micromacrofoot

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by micromacrofoot 5d ago
that's what they're going to do, trying to get $20 out of the average person is terrible compared to giving away your product for free and getting an endless supply of metadata
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by micromacrofoot 5d ago
Amazon is just trying to get you to use their agent, so they're not anti-agent, just anti-someone-else's
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by micromacrofoot 5d ago
it's certainly a good reason to not carry a bluetooth device if you're trying to do something in secret
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by micromacrofoot 5d ago
look we know 99% of people hate being tracked but we need the data to see if 0.1% or 0.5% people are clicking the links, you've got to be a team player here
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by micromacrofoot 5d ago
there are execs and product people that care, but it's rare and they often get worn out
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by micromacrofoot 5d ago
I'm not sure why you think that, bluetooth devices often broadcast their presence even when not in pairing mode it's even on the site > Most pairs keep advertising while worn, so you can usually hear them, but a few standalone
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by micromacrofoot 5d ago
In every large org, including disney, there are people who will fuck with you to the full extent of the terms and laws if they think it can increase profit... they do not care about quality, experience, or morals. I've fought these peo
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by micromacrofoot 6d ago
obviously a lot of nuance, but depends on the scale of the fair at least... some have sizable design and marketing budgets you could still use clip art so this isn't democratizing shit, it's laundered copyright theft it's al
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by micromacrofoot 6d ago
right, even worse... if you paid 5X that you'd still be getting whatever was the first idea that came to mind You're easily in 10X territory to get something pretty basic with a round of feedback and maybe 50X to start to get some
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by micromacrofoot 7d ago
for the price you pay ai you would 100% get a cherry blossom tree from an inexperienced designer
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by micromacrofoot 7d ago
the problem is that AI does better than those students, especially if you don't know what good design looks like... which is most people but of course this means the entire market will dry up because no one pays students anymore
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by micromacrofoot 7d ago
Indeed it's likely foolish to read into all the pure stupidity at this point
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by micromacrofoot 7d ago
now we get to wonder why we're no strangers to troops dying due to ongoing conflict pretty much everywhere so why are they seemingly hiding a small number like this?
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by micromacrofoot 7d ago
similarly, most AI datacenters aren't directly owned by the frontier labs guess who holds the bag if capacity needs collapse
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
I hear a cacophony of voices echoing through the generations... "if your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?"
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
Turning my brain off actually works really well when I'm doing something more creative, and while I know this isn't exactly what he's talking about, I wonder if we are just offloading things we shouldn't have to think ab
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
We are not even remotely close to being able to predict this in a way to apply it reliably. Plate tectonics and volcanology are incredibly difficult to forecast anything short-term in.
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
Yes, the powerful always do this. It might be challenging to find an exception. It's not as rewarding to consider that you've reached your position by more good luck than effort, so you hand down advice from on high because clearl
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
This is a similar problem with data brokers. They take public data laws to an extreme and resell easy access to the aggregated data. This easy access has created a tremendous number of problems unforeseen by the original intent of the acces
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
It is robbery because you're not paying the person that produced the knowledge, you're paying the person that took the knowledge and put a chatbot interface on it. It's different from search engines because you're not ev
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
The experience is also junk if you're using a password manager, I have passkeys that I'm not sure if I saved to the OS manager or my password manager... mostly my fault but I enter passwords so many times a day it can be hard to s
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
something like 25% of the current American GDP growth is because we're shoveling money into AI companies that have no idea how they're going to pay it back beyond selling subscriptions to chat bots, much of the world will take a h
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
that we're creating god but that it's also a fad that will go away soon?
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by micromacrofoot 8d ago
I agree that everyone's lost their minds, but so has this guy. LLMs are actually producing a lot of pretty good stuff, can debug things that would have taken an entire team a week, and the people running AI companies are also generally
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by micromacrofoot 9d ago
> Up until the early 2000s, dinosaurs were thought to be rather reptilian and therefore probably coldblooded, Dr. Wiemann said. That began to change as multiple lines of evidence from geochemistry studies and CT scans of fossils showed t
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by micromacrofoot 9d ago
what are you talking about? it's progressing a lot of money into specific people's pockets
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by micromacrofoot 9d ago
People can get unusually attached to their stuff regardless of its objective value.
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by micromacrofoot 9d ago
Of course the storage unit living has been romanticized in literature too, I recall the unit in Snow Crash being a whopping 600 square feet. A palace compared to the reality of storage unit and car living today.
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by micromacrofoot 9d ago
I would work on affordances for when people with 0 gaming experience need to join, maybe a flat or simplified mode that someone can opt in to. I have a lot of experience testing a defunct spatial conferencing app during the pandemic and gam
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by micromacrofoot 10d ago
State owned, no advertising, and your last year's tax return to prove income. As they are now, even state level gambling is used as a tax on the poor, because they're the people desperate enough to do it.

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