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by hbn 2y ago
There was a moral panic over fast food that was really taking off at the time, and cashing in on it clearly paid off for him. It did make McDonald's put more effort into rebranding with "we care about the health of kids" - I
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by hbn 2y ago
The movie was not scientific at all. It was anti-scientific if anything. Not to argue McDonald's is health food, but his method was he had to eat McDonald's 3 times per day - even if he wasn't hungry. And additionally, if the
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by hbn 2y ago
OpenAI didn't want their voice to sound like Scarlett Johansson, they wanted it to sound like Samantha from Her. Does Warner Brothers have a right to AI voices that sound like Scarlett Johansson? Shouldn't it be them suing? What i
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by hbn 2y ago
I recall they were literally going to kill Paint in favor of Paint 3D until they got backlash over it. Does Windows still have a "3D Objects" folder alongside Pictures, Videos, etc? Microsoft seriously has no taste.
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by hbn 2y ago
Twitter's viral content farming started overnight when Musk started paying people for views. Prior to that, viral content usually felt pretty organic and decent.
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by hbn 2y ago
There's no content to balance it out with. Stepping outside of the popular opinion and getting immediately downvoted so nobody sees it, you might as well not have commented at all. Eventually all dissenters stop commenting.
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by hbn 2y ago
I've watched a notable decline in Reddit content quality the past few years. Obvious engagement farming posts that I didn't used to see. A low quality jpeg of a character from the TV show the reddit is about, titled "who else
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by hbn 2y ago
Perhaps I could rephrase that it's hidden within Accessibility settings, not that it's an accessibility setting that is furthermore hidden. Most people don't go into that menu to look around for things they might want to use
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by hbn 2y ago
The iPhone has a hidden accessibility setting where you can map and double and/or triple tap of the back of your phone to a handful of actions. I use this to trigger Reachability (the feature that brings the entire UI halfway down the
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by hbn 2y ago
Are you a paid user?
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by hbn 2y ago
Paid users get like a 5x higher rate limit iirc
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by hbn 2y ago
The realtime one they showed yesterday or the one that's existed forever where it's just a voice-to-text input and TTS output taking turns?
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by hbn 2y ago
Everyone who says they have access in the replies to my comment seem to be paid users. So maybe it's only rolling out to them first.
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by hbn 2y ago
I'm on the same version and don't see anything different Website also only has toggle for 3.5 and 4 with the Plus upgrade. Not sure if it's cause I'm in Canada?
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by hbn 2y ago
How do I get access? I just checked my app and the Premium upgrade says it will unlocked GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, so I assume my version is still the old one. All my apps are updated in the App Store too.
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by hbn 2y ago
One of my favorite tweets: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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by hbn 2y ago
> I noticed that the AI in the demo seems to be very rambly That's been a major issue for me with LLMs this whole time. They can't just give me an answer, they have to spout a whole preamble that usually includes spitting my qu
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by hbn 2y ago
That's not what the GP said at all. It was just an explanation for why this demo feels so incredible.
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by hbn 2y ago
That's very common practice for live demos. To avoid situations like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lqfRx61BUg
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by hbn 2y ago
Seems overkill to get an M4-powered device to use as a dumb terminal.
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by hbn 2y ago
Pretty sure they're talking about popping into recent apps. But that isn't the gesture, you just do a short swipe up and hold for a fraction of a second until you feel the haptic buzz. edit: actually just tried and you can also pu
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by hbn 2y ago
Every once in a while they'll do a generous move to essentially buy the good graces of gamers -- e.g. backwards compatibility, launching new releases day one on GamePass (I don't consider that a good thing but whatever), making so
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by hbn 2y ago
AAA basically just means nice graphics at this point. You can't dump more money into a piece of art to make it better, that's why all the innovation comes from indie games. Look at Balatro, a guy made a poker roguelike and became
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by hbn 2y ago
Just yesterday there was a poll going around on Twitter of which of the big 3 gaming companies, Nintendo, Sony, and MS is the "least bad" or something like that, and I saw a lot of people saying Microsoft. I figured they'd do
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by hbn 2y ago
Most SO answers are clarifying a niche implementation detail or gotcha of a programming language, troubleshooting someone's build configuration, etc. If an LLM trained on that info and later helped someone solve their problem by spitti
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by hbn 2y ago
Apple's hesitance on implementing browser features can also be a positive. They held off on web push forever which is a good thing because web push is horrible and just opened the floodgates for everyone's grandma's Samsung p
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by hbn 2y ago
Don't worry, no matter how good hardware gets, you can rest assured bad software will push it to the limits and further push the minimum system requirements to run anything as basic as a note taking app or music player. https:/&#
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by hbn 2y ago
For the cause of the person who lost their job. Most people wouldn't say "Greg was laid off for pissing in the water cooler"
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by hbn 3y ago
For better or for worse https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-copiers-rand...
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by hbn 3y ago
> thereafter they're just numbered with the plain number. $ java -version java version "1.8.0_391" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_391-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.391-b13

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