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by notatoad 3y ago
pulse oximeter isn't really an essential feature though. the value to apple is not the total value of the apple watch, it's the marginal difference from what they'd make from selling the watch with that feature disabled in t
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by notatoad 3y ago
right, but it sure looks like masimo's "innovation" is filing the patent paperwork for the general concept of how pulse oximeters have always worked, not anything new they invented. filing patents for something you didn'
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by notatoad 3y ago
>It would be nice if we could also file: this thing I figured out is not novel and is a natural progression to the current state-of-the-art. isn't this just publishing? no formal procedure required, no government, no patent office,
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by notatoad 3y ago
You're using too broad a definition of "crap". The top ten percent is not actual feces. It's just varying degrees of mediocre.
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by notatoad 3y ago
> I would like to support This is the attitude that makes people fork over $70/hr to CGPGrey. I like these people's content, and want to support them too. But they don't need my financial support. They're all mak
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by notatoad 3y ago
Car companies don't really seem too concerned about that. If I park my car outside at -30, basically nothing works until it warms up for ten minutes.
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by notatoad 3y ago
I'm a little bit shocked that no automaker has done physical buttons over a screen like the stream deck. If elgato can do it for $70, surely a car company can figure out how to squeeze it into their margin.
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by notatoad 3y ago
trusting a phone call means a whole lot more than trusting your phone's hardware. calling somebody lets you recognize their voice, mannerisms, personal knowledge, etc. spoofing that is many degrees more advanced than getting some spy
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by notatoad 3y ago
which is a useful thing to do after abolishing the penny. not so much while they're still making more pennies.
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by notatoad 3y ago
this is great productivity hack, but personally i'd rather sacrifice the productivity and finish the workday (or even just go for lunch) feeling like i've finished something.
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by notatoad 3y ago
this could be wrong and i've missed some of the timeline, but from what i've seen "prompt engineering" started out as a sarcastic joke on twitter about how software engineering roles were going to be reduced to prompt en
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by notatoad 3y ago
"not good for you" is not science. how "not good for you" is it? what specifically does it do? can you counter the effects? cookies are also "not good for you. full stop". but they're also not all tha
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by notatoad 3y ago
>I don't think everywhere needs to metropolize the problem is that the NIMBYs exist everywhere , and housing has to get built somewhere. if a municipality wants to create a district covering some portion of their area that maintai
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Santa Cruz and other cities have been motivated, at least in part, by a heavy “stick”: In cases when cities fail to produce adequate housing plans, the state’s so-called “builder’s remedy” essentially allows developers to propose buildi
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by notatoad 3y ago
i think most people know that ontario airport is not in ontario, because the airports that are actually in ontario are better known and not called "ontario airport". just like most people would understand that if you said "lo
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by notatoad 3y ago
i think "Chomsky gets it right by accident" is maybe better than "Chomsky gets it wrong". "do LLMs think" and "do submarines swim" is kind of the same question - it's a fixation on terminology ra
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by notatoad 3y ago
nobody is claiming that their LLM is not trained on copyrighted materials. OpenAI and Grok will both freely admit to that. the copyright debate is only over whether training on copyright materials is fair use or not.
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by notatoad 3y ago
isn't the whole point of LLMs that their "native data format" is unstructured?
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by notatoad 3y ago
that wouldn't explain why Anthropic is excluding canada. I'm guessing the online news act is a contributor, but only to a more general conclusion of our content laws being complicated (CanCon, language laws, pipeda erasure rules,
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by notatoad 3y ago
that's okay, the pirates don't need your sympathy. Our TV library didn't just get deleted. i really don't try to justify my piracy much anymore. i like free shit and it's easy. but things like this really make it
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by notatoad 3y ago
>I think the "blame" for objects should lie in the people that misuse them the case here specifically isn't about misusing things though, it's about using things for exactly the purpose it was advertised for. "th
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by notatoad 3y ago
"you can't sell a spy cam that looks like a towel hook" is sort of too broad and too specific to be a good law. what does "looks like a towel hook" actually mean? a law like this would end up having some unintende
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by notatoad 3y ago
yeah, the problem with invite only is that it removes the best and the worst users. it self-selects for the sort of terminally-online people willing to put up with an invite process. people like me. the best content on sites like this is
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by notatoad 3y ago
i've heard good things about the wiim, but $200 is a lot more than $30
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by notatoad 3y ago
RIP to chromecast audio, still my favourite way to make speakers go.
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by notatoad 3y ago
i'm assuming they pay you in NFTs, not cash?
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by notatoad 3y ago
Hybrids will spur adoption of EVs? A hybrid is not an EV, if your goal is to sell EVs then hybrids aren't accomplishing that.
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by notatoad 3y ago
it's amazing how well it holds up. most of the jokes they're making would work perfectly fine if you swapped in whatever the overhyped tech fad of the day is.
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Of course, most of the buyers of either the Cybertruck or the F150 Lightning probably aren't getting much dirt under their fingernails anecdotally, the lighting seems to be a pretty popular work truck. maybe not with independent t
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by notatoad 3y ago
yeah! the approximately 8000 pedestrians killed by cars each year in the US should just be better at dodging them, like this guy is.

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