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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
>“McDonald’s secret sauce is really commercial surveillance,” Journo is search of a narrative that isn't there. McDonalds could stop tracking customers tomorrow and people would still be eating the same food there in 50 years. The s
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
> Hard mode: Don't mention Pelosi or Clinton. "Argue with me but don't mention these things that prove your side correct"
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Time lost when the real developers have to pick up the pieces and the viber has just moved on to the next shiny thing.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Swing as in the political term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(politics) because the team wouldn't be the right place in the management structure to alter the rest of the page other than the ad units.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Cost issues aside yeah image embedding tech is really good and can already do tasks like this, LLMs with native image understanding are even better at it. Reasons this wouldn't work are you'd really need to get it to a good enough
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
You're trying to stop ads because they're malicious but you think they'd be honest with their alt text? Ignoring that users care deeply about images so a browser that did this would be considered broken from the get go.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
The approach they should have taken is to start whitelisting the components that are not ads. Think of how the structure of Meta is gonna work, there's some team in charge of ads who has a sub team now in charge of messing with the ads
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
>AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster. >There used to be a time when people sat down and talked about how they'd do something. Now they can just prompt an agent for a few hours and open a PR. >The m
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
If insider trading is your concern then the country hasn't been serious for a long time, everyone in government does it and it's never punished even when exploited to the levels of 9 figures of assets. Should just be legalized at
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
It’s always been the case, it’s more the anomaly that LLMs work at comparable speeds on M series because almost all other ML runs way faster on Nvidia cards.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
If you implemented something this insufferable people would at best just move all the discussion to private channels where this thing couldn't respond to it or at worst just stop providing input at all. No one wants to be lectured by a
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
The concept of computers that for programs to run on them need to be submitted to a committee who decides if the users computer can run it or not felt like where the tides were going for a long time. Post AI this starts to feel absurd and l
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Making the photos look like the old photos of the ID office is inspired.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Must have missed the part of the linux story where a company was extorted for millions of dollars by a government.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
> because some teen in a garage has just solved this problem forever Isn't really teens in garages perpetuating this is it though, its universities and companies milking government funding.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Wouldn't the logic to only hire Junior engineers if AI could do the work, what do you need the Senior salary for if they're both just asking AI to do things. This is obviously assuming the ideology of an organization that would co
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
See 3D examples from earlier models and how they try to do it but things are stacked on top of the same x/y/z point or mushed together or parented wrong or disconnected. It’s something that specifically stopped happening in the sm
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
I get it’s annoying and I personally hate it but firing someone for it is ridiculous. Are you expecting everyone to rewrite everything from an AI before they share it because that doesn’t sound a good use of company time either.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
>you might expect this from a busy high level manager that doesn’t really understand the technical details This is the worst person to get this from because they literally don’t understand it.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Every dark mode one with the rounded boxes with the weird use of border one side to highlight but it curves around the edge and also the tiny capitalized monospaced micro-type everywhere.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
They keep breaking inertial scroll on Mac though, which is something that irritates me thousands of times a day. First they made it so when it came to rest it would then start scrolling again and overshoot by 2 lines before coming to a halt
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Was my favorite game for a long period as a kid and I loved it then, I'm saying if it looked at the same thing today without that nostalgia without what felt magic about it.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Considering the system has a way to federate a server self destructing telling other servers to delete its posts could a similar system not just tell other servers to update their URL for that users posts. Not pretending to know anything ab
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
>Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive I'm sure there is some technical excuse to why this is t
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Looking back I do wonder if Monkey Island etc would appeal to me at all fresh, only one I think would still land is maybe Loom but I think the jokes in it would be the worst part. These games definitely felt magical as a kid but I think the
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Generational good will loss from these guys.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Think Apple fell for the trap of assuming they would eventually solve the glasses form factor and then fell for the second trap of convincing themselves that passthrough VR was the same as their real XR vision.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Just feels like the Apple press/podcast circuit just keep trying to spin ways to frame Apples fumble of the AI era as some sort of savvy move.
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Same decision making process behind making a VR headset out of heavy materials like glass and aluminum
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by whywhywhywhy 2mo ago
Would have gone harder without the Corporate Memphis/Alegria art which is the art always used to try and convince you to hand over your tracking rights.

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