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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 11mo ago
Don't the Beats earbuds have literally the exact the same chipsets and speaker drivers as airpods, but play way nicer with Androids? I know that used to be the case a few years ago at least, but I'm not sure if it's still tru
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 11mo ago
Yes, these sorts of compensation features have become common on higher end headphones. One example: > The crossfeed feature is great for classic tracks with hard-panned mixes. It takes instruments concentrated on one channel and balances
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 11mo ago
Tim Cook'd
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Do you smoke weed? It's well known that THC use causes dreamless sleep.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Wow, this video literally answers all the speculation and discussion in this thread.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Remember Quibi? It was a streaming platform of TV shows, where they were filmed in portrait mode instead of landscape, and the episodes were 5 minutes instead of 30. Their pitch was basically: "Nobody has time to sit down and watch a w
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
But to be accepted by people, it has to be better than humans in the specific ways that humans are good at things . And less bad than humans in the ways that they're bad at things. When automated solutions fail in strange alien ways,
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
There's a new theory that we might actually gain a greater understanding of the human mind by studying the AI systems we create, because we can basically get a perfect X-ray of their neural nets at any particular state. When we look at
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
> the QA of car battery manufacturing is causing electric fleets of cars in parking lots to burn I've seen a lot of grumbling on this site about why the U.S. doesn't have access to cheap EVs like China, but it's almost ent
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I work for a medical device manufacturer, and software absolutely can be designed to be just as reliable as physical systems, but the development and testing process looks completely different than a developing a mobile app. Things slow WAY
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Somewhat supporting your point, the towers were literally bombed in '93 with the intent of toppling them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin... I imagine this terrorist attack inspired so
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
It actually was beginning to work. Corners of the internet where people discuss clothing and fashion trends were starting to buzz about JC Penny randomly starting to have trendier higher quality stuff for reasonable prices, etc. I think the
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your wallet.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
What's more devastating is that the CX and C1 actually had pause buttons, then they took them away around 2021/2022. It kills me that they have a dedicated button for Alexa and another for Sling (whatever that is) but none for pau
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
They may not differ much in terms of calories or nutrients, but there absolutely is a difference - the ultra processed cake has preservatives and additives that are way harder on your gut microbiome, which affects your body's ability t
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
"Neoliberalism" became a dirty word for lots of reasons (mainly because it caused a ton of people in developed nations to lose their jobs, as manufacturing capacity shifted to developing nations and developed nations leaned into t
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Finally caved and bought a Mac this year. Never used one before in my life - I've used Windows / Linux / Chrome OS as my primary computing environments at various times over the years. It's just okay. Windows 11 is worse
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Yeah I think in America it's a pretty distinctly East Coast thing. I grew up in Southern California and had to travel a lot for work, and it was super obvious when I traveled to the East Coast and went out drinking with coworkers that
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
It's usually because there's some non-local stuff on your sidebar that it's trying to load - either a pinned item or a recently opened / frequently opened thing that's on network storage. It's stupid but Window
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Yeah having a single full time job but not being part of the executive class is a decent definition. It's much more wide than the UK's usage for sure.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I'd go absolutely apeshit over a 4:3 dome curved screen.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
He's said even the pro plan is losing money: https://x.com/sama/status/1876104315296968813
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Altman has said numerous times that none of the subscriptions make money currently, and that they've been internally exploring ads in the form of product recommendations for a while now.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
OpenAI has already started degrading their $20/month tier by automatically routing most of the requests to the lightest free-tier models. We're very clearly heading toward a future where there will be a heavily ad-supported free t
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Vouchers are just a bribe to get people to actually vote for higher taxes that fund social services that they themselves aren't going to use or benefit from. "Why should I pay for taxes that don't benefit me?" is an aggr
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
> the longer battery life is simply from less full time services I imagine the transfective screen tech helps quite a bit too. Not having to max out the backlight's brightness to compete with the brightness of the sun has to help.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
It's funny - I watched the Shawshank Redemption for the first time a couple years ago, after hearing forever about what a great film it is, and thought it was so lackluster I wasn't sure if I was missing something. "Did he di
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Slightly more efficient, with less waste.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
> everyone can be a broadcaster The individual isn't a broadcaster - the new broadcasters are YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and all the other platforms that choose which content to amplify. The content recommendation algorithms are des

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