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by mrweasel 9mo ago
That fact that they ever did this is kinda crazy. Did they not imagine that someone would try to sell counterfeit products? Commingling means that a seller could be hit by a refund and bad review for a product that was never theirs.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
To me that seems like we're mistaken in mixing fiction and non-fiction in AI training data. The "a revolutionary titan of industry" makes sense if you where reading a novel where something like 90% of a book is describing the
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
While I am fairly skeptical of LLMs and the current version of AI that are being peddled by companies like OpenAI, the main problem is, once again, social media. That someone is vibe-coding their application, running the symptoms of their i
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
For many of us it's mostly a gimmick, and as a former colleague pointed out: If an attacker is so deep into my phone or laptop that they can turn on the camera and microphone, pictures of my fat ass naked online is the least of my conc
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Yes, living and working in Greenland would most likely make me concerned for my future.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
As a Dane, while slightly angry, and gravely concerned for the people of Greenland, I'm still more fearful of the safety and mental well-being of my US friends and colleague than I am for my own.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
We should assume that at least a portion of the ads spending currently being channeled towards search would be redirected towards AI, but even then I question if the ad market is large enough to fund all the tech and media companies that re
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Never thought of ChatGPT as being just one of the GPTs that could exist, but it make a lot of sense. In a world where OpenAI where better managed, more focused on actually delivering actual value, ChatGPT would be the show case AI product,
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Customization = You can pick a different wallpaper, if you really want to.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
That's an interesting observation. Apple doesn't really have an AI offering, so they have nothing to stuff into Safari. In general Apples failure to produce an AI offering might turn out to be an advantage long term.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
Most of the "AI" features added in Firefox makes no sense. They provide very little value to most people, but they are unreasonably hard to disable. Other than jumping the AI bandwagon, I have yet to understand why Mozilla keeps p
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
> What the heck is Google doing? Inflating stock prices.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
The love for Github Actions dissipated fast, it wasn't that long ago we had to read about how amazing Github Actions where. What changed?
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
I arrived at yes, for the same reason. There are plenty of open source and community projects you could through your time at, but with none of the obligations.
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
I loved Dilbert, having worked for more than one Dilbert-like company the humor frequently resonated with me. How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he&#
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
In some sense I agree, there is a level of defeatism in at least part of the wisdom of the stoics and very little questioning of authority. You do have the "If it's not right don't do it, if it's not true don't say
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
For many, if not most, of the sites I regularly visit, text based browsers work surprisingly fine. My main complaint is actually the structure of the html. In many cases sites could improve massively, if they moved navigation to below the a
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
It's not just the TV, it's the weird take that tuners are bad, apparently. I helped my mother-in-laws friend, a lady in her 60s, getting her TV working after a move. The local cable providers don't care to offer their coax so
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
It's not just Apple though. Something is wrong in the software industry. Desktop/PC operating systems aren't going away, but the industry have decided that it's no longer a relevant product category. Windows is going dow
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by mrweasel 9mo ago
In my experience it's a little hit and miss with macOS. You need a monitor that is specifically listed as being supported by macOS. If not you get rather strange results. I had a Dell monitor that, under macOS only, would sometimes fre
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
Someone pointed out that a lot of US builders will drive pickups truck, and that it's kinda doesn't make sense, why don't they drive a van? Depending on the trade and location builders and contractors here will drive somethin
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
The whole security of both Android and iOS is a joke at this point. We know now that plenty of apps/games have proxy services built in, allowing the publisher to monetize their users, by selling proxy services to AI companies. If that
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
Seems about right, but wouldn't you agree that the majority of those meetings either could have been an email, or could have been handled in 20% of the time, if they had been planed?
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
That would probably warrant a followup article. I did find myself wondering where the tipping point is between using a slightly less efficient storage method vs. computational overhead. For example, you technically don't need to track
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
I'm absolutely baffled by colleague who somehow manage to be five minutes late to an online meeting while working from home. Because you're right, you get a reminder 10 - 15 minutes in advance, you just need to click the join meet
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
That still won't do contactless payments, at least I don't think so. It's a neat idea, to just move the chip. The final result isn't pretty, it would have been way cooler if the whole thing had fitted inside the watch, b
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
Is the Torvalds interview available somewhere? I thought he used his own hacked-up micro Emacs thing, but maybe he dropped it.
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
ChatGPT is, to my knowledge, trained on Reddit and at least certain sub-reddits are basically people (or bots) telling others that they probably have ADHD/ADD. These are the "AskReddit" type of sub-reddit. There's a Dani
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
An absolute enjoyable read. It also raises a good point, regarding the Turing test. I have a family member who teaches adults and as she pointed out: You won't believe how stupid some people are. As critical as I might be of LLMs, I fe
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by mrweasel 10mo ago
When reading code you don't really understand, that approach looks a lot like magic. I have a few code bases I try to follow, one is a large Java application, and some of the features added seemingly come out of nowhere. The commit mes

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