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by kweingar 3y ago
Not particularly. I am still worried about their data security (considering the credit card leak in March). A new board doesn’t fix that.
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by kweingar 3y ago
> why the fuck does Google Assistant still exist if you have Bard??? Because an integrated smart home assistant is a different problem domain than a general purpose chatbot. ChatGPT was a revolutionary technology that released less than
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by kweingar 3y ago
I hear lots of people saying this, but I’m not sure why we assume that Apple is the best positioned to take advantage of this. They have had powerful devices with best-in-class integration for many years now, and Siri is still a frustrating
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by kweingar 3y ago
Seems like a different use case. This tool is very helpful when you know what the symbol looks like but you don’t have an example sitting in front of you.
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by kweingar 3y ago
Kagi just serves Google results though. But it has some nifty extra features to be sure.
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by kweingar 3y ago
What were you using it for before?
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by kweingar 3y ago
Could be a reference to Dunkin' Donuts
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by kweingar 3y ago
I think this is the case of HN bubble swinging too far in the opposite direction. People know what Google is. Among Gen Z, Google is the second most popular brand, behind YouTube. https://morningconsult.com/gen-z-favorite-br
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by kweingar 3y ago
In 2023, people know what a search engine is, and people know what Google is.
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by kweingar 3y ago
It’s a little overwhelming given the time constraints. I don’t know how I would fare trying to juggle a conversation with the interviewer, a conversation with ChatGPT, and typing into a code editor all at the same time, especially when Chat
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by kweingar 3y ago
Could candidates opt out of using ChatGPT? I don’t think I’d be comfortable using it in an interview.
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by kweingar 3y ago
When you use alternative brand names, you are cementing your story as taking place in an alternate universe of sorts. That works for some readers and for some stories, but for others it can be even more distracting than regular brand refere
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by kweingar 3y ago
Writing doesn’t have to be timeless! Almost all books, even successful ones, are forgotten quickly. Writing isn’t a competition to see who can write the most immortal book. I personally don’t care for books that conspicuously take place in
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by kweingar 3y ago
There is violent rhetoric at all rallies related to this war, pro-Israel rallies included. Most people do not say such terrible things, some people do say them, and the opposition paints the whole rally as endorsing that stance. That’s the
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by kweingar 3y ago
I’d point out that the LLMs are still incapable of using these internal representations in novel ways. A human who has internalized the rules of chess can learn and play variants like duck chess easily. GPT-4, despite being somewhat profici
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by kweingar 3y ago
> it's nevertheless true that physical computers cannot simulate all Turing machines Right, I wasn’t arguing that physical computers can be Turing machines, but instead that sets of operations can be Turing complete. There are sets
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by kweingar 3y ago
You said > It doesn't make sense to say that a bunch of operations are or are not Turing complete. and the article’s first sentence says that a “system of rules” such as a computer’s instruction set can be Turing complete. The arti
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by kweingar 3y ago
> In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a model of computation, a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing-complete or computationally universa
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by kweingar 3y ago
And yet there is still widespread discrimination against immigrants. If Japan is consumed by this crisis, it will be by their own stubbornness
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by kweingar 3y ago
None of that is necessary. In Windows/Mac/iOS/Android, when you set up your mail app you can click on Gmail, follow the web auth flow, give permission to the app, and it just works.
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by kweingar 3y ago
Every modern operating system ships with a native mail client that integrates with assistive technology.
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by kweingar 3y ago
Not at all! Where do you get that impression? Windows, macOS, and many Linux distributions ship with mail clients that you can set up to use with Gmail. I wonder how many people on earth are accessing webmail from a device that does not hav
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by kweingar 3y ago
I am confused by the reaction to this. It seems like the only people adversely affected by this would be people who rely on borrowing others’ devices and therefore cannot use a native mail client. The discussion here is centered on bandwi
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by kweingar 3y ago
I am struggling to understand why this would be the case. Maybe if a large majority of people do not own a device and have to use a borrowed computer, this could be a problem. But (as far as I know) most Android phones ship with a mail clie
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by kweingar 3y ago
Why not use a lightweight native client instead? If you don’t like the standard Gmail web view, there are dozens of options out there, on every platform imaginable.
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by kweingar 3y ago
That’s a loaded question. I don’t think Valve avoided enshittification at all. Valve was an industry leader in integrating gambling into mainstream video games. They’ve also integrated pay-to-win microtransactions and exploitative battle pa
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by kweingar 3y ago
I still don't see how looping over a collection is different from looping over a sequence of numbers from 1 to n.
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by kweingar 3y ago
That’s an interesting perspective. When I think of core Google culture, the first thing that comes to mind is the mission statement, “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”. If search is the
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by kweingar 3y ago
I studied category theory for a while, and frankly it plays zero role in my day-to-day programming. It would maybe be a different story if I were writing libraries in Haskell or something, but as it is, it’s really not that relevant to me.
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by kweingar 3y ago
The most galling part about these institutions is that they have the capacity to teach many, many more students, and they don’t. They can’t expect me to keep a straight face when they prattle on about their "genuine educational mission

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