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by mcculley 2y ago
They may have good faith and be legitimate and also be unwilling to put in more effort to find a contact and report.
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by mcculley 2y ago
The most alarming thing to me was that early versions of Spotify would scan your local computer to find music to share. I had to ban it from my office network. My employees had no idea that it was doing that and no way to prove that it was
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by mcculley 2y ago
Indeed. One of the things I keep having to tell younger people is: “webapps have no HIG!” All of the major platforms have a HIG that tells developers how to maximize the experience for users. Webapps have dozens of ways to do things like “s
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by mcculley 2y ago
If you are near them, yes.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I agree that every device should have a cellular modem option. I am just annoyed that no matter how much I am willing to spend on Apple's top-end road warrior product, I cannot get an option available from Dell.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I own a MacBook Pro and an iPhone (and other Apple devices which have cellular modems in them: an iPad and an Apple Watch). The tethering is flaky and burns two batteries at once while adding latency. I want an always on Internet connection
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by mcculley 2y ago
Maybe now they can put a cellular modem in a MacBook Pro.
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by mcculley 2y ago
> the first cellular modem designed by Apple Whoah! Maybe Apple can now figure out how to put a cellular modem in a MacBook Pro.
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by mcculley 2y ago
This is great. Thanks.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I am not demanding anything. I am very curious for real stories from the Soviet Union relevant to economics.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I would like to know if there was a shoe factory in Soviet Russia that produced superfluous shoes for children during a shortage of shoes for adults. I am familiar with the problems of centrally planned economies and with the Soviet economi
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by mcculley 2y ago
Is there any evidence for this story?
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by mcculley 2y ago
This is a great idea. What I have found worse in hotel rooms is not the chair, it is that the desk is at a stupid height relative to the chair. I use a standing desk at home and would love an easy way to use a standing desk at a hotel witho
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by mcculley 2y ago
I see your perspective. I should also have not made such a general statement. I certainly did not mean to imply malice, more negligence or concern for cost over safety. Just to be clear, I was not talking about operators who are physically
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by mcculley 2y ago
I did not pick an arbitrary point. I replied to specific incorrect assertions about regulation in general.
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by mcculley 2y ago
>What regulations of this committee do you think saved lives that other agencies did not? I did not argue for this specific committee. I replied to your incorrect, uninformed assertions. > I think fisherman know how to be safe You hav
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by mcculley 2y ago
I encourage you to go for a few voyages offshore on commercial vessels. Experience might influence your opinion. Your claims are inconsistent with my experience.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I grew up in the commercial fishing industry and then worked in the tug boat industry. Many USCG regulations that were vehemently opposed by the old men save lives every day. This is a classic Chesterton's Fence. Those who don't u
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by mcculley 2y ago
The title case formatting in the headline is making this more confusing than it should be (Yyyy should be yyyy).
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by mcculley 2y ago
It is a mark against our system that someone can get this rich without seeing a problem with all of this. We are told that capitalism makes smart people rich, but it does not appear to filter out gullible people.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I did not claim anything about sneak. I think pxmpxm was trying to say something about the typography or layout of sneak's article, not something about sneak. Does Oakley writing about Apple products make him an "Apple toady"
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by mcculley 2y ago
What makes Howard Oakley a “toady”?
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by mcculley 2y ago
I am, of course, well aware that musicians and the music industry existed before copyright. I am questioning the possibility that humans might be successfully optimized out of music or even entirely out of the music industry. Even when mode
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by mcculley 2y ago
Isn’t every industry trying to eliminate human labor? Nothing will prevent humans from making music. Being paid for making recordings was already a dying business model due to digital reproduction making copyright toothless.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I agree that current models are not as good as humans. They will continue to improve. They will eventually be superhuman, just as they are at chess and go.
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by mcculley 2y ago
Billions of users, with increasingly powerfully hardware, locally executing models that better understand the world and human psychology.
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by mcculley 2y ago
The question I asked was specifically about locally generated content.
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by mcculley 2y ago
I think you are conflating how models are used by services like Spotify with what they can do. I run some models locally. These are going to become more powerful. Your confident prediction of the future limitations of models sounds like wha
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by mcculley 2y ago
I do see it as inevitable that models will create the best of everything. I completely understand that some humans will choose to reject anything not created by a human.
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by mcculley 2y ago
Why do you think it is anything other than inevitable? You think that models cannot learn how to make music that humans will enjoy?

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