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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'm surprised that the iPhone is over 10 years old now and you still think all software is obligated to get distributed via the App Store. If you only download software from the App Store, that's your choice - the world does not
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> if I want to play Fortnite I will have to get the epic game store when that comes out. Is that really a choice for me? Yes? So far Apple hasn't had any trouble making that choice for you, letting Epic offer another option is not e
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Lethal autonomy is more than 20 years old in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot At this point, I think we can safely say that making a system that gives AI enough control to fuck up is a &
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> According to this government-commissioned report I feel like I can guess their stance on the topic without even knowing what it is.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You should just file the lawsuit. Repeating the same story on HN will not magically put money back in your account or make everyone mad enough to compensate you. Collect your evidence, get legal counsel, and take this seriously if you want
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The fact that Active Directory is asinine isn't a slight against free software. Pretty much every reason I can imagine a government picking Microsoft has to do with prior contracts and integration. > You will get locked in to the on
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Haven't tried it, but I did stumble across this while searching for Xournal: https://github.com/saber-notes/saber Edit: just tried it, tap-and-hold on a note brings up a share menu that lets you select PDF. Hopefu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I highly recommend Rnote to anyone on Linux that misses the "hodgepodge" notetaking of apps like OneNote. It works like a dream on touchscreens and drawing tablets, with a surprising amount of configuration available for those who
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I personally despise Apple Notes - there's really no good reason for it to be as complicated and obfuscated as it is. Notetaking shouldn't require a database any more complicated than your filesystem. On Mac, I default to Obsidian
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Rnote – An open-source vector-based drawing app(rnote.flxzt.net)
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The parent comment isn't entirely wrong, though. There are reasonable, safe and productive degrees of curiosity, and their are unreasonable, unsafe and antiproductive degrees too. AI itself is not worthless, the goal of advancing machi
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I mostly use Obsidian, but I do keep coming back to Zim for quickly jotting things down. It's fast and keyboard-oriented, but also includes most functionality under a WYSIWYG menu (unlike Obsidian). It's nice, if you like that fre
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The dual-use of GPUs is what's driving Nvidia's demand, for the most part. They bet big on more outlandish designs (eg. CUDA/Tensor cores) and mixed-precision computation, and did a lot of the hardware/software work to g
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Zim – A Desktop Wiki(zim-wiki.org)
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It would be a lot easier to agree with you if Apple didn't go out of their way in software, hardware and firmware to block third-parties from getting a fair shake. This is the company that stops you from repairing your own device using
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Strictly speaking, it costs Apple nothing to run third-party software on your device. The closest thing to a compulsory fee is whatever Apple has to pay for the notarization process (which is pennies on the dollar). > So isn't this
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Trust me, if I knew you were Tim Cook I would have said a lot uglier words to you.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's a good question. My opinion as an American isn't definative, but I'll offer my viewpoint. The primary reason most Americans would not care comes down to policy. There are thousands of things that we refuse to export to C
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I think that's a mistaken way of viewing it. Apple's failure in the gaming space is entirely a matter of policy; you look over at the Steam Deck and Valve is running Microsoft IP without paying for their runtime. Some people reall
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by smoldesu 3y ago
That's a very defensive interpretation of the events. All of the parties involved have complex motivations, as is made evident by whatever-the-fuck just happened over the past 24 hours. Apple's instigating act was a last-minute re
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I mostly agree, which is why I question their strategy of even "competing" at all. The existence of CoreML feels strictly obligatory, as if the existence of Pytorch and Tensorflow spurned FOMO from the C-suites. It's not ter
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Part of Apple's problem is that they're expected to vendor support for third-party stuff. Who accelerates Pytorch or ONNX for Apple silicon, if not Apple? They've done an okay job of that so far, but their flagship library
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The really sad part is that go-nowhere do-nothing legislation like this sucks the air out of the room for real concern over Facebook. American citizens desperately need data privacy laws and assurances that prevents unjust data collecti
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Miss me with actual harms being done. I'm pretty sure a middle-schooler could understand the EU Commission's reasoning here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/image/conten...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Europe is the home of ARM, the core technology licensed in Apple silicon for what, 15 years now? STMicroelectronics too, who is just as important in the production of the iPhone as Texas Instruments. More logically, the United States is rel
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Must be a rough news cycle for you, this morning.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apple is being unfair and unreasonable, and they literally just walked back this decision within 24 hours of you vehemently defending it. As good a time as any to ask yourself; why do you defend a company you don't understand?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> I love that they’re willing to spend it on the EU’s frivolous bullshit. As an Apple customer myself, I'd be much happier if they spent that money researching a way to charge the Magic Trackpad over USB-C. This is precisely the beh
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I don't actually think there's any overhead necessarily involved, at least if you intend to fine-tune your model (which most LLMs do anyways). Getting a model to reject offensive input is probably just as easy as defining your fai
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> From nothing to ChatGPT There were hundreds of competitive, even SOTA LLMs before ChatGPT existed. You're basically just proving the parent comment right in how small of a leap ChatGPT is from t5-flan or BERT.

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