rjmunro

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I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were good(youtube.com)
15 points by rjmunro 6y ago|3 comments
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But are they measuring the effect of people telling their friends how bad the experience was, or posting it on HN?
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Except that they weren't free to stop others from doing so.
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I suspect the cigarette companies love it. If everything else causes cancer as well, then they look less bad.
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Normally Universal basic income plans are combined with abolition of most other welfare, and changes to taxes so that people on all but the lowest incomes end up paying the money back as tax. So maybe flatten all tax rates below 24%, everyo
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Early on, browsers had UI to block cookies. Sometimes you had to press "yes" to accept a cookie. No participation from websites was needed. No one ever used it, and over time it got more and more hidden. It's still there if y
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Not a summary, the whole legally binding thing. But I'd allow 280 characters. It would be good to define some phrases in the law that then have unambiguous legal meaning so that privacy policies don't have to spend time defining t
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Sizes in online clothing shops should be global persistent settings. If I am shoe size 10, no part of the site should ever show me anything that isn't available in that size. You could use checkboxes to enable searching for more than o
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https://xkcd.com/1425/
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I get the following in the console, unless I click very fast as the page is loading: (index):27 The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7W
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Only if you are Icelandic or Colombian (respectively).
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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ But in this case, there is only one standard, and lots of imitators: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxi... But fallout from th
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So what happens if you are on an old version, a security issue is discovered, but they only fix it in the new version?
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This would be nice, but a developer could still publish a malicious update as an important security fix. Also it gets very hard for developers to keep track of past versions and apply new fixes to them, when they also have to apply fixes to
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On my home WiFi, my phone is on IPv6, and therefore not behind NAT (it is on a NAT address for IPv4, though). I've not done any super-geeky things to enable this, it's a standard router from a mainstream internet provider. Pinging
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I tried dpi.lv on my 2 monitors and my phone. It said: Resolution: 3360 × 2100 Diagonal: 13.3″ Resolution: 2560 × 1440 Diagonal: 13.3″ Resolution: 2160 × 1080 Diagonal: 13.3″ (my monitors are 15.5" and 27" diagonal, my phone is 6&
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England "Includes Scotland and Wales" - that's called Great Britain. Does it keep score? I can't see my history or how I've been doing. Beautiful videos, though (except the head bobbing). Also if I've picked a
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Maybe the total duration of the video walked to that area? But yeah, the default centring of the map is really annoying.
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> Wifi can do it to, but there you have to get into very hardware-specific wizardry Android is supposed to support the standard for this called WiFi direct - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct#Mobile_devices
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Why is "Point of Sale" a slur? ;-)
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Do posts like this one count as "post what you're thinking" social media?
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Trying to Create an AI Tom Scott (On a $100 Budget)(youtube.com)
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I thought Boeing had many issues pre-covid, not just the 737 Max. Starliner immediately springs to mind.
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Please don't confuse trademarks and Copyrights - they are entirely separate things. Using a trademark is not infringing Copyright. It may or may not be infringing the trademark, but that's a whole different thing. In general, anyo
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IMHO the most important thing is to be consistent with the rest of the organisation's codebase. After a while people get used to reading it that way. So doing what the linter says is exactly the right answer.
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See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758652
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Maybe they are also short staffed due to Covid?
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The issue is that some malware installed itself with the name QR scanner, not that Android does or doesn't have a QR scanner. Most Android camera apps (each phone comes with its own) will recognise QR codes fine, although the UI is som
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I've installed from Google Play, and never seen any ads. It has contacts permission, but that's because sharing contacts with a QR code is something I use it for frequently (it can generate codes as well as scan them).
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Reminds me of the Acorn RISC PC "Rocket ship" pizza oven module: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/44052/RISC-PC-Pizza-O... This was shown at trade shows as an optional module for the expandable cas

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