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by smodo 3y ago
When the buck stops with you, yes you either get it done or step back Are execs the most productive people at the company? They can be. They have a whole org attached to them so they can multiply their efforts through others. That’s one thi
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by smodo 3y ago
I’m very excited about trying rust on these devices. Are there any examples out there of projects using this in a more or less mature shape?
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by smodo 3y ago
Well yeah, but consider that Apple has complete control over both systems. I also bought into the ‘iPad for days full of meetings’ idea and found that if I can’t reliably cmd-tab and browse through some files in a non-iCloud folder the whol
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by smodo 3y ago
Man, I wish I still knew people on IRC… Whenever I see a link to Discord I let out a deep sigh. We had it all and we blew it! We threw it all away for gifs and centralization! So here’s a question: if I download this, what’s a good place to
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by smodo 3y ago
Don’t most Microsoft products feel that way? I’m occasionally forced to use a windows machine the office gave me. Windows 11 is a new kind of janky and it also packs all the fun stuff from earlier versions. Anyway, they don’t care. Nadella
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by smodo 3y ago
A little too much hand waving here for my taste. The ambitions set out by the author are huge and underpinning the entire thing is an individuals reading of some (Western) history books. Then there are a lot of personal inventions like ‘rea
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by smodo 3y ago
Right? Awkward wording, ‘all wrong’.
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by smodo 3y ago
The opportunity to stand out from other enshittified platforms. But I guess now we need to find a new thing for VCs to fund for us. Maybe an app that pretends to use AI to create memes or something.
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by smodo 3y ago
This can’t be more than marketing for their display division. Maybe you would take this into a clients office for a demo instead of a projector? Maybe you really liked back when you had that trolly with the projector and laptop bags stacked
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by smodo 3y ago
Then there is the fact that many installations are explicitly using small converters, not all installations face the same way (east-west setups are a big thing for farms and other large scale setups). I live right next to Germany and gettin
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by smodo 3y ago
Dekoni Audio do great and relatively inexpensive replacements for ear cushion pads. I’ve bought pads for my Sony ANC phones and they are at least as good as the factory ones.
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by smodo 3y ago
Well, before the metaverse, a persons geographical position and date of birth allowed for some inference of context. You get a 4D coordinate, so to speak. Doesn’t seem very strange to me?
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by smodo 3y ago
Yes, that’s one example. Relatively simple to implement yourself. Any frontend for chatgpt already does the basic thing, which is to pass the previous messages along with the prompt. I think we may end up with first and second stage complet
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by smodo 3y ago
Right now all of this is people tinkering with the API. If you look at the docs you will note that it doesn’t even provide chat history or any kind of session. You have to pass all context yourself. So you’re already homebrewing that, why n
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by smodo 3y ago
What I’ve read is that people let a kind of meta-chat run alongside the client interaction. The meta channel decides what parts of the history to retain so the primary channel doesn’t use as many resources. You could let GPT decide when it
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by smodo 4y ago
I assume they don’t mean that they are baffled by human nature. The thing that’s sort of unexpected is that, knowing human nature, companies don’t build in safeguards for this kind of sh.
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by smodo 4y ago
It was a lack of vigilance among the Trojans, actually. The Greeks did the burning an pillaging. So uh OpenAI is the Greeks, ChatGPT is the horse and Microsoft is king Menelaos or something. Achilles is dead, but he did make TempleOS.
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by smodo 4y ago
Interesting that they are working with one of the Zed people. I’ve been wondering about the Ui framework they use. Opening up this framework could invite a lot of attention since they are dogfooding it in a (imho) solid product.
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by smodo 4y ago
> For Adam, the successes and lessons are plenty and we are excited to go on this journey with him and his colleagues building the future of living. I’m sorry, this is a joke right?
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by smodo 4y ago
I’ve been using Zed for a couple of months. It has replaced eMacs and VSCode for writing Rust. The integration is so well done, it’s like a constant conversation with the compiler. I’ve got ten invites by the way. One thing I worry about a
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by smodo 4y ago
We are, as a society, I suppose more or less aware of power asymmetries. Also, ‘other people do X too’ is a poor argument.
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by smodo 4y ago
Although I also have fond memories of computing in the 90’s, the fears in this article seem to me both a little paranoid and unrealistic. Paranoid because ‘they’ will take away our freedom, a classic conservative fear reinforced by citing t
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by smodo 4y ago
The M1 at its introduction was a little too good at its price point. The cynic in me says it will get hamstrung in software by piling on a lot of useless ‘ML’-crap in the OS that makes it perceivably slower. I’ve had my M1 laptop for two ye
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by smodo 4y ago
I also ran into that suicide phrase. My experiences are not unlike yours and I don't like to think of my friend who committed suicide as a patient who was overcome by disease. Rather, they were very meticulous and precise about ending
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by smodo 4y ago
Well... In my country there is a well known sociolect among well educated females. It also involves speaking in a low register. Doctors have found that this causes vocal chord scarring for some people. Not all learned behavior is favoured b
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by smodo 4y ago
I've been a linux/osx user for 20+ years so I'm not familiar with Windows memory management. It'd be interesting to know why MS chose this approach and if it has any benefits? Why not just let userspace request whatever
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by smodo 4y ago
Yes, but mostly because it is a very weak analogy that teaches us nothing.
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by smodo 4y ago
A Godwin in two comments, that's pretty wild considering the topic.
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by smodo 4y ago
If you really want to make sure people can read visualizations with this many colors, please use one of the many palettes designed for color blind/deficient readers. It doesn't detract from your graphs and makes them readable for
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by smodo 4y ago
This is why they aren't forced in any euthanasia cases I've heard of. Has this ever actually happened outside of totalitarian regimes? Genuine question.

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