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by veidr 3y ago
Yeah but not programmer jobs. If you could pay your engineers 2x to be 3x more productive, you would. But you can't. But if you could pay some automaton 0.1x to make them 2x more productive, you obviously would. 2x is a stretch today b
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by veidr 3y ago
Absolutely. I mean someday, whenever that is, who knows. But this time around, and the whole LLM architecture behind it... definitely won't replace competent programmers, except at the extremes. The test I apply in my own mind is this:
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by veidr 3y ago
That is indeed the funniest (and slightly horrifying) thing. Even if you understand "glitch tokens"[1] (which is BTW the best way I've seen to explain to nontechnicals (hi, Dad!!) and also some subset of technicals (hi variou
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by veidr 3y ago
You are of course right, but ChatGPT (and most others I presume) do recommend things in conversational English. For instance I asked ChatGPT this just now: --- This guy on Hacker News just said, "WTF is a recommendation in the context
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by veidr 3y ago
No, that's the only thing to understand about it! You can't trust anything it says about anything. What it does is emit plausible-sounding information. But we've seen -- I think across every single realm of anything -- that t
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by veidr 3y ago
Interesting! Not a use case I'd considered. But in that case, you must feel almost like they developed this device for you personally! ;-)
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by veidr 3y ago
I just want VS Code floating in my 100-room magical memory palace mansion. With tools like Remote Development extensions, VS Code already works superbly from a desktop or laptop, editing locally but using a remote machine (your own or some
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by veidr 3y ago
I do have several large high-resolution monitors (8K, 4K, 4K, 4K, and a small 3K), and I have a workflow that relies on that. But that setup definitely doesn't fit in a backpack. So the idea of duplicating this inside a spatial computi
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by veidr 3y ago
The term does have a generally recognized meaning, which is something like "computer that is designed for computationally expensive tasks". That's a relative thing, so "workstation" has continued to mean "compu
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by veidr 3y ago
Tangent, but I'm curious: why do you do your work lying down in bed? Do you mean this is how you prefer to work?
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by veidr 3y ago
That isn't what I was trying to say. I was saying that Apple tends to ignore the specialized/higher-precision option initially, focusing on the majority of the market that may not need it. But then they introduce it later. As I
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, what you say is technically true, but when Apple Pencil was released, there was no iPadOS -- all iPhones and iPads were just iOS devices, at different sizes.
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by veidr 3y ago
definitely not
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by veidr 3y ago
But the Playstation controller is a (de facto) standard gaming control that all games can use. They just let Sony make it. (IIRC though Xbox and Nintendo controllers can also be used.)
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by veidr 3y ago
I kind of feel the same way, or at least I used to, by default, and in private I ridiculed my friends for being on twitter for over a decade, and always referred to it as "walmart.com" because it seemed so stupid to me to use a co
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by veidr 3y ago
I canceled my sub to that website tonight, too. But I wish this could edit the posts to show something like "Post removed because Reddit proved themselves to be cunts in 2023, but you can find it on my blog at fuckspez.com/2789892
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by veidr 3y ago
Well, capitalism is about choices. There are a multiple choices reddit could make, and there are multiple choices reddit users can make. This is a fairly classic case of "you aren't the customer, you're the product", but
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by veidr 3y ago
So does that imply that the fusogenic potential was properly considered during the design of these three vaccines, or did we just get lucky?
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by veidr 3y ago
Umm,? Their ad revenue is down north of 50% since the 'garch took over. How are you defining 'hurt'? UPDATE: Oh I see, they did the kill-the-API-to-kill-third-party-clients thing before too, long before the current brouhaha.
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by veidr 3y ago
Yep, and after reading this thread (and clicking through to the reddit thread) I couldn't justify not delivering 1 little papercut of my own; I just canceled my paid account. (Although at little personal cost, since I don't normal
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by veidr 3y ago
Thanks. I'd definitely take the opportunity to test it prior to buying, if possible. OTOH though I am kind of an avid hobbyist in this area, so I buy one or two of these machines each year (and sell the ones I don't have continued
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by veidr 3y ago
I don't think so. For one thing, they actually want you to develop your Vision OS app while using the Vision Pro. They had a session at WWDC where they highlighted that you can open a floating 4K resolution Xcode window inside the spat
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by veidr 3y ago
You mean... so we could like, battle our small children in our kitchens with lightsabers? My kids indeed do have sword toys that vibrate and make sounds, so I have done this. And I'm sorry to have to report that it is... substantially
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by veidr 3y ago
Hope so! I would buy them immediately. :-D (Not holding my breath, though...) And yeah, the Oculus controllers wouldn't nail the butterfly on finger demo, but if they had controllers, the demo would be a hawk landing on your forearm. (
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by veidr 3y ago
I am not sure how it works, but what PlayStation calls "rumble". In the light saber game, you can feel it when your light saber hits your opponent, or your light sabers clash, and it absolutely adds to the experience immensely. I
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by veidr 3y ago
Hmm, you think so? To me, the term just sounds better than "VR" or "AR" without meaning anything different (other than being less specific). There's nothing Apple-exclusive about it; it would apply to existing &quot
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by veidr 3y ago
Yeah, I actually agree with you completely. I probably didn't phrase things as well as I should have (maybe because I love me some stylus, haha). What I meant was that probably someday Apple will be happy to sell us super high tech con
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by veidr 3y ago
I haven't heard that they won't allow them. Just that they won't make them. I suspect it would support Xbox and Playstation and Nintendo controllers at launch, even, since their other platforms do. However, VR controllers a
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by veidr 3y ago
They do. The Quest Pro I have has been getting better and better at bare-hand control with each release. But AFAIK they all come with controllers, and it is the default (and generally is still easier and more precise to use, despite the con
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by veidr 3y ago
Totally agree. Like a stylus (or physical keyboard) it is only an advantage in some subset of usage scenarios.

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