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by lopis 10mo ago
Makes total sense to me. Detecting and measuring photons seems much simpler than accurately detecting whole molecules. When we need to detect if a sample contains a certain kind of molecule, it usually requires expensive chemical processes.
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by lopis 10mo ago
But that's exactly why this "bubble" is so hard to predict, isn't it? The dot com bubble was simple. All companies were jumping the gun to make websites. Most were not useful, but the Internet was useful so it survived.
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by lopis 10mo ago
Lots of companies right now have slapped AI features on their products without extra cost. Some are offering it for free (e.g. search engines). If LLM costs significantly increase, I would expect free AI features to disappear or become extr
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by lopis 10mo ago
The "bubble popping" mostly means that investment will drastically fall, investors will start demanding profit, and costs will soar. This will cause a lot of tools currently built on top of LLMs to become too expensive. Free tools
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by lopis 10mo ago
The problem I've seen described by some is that the industry is resistant to expand capacity right now, because a partial pop of the AI bubble is expected aaany time now for months, but it keeps not happening. But if it does happen and
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by lopis 10mo ago
It's not necessarily shady behavior. Maybe you're just paying ads on your competitor for your legitimate app.
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by lopis 10mo ago
Google Play is plagued with these ads and they are just scams most of the times. You search for an app and get ads from similarly names apps, apps with visually similar icons, ebooks to use the app you searched, etc. They prey on the less t
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by lopis 10mo ago
I'm not sure how well know this is, but besides their contract with Google to be the default search option, Firefox does earn money through revenue share with all other default search options. A normal healthy company would just rely o
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by lopis 10mo ago
If these pages didn't help people seeking reproductive help, they wouldn't exist.
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by lopis 10mo ago
It's not an obsession, it's network effects. I say this as someone whole mostly uses Telegram and Signal and has requested friends to text me on those apps instead of Whatsapp. But most people don't want to have several apps
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by lopis 10mo ago
> That's just another way of saying "my opinion is acceptable, and theirs isn't". No, it's not. There are laws in several countries of what kind of things you can publish in public. Sure, the line is definitely b
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by lopis 10mo ago
When one side is actively trying to make most people miserable, poor, or dead, while the other side is trying to save people from ruining their lives (e.g. through an unwanted pregnancy), or just be proud of who they are without hurting oth
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by lopis 10mo ago
On one hand i love that nowadays there's an alternative to giving people you just met your phone number. On the other hand, I loathe the fact that it was post-acquisition instagram that filled that gap...
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by lopis 10mo ago
> 8. avoid typing in code as part of the presentation, most of the time it won't work and it's boring watching somebody type As usual, thumb rules exist to protect you until you can confidently break them. One of the coolest p
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by lopis 10mo ago
The greed to lock customers in early on for cheap or free, in hopes to force them on a subscription, absolutely ruined the previous era os assistants. It could have been great with offline inference and foster competition. Instead we got me
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by lopis 10mo ago
That's interesting. A Piezo Button generates enough power to send a radio signal?
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by lopis 11mo ago
Why stop there? Why use your phone at all? Just go visit your mum instead of calling... Sorry the sarcasm, but not everything should need you to take your phone, unlock, get distracted, open social media on a reflex and forget what you were
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by lopis 11mo ago
It can't be worse than a tiny ring that records notes...
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by lopis 11mo ago
That's my point exactly. This should have been a pebble accessory, not a standalone device that sends voice notes to your phone. If this device actually has a 2 year battery, if you'd remove the microphone and turn it into a &quot
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by lopis 11mo ago
If you had read the post you would know the answer.
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by lopis 11mo ago
Instead of a stand-alone piece of e-waste, how about this: a device with the same format (a ring and an button) but the only thing it does is trigger the pebble watch to start recording a message. This way the microphone isn't needed,
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by lopis 11mo ago
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2Dphysics v1.0: the smallest 2D physics engine in JavaScript(xem.github.io)
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by lopis 11mo ago
But also from an accessibility stand point, providing users with affordances to remove distractions (animations, transitions, and yes, icons) should be an option. But I disagree with the author that the default should be less icons.
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by lopis 11mo ago
Specially for new developers. Entry level jobs have practically evaporated.
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by lopis 11mo ago
The job of a programmer is, and has always been, 50% making our job obsolete (through various forms of automation) and 50% ensuring our job security (through various forms of abstraction).
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by lopis 11mo ago
> On the flip side, the cookie banners are a perfect example of bad regulation. They’re super easy to (allegedly) comply with and the result is just an annoyance for some 300 million people and absolutely no change to company behaviour w
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by lopis 11mo ago
Exactly. The fact that Rebble is against trying to make Pebble completely open made me lose trust in them. I thought that was the whole point of Rebble.
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by lopis 11mo ago
I've been using a similar VPN solution. It works great for apps that absolutely should not be connected, like my keyboard. But it has an obvious downside: you can't use a VPN on your phone while you're using that.
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by lopis 11mo ago
If an app updates to require new permissions, or to suddenly require network access, or the owner contact details change, Google Play should ideally stop that during the update review process and let the users know. But that wouldn't b

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