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penjelly
3y ago
use an old phone after you upgrade, turn off LTE and use wifi only, then use parental controls to prevent installing new apps
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penjelly
3y ago
> I'm not sure many workers building cathedrals considered it a labor of love. Particularly those cathedrals that took many generations to build youre kidding right? of course some of them were proud of their contribution.
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penjelly
3y ago
just short enough that the VR/AR novelty hasnt worn off until its over
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3y ago
> Incentive programs often don’t perform should be "incentive programs have a lower conversion rate". > less qualified (users) ... will use your app Thats a good thing, and their negative interactions with the app can be mea
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penjelly
3y ago
browsers already know our p*rn preferences, i doubt itll be different with meta quest
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3y ago
> He'd be up huge if he held, but he 'paper handed'. Is he a dumb guy ive come to believe its often a matter of solvency, theres only so long you can keep that money invested before people start wanting/needing it bac
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penjelly
3y ago
> This was as far from a VR headset as a kid’s Schwinn bicycle is from a Gulfstream G800 private jet this quote wont age well
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3y ago
> Using ChatGPT is not cheating. id argue the way its being used, is. The audio is automatically picked up from the conversation, and starts generating a response with 0 user input. Ive seen users simply read off what their screen says i
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penjelly
3y ago
it feels like theyve been doing RnD on VR/AR, bleeding cash, and theyre making a product to "justify" this cash burn to me. That plus shipping a product is the only way you can iterate, and a common mentality in tech companie
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penjelly
3y ago
nvm these craft are super inexpensive and obviously can get access to areas rovers cant
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penjelly
3y ago
have you got a public API? id love to add this data to a free app i put together.
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3y ago
so what type of missions could this reliably be used for in the future that justify the cost? it seems it flew for ~2 hours which seems expensive and risky to me? I know the craft was relatively cheap and the experiment was worth doing but
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penjelly
3y ago
this is fine with me, but it shouldnt replace the existing panel, instead augment the panelists with it. It could analyze the rotations and timings much more closely and replay/study it at a more technical level.
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penjelly
3y ago
the possibility of permanent infertility is a dealbreaker for me, even if its small.
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penjelly
3y ago
breathing is a bad faith argument. Im sure you can think of a better example here
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penjelly
3y ago
these days i imagine an LLM could help dramatically with webscraping, potentially making it easy to frequently update the scripts which would otherwise go out of date
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penjelly
3y ago
if you had before and after photos it would certainly be noticable. Otherwise what would be the point? You cant tell me botox, lip injections or a nose job are "not explicitly noticable" when they drastically change your facial p
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penjelly
3y ago
you were born a human, so are inherently biased towards humanity, you also "think" way slower and have way less compressed text knowledge than an llm. if you could remove bias and make yourself superintelligent it might be differe
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penjelly
3y ago
i dont follow, how would it be different? would you mind helping me understand why a swappable battery is different? My impression was they would be the same in actual function
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3y ago
> while a store worker comes over and has to watch overhead video of me placing my empty bag in the bagging area for both bags 2 AND 3! this is insane to me and if a manager was involved they should be fired. I dont think its reasonable
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3y ago
my problems with self checkout, mostly i get by without issue but 2 things: 1 occasionally i accidentally scan an item twice, but removing an item takes admin privileges so a simple scannihg mistake requires calling for help, it shouldnt. 2
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penjelly
3y ago
swappable batteries is something NIO does, but agreed it not widespread. Tesla wanted to this at one point but they cancelled the idea. not sure why
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3y ago
> Mahmoud would regularly spend 10-12 hours a day - sometimes as many as 16 - at his computer, editing and publishing social media videos promoting Tate daily as part of the required coursework. He mandated they do affiliate marketing fo
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3y ago
augmenting your advice with chatgpt shouldnt be difficult. You could simply bounce your ideas off chatgpt before meeting a client, that way your work has already been crosschecked, its not like it would be providing advice (your product) fo
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penjelly
3y ago
doesnt this put musk and shareholders at odds in either case? it demonstrates his primary concern is wealth, and not tesla's success. Seems like he just sees how big AI can be and having it tied to Tesla would limit his potential takea
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penjelly
3y ago
agreed, but in pretty sure they have to serve you termination papers and you can just argue the reason stated there with your lawyer. i could be mistaken on this however.
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3y ago
what if her entire dept and manager were let go? who should do the interview then?
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3y ago
the interview went off the rails because she insisted their answers werent valid. She was told she was fired for performance reasons (whether true in reality or not is questionable). i dont know if arguing with the exit interviewers has any
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3y ago
fun thought: its more reliable to store information on stone tablets over very long time periods of time then it is harddrives or other modern data storage devices
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3y ago
> Range anxiety tends to dissipate after a short time of real world driving experience disclaimer: havent owned. but i disagree with this, and others have mentioned in thread already. range anxiety dissipates for most people because 1. t
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