thejohnconway

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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I think the author of the article is being sarcastic.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
If the thing you want it to do isn’t too unusual, LLMs can guide you into doing something vaguely sensible. This is the one area of AI I’m actually pretty positive about. Computing largely passed people by, and computers have not lived up t
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Illegal exotic pets, more likely.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
The results are interesting, but because it's a correlative study, I think the results are still compatible with internet usage being bad for your well being. People might use the internet more when they are feeling better/more so
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Does it? I thought spotlight was basically a text search. I didn’t think you could search for concepts.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
So the argument is that’s it’s weak evidence, not circumstantial. Circumstantial evidence is often the strongest kind.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Virtually all evidence presented in courts is circumstantial (including DNA, fingerprints, etc.), eyewitness testimony of the actual crime is pretty much the only thing that isn’t.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
If the App Store is meant to have some sort of quality control to justify it’s existence, then yes, they should reject apps this buggy. They want to have health as a major feature of their platforms. To do that, they have an interest in mak
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Any device can run out of juice, I'd rather worry about one than two.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
People working in their spare time make better apps than these. I don't think you need great developers, just ones that follow specs and use native development tools would probably do. In any case, I was responding to the notion that t
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
No, I think that is exactly what happened. They wanted to merge their Android and iOS teams. I described one major bug (the alert stacking). It seems pretty obviously they are using a cross-platform framework, the buttons and the way alerts
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
For the first few months, the watch would be 20 minutes behind, maybe 60% of the time. About 20% of the time it wouldn't have any readings at all and tell me to check my phone. I almost gave up on the watch (now it pairs directly with
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Regarding accuracy, I don't know, because I never compare it to anything. Seems pretty similar based on how I feel vs readings when I'm low. The hardware experience is indeed better. Bundling the transmitter with the patch and the
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Don't move to the 7. The software has regressed tremendously. It's clearly some sort of cross-platform abomination.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Yeah, seriously, the in-house solution would just be an old android phone with a 500% markup rate anyway,
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I use apps for CGMs and I've gotta say, I'm not sure they are tested on anyone before they are release. They are absolute garbage.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I use a Dexcom Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor that pairs with this pump (I don't use the pump). And honestly, this is not surprising. The software quality in this space seems really low. I don't understand why some single-develo
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Yes. It works on all buttons and scrollwheels on all mice I have ever tried (including several Logitech ones).
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Great piece of software, used it for years. It’s great knowing you can buy any mouse with whatever buttons and you can make it work just how you want.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
I understand contractions, but “its” doesn’t track with possessive nouns, which is why this is such a pervasive “error”. English has some dumb rules that we don’t need to protect.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Which is a stupid irregular rule that should be abandoned!
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
It would be both. Technical solutions are social solutions. A new language could be part of the solution. I don’t think it’s going to happen, by the way, I’m just identifying the problem as I see it, and why I don’t think HTML, Gopher, or G
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
You’re being snarky, but here’s a serious answer. I don’t see what relevance statelessness has to do with it, so I’ll leave that aside. The ‘problem’ with HTML is that it’s lacking a lot of features we now realise we want, and at the same t
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
A lot… but what percentage? I’d want a protocol that recognised the semantic relation of images to text, and clients should follow that.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
For iPhones, at least, I believe that period was when they were thinnest (the iPhone 6 is the thinnest one, 2014).
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
As someone that considers images to be really important to most things I’m interested in, that completely sucks. As does Gemini for that matter. Otherwise I do actually quite like the idea of a protocol that is styled by the user agent, not
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Yeah, seriously, the nostalgia for blogs is understandable, but I remember feeling they were ruining the internet. People used to have site laid out with categorised pages that were linked together. A bit like a personal Wikipedia. They wou
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Yeah, I see this "not replacing, assisting" argument all the time, and it just doesn't work. If you can do more with fewer people, fewer people will be employed for the same task. In the past, nearly everyone was a farmer. We
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Such a system can't want anything.
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by thejohnconway 2y ago
Almost like he's full of shit a lot of the time eh?

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