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by sangnoir 3y ago
It's likely your company's administrator forced this default behavior. Cloud sync was an opt-in on my account too, fwiw. It would have been a huge story had it been opt-out.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I fully expect to read the following copy in the next 18 months from a company backed by a certain Tolkien-loving investor: "Introducing the Mauhúr-1 indoor drone from Curunír Defense. This quiet and nimble drone revolutionizes clandes
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> I keep a little headphone case full of USB flash drives (mostly Sandisk Cruzer Fits) with different distros / installers / etc. including a couple installed Linux environments. Ventoy[1] allows me to have one big-ish USB flas
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Whose week's work? One person, a small team (<5), or a large organization? At some point on that axis, the RoI becomes negative.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
What's the opportunity cost when you're paying yourself market-rate salaries?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I'm generally not against the existence/enforcement of price smoothing laws (over time - as the intention with anti-price-gauging laws, or across the market, with market comparisons). I think it strikes a good balance when bridg
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I thought Google fired it's AI Ethicists a few years back and dismantled the team?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Why quit? ...because there's a glut of investor money chasing "AI", raising money for your new AI startup is not particularly hard if you are linked with any of the big names in AI. Even if the startup "fail",
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> How much my home is worth should not be capped by whatever government thinks What's your take on anti-price-gauging laws? Should the government "cap" the price of food and bottled water after a natural disaster, or shoul
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Its outright the worst possible place in whole Europe to be rich I guess it's a good thing Europe has free movement! They are free to be rich in Amsterdam, Berlin or Brussels. If the wealth is generated in France, then they should
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> However, it does preclude labor and savings as a path to Financial Security. Correct. This is an unfortunate fact that most try to sweep under the rug, but when it comes to weighing capital vs labor - the system is exactly what it says
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Do we want people to have to gamble or lose their assets? Yes. 0-velocity money isn't good for economic activity.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Signatures are also able to (mostly) signal that a specific device (and/or application on that device) captured the video. It would be possible to check if a video was encoded by a specific instance of an iOS Camera app or AfterEffec
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> At this point AMD investors should be rebelling Looking at the chart for $AMD over the past 5 years gives plenty od reasons to be happy, and no reason to rebel. A rational AMD investor should not be Jonesing Nvidia's catching ligh
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> CUDA is a big reason for their moat. Zen 1 showed that absolute performance is not the end-all metric ( Zen lost on single-core performance vs Intel). A lot of people care for bang-for-buck metric. If AMD can squeak out good-enough d
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I suspect we're headed into a world of attestation via cryptographically signed videos. If you're the sole witness, then you can reduce the trust in the event, however, if it's a major event, then we can fall back on existing
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Nice strawman! You completely demolished a market share argument I never made. My point is that audio and video professionals now have viable alternatives to Apple software. Running MacOS is now optional, which wasn't the case in the
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> A hackintosh could be a good option, and when somebody learns to do it well they could do it for others for money Apple thoroughly screwed over Mac developers that the only compelling software that's exclusive to MacOS is develope
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by sangnoir 3y ago
The former British prime minister executed a similar technique to hide his scandal by releasing search-engine chaff. He had a press interview where he claimed one of his hobbies was painting miniature red buses, and the scandal he was hidin
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by sangnoir 3y ago
That applies across the board, and I suspect is a personality trait independent of political alignment. I've witnessed people on the right who were against handouts or abortion until they were personally impacted. When there is a re
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Apple turned off a lot of "signals" used by advertisers for precisely targeted ads via persistent user-beacons. Facebook ad placement quality (and revenue) cratered in the immediate aftermath. Meta has since gotten better at it- l
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Is it the United States' policy to fill middle-eastern youth with lascivious/wanton content, or do social media thirst-trap pictures just have excellent engagement? In both cases, the operators don't have to actively boost th
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by sangnoir 3y ago
The EFF is correct and brings to light the hypocrisy of fighting companies rather than specific harmful activities, because making those activities illegal will have a very large blast radius and will destroy a lot of "value" in A
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by sangnoir 3y ago
You can blame the first amendment for that. The first amendment doesn't apply to China, so the Chinese government tells Douyin what content is undesirable and it gets filtered/censored. Is that what you want to happen in the US? O
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Im sure he'd be happy to become the first multi-instantiated, immortal billionaire. The pesky laws about death and personhood would need to be changed first though.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Facebook.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> And if you think any Jack or Jill can just come in and text prompt a whole movie, you're crazy. It's still hard work and a metric ton of good taste. Yeah, I cant wait for ChuChuTV to get the best film Oscar /s.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
How many ads does Meta serve a day, and how many AI model executions are done for each one? Repeat the same for stories, post and comment recommendations on Facebook and Instagram, and you have very big numbers. To that, Add VR, internal
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by sangnoir 3y ago
It's probably CYA for any liabilities stemming from issues discovered/not fixed downstream after Google has addressed them. It's hard for Google to enforce offensively, but great for defense!
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I hope the folk at Valve have been busy working on this - Steam for iOS and Vision Pro could be great!

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