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by nukem222 2y ago
A slight advantage, sure, but apple is trapped by the same thing. Neither of their products actually required full buy in of the ecosystem to exploit until now. It was just nice (eg airpods have a nicer pairing experience than other bluetoo
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by nukem222 2y ago
Edit: thank you! Man I get gestures have been embraced by the community, but this is emphatically not what I meant. The only gesture that makes sense to me is pinch-to-zoom and maybe swiping on cards that appear to be floating. There's
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by nukem222 2y ago
> You can shake iPhones to get an Undo/Redo dialog, for example. When are they gonna add a proper UI for this? I look like a moron using the phone this way, and shaking only works to trigger the undo about half the time.
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by nukem222 2y ago
83 vs 84 percent doesn't seem too difficult to present as "essentially the same". I also don't think this matters much—the result is impressive regardless of alleged rate of change.
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by nukem222 2y ago
Presumably management would also be highly regional. Functionality in san francisco doesn't imply anything about functionality in oakland, etc.
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by nukem222 2y ago
> but Gemini helps you with all the data in your life None of my data is in google's cloud (for obvious reasons) except gmail, which contains far less of my life than you might think. Most of my friends outside of work use icloud. g
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by nukem222 2y ago
I'm assuming they've filled the app with ads by now?
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by nukem222 2y ago
I would hope so! Are these rides actually cheaper? Assumably this is orders of magnitude less expensive than hiring a human and the driver is what you pay for. I don't see myself ever getting in a car if my safety is actually a concern
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by nukem222 2y ago
Rocket development seems more of a matter of capital than anything so it's hard to take this critique seriously. Good for them.
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by nukem222 2y ago
> useful workers is straight from a totalitarian planned economy I'd still strongly prefer a totalitarian, planned economy. Hell it sounds like a straight-up pollyannish fantasy at this point. Watching people expect the chaos of bui
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by nukem222 2y ago
How do you figure? Chatbots don't cite their sources (unless you explicitly set up an RAG); search engines do. What value does the former have? Chatbots seem more useful for stuff like generating filler and changing tone.
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by nukem222 2y ago
Wherever people think their justice system hasn't failed them so completely. So, this includes many people in the developed world. Approximation of justice was always a matter of degree, not a boolean.
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by nukem222 2y ago
Certainly a common enough concern in people critiquing use of ChatGPT here. I'm more worried about "softer" problems, though—morality, values, persuasion, including deciding which of two arguments is more convincing and why
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by nukem222 2y ago
> In most times and places, this is true. Thankfully most of the instances of it not being true exist right now. Let's stay grounded in current reality or just agree not to discuss the topic. Saying "welp what do you expect&quo
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by nukem222 2y ago
Let's just Europe does not send its best to represent itself on social media (a curse we all share, frankly). You talk to enough confidently-ignorant assholes and any desire to be polite vanishes. The number of europeans who think pres
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by nukem222 2y ago
Let's not forget how the Massachusetts AG (Carmen Ortiz) (hopefully) unintentionally drove Aaron Schwartz to suicide to protect the sanctity of elsevier's IP. Even our most obviously rotten institutions are placed on a higher pede
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by nukem222 2y ago
I read ebooks, but it's not very difficult to determine why people like purpose-crafted goods. Especially when you pay about the same amount for an ebook. Vinyl at least has great arguments why digital copies are straight-up better .
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by nukem222 2y ago
I mean that excludes swift too, it can't use the C++ ABI any more than other languages can. Excepting super-specialty languages
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by nukem222 2y ago
Sure, if you're trying to have a good time it works great! No hate here.
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by nukem222 2y ago
> This allows legit users to get what they need. Of course they could have just used the site directly.
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by nukem222 2y ago
This doesn't imply the decision is any less jaw-dropping. Besides, polling enjoyment is not exactly what I would describe as a pragmatic approach.
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by nukem222 2y ago
Hell of a decision.
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by nukem222 2y ago
You'd think if we were returning to western roots there would be a lot more slavery and reading of bird livers on live tv. And just an astounding amount of male-on-male competitive anal sex (which, tbf, you can definitely still find if
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by nukem222 2y ago
> It is more like not reacting to the thoughts that arise. Surely this is as close an approximation to not thinking as conscious humans are capable of. Anyway, words get useless pretty quickly describing internal phenomenon. I just think
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by nukem222 2y ago
Sure, but you can also describe monkey brain as being mindful of the wrong thing. There are surely more apt words out there. Midnfullness... of what? Or we could just say "breathwork" and probably get 95% of the utility without s
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by nukem222 2y ago
I strongly associate mindfulness with marketing and corporate bullshit. Surely we can find a better term. Anyway it's a bit of a misnomer if the whole point is to not think.
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by nukem222 2y ago
Redwoods are impressive, but I'm not exactly sure a trunk passing out of the photo is the peak of tree aesthetics. I'd imagine the northeast or the northwest or parts of the south have the strongest claims.
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by nukem222 2y ago
I really detest wireless charging. It doesn't work very well in, for instance, an un-airconditioned car.
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by nukem222 2y ago
> And if you’re not adjusting to it, you’re doing yourself a disservice. What does this even mean? AI is mostly forced in situations where it can't actually improve on the output, like at the top of a google search. > So this is
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by nukem222 2y ago
> If it's legal and economically beneficial to them, they'll fire people. More importantly, if they can imagine some economic benefit. Very plausible an executive might think a chatbot is as capable as an engineer when they don

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