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by jsheard 1y ago
> MacOS native apps have had great sub-pixel rendering all along Apple removed subpixel anti-aliasing in Mojave, seven years ago, because it's not necessary on the HiDPI/Retina displays they ship as standard. They still do gre
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I'm a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education(theatlantic.com)
6 points by jsheard 1y ago|1 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
That figures, their lead platform was the Mac where HiDPI is totally ubiquitous, so their renderer probably has no provisions for subpixel font rendering.
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by jsheard 1y ago
It was always going to be infested with something or other, you don't raise $42M for just a text editor. Could be worse, a few years earlier it probably would have incorporated blockchains somehow.
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by jsheard 1y ago
I assume their Spotify username is their real name.
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New Spotify feature may doxx users(old.reddit.com)
4 points by jsheard 1y ago|2 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
I'm no first amendment scholar, but even under that extremely broad protection I don't think you're allowed to overtly incite vigilante violence.
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by jsheard 1y ago
"The UK has become a country that is [...] far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men" says man after expressing a supposed entitlement to punch people in the genitals on suspicion of crimes against gen
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by jsheard 1y ago
I suppose that's an option yeah, but when people envision turning this kind of thing into a VR holodeck I think they're expecting unbounded exploration and interactivity, which precludes pre-baking everything. Flattening the scene
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by jsheard 1y ago
Please don't hold your breath, they're still pretty far from high-res 120fps with consistent stereo and milliseconds of latency.
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by jsheard 1y ago
That's also why the stonks-going-up emoji traditionally has a red line, Japan shares that convention. https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-em...
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by jsheard 1y ago
The AI tax is crazy, Pixels now reserve 3.5GB of RAM to keep Googles local models permanently loaded regardless of how much you use them, or whether you use them at all. The base Pixel 10 has 12GB of RAM so that's nearly a third set as
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by jsheard 1y ago
Yeah, that's what I was getting at.
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by jsheard 1y ago
> [Paragon] has said that [...] it only does business with democracies. It has also said it has a no tolerance policy and will cut off government clients who use the spyware to target members of civil society, like journalists. > Par
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by jsheard 1y ago
Once the crawler goes up, who cares what it brings down? That's not my department! says Crawler von Braun
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by jsheard 1y ago
Whatever happens if/when a flagship model leaks, the legal fallout would be very funny to watch. Lawyers desperately trying to thread the needle such that training on libgen is fair use, but training on leaked weights warrants the deat
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by jsheard 1y ago
Judging from the experience of people running bug bounty programs lately, you'd definitely get an endless supply of successful exploit reports. Whether any of them would be real exploits is another question though. https:/&#x2F
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by jsheard 1y ago
Nothing stops you from signing your own tokens, but if you want those tokens to actually help you get past CFs WAF then you have to convince (or pay) them to trust you. It's kind of like how you can sign your own public TLS certs, but
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by jsheard 1y ago
Reading this I assumed it was down to the AI confusing two different Benn Jordans, but nope, the guy who actually published that video is called Ryan McBeth. How does that even happen?
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Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me(bsky.app)
698 points by jsheard 1y ago|278 comments
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by jsheard 1y ago
> Honestly I’m kind of surprised they made 10B in revenue. Much of that is from the hardware, a very conservative estimate of (Quests sold by mid-2023) * (typical ~$300 MSRP) gets you to $6 billion revenue by itself. The problem is the
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by jsheard 1y ago
What do you mean, it worked so well with his Metaverse initiative. $70 billion spent for $10 billion in revenue to date, and quarterly losses trending even worse as time goes on, you just can't argue with these results.
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by jsheard 1y ago
It's extremely reminiscent of the way that crypto boosters talked about Web3 being the obvious and inevitable future of the internet.
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by jsheard 1y ago
This is like a fractal scam, you've got gambling against the house (already a scam) with crypto (so there's no regulators to stop them rigging the games) and then instead of waiting for statistics to take their course they just ru
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by jsheard 1y ago
Gaming also wants a bunch of fixed-function graphics units that a dedicated accelerator like this has no reason to include. I guess you could try to make a GPU with just programmable compute but Intel attempted that and it didn't go
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by jsheard 1y ago
For comparison, Nvidia's 96GB card uses GDDR7 for 1.8TB/sec bandwidth. This Huawei card is more in the league of an M4 Max bandwidth-wise.
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by jsheard 1y ago
The other problem with logs is that it's very difficult to filter out bots masquerading with browser user agents, of which there are a lot nowadays. I've watched the logs on newly registered domains that aren't published anyw
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by jsheard 1y ago
Just today Anthropic announced that they will begin using their users data for training by default - they still want fresh data so badly that they risked alienating their own paying customers to get some more. They're at the stage of
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by jsheard 1y ago
> Cloudflare is trying to gatekeep which user-initated agents are allowed to read website content, which is of course very different from scraping website for training data. That distinction requires you to take companies which benefit f
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by jsheard 1y ago
That's far from the worst metric that xAI has come up with... https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1958854561579638960

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