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by wat10000 5d ago
The selling point is being able to say things like "remind me about the next early release from school the night before" and it'll dig up the info from your emails and then create the reminder.
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by wat10000 5d ago
It does as long as you've typed something that doesn't match an app. "Safari" and enter will open Safari. "What is safari" and enter will ask Siri the question and show the answer.
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by wat10000 5d ago
Cmd-space, type, done.
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by wat10000 5d ago
That doesn't really make sense here. This whole issue is about the more expensive options. "Consumers are all about minimizing spend" right, and that's why they have a cheap option with ads. That's fine. I don'
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by wat10000 5d ago
The gas analogy is a good one, because those fuckheads also shove advertising in your face when you're already giving them money for a product. The issue isn't your ability to cancel individual services. The issue is the increasin
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by wat10000 5d ago
All that matters is the actual agreement. The agreement says there's an exception where "streaming rights or other limitations require certain Content to play with ads," and that "no ads" and "ad-free" tie
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by wat10000 5d ago
Arbitration is fine. There's no reason people shouldn't be allowed to freely engage the services of an arbitrator. What people take issue with is forced arbitration. The problem isn't really about the arbitration at all, th
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by wat10000 5d ago
Imagine you’re driving headlong toward a cliff. Someone turns the steering wheel a little, not nearly enough, but it’s a small part of an attempt to steer away from the cliff. Then somebody else comes along and steers back. How measured sho
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by wat10000 5d ago
Are you from the past?
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by wat10000 5d ago
Why are you getting your information from movies?
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by wat10000 6d ago
That’s fine, but the argument needs to be something better than “humanity did without it and survived as a species.”
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by wat10000 6d ago
I’m saying it does matter in the end. Partly because small numbers still count, partly because the “who cares” attitude gets infectious and impacts everything. App makers aren’t just going to ignore the Duo while making everything else perf
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by wat10000 7d ago
The goal of purely maximizing engagement should itself be dismissed.
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by wat10000 7d ago
I’d expect false positives to be low. Bad AI has a distinctive style and is easy to pick up on. Just like bad toupees are easily recognized. The false negative rate would be far more interesting.
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by wat10000 7d ago
How do you know you can discern AI vs human with high probability? You need some external source of truth to judge that, otherwise all you know is that you can discern bad, obvious AI. See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki
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by wat10000 7d ago
Your links are supposed to be examples of bad posters? They're awesome!
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by wat10000 7d ago
I just happened across this video with Apple’s new CEO and how Apple does things: https://youtu.be/4pqF5KMHOr8 He talks about a Steve Jobs story where he moved a piece of furniture and notes that the back, which would be ag
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by wat10000 7d ago
Most people probably won't like having their plans ruined and a bunch of money wasted being forced to abandon their travel. And the US may be home to a noncitizen. As for why they end up in a detention center, maybe immigration think
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by wat10000 7d ago
It's the same thing for US citizens entering the US. They can try to search your device, and they can seize it temporarily (although that may end up being a long temporarily), but they can't deny you entry. For a non-citizen, it&#
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by wat10000 7d ago
The word "unreasonable" leaves the entire thing up to interpretation. Is it "reasonable" to search a traveler's phone with no indication of any wrongdoing? You'd probably say no. I'd say no. The courts say
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by wat10000 7d ago
Most of them do. The Constitution is clear on when it talks about citizens versus all people. The exceptions are things like the right to vote or hold federal office.
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by wat10000 7d ago
As a user, this attitude makes me sad. As a professional programmer, it at least gratifies me to know this is the attitude I'm competing against.
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by wat10000 8d ago
No, and from what I know of the diagnostic criteria, it doesn't fit. The main reason I think this is because there are people who don't seem to get the concept. These threads often have people arguing that consciousness is no big
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by wat10000 8d ago
Multiple separate questions here. First, is a measured improvement actually real or just an artifact of noise? Second, if it is real, is 3% anywhere close to the true value? Third, if 3% is real, is it an important difference? I'm just
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by wat10000 8d ago
That's the big question. What do we mean by conscious? I think the key thing is qualia. That is, there's some subjective experience. If you prick us, not only do we bleed, but we feel it. This is pretty vague, which is the who
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by wat10000 8d ago
I have a strong suspicion that a lot of humans aren't conscious. The full p-zombie solipsist theory clearly isn't true, because the concept of consciousness wouldn't have arisen if nobody had it. But that doesn't mean e
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by wat10000 8d ago
Commenting without reading the article, as is tradition, since it requires logging in to read. I don't think this follows. We have no idea how consciousness happens. We can't even describe what it is without a bunch of vague h
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by wat10000 8d ago
That dream of write-once-run-anywhere has been attempted for decades and is still a massive struggle. And Steam isn’t in a position to mandate that kind of massive change. They’re big, but they still have competition from other stores and f
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by wat10000 8d ago
Is this just a question of what one considers to be “significant”? I’d consider 3% to be significant but the authors apparently don’t.
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by wat10000 9d ago
I was definitely saying it at the time. But I wasn't embedded in the ecosystem, it was very much "those JavaScript guys are nuts, why would they do this?"

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