kalleboo

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by kalleboo 5mo ago
> What I find surprising with the anti-AI sentiment is that it seems to be a lot more prevalent among the younger generation It's repeatedly stated that while it's still improving, AI is coming for the entry level positions a
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
AI is here to stay. It's getting better every day with no end in sight. We're a year away from AGI, once we have AGI, there is no need for white-collar jobs, everyone working in an office will be fired. (Some people argue we alrea
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
Sweden had from 1973-1998 a law that made it illegal to have a computer database of personal information without getting approval from the government (in 1982 it was opened up so that approval was only needed for "sensitive" infor
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
Although at this point, doesn't Windows 11 require TPM, and Apple has had the Secure Enclave since the T2 Macs...
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
Everyone is being told they have to use AI to get ahead, so they do. They're still not going to get a job, and if they have a job, they're still going to get laid off no matter how hard they use AI, because the AI can also use AI.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
> https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54919 FWIW, in the 4 years after this chart was produced, 5 more states flipped over from Coal to either Natural Gas or Wind. https://www.visualcapitali
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
The Microsoft deal was originally negotiated by Gil Amelio, and while the monetary investment is what got the headlines and is what people remember, the most important part of the negotiations to Apple was that Microsoft committed to keep d
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
> Arguably more petty I can believe it. IIRC Jobs also snubbed ATI once after they leaked the GPUs going in the next PowerMac model.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
What's funny is there was third-party software that would enable it on the Mac, Apple could have done it far earlier than MacOS X. 1993 PowerBook 145B (25 MHz 68030) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQo29SIIgU 1994 Pow
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
Command - Shift - 1 was "Eject Floppy Disk in Drive 1" and Command - Shift - 2 was "Eject Floppy Disk in Drive 2". I kid you not, that's how old these keyboard shortcuts are, they date back to the 80's.
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by kalleboo 5mo ago
If they don't want to provide free cloud services in perpetuity they could make their 3D printers work offline without restrictions.
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
> Now it seems every AP looks like an alien spacecraft. Ironic if we're talking about the Apple Airport series https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Early_Ai...
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Sadly they finally dropped support for Firewire in macOS 26, BTW. The USB models still work though.
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Have you seen what LEGO costs though?
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
My house is built out of reinforced concrete, so wireless signals reach almost nowhere. I got Ethernet put into the living room and bedroom and put in 2.5 Gbps USB ethernet dongles on powered hubs, so when I plug into my phone/laptop t
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Safari is funded by Google to the tune of $20B/year https://www.theverge.com/news/769599/google-apple-search-dea...
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
> It's possible he isn't checking newer cars for high miles I read a few of the articles, he states the problem is that cars starting in the late 90's have digital LCD odometers that can't be easily read on a dead c
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
In our camera app Photon ( https://photon.cam ) we have an option "Process Control" to blend the RAW and JPEG, bringing some of the noise from the RAW back into the JPEG but keeping the better dynamic range from Apples
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Similarly on Classic Mac OS, C compilers would map single '\n' to single '\r' which is what was the Mac OS convention.
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Yeah people complain about USB-C but I'm struggling to think of any port that has managed the spec evolution any better. Nightmares of null-modem cables and hardware handshaking still haunt me.
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Elon Musks claims included (exact quotes, these posts are still on X): Jan 10, 2016: In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere connected by land & not blocked by borders, eg you're in LA and the car is in NY Jul 16, 2019: If we make
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
M1 is even better in some ways, like it has Thunderbolt ports (plural even!).
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Apple is saving a ridiculous amount of money by just licensing Gemini from Google instead of trying to keep up with a frontier model of their own. In a few years when the S-curve has flattened a bit it will probably be way cheaper to catch
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Among even non-tech people I know, it's now common knowledge to check on the web if you can get a discount without the Apple tax before doing an in-app purchase. I think most people care more about saving 10-30% on their purchases than
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Haha oops. English is hard...
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
"Works for me, WONTFIX" Spoken like a true software engineer
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
> But the author just took pictures of food & expected a realistic response? There are very popular apps on the App Store right now that are going viral among non-techie people that do exactly this, and they have no concept of how
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
> Or can someone in a office somewhere remotely get alerted, look at the video feed/data, and override it with instruction on how to proceed? For Waymo, it's this one.
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
I'm honestly surprised that WiFi Hotspot doesn't isolate hosts, after companies like Meta have been caught running servers inside their apps and connecting to those to track users.
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by kalleboo 6mo ago
Only if we also get unlimited nights & weekends.

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