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by microtherion 6mo ago
stable as in "close the stable doors after the horse has bolted"
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by microtherion 7mo ago
It's sort of ironic that at the time, there were many complaints that Apple made its devices thin at the expense of more important features. Now that M series MacBooks are thicker again, there are complaints that they are too thick.
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by microtherion 7mo ago
Personally, I love synthesis that can be generated on the client machine, in real time. For some applications, like screen readers, this is a really important feature. Of course, the big interest these days is in cloud based assistants, whe
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by microtherion 7mo ago
To me, the speech sounds impressively expressive, but there is something off about the audio quality that I can't quite put my finger on. The "Anger Speech" has an obvious lisp (Maybe a homage to Elmer Fudd?). But I hear a si
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by microtherion 7mo ago
This is bound to be a question that will be increasingly harder to answer. For instance, Apple processors have at least two different neural accelerators/matrix coprocessors (ANE and AMX) in addition to the integrated GPU. Do these cou
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by microtherion 8mo ago
> Not only is the moon further, you also need to use more fuel to land on it And take off again, if reusable spacecraft are meant to be used.
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by microtherion 8mo ago
The skepticism and hate is based on observing decades of shameless dishonesty, which is itself a form of data provided by the company: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
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by microtherion 8mo ago
Supervised FSD — automating 99.9% of driving and expecting drivers to be fully alert for the other .1% — appears to go against everything we know about human attention.
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by microtherion 8mo ago
As Henry Ford is (spuriously) claimed to have said: "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." Apple did build Apple II models, up to and including the Apple IIgs. They had a good run.
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by microtherion 8mo ago
I'm quite skeptical of Tesla's reliability claims. But for exactly that reason, I welcome a company like Lemonade betting actual money on those claims. Either way, this is bound to generate some visibility into the actual accident
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by microtherion 8mo ago
You could also say it about the Mac, which Woz was, at best, peripherally involved in. Not saying that Jobs created these products "alone" — he obviously did not. But he was a key contributor. Meanwhile, Woz has been involved in a
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by microtherion 8mo ago
It's all a part of focusing on their core business, like… paying an $28M bribe to Melania Trump.
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by microtherion 8mo ago
The other huge, huge difference is that one of the Steves has demonstrated he was able to build a successful product without the other's assistance.
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by microtherion 9mo ago
I get to visit my 90-year-old mother in law a few times a week to get her TV setup (Cable box running Android TV, connected to a TV running Android TV — FML) working again. To make matters worse, the cable box remote works via Bluetooth, th
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Never heard that one (it may indeed be used that way, but if it were the only reason Apple would probably keep it in the Apple internal parts of their OS installs). It would also be of limited use, as the engine is purely CPU based; it is s
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by microtherion 9mo ago
A time limit is also deterministic in some sense. Level settings used to be mainly time based, because computers at lower settings were no serious competition to decent players, but you don't necessarily want to wait for 30 seconds eac
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Heh, I was just discussing this some minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595777
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Oh, this led me down a rabbit hole… I was maintainer of the Chess app from the early 2000s to about 2015. We first noticed in 2004 that level 1 (which was then "Computer thinks for 1 second per move) was getting stronger with each hard
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Reportedly, Meta is paying top AI talent up to $300M for a 4 year contract. As much as I'm in favor of paying engineers well, I don't think salaries like this (unless they are across the board for the company, which they are of co
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Especially if said mother was murdered by the individual in question. Maybe OpenAI should try the classical gambit of declaring that they could not possibly betray the confidence of a poor orphan.
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Yes, that was my thought as well. As a youthful experimenter, I once did not clean up properly after myself and stopped smelling the H2S which was permeating the room (Back then, the recipe for H2S was in chapter 1 of the Chemistry sets. Go
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by microtherion 9mo ago
I've had arthrosis in both knees for several years (due to a combination of youthful sports injuries and overweight). A few years ago I saw a knee specialist who predicted I was due for knee replacement sometime soon. On the advice of
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by microtherion 9mo ago
If you use the records as a display (and though I don't do that, I empathize; CD covers just don't generate the visceral reaction that LP covers do), wouldn't it make sense for publishers to offer record covers without the ac
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by microtherion 9mo ago
> From what I can tell, everyone seems to be looking at chatbots A friend recently explained to me that this trend is awful for newer businesses trying to get into a niche: * Chatbots give a lot of weight to Wikipedia in their training d
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Inside Macintosh was great documentation (I’d argue that the second generation in the 1990s, split up by topics, was the peak of Apple’s documentation writing), but I would not classify it as “Internals” in the sense of how a 1970s computer
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by microtherion 9mo ago
Yeah, I was also immediately thinking about the Lake Nyos disaster. But that one released something like 200k tons of CO2 in an instant, whereas this facility has 2k tons, which would more likely be released more gradually.
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by microtherion 9mo ago
They are being sued by the SFC, which has been deputized by the actual copyright holders to act on their behalf: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#linux
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by microtherion 10mo ago
a) There are too damn many of them. b) They have a complete lack of respect for robots.txt I'm starting to think that aggressive scrapers are part of an ongoing business tactic against the decentralized web. Gmail makes self hosted mai
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by microtherion 10mo ago
Yes, accessible in the sense of being readable without extensive prior knowledge. If I recall correctly, I read the initial edition while still in high school.
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by microtherion 10mo ago
I'm not sure what Builder would have to do with default parameters and named arguments. Builder is extremely useful to pair with a parser, e.g. SAX. The parser parses the input, and the builder then decides what to do with it.

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