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by gyomu 5mo ago
Yes, you get to the heart of the problem - we turned what started of as a document viewer into a general purpose application platform. Features paramount in a document viewer (broadly, "respect the user's local document viewing pr
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by gyomu 5mo ago
> way less aggressive with the AI proofreading It’s funny how anytime an article gets called out for being AI slop on HN, the author’s reaction is something like that: “oh yeah sorry I used AI but just for proofreading I swear, I should’
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by gyomu 5mo ago
In many cases a talented/smart person will bring little to zero value to a country with ossified institutions, but huge value to one with the right systems in place to build value.
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by gyomu 5mo ago
We are in the early stages of AI. Anthropic is Altavista and OpenAI is AskJeeves or something. 10-20 years from now the scene will be unrecognizable and all of this will be inconsequential but at the same time it is the fondation on which t
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by gyomu 5mo ago
They’re still fun, but you have to be really good at understanding what your idea of fun is, listening to that voice, and not falling prey to what other people/companies with an agenda are trying to push on you as fun (when it’s just c
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by gyomu 5mo ago
> it’s just that a lot of his skills are not transferable because you have to cultivate the kind of taste he spent his whole life acquiring Steve had great taste and keen insights as a PM, but what pushed him to GOAT status was his intui
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by gyomu 5mo ago
The potential for creepiness and abuse in the example use cases given is too damn high. At Apple scale, a single case of an insane stalker misusing this technology is image destroying - see some of the PR debacles they’ve been facing lately
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by gyomu 5mo ago
Our culture only deserves what we feel strongly enough to enshrine and enforce as law. Americans like to clown on the EU, but consumer protections and privacy laws don’t magically pop up on their own, and businesses don’t all magically act
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by gyomu 5mo ago
The saddest part to me was realizing that pretty much no one gives a shit. I knew that they were plenty of careless people with no taste for truth or quality in the world, but I didn’t realize there were so many of them. Especially so among
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by gyomu 5mo ago
The Mac Mini and Studio are due for an update in the coming months, a part of this is also probably that they’d rather save memory to build up their next gen model inventory rather than current gen ones?
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by gyomu 5mo ago
> not particularly novel As far as I know this is the first time anyone has publicly claimed to know, quoting insider sources, what YC's actual stake in OpenAI is.
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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)(daringfireball.net)
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by gyomu 5mo ago
> We have created people that never develop as human beings outside the context of their being economic entities in the workforce What do you think people did with their lives before retirement became a thing? My great grandparents wor
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by gyomu 5mo ago
Huh interesting datapoint. I just checked on mine, also August 2023 15PM, and 86% @ 707 cycles here. I’m pretty careless with charging it whenever is convenient/letting it drain to 0% while traveling/etc as well.
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by gyomu 6mo ago
No, but they have spent tens of millions of dollars on a go bag —> helicopter to private jet -> bunker in New Zealand preplanned route and you haven’t.
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by gyomu 6mo ago
Heh, people have an interest in other people. Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran or whoever is cool these days are popular because they are real people with real lives and histories that can be related to, followed over time, etc. Of course the mus
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by gyomu 6mo ago
We’ve also eradicated the unsupervised peer socialization that kids experienced with the free range. It’s common for a child these days to only ever be around other kids in very supervised environments with adults present (play dates, schoo
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by gyomu 6mo ago
Related: Every Board Game Rulebook is Awful (100 page PDF) https://boardgametextbook.com/EBGRIA.pdf Overview here: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/13453/blogpost/164134/every-b...
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by gyomu 6mo ago
There are two kinds of developers. There's the kind that, when given a problem, will jump in, learn what they need to learn to solve the parts they don't fully understand yet, deliver meaningful iterative results, talk to people a
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by gyomu 6mo ago
If it makes you feel better, the vast majority of modern day Japanese speakers cannot read this either. It is cursive script, and only specialized academics/people with extensive training in calligraphy/etc. would know how to read
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by gyomu 6mo ago
Things just don’t really convert neatly because the shape of what people spend money on in life hasn’t evolved uniformly. Food appears somewhat cheaper, housing much cheaper; but clothing and tools/appliances were much more expensive.
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by gyomu 6mo ago
Touchscreens suck for text manipulation. The keyboard and the mouse are the superior input devices for wrangling characters and words and lines and paragraphs. The author wants using the iPad to “feel like a finger ballet, your hands swoopi
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by gyomu 6mo ago
I love this because it articulates so well a precise vision of a world I don’t want to live in. This is built from the collective works of all humans throughout history who have strived to make infographics, illustrations, and communicate k
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by gyomu 6mo ago
The battery thing doesn’t apply to water resistant devices, so doesn’t matter for iPhone/Apple Watch. There’s rumors that upcoming iPad models are water resistant, I suspect that’s the motivation for it.
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by gyomu 6mo ago
We’ve built a global economic system around “make number go up”, and we have been insanely successful at it - at the cost of everything else.
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by gyomu 6mo ago
The general state of animal welfare in Japan leaves a lot to be desired.
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by gyomu 6mo ago
I love the Sumida aquarium, but not so much for the penguins (to be honest the general state of animal care in Japan often leaves to be desired) - rather for the giant tanks at the very beginning [1], which were the last design work of Taka
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by gyomu 6mo ago
The flipside of that take is that if you listened to technologists, then educational TV/CD-ROMs/laptops/the internet/tablets/educational games/digital blackboards/MOOCs/etc. were going to completely r
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by gyomu 6mo ago
> If art museums displayed the artwork anyone can paint, they wouldn't be interesting to most people. It's very common for art museums in Japan to have a room dedicated to paintings from local residents. As one would expect, t
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by gyomu 6mo ago
I think those observations get to the crux of the issue: > That is why weird shaped windows are easy to prototype and expensive to polish. > But there is an issue with Win32 API programming. And the truth is that custom windows mean d

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