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by xp84 5mo ago
> For example: imagine you're driving and your whole field of vision suddenly starts flickering in and out of focus Imagine you're driving with regular glasses and one tiny screw gives way and they fall off. Imagine you rub you
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by xp84 5mo ago
First, you cannot know if "discrimination" gave a positive boost to a kid from looking at their skin. Poor white and Asian kids can have all the same disadvantages (or more) than a randomly-selected Black kid. You can only make su
723.
by xp84 5mo ago
There will always be a tension between those who want purely semantic documents and those who argue for a pragmatic allowance of layout to just be allowed in the document itself. It’s indisputable though that the modern BS of frontend tech
724.
by xp84 5mo ago
Re: photoshop html table export Marketing email is still produced in this exact same way at some companies - ask me how I know! (If anyone isn’t familiar with this, it’s because for security reasons we’ve all decided email should use an int
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by xp84 5mo ago
(TL;DR Can we just judge written works by their actual content?) I’m really in the “who gives a shit” camp on something like this. A lot of people probably have an LLM punch up a blog post. It is good at turning bullet points and notes into
726.
by xp84 5mo ago
Are video codecs in the present day able to be sandboxed? In my fantasies at least I’d like the worst a malicious video file can do is cause garbage output or cause the codec to crash. Forgive the ignorance, I have worked entirely in the ab
727.
by xp84 5mo ago
Or go the Apple Watch naming scheme route. Just “AV” Next, AV Series 1 and 2 (released simultaneously) Later, AV Edition but it costs $10,000
728.
by xp84 5mo ago
As with all naming schemes in the tech world, I am sure no future scenarios, including successor names, were ever considered
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by xp84 5mo ago
You mean the rule that’s basically “Anything goes” as long as you reproduce the magic incantation in tiny print at the end: “This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose
730.
by xp84 5mo ago
I don’t really disagree with the closing quip about those guys’ (lack of) qualifications. But I think what upsets a lot of people (including me) is that if you’re Asian or white, and male, graduating with a 4.5 and doing literally everythin
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by xp84 5mo ago
Looks super cool! > It still needs to obtain the necessary medical certifications in order to sell its glasses and get all the production pieces in place Oh, ok. I hope they have enough funding to last till the FDA clears them, in 2030 :
732.
by xp84 5mo ago
Yeah, and we thought the most unlucky people were the ones named Alexa.
733.
by xp84 5mo ago
Few of those are ever running. Mostly we have just two brands of smooth-brains whose only policy aim is “preventing that other group of assholes from gaining any power, because they and their supporters are pure evil!”
734.
by xp84 5mo ago
Not GP, but what all economists have been saying is that tariffing industrial raw materials - industrial inputs like steel, aluminum, lumber, is idiotic because the companies that make machines, cars, houses, makes a lot more money per to
735.
by xp84 5mo ago
I do not feel that I have a voice at the U.N. But I also feel that it has been a particularly toothless organization. If a member state decides it is in their interest to flout some safeguard they were to mandate, that state will do so, and
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by xp84 5mo ago
I think they get that control because they promise this nonsense to whoever hires them. Essentially, they're flim-flam men. They low-bid to get the contract and then try to make their underlings make good on the promises they made. I&#
737.
by xp84 5mo ago
A couple of disorganized thoughts in case anyone reads far enough to see them. The article posits that people don't want a check, they want a job. It's interesting because I think that varies widely from person to person and from
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by xp84 5mo ago
To a lesser extent the same has been said about Apple's low pay relative to peer (far less profitable) companies -- the mere honor of working at Apple is an implied part of the compensation package.
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by xp84 5mo ago
Good for you. It’s so exhausting dealing with these people who are constantly chasing a fantasy that through some process, or through sheer force of will, we can achieve a system where all the feature work gets done super quickly and we nev
740.
by xp84 5mo ago
I hear you, there certainly is a huge value in understanding the theory, including in computer science. I don’t mean to put words in someone else’s mouth, but I think perhaps in the future, writing code yourself, unaided by any AI, may be t
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by xp84 5mo ago
Some will probably dismiss your comment as partisan but it is very hard to (honestly) argue that this isn’t the case. “Think critically…” but only about the cliché punching bags of academia: capitalism, Western culture, American foreign pol
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by xp84 5mo ago
What’s built with all that VC money is already built though; I don’t foresee a future a few years out where we don’t have access to an open-source model roughly as good as the current flagship models for the cost of the compute itself.
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by xp84 5mo ago
> they seem to overwhelmingly use AI overviews now too. Hard agree. The only thing I've ever witnessed another person do on Google (this is only an incredibly slight exaggeration) is: 1. Type a 'query' - either a brand&#x2
744.
by xp84 5mo ago
Really smells like some high-ups' bonus was tied to these KPIs and they're guaranteeing that they can't lose.
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by xp84 5mo ago
It's certainly long been clear that Google is phasing out even the idea that they serve end-users "links" to other websites. They're just refining the idea and making it more and more explicit. It absolutely places them
746.
by xp84 5mo ago
Sounds like the flavour roulette wheel.
747.
by xp84 5mo ago
Even if there were no AI, that's not any different than any SaaS where your data gets stored. Picking at random, Optimizely certainly has a ton of interaction data available and they build new features and products that leverage your d
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by xp84 5mo ago
People have no mental model for it. They know people don't know much, and are used to computers being deterministic. Now (setting aside complete rubes who believe anything) people are used to detecting human-generated BS and spam on th
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by xp84 5mo ago
"Apologies, you're absolutely right. My initial strategy indeed would have caused a massive database bottleneck because it would lock the entire table. This could result in downtime for the application. Let me know if you'd l
750.
by xp84 5mo ago
Yes. The role of good management here cannot be understated. Good management (all the way up) is the difference between saying "be more productive, here's an AI subscription" and people understanding what types of usage are a

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