AvAn12

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by AvAn12 7d ago
Software company pens speculative narratives about impact of not-yet-realized features. This reminds me of the corny old copies of The Futurist magazine that my dad kept around. Fun, hopelessly naive, and not at all aligned with how realit
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by AvAn12 9d ago
We are on our second Sceptre dumb tv. Cheap, good picture, happy. We handle streaming via Apple TV, though pivoting very slowly to jellyfin.
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by AvAn12 19d ago
Yep! Our family is on our second one. First was 42” and lasted five years. Current one is 55” and is going on seven years. Both were around $200-250. Picture quality is great for us. Apple TV takes care of streaming. And easy connecti
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by AvAn12 29d ago
Closed amazon account when Bz decided to get into politics. I realize I can buy everything I need “in the real world” and thru manufacture websites directly. I do not miss it.
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by AvAn12 29d ago
Bravo!
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by AvAn12 1mo ago
Open weight != open source
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by AvAn12 1mo ago
Could just, you know, pay more…
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by AvAn12 2mo ago
1. If someone is running to a cop because someone didn’t pick up after their dog, that is a sad state of affairs. 2. If we are so interested in enforcing laws, what about all of the white collar crime, crypto scams, insider trading, and gri
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by AvAn12 2mo ago
Hotel wants to avoid undesirable guests. Seems reasonable.
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by AvAn12 2mo ago
Convert some to cheap residential. Solves both problems: affordable housing as well as rebalancing supply and demand for office space.
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by AvAn12 3mo ago
Why participate? Why not just skip any site that wants a photo of ID? Also, those sites run massive liability risk for the inevitable data breaches that will occur.
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by AvAn12 3mo ago
There ARE regulations for sure. But they exist to protect the population at large. For example, food safety laws were not created out of government hostility but rather because food was unsafe. Read (or read about) The Jungle by Upton Sincl
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by AvAn12 3mo ago
Then those people are on the sidelines like every other citizen. Play the game or be a spectator. Nobody gets to have it both ways.
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by AvAn12 3mo ago
If businesspeople want to get involved in politics, they should have the courage to run for office like anybody else. Lurking on the sidelines and waiving money around is really lame and laughable.
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by AvAn12 3mo ago
At the end of the day, the processor can only do Turing operations: assign values to variables (registers, memory locations, storage), loops, bitwise operations, and conditionals. Whether the source code is python, java, or lisp, it has to
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by AvAn12 3mo ago
I think the gap is because 1. For coding, Claude is amazing - mainly because of its curated skills and because massive amounts of working code has already been carefully labeled over the last decade or so via GitHub. And because with any T
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by AvAn12 4mo ago
What other industry regularly acts in such bad faith with respect to claims made? In the securities industry, material misstatement of fact lands people in jail.
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by AvAn12 4mo ago
Tech is supposed to be a tool that serves other products ends, not an end in itself. At this point, tech biz leaders are massively over-reaching and trying to influence the rest of us: muxk, thiel, Karp, etc. So it should be no surprise tha
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by AvAn12 4mo ago
Gee, what an optimistic outlook you have. Do you think the truly creative innovators in the fields of tech, science, engineering, and art get out of bed in the morning believing that they are just grimly marching down a path laid out by so
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by AvAn12 4mo ago
Wearables are creepy. Please stop pushing “products” that nobody wants.
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by AvAn12 4mo ago
Forecasts are a thought exercise, not the revelation of something foretold. Best thing to do is think of the outcome you wish for and then try to take whatever actions you can to help make it so. Like with climate change for example.
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by AvAn12 4mo ago
1. so is everyone who is subject to a corporate mandate... but... 2. this may be ok. A good way to learn a piece of software or tool or process is to play with it. We learn lots of general knowledge through play and experimentation. Heck
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by AvAn12 4mo ago
Carpet has been made for millennia. Scotchguard is new and toxic. So just make the carpets without the stain protection junk. Frankly the carpet factories will do more business as people will want to replace their carpets more frequently.
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by AvAn12 5mo ago
Both try to maximize engagement. Both (soon to be) ad supported. Both driven by algorithms that show the user what they want to see.
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by AvAn12 5mo ago
Like dot matrix printer fonts
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by AvAn12 5mo ago
I’m not sure anyone needs to break anything. I’m not sure this is a commercially viable business once all of the VC and foreign funding scaffolding goes away.
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by AvAn12 5mo ago
If they produce large negative externalities like data centers do, then yes absolutely. In a normal market, tech cos would have to pay for the messes they make (the negative externalities). With so much speculative financing available toda
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by AvAn12 6mo ago
You can’t determine age from a face scan. And it’s trivial to hold up a photo of an older person. Seriously if a website wants an image of your government ID or facial image, maybe ask yourself if you really need to access that site. The
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by AvAn12 6mo ago
Isn’t this sort of like saying you know how to use a web browser?
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by AvAn12 6mo ago
Good point regarding “ survivorship bias and groupthink” here.

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