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by josephg 5d ago
It'd be much better if this test was done in low light. The tiny sensors in iphones work fine when there's plenty of light around. The real test is how well they do when the you aren't sitting in the sun.
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by josephg 5d ago
> But iPhone + zoom + crop is better in some ways than my 50mm 1.2 with bokeh. Well, yeah. f1.2 is a nice gimmick but opening up so wide rarely translates into better photos. Don't get me wrong - you can get some beautiful portraits
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by josephg 7d ago
This is my feeling too. It looks great - I think I might pick one up. But I’m going to give apple a few years to iron out the bugs first. Version 3 of the duo will be a much better product than version 1.
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by josephg 7d ago
Huh? What ai features? Firefox seems largely the same as it did a few years ago. I’m not doubting they added some ai junk somewhere. But whatever they did seems very easy to ignore.
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by josephg 7d ago
What aspects feel foreign on macOS? The Firefox preferences for sure. Anything else?
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by josephg 7d ago
Mozilla definitely wastes a bunch of money building features I don’t want. But underneath it all, Firefox is still an excellent web browser. You just occasionally have to disable “pocket” or “gadgets” or something.
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by josephg 7d ago
Then secure your database? This stuff isn’t rocket science. You don’t even have to hold historical transactions online. It’s quite difficult for hackers to access a hard drive sitting in a drawer.
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by josephg 8d ago
> There is no capitalist incentive for the latter This is literally the point of data breach laws like this. To provide a financial incentive to take this stuff seriously.
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by josephg 8d ago
No, but I think ICQ and some IRC clients had profanity filters turned on by default. I remember visiting a friend once and realising he hadn't turned the profanity filter off. I teased him about it for weeks.
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by josephg 8d ago
> But if you arn't tracking what's going on, they're basically creating deterministic gates and tools to get it to do anything. So, the same as skilled humans then?
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by josephg 9d ago
> The LLM by itself will never create software of any nontrivial (training) complexity. Huh? I'm not sure what the word "training" does in that sentence. But "never" my arse. Frontier models can make nontrivial s
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by josephg 9d ago
> Not even close to being true. You can invoke syscalls directly, The windows syscall API is yet another proprietary windows API. Sure - you can call it without loading any DLLs. But you're still calling into a proprietary windows A
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by josephg 9d ago
LLMs still seem pretty bad at writing large scale software like web browsers. Though it’s probably a problem of managing large context windows more than anything. Not sure if larger models will magically overcome that.
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by josephg 9d ago
> OAI's deal with Samsung & SK Hynix is also colossal - locking up roughly 900,000 DRAM wafers per month, roughly 40% of world output (Stargate project). I wonder if they'll, at some point, have enough RAM? Or is this is th
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by josephg 9d ago
Sounds like a generational thing. I grew up texting. But in the 90s any profanity filters could just be turned off in settings.
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by josephg 9d ago
If you're going to make apps in windows, you need to call their proprietary API somehow. Maybe you do it via a wrapper library, or via electron or something. But that's the same thing, just with more indirection.
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by josephg 9d ago
It doesn't read as emphasis to me. It reads like the person is trying hard not to curse, and they think "crap" is a curse word. It's a little bit adorable, like I'm reading a comment from an obedient child.
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by josephg 10d ago
Why would it? Unless you think OpenAI is training on Apple’s proprietary code?
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by josephg 10d ago
Did you read the article? They didn’t get help from the people who made the chip or wrote the Apple drivers.
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by josephg 10d ago
The only cost was a month of llm usage. If the legal questions matter to you, you or someone else should be able to spend some tokens to redo their work in a similar way. I doubt Apple will actually care much about this. But even if they do
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by josephg 10d ago
Sorry, you’re right I misspoke. Non partisan.
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by josephg 11d ago
> Brussels and DC are almost the same distance from Canberra. Yes. We’re not interested in joining the EU. And we’re not interested in becoming a US state. But trade doesn’t need to go all the way to DC. By plane, Sydney to LA is about -
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by josephg 11d ago
Per capita, Australia lets in more migrants per year than almost any other wealthy country. Our immigration process is non political - it’s run by a government department who write, publish and enforce our policies. Which is a huge step up
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by josephg 11d ago
Australian here. Theres no way we’re joining the EU. Brussels is on the other side of the planet from Australia. Our major trading partners are nearby countries, like China, Japan, NZ, and the US. Not continental Europe. Europe is too far a
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by josephg 11d ago
I got so annoyed at this recently I turned off spotlight entirely and replaced it with 3rd party software. I couldn’t be happier with my choice. Check out Raycast / Alfred.
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by josephg 11d ago
> It is very hard to debug and fix stuff on Linux if something goes wrong. Not these days. Just ask chatgpt or Claude to help out. I did that recently when my nvidia drivers broke somehow. I asked Claude code to take a look. It told me s
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by josephg 11d ago
The pain points have gotten less painful in the last few years. As someone who has run a hackintosh at one point, Linux is a walk in the park in comparison. Also, strange as it is to say, LLMs are incredibly helpful for fixing any little pr
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by josephg 11d ago
Is it? I use Linux mint on my desktop. Wifi just works. I’m using some X870 motherboard. I got the motherboard when it was really new, and I think it took a few months before wifi worked properly in mint out of the box. (I use Ethernet anyw
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by josephg 13d ago
> I've been trying to learn how to secure LG TVs It’d be wonderful if we had a grapheneos equivalent for tvs. They’re very capable Android devices. Such a pity “we don’t own the glass”.
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by josephg 14d ago
What are the numbers in that table? Is higher better or is higher worse? How does fully native C compare? What options are you using? Edit: ah, higher numbers are better. But that fact is hidden way down in a block of text behind a collapse

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