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by hbn 2y ago
No idea what functions or services Windows has that doesn't exist on other platforms in an equal or superior way. PowerShell maybe? "Compatibility" is exactly what I'm referring to as being the issue. I use Windows becau
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by hbn 2y ago
Or how about the fact that basically no one uses Windows by choice, they use it because they need to for some app, and because of that Microsoft makes the entire OS constantly harass everyone to try and trick them into signing up for Micros
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by hbn 2y ago
By the time Chrome came out Google already was in the position where everyone knew to set their default homepage to Google in IE in the same way they automatically go to install Chrome now. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the pseudo
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by hbn 2y ago
If VisiCalc had been written for a different computer, where would you be? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqD602G90o
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by hbn 2y ago
If they played their cards right as the top dog ~20 years ago, they could have perhaps ended up with the relationship with Apple that TSMC does today.
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Yeah I remember going to a Booster Juice (Canadian smoothie chain) after they banned plastic straws here, and saw they were proudly advertising their biodegradable straws, and upon trying one I was perfectly satisfied with it compared to a
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by hbn 2y ago
I'll give a few reasons - You can place the cup on a table and continue to drink it without taking your hands off your burger, or getting salty fingers on your cup - Tipping a drink up makes you take your eyes off what's in front
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by hbn 2y ago
Yeah, I gave an honest shot at using vertical tabs for a few months because it frankly does seem like a more logical use of screen real estate. Web pages don't tend to take up much horizontal space, so you might as well put a bigger li
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by hbn 2y ago
> until the end of time *until Humane sells to someone like HP for its patents and services are all turned off
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by hbn 2y ago
On the other hand, I bought a late-2013 MBP in 2014 when I started university and it lasted me through my whole school career and a few years after. It was no longer getting major OS updates but still ran acceptably enough when I replaced i
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by hbn 2y ago
> will just wrap the chatgpt api Just to clarify, it's not even Siri wrapping Chat GPT really. It's essentially just a "dumb" integration where if Siri thinks it can't handle a request, it'll prompt you to s
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by hbn 2y ago
Chat GPT has been a game changer for my ffmpeg usage. Instead of cobbling together commands from StackOverflow questions and guides, I just describe what I want in plain English and it's got a pretty damn good success rate for giving m
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by hbn 2y ago
I didn't even look at the website to see they offered a paid service. Looking now -- even aside from potential license issues -- at risk of making yet another HN Dropbox comment, I'm curious how viable that is as a business model.
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by hbn 2y ago
LinkedIn straight up stresses me out when I think about using it. So many things that work counter-intuitively to the way you'd expect any social media platform to work. From the emails they send you, with the sender set to the name of
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by hbn 2y ago
If I were to place you on a team in my company, I'd more likely place you in engineering than marketing :)
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by hbn 2y ago
Is that even something they keep on hand? Or would WANT to keep on hand? I figured they're basically sending a crawler to go nuts reading things and discard the data once they've trained on it. If that included, e.g. reading all o
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by hbn 2y ago
Reminds me of Phil Harrison who always seems to find himself in an of executive position, botching launches of new video game platforms - PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Google Stadia
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At my work in the past year or 2 they rolled out Zscaler onto all of our machines which I think is supposed to be doing a similar thing. All it's done is caused us regular network issues. I wonder if they also have the capability to br
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by hbn 2y ago
The YouTube video for Vulfpeck's track, Barbara, is interspersed with the interview where he said that quote -- as well as the first take of it where he stumbled through it and then asked to restart from the beginning to reword it bett
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by hbn 2y ago
ffmpeg pulled from the cloud into your browser, but run locally
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> an attacker who paid for Google Ads for a search term like "BANKNAME login" I tried out buy Google ads once out of curiosity cause they gave me a free credit. It was crazy how many ridiculous stipulations and guidelines I had
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Whenever I see an AI image I immediately start scrutinizing the details and looking for all the things wrong with it
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Creating within set constraints breeds unprecedented innovation and some really interesting stuff. For about 25 years there's been a small but dedicated group of people making romhacks for Super Mario World, and the early stuff was pre
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by hbn 2y ago
I was confused at first because I immediately recognized Dorkly as a YouTube channel that was very popular on YouTube around 2010, they produced comedy animations based on video games though I'm sure the humor isn't as funny as I
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by hbn 2y ago
I get legitimate value from ChatGPT on a daily basis. Writing quick one-off regex expressions, or JavaScript to scrape/filter something from a page I'm on (just did that one last night), or to write an ffmpeg command where I can j
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by hbn 2y ago
Regardless I don't think there's much to write papers on, other than maybe an anthropological look at how it's affected people putting too much trust into LLMs for research, decision-making, etc. If someone wants info to make
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> the hallucination phenomena There isn't really such thing as a "hallucination" and honestly I think people should be using the word less. Whether an LLM tells you the sky is blue or the sky is purple, it's not doing
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by hbn 2y ago
Not a good habit but I rarely check my credit card statements, I'm lucky enough to be in a situation where money isn't a stressor for me so I just wait for the email that my next statement is ready and pay it off. To be fair, item
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Like many things with the internet, it seems like if you got in at the ground floor you could do something like this. Now everything on the internet is cordoned off in centralized spaces, and there's a million businesses and random guy
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What did Go do to make it so ubiquitous? Seems like it was mostly just a “nice” language

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