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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
If your primary use case is to read books off of Kindle, I'd say no, because Remarkable doesn't run on Android, and as such has no Kindle app. You can de-DRM Kindle books to read on it, but then you're adding these steps for
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
They also have the USB C charging quirk/cheap-out that if they're completely drained they will only charge with a low powered trickle charger until the device gets to some minimal level of charge, and then you can use a higher p
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
The Pro is because it's a colored display. Though I do agree I can't wait until we're done with the whole "Pro" branding non-sense everywhere in hardware.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I agree (as another RM2 user). It's great for writing stuff down, but for retrieval it's at best high-friction, sometimes just plain irritating. If a workflow for exporting my remarkable notes as SVG to obsidian but then also runn
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I'm trading classes with my partner on my remarkable (she's teaching me Social Choice Theory, me her Physics), I agree with almost everything you said but there are a few reasons why I'm going the Remarkable route here: - I d
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I wish Remarkable had better software compatibility though. Importing books from Kindle is a multi-step process, a bunch of formats aren't supported, and their first party app doesn't even work on linux. Haven't tried OCR on
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I'm not referring to the specific context of this lawsuit, but the broader context in general. Google is in multiple anti-competitive lawsuits, while Apple has the most walled garden of all gardens, protects it with a giant club and ma
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Yeah, that's an interesting side of this. How is Apple not under any fire for basically weaponizing something as basic as internet search on their platform? If we think this practice is anti-competitive shouldn't we also make it i
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
MBTI is absolutely bullshit, it's like one level above horoscopes and astrology, but very similar type of BS. There's also the Gallup crap that many corps were doing to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each employee so the
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I'm not trying to diminish the complexity of a desktop OS of course, but sometimes it's hard not to feel the priorities are all over the place. Don't get me wrong, I'm not nostalgic about Windows XP, I actually remember
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
My hot take is all OSes are kinda bad for daily driving. Apple has no qualms breaking backwards compatibility for core functions like bluetooth connectivity in MacOS. Windows has backwards compatibility, but increasingly worsening UX, throw
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Sure, but I did choose my words precisely for that reason. That's why I said it usually correlates with hours. Hours of labor put in is not the metric that makes art worth it to me, it's more a question of a skilled artist ens
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I don't agree with this for two different reasons. First: I don't think the analogy holds. Recording a performance is not the same as generating a recording of a performance that never happened. To be abundantly clear, I'm
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
The kind of attack vector is irrelevant here, what's important is the attack surface . Not to mention this is a tool facilitating the attack, with little to no direct interaction with the user in some cases. Just because spear-phi
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Maybe in the short term, but I think ultimately there are lots of things Humans want (AI or no AI), and that means there's a lot of value to create in the world still. Which means there will still be jobs, just maybe not as much in the
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
But in other phishing attempts the user actually gives out their password (unintentionally) to an unscrupulous actor. In this case there's a middle-man (the AI extension) doing that for you, sometimes without even confirming with you w
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I wonder how this will even fare in the review process, or if the big AI players will get a free pass here. My intuition says that it's a risk that Google/Chrome absolutely don't want to own, it will be curious to see how &qu
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
It's full of the n-word right now. I'm really not surprised.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
That's where the analogy starts to fall apart then. Because the variance in those decisions is not very similar, since you're sampling very different underlying distributions. And estimating the priors for a problem like "wha
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I agree with that. I think part of the issue with the lack of "real" quantification in the results of LLMs is that the output and problem domain is so ill-defined. With standard neural nets (and other kinds of ML) classifiers, reg
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
You're right in a descriptive manner, but I also think the parent comment's point is about correctness and not determinism . In other engineering fields correctness-related-guarantees can often be phrased in probabilistic ways,
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Except you can play hundreds of thousands of poker hands in your lifetime, but only have time/energy/money to start a handful of businesses.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Cheaper poorer quality ads means a bad time for us, people who are being incessantly targeted by this crap. Websites are already finding creative ways around DNS blocklists for ads serving.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Yeah the conversation on both extremes feels almost religious at times. The pro LLM hype feels more disconcerting sometimes because there are literally billions if not trillions of dollars riding on this thing, so people like Sam Altman hav
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I don't think throwing out the concept of code reviews and version control is the correct response to a purported rise in low-effort high-volume patches. If anything it's even more required.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
What are you concerned about specifically? What bits of Obsidian should they work on polishing instead? (not trying to be hostile, just curious as another Obsidian user who is excited by this feature because the current meta search function
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Doesn't even need a plugin, just some custom CSS iirc.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Where in Canada? I had the complete opposite experience last winter in Ontario. I asked my doctor about ADHD, he had me fill two forms, set up an appointment with a psychologist, who after a couple weeks of appointments was ready to prescri
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
On the other hand, your feelings don't exist in a vacuum, disconnected from your external state. If you genuinely feel taken advantage of, no amount of self-delusion is going to make you truly over it, until you acknowledge the source
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Thank you for clarifying. That does compute with what I thought the "Rationalist" movement as covered by the article was about. I didn't peg them as pure a priori thinkers as you put it. I suppose my comment still holds, as

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