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by deaton 1mo ago
Are they? What has gotten better because of LLMs?
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by deaton 1mo ago
Going to? It already is.
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by deaton 1mo ago
Copilot does this too, kinda. It will give an initial response, realize that it might tangentially criticize Microsoft, then change that response to a refusal.
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by deaton 1mo ago
Not sure about carplay, but Android Auto wireless uses wifi for the video stream.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Yeah, its really weird. Maybe its a cognitive bias that says "an AI made this, so it isn't important," but I can remember perfectly the events of a book I read 10 years ago, and a book I read 1 year ago, and another I finishe
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by deaton 2mo ago
The civil war was, in fact, about slavery. FAQ: "No it was about states rights" States rights to? Allow slavery. "No states rights to decide for themselves" About? Slavery. "No it was freedom of association" Wh
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by deaton 2mo ago
It really isn't useful though, unless it is a summary. At best it is a semantic trick to tell the next iteration to come up with something smart.
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by deaton 2mo ago
I don't know about that. I'm a fairly tanned individual, but where I live, in Texas, if I spend all day in the sun, I'm getting sunburned bad everywhere.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Microsoft can barely pull off their flagship desktop operating system, so that doesn't say much.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Because the Android Runtime (ART) is very necessary to run APKs, and APKs are the only non-iOS standard for packaging mobile apps that is supported enough to be viable. Without it, you might get some open source apps to run on a linux phone
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by deaton 2mo ago
I had some Michelin Energy Savers on my Chevy Volt for a while. Got 25k miles out of them before they were toast. They were awful, noisy, no grip, and I didn't realize how bad they were until I got some much better tires.
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by deaton 2mo ago
And the push to replace search engines with AIs that don't understand what I'm looking for (meanwhile classic search understands fine) and give confidently wrong answers. Why is it the first result if its wrong 80% of the time?
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by deaton 2mo ago
I've yet to see this apply with self-driving cars.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Sure, I'd love to have more policemen around, but I don't want large automated blanket surveillance network tracking the positions of everyone everywhere. There is a huge difference.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Most servers with port 25565 open get hits from either Minecraft griefer bots, or from a bot that looks for that port and warns anyone on that server about the risks of leaving that port open. It doesn't take a huge scale operation to
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by deaton 2mo ago
Now you can make a prototype without understanding what's going on internally or why the prototype wasn't good enough!
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by deaton 2mo ago
See this is the big issue I've been seeing. The only vibe coded product I can think of off the top of my head that's succeeding at all is Bun, and maybe I'm behind the times but it feels like Bun's success is mostly bein
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by deaton 2mo ago
If everyone did good things for selfish reasons, the world would be a much better place than it is.
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by deaton 2mo ago
All of the problems are solvable though, and if they weren't then it would still be better to make a hospital just use a few different numbers rather than allowing a billion dollar scam industry to operate unchecked.
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by deaton 2mo ago
As an American myself, I get multiple spam calls every day. Combine that with the fact that I am part of the generation that doesn't really do phone calls, and easily 95% or more of the phone calls I get are scams. Recently, for the pa
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by deaton 2mo ago
As nice as this would be, as an American (notably not a Frenchman), I find that 90% or more of the unsolicited calls I get are scammers, not telemarketing, so I don't know how much something like this would do. The US also has donotcal
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by deaton 2mo ago
Well I think theres a lot of social pressure to disclaim "yes of course its useful" because if all you do is say "hey AI has this problem," you'll have AI bros replying to you telling you about all the good and sayi
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by deaton 2mo ago
Thats just a very general thank you.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Sure but while studying the etymology of words can do a lot to help you understand them (particularly from a linguistic perspective), its really more important to consider what people mean when they use a word, not where it came from. &quot
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by deaton 2mo ago
Its really not that far fetched. Japan has quite a history of copying the aesthetic of things the west does while changing the meaning completely. Christmas is a romantic holiday in Japan, and it is considered fashionable to get married in
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by deaton 2mo ago
Uber famously pulled out of Austin for a year because Austin wanted to require background checks with fingerprinting on Uber drivers. I don't really like their style of "plowing through" regulation.
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by deaton 2mo ago
Sure but the first step to having something that is physically small, small enough to cram into an iPhone, is to have something that, at first, isn't.
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by deaton 2mo ago
I don't understand why OP cut that off... that's a completely different title.
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by deaton 2mo ago
As they say, the day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
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by deaton 2mo ago
If the thesis that "If anybody builds it, everyone dies" is true, or has any chance of becoming true, then it is the logical thing to do. As Geoffrey Hinton said, "If you want to know what it's like not to be the apex in

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