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by klabb3 1y ago
Im surprised that Apple doesn’t subsidize it more. I have never met anyone who has it or wants it (except people who are AR devs themselves). If they were serious about ”spatial computing” and building more devices it’d seem like a no-brain
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by klabb3 1y ago
It doesn’t even look particularly good? And I’m not even a design-Luddite – generally a fan of a lot of Apple visual design and I hate old windows 98-style buttons. I’m the type of person who should enjoy it. (Only speaking about the visu
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by klabb3 1y ago
Absolutely. Academics in particular are hyper averse to saying ”we don’t know yet”. They’d much rather establish an unfalsifiable narrative which can mislead and cause damage for decades, until it can be properly reversed. Archeology is per
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by klabb3 1y ago
No, but loss of smell is indeed a (very well documented) ”mystery effect” of neurological damage, so it’s not a regular ”flu” by any means. It’s closest relative is SARS1 and that’s also vastly different from flu. There are always psychos
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by klabb3 1y ago
> I wonder if, in parts, the effects of the so called "mild covid" and "long covid" […] are nothing but psychological. There seems to be quite a cloud of uncertainty around the vast array of reported possible symptoms
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by klabb3 1y ago
> your own AWS EC2 machines Not disagreeing, but this is quite an expression.
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by klabb3 1y ago
> If I ask ChatGPT for a recipe, I’m not going to have to read a story about someone’s grandparent first. You are walking into a trap. This is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Google and the downstream content farm and affiliate industry
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by klabb3 1y ago
> But I'm not as worried as others. None of these have lock-in. They will. And when they do it will hit hard, especially if you’re not just a consumer but relying on it for work. One vector is personalization. Your LLM gets to know
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Most things are still available at the same quality your parents remember Just no. The old reputable brands are enshittifying the same way. I’ve multiple times seen it first hand, with brands like Levi’s and Fjällräven. One year of wea
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Why? Copyright is 1) presented as being there to protect the interests of the general public, not creators Doesn’t matter, both the ”public interest” and ”creator rights” arguments have the same impact: you’re either hurting creators d
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by klabb3 1y ago
Wow, that’s incredible. Cats are progressing so fast, especially unreleased cats seem to be doing much better. My two orange kitties aren’t doing well on math problems but obviously that’s because I’m not prompting the right way – any day n
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by klabb3 1y ago
Yes, 100%. And that’s why throwing copyright selectively in the bin now when there’s an ongoing massive transfer of wealth from creators to mega corps, is so surprising. It’s almost as if governments were only protecting economic interest
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by klabb3 1y ago
For compute, which is a small part of things computers do. Many things are I/O and network bound. I’m not at all a fan of Python, but perf is the least of my concerns with it.
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by klabb3 1y ago
Yes, it’s content marketing. But out of all the commercial garbage out there, the signal to noise ratio is quite high on avg imo. I find most articles like this somewhat interesting and sometimes even useful. Plus, they’re also free from pa
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by klabb3 1y ago
Yes. As well as other hype-men and useful idiots. People are extremely naive when it comes to vested interest talking points. There’s a very natural reason why these guys want to keep talking about AGI and ASI: ”soon” is the magic word that
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by klabb3 1y ago
Sounds like the author is advocating for SVN.
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by klabb3 1y ago
> if Russia had indeed attacked NATO countries, which they said it had indeed happen, then how come NATO, being a defensive alliance first and foremost, didn't do anything about it? This was already answered but to be clear: ”doing
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by klabb3 1y ago
> My theory is that if you're extremely pessimistic about technology or politics, you probably won't like anything that happens when large groups of humans make collective decisions. There's an air of let's go back to
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by klabb3 1y ago
Yes but it’s a very complicated service to deliver. Even if they train great models, they likely will not operationalize them for inference. Those will still be private actors, and the incentives to enshittify will be the same. Also, for AI
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by klabb3 1y ago
It doesn’t even apply to megacorps generally. The DMA applies to Core Platform Services – meaning app stores, browsers, etc – that are evaluated as gatekeepers individually. The same company can have provide CPSs, with different status. F
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by klabb3 1y ago
Wow what a gold mine your blog is. It’s like a more elaborate and well thought through version of thoughts that have been torturing me for years. Looking forward to reading it all.
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by klabb3 1y ago
> the downside of writing out explicit types and repetition matters very little That’s not the main reason. You can have a library by author X that provides a container type Heap[T] and you can use it with your type T which is unknown by
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by klabb3 1y ago
Tbf, it’s a totally valid argument. It’s a bit like going to a library that costs monthly fee rather than buying books that get auto-disabled arbitrarily in the future (hmm Bezos?). It’s false advertising when you ”buy” things with modern D
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Anyway, wanna see my NixOS configuration? I just figured out how to get animated wallpapers working on Hyprland and LOTR-themed everything! Only if you have a personal blog in Times New Roman, with an RSS feed, all diagrams in ascii ar
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by klabb3 1y ago
Couldn’t agree more. The problem is when the party is over, and another round of centralizing wealth and power is done, we’ll be no wiser and have learnt nothing. Look at the debate today, it’s (1) people who think AI is useful, (2) people
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by klabb3 1y ago
> How do you technically prevent a cloud vendor from changing their pricing? Through regulating markets to ensure fierce competition - including things like portability, standard APIs, banning egress fees and similar lock in techniques,
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by klabb3 1y ago
> if you stop trying to build a compromise of a UI for both, touch screens and desktops Agree many of the problems have to do with this, yet it’s barely mentioned by armchair designers. Temporally hidden and narrow scrollbars? Makes perf
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Redo the 70-80 period? Is that desirable and what could possibly go wrong? To salvage and strengthen US hegemony, it was a fantastic move. Of course things can go very wrong. Power moves only work as long as you’re powerful. And they’r
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by klabb3 1y ago
Ah yeah, that makes sense. If Valve didn’t exist I imagine that they would have been more successful. Because the same is true in the other direction - enshittified launchers from EA, Ubisoft etc are avoided by a lot of gamers and are not s
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by klabb3 1y ago
> How many 9s are you getting in your closet at home? Nobody cares about the 9s. If Amazon wants to they can render the service inoperable legally, over time. Fortunately, S3 is semi-standardized so it’s ”migratable” in a real sense. The

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