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by wilg 2y ago
You are deeply disturbed by the idea that some services can be better implemented server-side? Who do you think pressured them, the illuminati?
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by wilg 2y ago
This type of conspiracy-minded thinking is unhealthy.
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by wilg 2y ago
"Open" means "open" not "better".
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by wilg 2y ago
What broken Sam Altman promises are you referring to?
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by wilg 2y ago
It sounds like your idea of "open" is "closed"
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by wilg 2y ago
Unfortunately this typically takes the form of an old man refusing to stop driving and then crashing his car, potentially harming others.
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by wilg 2y ago
Hard to land if no land.
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by wilg 2y ago
I encourage as many people as possible who are less wacko than Musk to try to beat him at his own game. Will be good for everyone.
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by wilg 2y ago
The ocean landing is so cool. I believe they said that the next one they are going to try to land back at the tower? Seems plausible now.
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by wilg 2y ago
You don't think a guillotine implies an execution by a guillotine?
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by wilg 2y ago
Those are examples of layoffs in general, but the objectionable thing about OPs scenario is a layoff followed by an increase in the CEO or executive pay of around the same amount of value as was cut. I would expect CEO pay increases to cost
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Google Maps' Protobuf URL encoding scheme(github.com)
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by wilg 2y ago
Can you give an example of where that happened?
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This is just a toxic attitude from Linux people you see on everything. They're always finding a way to be slighted by software not being made for their niche platform, as though it's trivial to support multiple platforms properly.
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by wilg 2y ago
It's not a strawman but it is an attack on what this person said. I don't think they are being reasonable.
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by wilg 2y ago
I think its okay for people not to do twice the work to support a type of phone they don't care about or use. Who is this deceiving? You figured it out, clearly. I think you're more mad than reasonable here.
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If you're not shooting ProRes I'd imagine you'd get fewer compression artifacts by zooming before encoding.
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by wilg 2y ago
This is a blog post about the app, not the website. The actual website has the fun you are complaining about: https://www.shotwithkino.com/
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by wilg 2y ago
Hell hath no fury like an Android user spurned.
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They released this voice like 6 months ago and no one noticed.
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by wilg 2y ago
but openai has only ever said that the chatgpt voice has nothing to do with scojo
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by wilg 2y ago
Maybe, but I don't think it's likely that they used any actual copyrighted material of her voice. It's not illegal to want one voice actor to play a role (or record voice data), then get a different, somewhat (but not actuall
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by wilg 2y ago
Nobody besides cab medallion owners really liked the regulations that Uber violated is probably a big part of it
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Of course, surely you can do this if you're playing a character, such as impersonating Trump or Obama or an actor on SNL?
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One thing that's fun about Tesla is their full service manuals for (all?) their vehicles are free online https://service.tesla.com/
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How would it have synced the wifi password from iCloud without the wifi password one wonders?
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by wilg 2y ago
The money doesn't matter much, and the electricity is worth rolling the dice on.
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by wilg 2y ago
If its useful it is okay if its expensive and unreliable.
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by wilg 2y ago
Increasing efficiency is good, yes. Crypto sucks because it doesn't do anything useful and intentionally burns compute. If AI is not useful, then we will not need to spend the power on it because no one will want or need it. If it is u
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by wilg 2y ago
Neither of those ways reverses course, they only reduce emissions. But we have to go net negative on emissions to reverse global warming. Electric devices are not a major issue, since they can be powered by green energy easily. There's

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