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by kbelder 7mo ago
This is the way of the future.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
>More fluid and responsive app interactions: Reducing interaction latency by moving core Windows experiences to the WinUI3 framework. I think this is good, because they're talking about removing (hideously inappropriate) react and o
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by kbelder 7mo ago
I turned on the new 'sassy' personality for Alexa. Now, if you ask it to "set a 5 minute alarm," half the time she'll go off on a short rant about how she must obviously not be good for anything but keeping track o
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Yeah, a touch-sensitive com-badge mounted on your chest would work. Actually, I would think a small coin-sized button & transmitter that did nothing but emit a signal that your assistant (or phone) interprets as 'start listening&#x
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by kbelder 7mo ago
If you sped this up, and minimized it to the point it was unnoticeable, it would not hurt the browsing experience. But that raises the question...
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Honestly, I think in the next year or two, you'll be able to feed an LLM the animated show and have it convert it to pseudo-liveaction. For better or worse.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
The purchase habits of the poor impact the products purchased primarily by the poor quite a bit. Cheap rental properties. Basic phone plans. Cheap food. The poor buy vastly more ramen noodles than the rich.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
In a normal market, they would. But housing is highly regulated with artificial shortages, so that pricing is very distorted.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
I just had Alexa give me a "Well, no shit" response to something I said to it yesterday. They've added personalities.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
I disagree slightly. It may not be good business, but it could be good PR, situationally. I expect a lot of 2nd-tier distros will refuse to implement it, and see a boost in their installs as a result. Debian, Ubuntu, etc., they'll al
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by kbelder 7mo ago
It's the only sensible way. It wasn't the proper way for a long time.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
Not joking, although maybe not terribly serious either. I could envision a random (filtered) selection of citizens being given a veto power over legislation, as another check against abuse.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
How about a chamber populated by random lottery? Like jury duty?
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by kbelder 7mo ago
It's not "I used to have slaves...", it's "My ancestors used to have slaves...". Having a class of nobles is an embarrassment for a country, and they should have been kicked out of parliament a century ago. Bu
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by kbelder 7mo ago
>You're literally saying that the upsides of hallucinanigenic gifts are worth the downside of collapsing society. No, literally, he didn't.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
You've been downvoted for being reasonable (I gave you an upvote). The histrionics in these threads are way over the top, and it's sad to see.
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by kbelder 7mo ago
That headline is a pretty deceitful casting of the actual situation, which is that UA can permanently ban annoying jerks who won't stop bothering everybody when asked.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
1) Heat 1 cup milk, not to boiling. 2) Add 4 tablespoons vinegar. Stir for a few minutes. 3) Strain out curds. Squeeze to remove as much liquid as possible. 4) Form into a shape or press into a mold, let dry. It's in th
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Some would; you see some in this thread. But only a fringe, thankfully.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Names-wise, I think 'Grok' is pretty good, there's just lots of other baggage that comes along with it. I still hate how Microsoft ruined the value in the name 'Cortana'. If they had a modern LLM named Cortana with
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by kbelder 8mo ago
They need to do some sort of shared chat. Like being able to start a thread then invite another chatGPT user to join on the conversation. That would add some network effects and switching cost. Maybe they already have this? I'm not
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Do all governments do this? Maybe, you need to incorporate some notion of degree or context into the classification, instead of treating it like a boolean.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
I don't know that I've ever seen a reasonable accusation of 'dogwhistling' on HN. They always just make the accuser seem paranoid or evasive.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Don't be surprised or shocked to encounter metaphors and hyperbole as you read. It's part of standard English communication.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Sector zero should describe how to implement a simple FORTH...
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Wouldn't the minimum discrete unit be something that is capable of recording the ID? Or, if not, space somewhere would need to identify that that atom has this ID, which would take at least as much space. In other words, the act o
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Assuming these are advanced enough aliens, they'll also be bringing with them all the mass they can, to accentuate the effect? I'm imagining things like Niven's ringworld star propulsion.
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Who's the freak without an abnormality?
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by kbelder 8mo ago
Interesting. If you go to youtube.com it's all messed up; missing all the videos in the listings. But if you follow a video embedded in another site to youtube, it'll show and play fine. It'll break if you try to browse aw
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by kbelder 8mo ago
I don't have any burning desire to revisit Pascal, but it might be worth it for a nice RAD IDE that works on Windows and Linux. My brother loved his Delphi programming environment.

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