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by flkiwi 10mo ago
This is a big of a gravity vs. acceleration issue, in that the end result is indistinguishable.
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
There’s also a whole “gosh golly look at me using the latest fad!” demonstration aspect to this. People status signaling that they’re “in”. Thus the Bluetooth earpiece comment. It’s clumsy and has the opposite result most of the time, but p
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
I read comments citing AI as essentially equivalent to "I ran a $searchengine search and here is the most relevant result." It's not equivalent, but it has one identical issue and one new-ish one: 1. If I wanted to run a web
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
On the other hand, if it's true, it explains a LOT about Microsoft's silly AI strategy.
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by flkiwi 10mo ago
Me: Can you access my inbox and Teams messages? Copilot: Yep! Me: Please find any items in my inbox or sent items indicating (a) that I have agreed to take on a task or (b) identifying me as the person responsible for a task, removing dupli
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by flkiwi 11mo ago
In a typical corporate environment, you cannot assume the recipient of an email will read past the first sentence, maybe not even the subject line. A vast number of people simply do not read. They can but they don’t.
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by flkiwi 11mo ago
I mean, he lived to 97. Given what he's known for, it made me chuckle. Anyway, I thought it was Crick who was into eugenics. If it was both of them, I'm afraid I shall have to amend my opinion of both of them from "disturbing
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by flkiwi 11mo ago
There was irony involved.
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by flkiwi 11mo ago
A rebrand is the most ominous sign of Mozilla’s declining health I could have imagined.
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by flkiwi 11mo ago
I’m an American. The response is coded as “do nothing”. The proper response here would be to say “we’re going to roll back the changes until we understand and fix things that are going wrong.” The individual may not have INTENDED the dismis
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by flkiwi 11mo ago
Same same. Never even occurred to me to look. That's the risk of a (successful) low-friction product though: you use it in quick bursts where the tool is necessary but largely invisible, and you never invest in learning more about it b
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by flkiwi 1y ago
(1) AI isn't educated. It has access to a lot of information. That's two different things. (2) I was rebutting the paper's standard that AGI should be achieving the status of a well-educated adult, which is probably far, far
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by flkiwi 1y ago
> defining AGI as matching the cognitive versatility and proficiency of a well-educated adult I don't think people really realize how extraordinary accomplishment it would be to have an artificial system matching the cognitive versa
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I saw someone post a Gemini summary from a Google search as their interpretation of a legal question (not a lawyer) and, when they were called on it, scoffed that they hadn’t used AI. People don’t even know when they’re relying on AI at thi
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Thanks for calling that out. You're right to be upset.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
There’s also a significant conversation about mere illegality and social rejection not actually doing much to address the underlying tendency to exploitation that (a) has prevented reconciliation and relief for formerly enslaved people and
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Newsboat + miniflux is an excellent combination if you're CLI-addicted but want to access feeds from multiple devices. For all the (justifiable) concern about the death of RSS, we have a glut of excellent options for consuming conten
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Are you saying Synology’s move to support first party drives was a good thing? Plenty of companies deal with unpredictable hardware and, in fact, Synology has for years, in part thanks to standards.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Fascinating. Kagi-via-GPT5 gave me almost the same answer but THEN went into meltdown.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Well this is alarming and funny. I just asked ChatGPT the following question: "Hey what is unicode character U+1F40E" It (correctly) answered that it is "Horse Face" and then went into a spiraling meltdown about seahorse
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I once had Claude in absolute tatters speculating about whether length, width, and height would be the same dimensions in a hypothetical container "metaverse" in which all universes exist or whether they would necessarily be disti
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by flkiwi 1y ago
This is fascinating. I haven't used a dock in macOS in many years. Nor desktop icons (they're there, but I never really see the desktop). I don't really even use the global menubar much either. I guess I use macOS like gnome
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by flkiwi 1y ago
God Internet pendants are exhausting. I KNOW, but it's a harmless rhetorical device. This begs the question of why you care. There you go, that's a good one to get fired up about.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I mean, they're still doing pretty well.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
One of the most exceptional CEOs I've worked with was a lawyer. I still think the proverb is largely correct, along with the other proverb about the exception proving the rule.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Same. The most longstanding brands in my life are literally the ones I forget about.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Not only does my washer have different cycle times but I get lost in whatever I’m doing and hours pass lol.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
(Having said that, I still think about Steak-Umms more than I ever expected because of their deeply satisfying twitter presence, though I’ve never knowingly purchased a steak-umm.)
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I’ve been in this long-running battle with a large non-US appliance maker about their app. I live in a humid place and find notifications that a load is finished in the washer so I can move it quickly to the dryer very useful. Unfortunately
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by flkiwi 1y ago
And investors will be genuinely surprised when the whole thing falls apart in 36 months and the still-very-rich founder spends the next 16 years giving uncomfortably veiny public talks about some uncomfortably sociopathic thing he’s becom

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