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Apple's streaming service gets harder to tell apart from its streaming app, box(arstechnica.com)
4 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
It's not perfect but seems reasonably easy to implement and would certainly help. If the user needs to approve each update and can see what the changes are most updates will either be skipped or delayed long enough that catastrophic bu
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by rurp 1y ago
Yes freedom means having to consider tradeoffs and possibly making mistakes. That's not a reason to give up on freedom though.
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by rurp 1y ago
I'm not surprised since I think most UI overhauls replace one system with another that is roughly equally good, except that nobody is familiar with the new system so everyone burns a bunch of time and attention learning the new one jus
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by rurp 1y ago
Hold on, are you saying that burning rocket fuel produces little to no pollution? As in, we could launch a million rockets per day with a negligible effect on the air and other environments? That's pretty surprising to me assuming I&#x
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by rurp 1y ago
Companies in China have no intrinsic right to operate in ways that displease the ruling party. If the CCP feels strongly that a company there should or shouldn't do something the company managers will comply or be thrown in jail.
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by rurp 1y ago
The open source models are already heavily censored in ways the CCP likes, such as pretending the Tianamen Square massacre never happened. I expect they will go the TikTok route and crank that up to 11 over time, promoting topics that are d
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by rurp 1y ago
I was referring to platforms like DraftKings, which are extremely sleazy. I think Polymarket and similar low/no fee markets on the other hand are awesome.
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by rurp 1y ago
Not only do winning players get quickly banned like sibling said, the house take on the major platforms is vastly higher than with traditional sports betting.
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by rurp 1y ago
Expecting senior job applicants to have regained basic coding skills seems reasonable to me. I would be skeptical of an applicant who hadn't made the level of effort you're describing before applying.
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by rurp 1y ago
It's both. Apple very intentionaly designs their phones so that they can immediately cut off their user's access to various apps with the flip of a switch and no recourse. It's obvious that this has and will continue to be ab
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by rurp 1y ago
Has a tech company ever taken 10s or 100s of billions of dollars from investors and not tried to a optimize revenue at the expense of users? Maybe it's happened but I literally can't think of a single one. Given that the people
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by rurp 1y ago
Wait, how many people have rents locked in from a previous era? The vast majority of rental agreements I'm aware of renew every year or so and the landlord is free to charge market rate at that point. Older generations get hit with hig
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ChatGPT and the End of Learning(theargumentmag.com)
4 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
I am so shocked someone like this would jump on the AI hype train!
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by rurp 1y ago
I'd say it's practically guaranteed. It would be wildly unprecedented to not follow up the amount of hype and fundraising in the LLM AI industry without a massive amount of enshittification following it. Even if improvements conti
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by rurp 1y ago
For real, even Lowes is doing this crap. I tried looking up a some products on their website with my phone the other day and every product page is now partially obscured by a useless AI widget that can't be removed. They've made t
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by rurp 1y ago
Yep, owning gives you a lot more control over your living situation. I do think the financial case is really overrated, especially if you get hit with some expensive repairs, but that's not what I like about owning a house. A lot of pe
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by rurp 1y ago
I'm sure it varies a lot place to place but I've experienced much more of the opposite in the tech industry. I've heard countless times that we should switch to a different tool because it's newer, from someone who could
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Amazon Experiences Drop in Google Search Visibility(searchenginejournal.com)
5 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
Absolutely. Votes, comments, competing answers, posted/edited dates, and the context of being on stack overflow all provide useful signals about how reliable a bit of information is.
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by rurp 1y ago
Certain road hazards are a much bigger issue on the strip than most roads. Pedestrians frequently walk into traffic, and cars regularly stop illegally and swerve in front of other vehicles. It looks like the initial service area is tiny but
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by rurp 1y ago
He didn't just disown the Trans kid, he's disowned most of his kids. He literally has the mom's sign a contract that says the kid will have no legal claim as his child.
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by rurp 1y ago
You might want to read up on the process a little more before forming such strong opinions. The BLS is extremely transparent, at least for now. The earlier reports are intentionally more noisy because there is value is being fast and then
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by rurp 1y ago
This makes no sense. The initial jobs numbers usually get much more attention than the revised ones, so posted inflated numbers that eventually get revised down helps whoever the current administration is. The recent revisions have gotten
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by rurp 1y ago
Eh, I worked on a large serverless project that worked hard to follow best practices but it was still very clunky to run and test code locally. The local serverless tools simply didn't work for our project and they had so many limitati
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by rurp 1y ago
I worked on a serverless project for several years and the lack of ability to run much of anything locally was a huge cost. Debugging cycle times were absolutely terrible. There are some tools that claim to address this but as of a few ye
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by rurp 1y ago
Well my less optimistic observation is that Trump 1.0 broke a whole bunch of norms and was flagrantly incompetent, and the response was almost nothing. The opposition won a middling victory and made almost no structural changes to prevent w
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by rurp 1y ago
I think this tracks pretty well. Even if our Democracy survives this regime the future looks so much more bleak than it did a year ago. Much of the current damage will last for many years and too many norms have been broken. All of the powe
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by rurp 1y ago
Just recently I was having trouble getting something to work with a large well documented framework library. Turned out the solution I needed was to switch to a similar but different API. But that's not what Claude told me. Instead it

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