuff like the Atari ST / Commodore Amiga / Archimedes) and amazing OSes (including Unx on workstations) and M
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Heyas! Glad to see someone making this I wrote a blog post about this exact product space a year ago. https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-... I hope y'all succeed! The potential use cases for lo
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by com2kid 8mo ago
> Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (including of underage family members) being saved for replaying later? Typically not how these things work. Speech is processed using ASR (automatic speech recognition),
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by com2kid 8mo ago
My FB reels are educational content , music and artists. It is pretty much identical to my YT shorts feed, which means two algorithms have settled on almost identical content.
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Facebook owning the local classifieds section is often overlooked. Offer up is dead in my area. Craigslist is a joke. Everything happens on FB marketplace. Vendors sell food, gyms liquidate old equipment, small furniture stores post their e
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by com2kid 8mo ago
I'm well aware of keto and cancer. I spent 5 years in ketosis, I trained semi professionally as an athlete (4 hours a day at a professional MMA gym), I spent years helping people get into keto and lose tons of weight and improve their
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by com2kid 8mo ago
I was once one of the mush brained morons hired to work at Microsoft. I think I did ok. Would I compare myself to the greats? No. But plenty of my coworkers stacked up to the best who'd ever worked at the company. Do I think MS has giv
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Dude, cancer is an RNG roll away for anyone. Doesn't matter how well you take care of yourself if a random cell decides to divide in just the wrong way.
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by com2kid 8mo ago
All housing stock is controlled by governments everywhere through zoning. American cities could solve their housing shortages in short order but it'd piss off too many people who are "invested' in housing so we accept dead bo
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by com2kid 8mo ago
> People have been painting with red and yellow ochre and soot for at least 50K years for sure, Compare those to the pigments used (mixed up!) by professional painters, and then to what printers could make. If you wanted to paint fine ar
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Prior to industrialization if you wanted to paint something you had to know how to mix your own paints. And make your own brushes. Before the printing presses came along, putting up flyers was not even imaginable. Signs for businesses used
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by com2kid 8mo ago
YT shorts are up to 3 minutes now. At this point it is just YT Vertical Videos.
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Seemingly every day on Show HN? Also small businesses aren't going to publish blog posts saying "we saved $500 on graphic design this week!"
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Great hook with 0 technical detail. I was hoping for something deeper but this article was the very definition of skin deep ...

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