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by mft_ 1y ago
Huh, it might be interesting if the size of each participant's image could be controlled programmatically, e.g. * The more you speak, the smaller your square gets * The square varies in size based on the emotion in your voice * Your sq
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by mft_ 1y ago
> We can give them bigger/more-prominent zoom portraits by seniority. Should make everyone happy. This would be hilarious, from a malicious compliance sort of angle...
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by mft_ 1y ago
For example, the last big company I worked for had invested in building out its campus with multiple new flagship bespoke buildings, including during (and not reconsidered due to) the pandemic. It would be quite difficult and/or a los
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by mft_ 1y ago
I think there are three alternative hypotheses the article misses from its list: * Ego: senior people need to be seen and respected in person; being reduced to equally-sized thumbnail videos on Teams doesn't feed this need. * Real esta
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by mft_ 1y ago
Have you considered that it might've been much worse had Cook/Apple not behaved as they have, contributing to Trump's inauguration and giving silly golden gifts (and who knows what else)?
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by mft_ 1y ago
As much as I’d love to agree with you, Cook’s job isn’t to grow a spine and be a moral leader; it’s to do whatever is best for Apple’s shareholders. You can bet that they’ve got experts advising on this and have probably war-gamed different
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by mft_ 1y ago
I’m not referring to large cities; I’m thinking of places in the (say) 100-200k size range. Small enough to cycle around for all of your regular needs, and just large enough to have plenty of life, culture, and community. And in such place
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by mft_ 1y ago
We can disagree. 1) In the grand scheme of world literature, JKR’s books are comparative trash. It’s also well-established that the first book was not successful until the real identity of the author was shared. 2) Harry Potter (and all of
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by mft_ 1y ago
With respect, despite writing “anywhere in the world”, I doubt you have experienced the places in the world that might change your opinion. I can think of multiple European towns which offer a great quality of life together with (thanks to
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by mft_ 1y ago
The mistake you’re making is extrapolating your own situation and experience to the rest of the world. Just because you’ve never damaged a mobile phone, doesn’t mean that no-one else has. Mistakes happen, and modern mobile phones are fragil
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by mft_ 1y ago
Hard to interpret that example, since the popularity of “Robert Galbraith” is strongly driven by who the author really is.
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by mft_ 1y ago
I doubt it is to any measurable extent. The (literally) billions of people around the world using Facebook and Instagram don't care.
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by mft_ 1y ago
This. The tech would have to absolutely world-alteringly amazingly unmissable for me to even consider using anything tied to the Meta ecosystem.
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by mft_ 1y ago
I think we're still at least an order of magnitude away (in terms of affordable local inference, or model improvements to squeeze more from less, or a combination of the two) from local solutions being seriously competitive for general
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by mft_ 1y ago
I have no idea whether OpenAI is the right company to do this, but LinkedIn is awful for job hunting, and more generally it strikes me that our ability (as a race) to match people to ideal jobs is woefully inefficient. Any incremental impro
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by mft_ 1y ago
…only to be rebranded and reintroduced in a few months for a modest monthly subscription? /s
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by mft_ 1y ago
I'm a happy Mullvad customer for years now, except a lot of their IPs seem to have been flagged (presumably due to scraping or similar) meaning that some sites are close to unusable when behind the VPN. Reddit is a prime example. (I
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by mft_ 1y ago
I wonder if there’s a technical reason making an on-screen keyboard difficult? For sure, typing on my Kindle is pretty slow and imprecise, and wouldn’t come close to acceptable on a phone. Also, there are phone-shaped e-readers if that’s yo
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by mft_ 1y ago
Fair answer - I shouldn't automatically apply my own situation/lessons to others. :) I do wonder to what extent one could view it as a pattern recognition challenge, though. To an extent, what you wrote resonates with me: growing
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by mft_ 1y ago
Genuine question: how does downloading an open-weight model (Qwen in this case) and running it either locally or via a third-party service benefit China?
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by mft_ 1y ago
> I can't turn my weird off Why not? If you have conscious insight into what behaviour is or isn't "weird" in a specific situation or environment, you absolutely can choose to turn it off, or at least damp it down. I
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by mft_ 1y ago
...or the widespread issue with the screen ribbon connector on the first generation of touchbar Macbook Pros (aka "Flexgate") which despite apparently identical symptoms and failure modes was fixed for free on the 13" model,
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by mft_ 1y ago
Absolutely - this is the sort of direct citizen journalism I expect (sort of hope?) we'll see more and of as traditional investigative journalism dies its slow death.
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by mft_ 1y ago
Huh, that's a really good deal at 1500 USD for the 64Gb model considering the processor it's running. (It's the same one that's in the Framework desktop that there's been lots of noise about recently - lots of rece
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by mft_ 1y ago
As an alternative anecdote, I've got a Ryzen 7 5800X from 2021, and it's stil blazingly fast for just about everything I throw at it...
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by mft_ 1y ago
I came here to say exactly this. If developers are frustrated by compilation times on last-generation hardware, maybe take a critical look at the code and libraries you're compiling. And as a siblimg comment notes, absolutely all testi
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by mft_ 1y ago
While you’re here, might/will you put rayven on GitHub? I’d be very interested to explore some of the algorithms you’ve used for (essentially) attractive vector hatching.
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by mft_ 1y ago
Apologies; re-reading the thread, I now realise I had mistakenly thought you were replying to a different comment. My bad. I'd remove my previous comment but it's too late now. (I thought you'd replied to this comment - hen
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It’s not a pedantic correction, it’s a relevant anecdote to the contrary.
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by mft_ 1y ago
IMO, Scihub and the ebook parts of AA should be considered differently and not conflated. In particular, Scihub is in opposition to the parasitic international publishers who dominate and control scientific publishing for profit, mostly on

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