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by tech_ken 3y ago
Do you have any examples in mind of this? I’m struggling without having something concrete to anchor on
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Okay good talk
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> Still, it's annoying when you search for how to do something in OS X and the first few threads are full of people saying "that isn't how it works! Instead of wanting to change it, you need to understand and follow the Ap
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> Even if what they are saying is not inflammatory, there is always a chance of making a misstep or just having a bad opinion without fully understanding it. In the modern age, everything is forever. There's no room to evolve. Is th
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Okay yes but git and an OS are very different pieces of software. One does one thing (version control), and to be effective at that single task its highly opinionated. This is fine and good; he restriction allows the tool to laser focus on
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by tech_ken 3y ago
No real control for the changing population you might expect under each sign-up regime? Seems like in the first case sign-ups are super frictionless, so heavy trolling is expected. Second phase has some mild friction, so results make sense.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I cancelled Prime many months back with the fortuitous expiration date of the last subscription coming up in early March. Feels really great to be leaving as this massive wave of enshittification comes crashing down.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> If it becomes paralyzed by a fear of the future, it will never produce meaningful benefits This kind of straw-manning seems like the main game of e/acc types. Bin all criticism as gloom and fear, rather than actually engaging with
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Definitely see how that's a factor in many cases, but I can see other possible explanations. For example, I used to be a real serious Twitter addict, but it wasn't really FOMO driving that IMO. My own post-hoc analysis is that it
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> What’s the desire underneath the desire to check your phone? This seems like a big question that gets elided in discussions of social media addiction. My understanding of "classic" addictions (ex. substances) is that there&#x
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Not exactly, it's tough because every high school needs a different normalization, and it may drift from cohort to cohort. Most universities only ever see a handful of students from any given HS, so it's really tough to untangle t
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by tech_ken 3y ago
None of your criticisms make sense to me, this is some of the best local journalism I've seen in a while. The headline is a tl;dr of the entire piece and the first several paragraphs are the facts directly related to the incident and p
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Less labor and more leisure time seems like the biggest winner for lots of people right now. I have all the commodities I could ever genuinely want, but for all my nifty gadgets I'm still giving up around a quarter of my life in exchan
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I like this point, the inflection point in the graph at the top of the post seems too strong to be "real" IMPO, seems more like an accounting problem as you say. Did a little digging and it does seem like this is a pretty legitima
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I really could have used a concrete example here. Author seems like they have a very clear idea of what they're talking about but kind of failed to communicate the vision.
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2 or 3, depending on definition of regimen, but also "best" depends on what you're shooting for/concerned about. From what evidence I've reviewed it seems pretty low-risk from a health perspective, as long as you&#
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Lock oneself in a broom closet and devote every ounce of your energy towards proving results at the absolute fringes of modern math (with the very real prospect of a nothingburger result for 4+ years of work) and suddenly one starts to crav
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I feel like this is a subtle attempt to move the goalposts on what is meant by AGI. Regardless of whether the final product is truly an AGI (and I'm guessing it won't be) my guess is that it will be branded as such.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Seems in line with other phenomena such as resting heart rate decreasing after sustained cardio training regimens. Your body just starts expending less energy during resting periods. This doesn't entail loss of function because the bod
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Lol. Lmao even. Great writeup
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> Wasn't ICQ/AIM/etc. like that during that time period? Yes and no. In some ways they were definitely a clear precursor, but I think the major difference is mobile. Back in the day people would login to AIM after school o
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by tech_ken 3y ago
One dynamic that I think contributes to the disappearance of websites, but which has maybe a more positive shine than some other explanations, is the increasing usage of internet technologies to support small social group interaction. Consi
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> ... what mathematicians can deliver to genomics that is special and unique, is the ability to not only generalize, but to do so “correctly”. I think this isn't really special or unique to mathematics. Certainly it's something
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I think that no matter what you're still going to need to connect over WAN to interact with remote services. GPTs are super capable but I don't see them generating arbitrary webpages without at least fetching some basic resources
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I guess if they start layering LLMs or similar into their service or accessory interop stack I could see how having the phone running the model could be a big win for latency and availability. Like if Apple Calendar uses a GPT to create a .
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by tech_ken 3y ago
If it's just serving prompt responses I'm not sure if the IP protection is a huge dealbreaker for me as a downstream user. The most critical use case I can currently imagine is better predictive text for my keyboard, and that one
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by tech_ken 3y ago
That's an interesting point, so more of a game of amortizing upgrades over a few years rather than instigating a massive one-off purchasing craze. I could see how a drip of sufficiently useful AI features and improvements over like &#x
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by tech_ken 3y ago
It didn't seem like training will occur locally, just serving prompt responses from a GPT model (maybe I misunderstood the article). My personal privacy calculus places a lot of less value on keeping prompts local, especially if some k
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> “As those things get scaled up, they start to make a meaningful change in the user experience and enable new innovation which has the potential to create a new upgrade cycle in smartphones.” Interesting read. "Create a new upgrade
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Got it, so when say a private individual or lab decides that the cost of continuing a line of research or development exceeds the predicted benefit/profit and cancels it, you think that's a missed opportunity regardless of the con

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