mattlondon

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by mattlondon 5mo ago
I thought a similar thing too. "Look, we tried to create an EV and no one bought it. So we need to retain that carve-out in the regulations that mean we do not have to electrify our entire product line or we will go out of business ent
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
Probably long term each dev gets their own GPU and runs a model locally I expect. Seems like a more sustainable approach, even if a local model is not absolute SOTA.
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
> I honestly do not understand why people get weirdly defensive about stuff like this It is usually because people inside the Mac ecosystem just assume that everything else is trash, and anyone not using a Mac is just banging rocks toget
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
I can plug in the same USB-C dock I use for my Mac and everything just works on the android phone. You even see the phone screen mirrored on the monitor, complete with mouse cursor etc. The sad thing is it is just literal copy of the phone
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
Yes was going to say on android I've been using SMS and WhatsApp messages from my computer for years too. Mac, Linux, Windows, Chromebooks all integrate seamlessly and nicely so not sure what the issue is?
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
Well again that is just a "vibes" explanation with nothing concrete. I feel like with LLMs, it's like a situation where you are close to some feature or project and have a pretty good idea in your head already of how you&#x27
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
It's just a tool. Use it well or use it badly - just the same as any. If you are generating slop using the tool, we'll then that is your own problem. For me, the AI is essentially "faster hands" that can type what I am t
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
Well precisely - shelves feels especially like a solved problem where basically the cheapest tat you can buy (IKEA) is totally fine and solid and long lasting. Need something more hardcore? Then you're probably not in the "shelves
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
How is this shelving any better than what you can buy from say IKEA? I've got wooden IKEA shelves in my shed and they take serious abuse of big heavy tools, lawn mowers, car batteries, paint cans etc being non-carefully put/clatte
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
FWIW I have found cyclists to often ruin the experience if you are walking or running through said greenery. They go fast down the lanes, are often shouting and roaring at walkers to "stand back" or "get out of the way"
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
Is this impact above and beyond just the same amount of physical exercise? E.g. jogging? I think at this stage it is well understood that physical exercise has all these positives, so it would be interesting to know if anyone knows if bicyc
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
I typically block ads as well, but more recently I changed some setting in the default Android newsfeed thing and some ads started to show through amongst the news items. The ads there are usually fairly innocuous (i.e. not disruptive, not
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
Hmm pretty sure I saw this in the thought traces of Claude the other day...
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
From what I've heard rumor-wise, everyone has abandoned the web UI editors and are now using (or being told very loudly by management to use) Antigravity exclusively for everything.
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by mattlondon 5mo ago
Yet there is another post a few rows down where people are losing their shit that Chrome has a local LLM model that uses a couple of GB of space for local-inference. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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by mattlondon 6mo ago
Most cars I have driven in the UK have the indicators on the left stalk? I think that is the norm here. Gear selector for automatics tends to vary but usually center-console, but my id3 has it on an extra stalk on the right of the steering
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by mattlondon 6mo ago
Yeah same here - unexpected!
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by mattlondon 6mo ago
So what, they won't be using any of the existing Google Gemini models of infra then? Because all of Google - from Gemini to the data center infra etc - has (and still is) worked on by non-US persons even - gasp - outside the US . Th
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by mattlondon 6mo ago
Victims are not the ones running red lights, cutting across pedestrian sidewalks/pavements at 20+ mph, going down one-way-streets the wrong way, screaming at pedestrians to get out the way so they don't have to slow down when pede
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
Blocked by Anubis? Just says "invalid response" with no explanation or instructions for how to fix it. Chrome on Android - not exactly niche. Thanks for that.
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
I totally agree that there is an often loud minority calling for this sort of thing: "I am an expert. I don't need styling or white space. I want every last square centimeter of space filled with 8pt font. I demand information d
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
I was just talking to some friends in medicine the other day. They are getting more and more AI stuff and they love it . Just basic stuff like smart dictation that listens to the conversation the practitioner is having and auto creates the
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
With respect I feel like the author is missing a whole bunch here about the point of a website. It's not just content/info/data, it's a performance (in the creative sense). Brands spend a lot of time honing their a
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
No mention of password managers yet? One of the major benefits is the password manager can do a quick, simple, completely deterministic check on the domain before providing the password. That would have stopped this dead in its tracks witho
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
You need to go more tin-foil-hat Its not just JavaScript, it's cookies, it's "auto loading" resources (e.g. 1x1 pixels with per-request unique URLs), it's third-party http requests to other domains (which might art
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
Why would you only include blogs in your small web index? That must be a minute fraction of what is out there? I can't think of a single blog that I read these days (small or not), yet there are loads of small "old school" si
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
This whole post is about Gemini the protocol, a new protocol for a small group of nerds' fetish for retro tech (it's basically modern gopher).
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
I think a "markdown-web" that uses some of the Gemini approaches for privacy and auth/identity etc would be pretty nice. Of course, as others have said, we could just use HTML without JavaScript or cookies and we'd be a
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
Not quite. I think Gemini has deliberately gone for a "text only" philosophy, which I think is very constraining. The early web had a lot going on and allowed for a lot of creative experimentation which really caught the eye and
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by mattlondon 7mo ago
A think a more workable and politically palatable version of UBI would be some form of universal utility allowance. E.g. the first x kWh electric you use, or the first X litres of water, or the first x GB of data you use is entirely free, f

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