socalgal2

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by socalgal2 5d ago
I wish museums having old video game exhibits would respect the medium and display them on CRTs and that if they used LCD screens they would be as shamed as if they showed prints of paintings instead of the actual paintings
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by socalgal2 8d ago
It's not a snarky reply. It's important IMO that people realize the consistently top rated transit system in the world is nearly all private. Otherwise, they push for public transit, not realizing they are asking for something dif
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by socalgal2 8d ago
Private transit there is pretty great Corrected that for you.
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by socalgal2 9d ago
Starbucks in bookstores? Hasn't that been a thing at Barnes and Noble for 35 years? Tsutaya has been trying to re-invent itself because yea, it's main businesses, video rental, video/DVD sales, and music CD sales died to digi
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by socalgal2 9d ago
> If you write your app using win32, you won’t be able to port is very easily. Is this still true? eg, Shopify saying porting is now easy so no need for abstractions.
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by socalgal2 10d ago
> They don't multiply themselves instantly, We must have different definitions. Millions of them are created daily. Every time an agent is spawned = creation of an agent and millions of people are creating multiple agents daily.
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by socalgal2 10d ago
How many smartphones have no camera? Zero? Bluetooth? Zero? But they could save cost by not having those. I think they are basically table stakes. If this type of thing becomes required for more and more things then no one will buy a phone
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by socalgal2 11d ago
AI is you being the director. Hey, I directed this movie != I acted in it, I edit it, I control the camera, I wrote the music. It equals I told others what to do and my judgements and decisions affected the final result. Same with making wi
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by socalgal2 11d ago
how is it anti-consumer? Claiming you should be able to freely access the content on some service feels like claiming you should be able to walk into any fast-food place and help yourself to their soda machine. A business is free to choose
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by socalgal2 11d ago
I still use a Rift-S, it still lets me run whatever I want.
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by socalgal2 11d ago
Hopefully they have solved the issues but... the only times I got VR sickness from VR is (1) trying GTA5 in VR using a patch. It was amazing once the game gave me control. But by that time I was already sick from the unskippable in game int
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by socalgal2 11d ago
I put my laptop in dark mode on a flight. Further, you could add one of those privacy screens for more
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by socalgal2 12d ago
the reference is that the idea is good but at the wrong time can lead to disastrous outcomes. Some people say AGI/ASI will destroy the world. Others say, whoever makes it first gets to rule the world. So if slowing means China gets it
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by socalgal2 12d ago
I'm not an AI doomer but, it does not reduce to that claim. The threat is not just one smart being. The threat is beings that and (1) multiply themsevles instantly, unlike humans that take 15+ years (2) share knowledge instantly "
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by socalgal2 12d ago
yes, if have zero friends and family, contact and talk to no one, move out in the boonies away from everyone else, then you can have privacy. Good to know
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by socalgal2 12d ago
And yet advertising raises demand, which in intern causes people to offer to meet that demand which means competition, which lowers prices. Lots of examples of this cycle you can search for.
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by socalgal2 12d ago
This is a poor analogy because you have not listed any positive and demostrated upside. It's more like "we found a cure for lung cancer and it works on 75% of patients and we're working hard to get to 100% and cure other canc
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by socalgal2 13d ago
Admits China won’t stop but says USA’s top should. Reminds me of City in the Edge of Forever
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by socalgal2 13d ago
The difference is that person who loved tending to horses had no delusions they were mot out of a job and their horse tending would just be a hobby with few exceptions. They didn’t complain trucks sucked and couldn’t do the job of hauling p
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by socalgal2 13d ago
I see it as those who learn to use AI effectively are seeing massive benefits. Those that haven't seen those benefits are still skeptical. Someone who's seen the benfits, knows, with proof, the benefits exist. They're like Co
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by socalgal2 13d ago
> just 20 years ago, all the most popular software shipped with NO tests not sure what you're point is here. It sounds similar to "we use to use blood letting and leeches and doctors didn't clean their hands and everything
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by socalgal2 13d ago
I agree with you. rust solves a real problem. It makes it much harder to create a large class of bugs, bugs that are in most C and C++ projects (and many other languages). Sure, maybe rusteans have bad attitudes. Not sure that's true b
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by socalgal2 13d ago
When has technology ever stopped? I remember being told copper wires would never go above 2400 bps. I see people here saying 4G is all they need, sounds an awful lot like "640k is all you need". You have no idea what the future ho
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by socalgal2 13d ago
Well, not that Apple is doing it all their fans will claim it's ok
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by socalgal2 14d ago
Yes, a lot of HN commenters are disconnected from reality. The reality is this issue existed for 15 years and there's been no issue. But here, HNers are freaking out like it's the end of the world and WebGL and WebGPU must be bann
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by socalgal2 14d ago
Complaining about AI is just a meme. There are tons of things that use way more energy for arguably way less utility to humans.
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by socalgal2 14d ago
I just see it as tool. Used to be you had to calculate things by hand on paper. Then we got calculators, then spreadsheets. Complaining that by hand was better seems line nonsense. I'm old enough to have taken typing lessons in high sc
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by socalgal2 14d ago
what is that not true of? HN and your post on it is paying with our planet
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by socalgal2 14d ago
I'm not sure I'm convinced. If splitting the UI is useful then it feels like you should just let me choose to split it even on a single display rather than deciding for me. My laptop has a display aspect similar to a folding phone
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by socalgal2 15d ago
I'm not disagreeing with you but there tons of cities with 250k to 10 million people with great transportation options. Amsterdam : 1m Antwerp : 0.6m Brussels : 1.2m Barcelona : 1.7m Copenhagen : 0.7m

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