jacobgkau

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by jacobgkau 4mo ago
Use cases besides software development exist. Even relatively simple video editing can easily run past 16GB, and so can photo editing if you're working with more than a few high-resolution images at once. On the consumer side, YouTube
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by jacobgkau 4mo ago
You quoted the very first sentence. They acknowledged your point later: > Sure, I could switch to a different mail client and never see any of these language model features, but my experience these past months has left such a bad taste t
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by jacobgkau 4mo ago
Heck, I order pizzas online regularly (one of the only types of account I haven't migrated off to other email addresses, because it's not very important), and my ASAP pick-up orders usually get an "Arriving tomorrow" ban
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by jacobgkau 5mo ago
> Consumption has risen, inflation adjusted wages have risen for blue collar and white collar alike. My wages haven't risen for nearly 5 years, while inflation has occurred over the past 5 years. Why the blanket statements? > The
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by jacobgkau 5mo ago
I think they're saying that inflation means the $6B is reducing in buying power.
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by jacobgkau 5mo ago
I've had several usernames/emails more similar to the `last[:5]initials#` example at universities and large companies. It's more secure (harder to guess based on the name alone), more private (harder for outsiders to tie back
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by jacobgkau 5mo ago
> Indian tribal casinos are only legal because they are in a separate country as far as the state is concerned. (they don't bother, but each reservation has a good case to join the UN if they wanted to) A case for it, maybe, but I
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by jacobgkau 5mo ago
They're asking the nature of the third party's discovery/publishing. Someone on the inside who decided to leak it anonymously? Someone else who was able to access some private communication they shouldn't have been able
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
I really liked the G2 as well. It was the first phone (at least that I saw) to put the power and volume buttons on the back of the phone, where a ton of later phones would eventually start putting the fingerprint sensor. I replaced LG'
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
> this is not macOS. From the first sentence of the featured article: > If you’re using Windows or macOS Also, Microsoft has attempted to reign in and standardize app developers on numerous occasions over the past couple of decades, a
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
The person you replied to said mostly-obsolete . They were speaking in the same context as the earlier commenter claiming it's a normal practice because everyone used to have to update their hosts files all the time before DNS existed
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
> Cannot any website use the same trick Adobe does to check whether you have Creative Cloud installed? That is specifically what I was talking about. > (Because it seems Adobe's server serving the analytics image checks the reque
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
To be fair, your analogy has one flaw: > 3. After the change, any external caller can dial a certain sequence to get a message of "Yes, this office was serviced by Adobe Janitorial!" Theoretically, it's not "any exter
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
The "sustainable" comment wasn't about the hosts file ballooning to the point of causing performance problems. It was more about the engineering effort required for every program ever (or at least every commercial program tha
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
> For anyone hand-wringing over this, this used to be normal . People editing hosts files for other reasons was normal (a long time ago-- and it stopped being normal for valid reasons, as tech evolved and the shortcomings of that system
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
> Would HN ever agree on a OS-level app-detection API for the browser? Never. There already is one. It just asks the user whether it's okay before it tells the website, as you acknowledged: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by jacobgkau 6mo ago
> If anything, knowing whether the app is installed or not is kinda important? If you open a file shared with you in the browser, the option to "Open in Desktop" versus "Install Desktop App" actually works correctly?
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
It's been cut in half year-to-date. It's about where it was a full year ago right now.
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> If anything I find LLM code shortcomings often a bit easier to spot because a lot of the time they're just uneeded dependencies, useless comments, useless replication of logic, etc. By this logic, it's useful to know whether
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> January 11, 2023 > Based on current internal deliberations, the company could launch its first touch-screen Mac in 2025 Even if it didn't come to pass, just a few years ago is a more relevant leak than the every-year-since-the-
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
False equivalence. A text editor does not type characters that you didn't explicitly type or select.
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
LLMs can make mistakes in different ways than humans tend to. Think "confidently wrong human throwing flags up with their entire approach" vs. "confidently wrong LLM writing convincing-looking code that misunderstands or igno
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> Another one would be discovering malware in a PR and betting loudly enough that it won't get merged. The bet is how you make your certainty rise above the bot noise and attract extra attention on the maintainers' part. This e
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> Online platforms should do what nearly every other publisher does and provide a rating for their content. That's fine, but it needs an enforcement mechanism, or we're back to where we currently are ("click here if you&#x
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> For instance, I'm in favor of bets that a certain astroid will strike the earth at a certain time and place. A signal from the prediction markets might cause somebody to evacuate in a scenario where they'd otherwise cry &quot
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> Gambling/prediction markets are 100% optional to participate in and you should go in with the expectation that you're going to lose. The stock market is 100% optional to participate in, and every broker tells you (is legally
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
> The law California (and other states) passed doesn't define what content has to be blocked for which ages No, but it's a framework that would allow other laws to do so. Because... > it's not as if they had no idea the
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
As someone who uses VideoJS on a website with a large video library, and has generally been dismayed at the state of the plugin ecosystem every time I consider doing a major version upgrade of VideoJS, this kind of thing is great to hear.
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
One of the footnotes at the bottom of the page says: > Apple Business Essentials, Apple Business Manager, and Apple Business Connect will no longer be available once Apple Business launches. So it's a consolidation. They call out Bu
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by jacobgkau 7mo ago
Your attitude is exactly why it's gotten to the point of being proposed as law. Of course, nobody can ever stop you from running anything you're building yourself, privately. But you might end up finding that you need to implement

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