thewebguyd

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by thewebguyd 5d ago
A backup without a restore test isn't a backup at all
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by thewebguyd 5d ago
Of course. At a certain point, it's just physics. There is only going to be so much you can get out of such a tiny sensor and lens. Software can only do so much without turning it into an AI photo. Even just carrying around a small Mic
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by thewebguyd 5d ago
I'd suspect the average person won't notice much difference (on the main lens) until about iPhone 11 or older, with still photos. Computational image processing does a TON of heavy lifting with these tiny sensors. With video OTOH,
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by thewebguyd 5d ago
> only photographers care about that, to most people it's just pictures This is largely true, when it comes to photos of other people/people they care about. I'm a wedding & family photographer part time, and at nearly
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by thewebguyd 5d ago
> I prefer physical books at home, but if I'm out and about travelling I always take my kindle. Same. I prefer hardcovers, I usually look for first editions, etc. I'd prefer not to lug them around so I also have a kindle for if
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by thewebguyd 5d ago
I suspect even some of the more "advanced" queries they demoed off, i.e., "what was that restaurant John and I talked about last week?" also not require LLMs whatsoever and could have been accomplished with a simple sear
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by thewebguyd 5d ago
Small claims is great in that in most states lawyers generally aren't allowed so right out the gate you remove the wealth asymmetry issue. The downside is the dollar amount is very small. I'd like to see small claims limits expand
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by thewebguyd 8d ago
> Infinite investor dollars This has another side effect in that it breaks the power that consumers have in the market to have a say in how resources get allocated, by voting with their wallet. The entire AI buildout is non-consensual. I
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by thewebguyd 9d ago
> But it's an illusion So is human consciousness. We are also dynamic and constantly changing, self awareness/consciousness is a conditioned process. There is no unchanging "you" or a little man inside controlling thi
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by thewebguyd 9d ago
> We just don't know. That's the absurdity of this. We are trying to measure LLMs against something we don't even have an accurate definition of ourselves. If we don't fully know what consciousness is, how can we conf
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by thewebguyd 9d ago
> Can this thing harm me back? We extend moral considerations or legal protections to beings that have zero capacity to harm us back, though. The inability to fight back is the reason a lot of welfare protections exist in the first pla
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by thewebguyd 11d ago
> where we all are made to learn new stuff Liquid glass didn't require any relearning at all, the iOS interface changed aesthetics, not functionality. The OS has worked largely the same for the past 10 years since the iPhone X. But
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by thewebguyd 11d ago
And if it came to that, and that's how this OS worked, we'd see open APIs disappear real quick from all the popular services because of the support nightmare, and, services like Uber and others are going to want to maintain exclus
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by thewebguyd 11d ago
It's a bit of a different world today then when BlackBerry dominated. RIM essentially invented MDM which is what allowed it to take off in the enterprise, via BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Android and iOS didn't fully unseat them
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by thewebguyd 12d ago
Simple baseball hat is one of the oldest tricks in the book and is a staple for a reason. The brim blocks your eyes and upper half of your face, facial recognition gets broken because the camera cannot find two eyes and a nose bridge, and t
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by thewebguyd 12d ago
Or they've hit diminishing returns that will collapse their valuation, so saying "this is a threat to humanity" sounds better than "This is about as good as the tech is going to be for a long time" to investors.
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by thewebguyd 12d ago
None of that has to do with blocking the content behind a login wall. X can still serve ads just fine to non-logged in users. I'm against the site running ads, at all, I'm against mandatory account creation. The internet ran ad su
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by thewebguyd 12d ago
> The problem companies have is that "doesn't suck" generally means "it's free with no ads". Or in the case of X, how about just let me browse without creating an account? Likewise with meta/FB, IG, etc
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by thewebguyd 17d ago
They are just stories, but narrative stories work really well for human brains when it comes to psychological transformation. I like to think of religions as psychological technology. One doesn’t have to believe the stories are real for the
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by thewebguyd 29d ago
People complained there was no SDK or way to install software on the iPhone outside of web apps.
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by thewebguyd 29d ago
It's weird to me how so many people just put up with crappy, low quality software. If you buy a physical good and its defective, you return it, stop buying that brand, maybe even leave a negative review or contact consumer reports, etc
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by thewebguyd 29d ago
Even Apple, before caving in, didn't want apps. On the original iPhone there was no SDK, Jobs' "sweet solution" to expanding functionality was web apps pinned to the home screen. Everyone complained, loudly, and they cav
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by thewebguyd 29d ago
> gratuitous over-use of technology. That describes silicon valley tech culture to a tee.
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> If you tell me to imaging an equilateral triangle, I can put it there in my mind's eye, and if you tell me to attach another equilateral triangle to it I can see the resulting parallelogram. For me, I can't. With the Apple ex
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
load-bearing was/is used frequently on the ops side of things, I assume the LLMs picked up from physical engineering texts or sysadmin type blogs.
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
> parking lots This would do a lot on its own. Remove parking minimums and pull out the parking lots. This is why transit is important, and single occupancy vehicles as the primary means of human transport in urban areas is just not sust
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Or go super old school and send a handwritten letter. We've stayed in touch with eachother's social groups via various means of communication since antiquity without social media algorithms. We need to re-normalize not knowing w
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
There's a controlled experiments that did show a pretty significant benefit to being outside in a forest vs. in an urban environment. The Japan one on forest bathing from Chiba University saw a 12.4% decrease in cortisol, 5.8% decrease
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
The problem is when every neighborhood is NIMBY, something has to give or the problem will never be solved. At the end of the day, valuing aesthetics, parking, or quiet is a preference. Having shelter near jobs, schools and public transit i
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by thewebguyd 1mo ago
Thermal performance degrades too. Paste breaks down over 2 to 5 years, you'll thermal throttle more often and more quickly than when new after a few years. Phase change thermal pads help with this, extending that timeline out beyond 5+

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