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by jrmg 3mo ago
We bought a Honda Prologue last year and didn’t even test drive the built-on-the-same-platform GM cars (e.g. the almost-identical Chevy Blazer EV) because they didn’t have CarPlay. People like us have got to be affecting GM’s sales by some
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by jrmg 3mo ago
You can just run podman containers as root if you don’t want the fiddllyness of user accounts - it’s no less secure than rootful Docker.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
It’s wrong ‘for sideloaded apps that have the get-task-allow entitlement.’ It’s right for ‘regular’ apps.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Right, I meant songs you’ve purchased.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
With Apple, you can at least download the media you bought and keep it. Could you do that with these PlayStation store movies?
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by jrmg 4mo ago
This makes it sound like Sherlock was named in response to Watson. It was the other way around. Earlier versions of Mac OS had an app called ‘Sherlock’[^1] that could search local files and the web in a fairly rigid manner. ‘Watson’[^2] wa
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by jrmg 4mo ago
His job is to do what’s in the long term interests of his company. [Edit: was thinking of the ‘CEO’. This doesn’t apply as cleanly to Boris.]
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by jrmg 4mo ago
This is a ridiculous statement. No one is developing a vaccine for something they don’t even know the rate of incidence of.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
That’s even worse - now you have a tracking UUID that only changes when the user copies something.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Apps don’t get access to gaze position on the Vision Pro, for privacy/security reasons.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Tesselation Games’ ‘Berrymandering’ tabletop game is also a fun way to depress yourself - and a fun way to introduce the idea of gerrymandering to friends and family who don’t ‘get’ it - and depress them too! https://www.tessella
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Is Craigslist still the go-to classifieds site in some places? Around here it’s (very sadly IMO) been almost completely replaced by Facebook Marketplace, to the extent that people make Facebook accounts just to use Marketplace.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Modern construction firms would have no problem^ planning and building you a pyramid if you were willing to pay for it. ^ well, maybe some problems like any project, but they would overcome them.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis This is what came to my mind first too. It feels like the sort of thing you could come up with after a lot of ‘that’s a great insight!’, with the LLM eventually projecting abso
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by jrmg 4mo ago
The ‘technically impossible’ arguments always frustrate me. I used to buy into them to - but over time I’ve come to realise that the people making these arguments are not speaking the same language as lawmakers - or most of the rest of soci
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Star Trek holodeck malfunctions seem a lot more realistic to me now than they did in the late 90s…
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Perhaps I meant ‘crude’ rather than ‘arrogant’. Or another word that a blend of the two. I mean, I think there’s a middle ground between defending all uses of AI writing and saying “It’s like making yourself into a eunuch so Claude can fuck
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by jrmg 4mo ago
This is a very good essay when you get past the arrogant tone evident especially at the beginning (is that a form of engagement bait?…) The argument that communicating an idea is a necessary part of shaping it feels counterintuitive, but it
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by jrmg 4mo ago
The reason why people use AI to manifest their ideas is probably because they have no other way communicate otherwise. What?! This is nonsense. You’re really making the argument that most people getting LLMs to write for them just couldn’
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by jrmg 4mo ago
The carbon cost to produce or use a new phone isn’t relevant here. The important question is whether repurposing an already-existing phone to act as a server (including physically adapting the phone and producing whatever extra hardware is
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by jrmg 4mo ago
if Mozilla made the best browser ever, would that really make a difference? I really don’t think it would. One thing “Do what you did before when you were successful!” is missing is that Firefox was sleek, fast, extendable, new, and cool
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by jrmg 4mo ago
I suspect it might be too ‘soft’ for a lot folks around here (sadly), but “Monk and Robot” is charming. In general, you should look into the ‘solarpunk’ genre, especially post-apocalyptic solarpunk.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
It’s counter intuitive to me that this is a net carbon win. - Are these phone processors really as compute-pet-watt efficient as a regular data center processor? - There’s so little embodied carbon in a phone motherboard - and presumably so
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Debian.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Maybe I’m just biased because it’s what I’ve done personally, but almost everyone using an old Intel Mac as a server is surely running Linux?
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by jrmg 4mo ago
The internet and dot com bubble didn't have millions and millions of non technical users paying cash for a product The dot com bubble was basically based on regular people buying computers and internet service, and then using them to
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by jrmg 4mo ago
I indeed was insinuating that OP may be in the early stages of AI psychosis - or, if you don’t believe that’s a thing, at least in a mildly delusional or hyperactive state. If I’m wrong, I don’t think any of the advice I gave was harmful. R
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Ha! Well that answers my question. I hope OP is seriously considering what’s actually been built here, and how their interactions with whatever LLM they’ve been using really reflects that. I’m genuinely a bit concerned for them.
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Are you saying that two distinct pieces of content can never collide? That seems obviously incorrect. For example, take the integers 0 - 196,561, and put them into your lattice-based map. Something’s got to give. There are only 196,560 cont
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by jrmg 4mo ago
Maybe I just don’t have the mathematics knowledge to understand it, but that doesn’t really tell me how you could represent one in memory, or use one as a backing store for a hash-addressed data structure.

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