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by nr2x 3y ago
I wish there was still a path to have a profitable mid sized company, period. It’s either get acquired or killed by a big company.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Does it matter if you have no choice but to use said software?
93.
by nr2x 3y ago
M1 Air is hands down the best machine for the money available today. Excited to see the competition though!
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by nr2x 3y ago
Odd statement considering the path they are is to conduct a societal wide experiment on mass unemployment as the robots take over more and more jobs.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Email still works, spam and all.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Depends on the definition. In my mind, a system that can write code, poetry, and suggest a recipe based on a list of ingredients has a form of “general” intelligence. So by that measure we are there. If we’re talking about something like ag
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by nr2x 3y ago
Pretty sure that particular UX element is no longer useful.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Yup.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Blame the Irish.
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by nr2x 3y ago
It’s unequivocally not happening in other browsers and they are doing it anyway. Call it what you want.
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by nr2x 3y ago
I’m fine if they go tit-for-tat to be honest.
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by nr2x 3y ago
It doesn’t protect “privacy”, it at best limits a subset of reidentification attacks, and only in a vacuum where other fingerprinting vectors don’t exist. If it’s so great it would be any easy opt-in for users. But it’s not.
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by nr2x 3y ago
That’s literally written by a PR team, see the quote I pasted from the w3c decision.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Since people seemed to believing Google PR at face value here is the w3c position in rejecting the proposal: The intention of the Topics API is to enable high level interests of web users to be shared with third parties in a privacy-preserv
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by nr2x 3y ago
Please, Google has explicitly made their products not work correctly in other browsers for years. This is totally playing fair, it’s just Google getting back what they give.
106.
by nr2x 3y ago
Eh, iOS doesn’t allow any alternative rendering engines, which isn’t exactly user choice.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Given that Chrome is aggressively pursuing privacy sandbox, which is roundly rejected by everybody in the web privacy community, is aggressively user hostile, and designed solely as a means to leverage chrome’s (current) dominance to suppor
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by nr2x 3y ago
Don’t forget some of the most powerful applications are already being used by Google and others to tailor ads based on your behavior. The big adtech firms have deployed AI first and foremost as a means to predict and influence human behavio
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by nr2x 3y ago
I think the enduring appeal of religion is rooted in most people’s inability to accept that the big explanation for life, the universe, and everything isn’t 42, it’s an RNG in the sky.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Yeah but that 1% owns the robot and feeds it data. It won’t kill THEM…in the first round at least.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Either it’s time to learn off grid survival skills or just keep repeating “it’s making stuff up, just a crazy LLM, nothing to *really* worry about”.
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by nr2x 3y ago
“ChatGPT 4.0 is much more... scary!” I say this on average 5 times a day.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Basically yeah, just a pretty detailed set of prompts and then “turn the next message into an api call” and it basically works perfectly. When I first heard the term “prompt engineer” I rolled my eyes, but now that I’ve gotten into it I see
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by nr2x 3y ago
LLM for the foreseeable future function most reliably as a user interface layer for other system. I use GPT to “translate” natural language down into the API calls that get real data and it works great. I’d never trust it beyond that.
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by nr2x 3y ago
OMG yes, the latest updates to the keyboard are a nightmare. I went so far as to turn off autocorrect as I’d rather have my spelling wrong but the meaning the same. It straight up makes up entirely new phrases I didn’t type.
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by nr2x 3y ago
With tsvector you have to declare the language, and if you are ingesting a diverse range of web documents you just end up applying English as a guess.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Yup, at a certain point you hit a wall.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Depends on the length of the documents as well. I’ve used psql with smaller datasets and it’s fine, but it starts to have issues when you go bigger.
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by nr2x 3y ago
Web Applets were pretty cool in theory at least, but a disaster in practice. Also never fails to amaze me that if Adobe hadn’t been so lazy with making Flash performant on Mac, Steve Jobs wouldn’t have delivered the death blow. ActionScript
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by nr2x 3y ago
Oh man, you must be too young to remember when companies had intranet sites that only worked on IE6 long after it was supported. That was pure hell as a young IT support drone. Good god.

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