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by quitit 1y ago
I do understand your position and reasoning, but I'm hoping to explain that you're asking too much of the system. Nothing is going to overcome your personal willpower, if you want to see that site or load that app, there isn'
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by quitit 1y ago
Fundamentally it comes down to what you value. If you don't actually want to stop, then these opportunities for pause do nothing, because in that pause you reaffirm that you do want to continue the behaviour. This ties into why addicti
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by quitit 1y ago
The reason why social media and similar websites now have infinite scroll is because the next page button provided you with a circuit breaker to stop and reconsider if you actually wanted to continue or if you were just mindlessly scrolli
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by quitit 1y ago
I heard an interesting (and certain to be inflammatory) take the other day: "When we visit the USA, we look at it the same way you might look at Fiji or some other underdeveloped country." While I can explain part of that view as
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by quitit 1y ago
Apple asking for what are effectively lead fees was easily the most news-worthy and reported change made for the EU market. Which raises the question: how are we this far into that change with Apple being informed that the EU meant somethin
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by quitit 1y ago
Gripes about missing features which are neither missing nor undocumented is on brand for HN. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102553
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by quitit 1y ago
Where school kids tend to get stuck is that they'll hold contradictory views on how fractions can be represented. First it'll be uncontroversial that ⅓ = 0.333... usually because it's familiar to them and they've seen it
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by quitit 1y ago
Are there situations where this would be better than what's already possible with a HTML5-based animation tool such as Tumult's Hype? For me that has pretty much been my go to tool for generating online flourish.
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by quitit 1y ago
Legacy is not counted in dollars. > He’s a billionaire approaching 60. You don’t need to worry about him, his brand, or his reputation. "Interesting" take, was that projection?
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by quitit 1y ago
You've defined success as a financial hit. He's a designer, the success will be whether or not he invents a good design, an innovation to how AI is consumed. There are plenty of well designed products in his history that weren&#x2
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by quitit 1y ago
This is a bit of a risk for Ive, as until now he is credited with Apple's lauded design. If he does not produce an immediate success it'll be brand damaging and wobble on his reputation. I also suspect it might go that way: post-I
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by quitit 1y ago
I imagine this could be seen as an anticompetitive lever. Whereby Google is using its dominance in one field to reduce competition in another, adding it here is a way to normalise that addition for when massmarket-priced plans become availa
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by quitit 1y ago
I notice that Google's design never speaks for itself. It's always married with overbearing verbiage that sounds like it was penned for a Will Ferrell film.
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by quitit 1y ago
and to take it a step further: 1. reporting such advertising doesn't do anything, 2. nor the reporting of accounts that are directly soliciting such in messages, 3. nor policing of instagram accounts whose entire profile is just photos
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by quitit 1y ago
Those changes seem more like boiling the frog because the content they're looking for is only available on YT. I'm a firm believer in the issue being one of pricing, not that the consumer is willing to pay nothing at all. I have t
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by quitit 1y ago
They'd have to adapt their business models, the likelihood of the services disappearing are minimal because they each have multiple revenue streams beyond just collecting user data. Indeed we know it's possible because much of the
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by quitit 1y ago
There's plenty of reasons to not use a photo or a scan, but some trivial reasons are: translucent, metallic/pearl, and fluorescent paints and pigments. Other reasons include gamut limitations, interactions with light (as you'
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by quitit 1y ago
>Generative AIs just patch together memorized data. Gen AI isn't collage. But overtraining can produce results which look like that which has lead to the confusion. An image generation model doesn't even contain enough data to
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by quitit 1y ago
Not ruling it out, but this would mean both ChatGPT to put the metadata in the file, and then Midjourney read that metadata and put it into the img2txt output. (Midjourney produces 4 sets of text outputs from the single input image, two con
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by quitit 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this extends beyond ChatGPT. The other day I meme-ified a photo with ChatGPT. Pleased with the style I fed that into Midjourney's "Describe" feature which aims to write an image generation prompt based on
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by quitit 1y ago
I'm not pointing fingers in any specific direction, but there is a lot of importance in AI leadership, and with that you're going to see a lot of bot activity and astroturfing to hinder the advancement of competitors. We also see
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by quitit 2y ago
> "More and more European capitals are going down the path of violating democratic norms," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a briefing when asked about the decision. Sounds like they're upset that their in
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by quitit 2y ago
Seems like this is the true meaning of "american exceptionalism".
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by quitit 2y ago
>The problem is that fluoridation of the drinking water is not supported by any science. Yet it is supported by science. Indeed even the discovery of this property of fluoride came about from the observation of people who naturally consu
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by quitit 2y ago
The missing context here is that the science and established benefits of fluoride aren’t a culture war political football in those countries. These countries largely publicly recognise the benefits of fluoride, but don’t add it because: - S
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by quitit 2y ago
There’s three main points here: 1. Don’t build systems that can be abused to start with, because they will be abused, but if we must build one then see point 2: 2. Put access to this sensitive information behind a judge’s signature. Because
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by quitit 2y ago
>"But stalkers!" The stalkers are already in the house, this list isn't exhaustive by any means: USA: N.J. cop used police databases to stalk ex-girlfriend, investigators say https://www.nj.com/monmouth&#x2
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by quitit 2y ago
Invoking these from the mac keyboard: Hyphen for hyphen Option + Hyphen for n-dash Shift + Option + Hyphen for m-dash While I'm here, Shift+Return for a soft return (i.e. not a new paragraph.)
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by quitit 2y ago
I think some people would be surprised how effective reaching out to apple is for squashing bugs. Three times now I've been assigned an engineer to pin point the bug I was experiencing, after which it was fixed in the next dot release.
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by quitit 2y ago
I stopped there too, I said to myself "this is either badly written AI slop, or this person is unhinged."

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