FreakyT

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by FreakyT 6mo ago
> From my PoV, pretending you can feed outputs, test suites or APIs from existing code and have AI "rewrite it" so you can call it your own is just theft. If you replace “AI” with “a software engineering team”, does that chan
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by FreakyT 1y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, considering that this actually happened: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/google-pixel-4as-rui...
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by FreakyT 1y ago
Molly is great; I use it for the same purpose. I find the Signal devs' attitude so frustrating; they deliberately disable the ability to use Signal in secondary device mode for phone-sized-devices, because they know the Correct Way To
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by FreakyT 1y ago
There are non-Chinese open LLMs (Mistral, LLama, etc), so I don't think that explains it.
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by FreakyT 3y ago
> if it becomes possible in the future to intercept ICBMs during the launch phase using some kind of new technology This was largely the concept of the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka Star Wars) in the 1980s: https://en.wi
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by FreakyT 3y ago
It'd be weirder if they didn't , considering how much X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, prioritizes subscriber posts. The last time I checked my feed on X, The Everything App by Elon Musk, basically every surfaced reply was a p
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by FreakyT 3y ago
Parent comment asserted that "flying gets worse every year", which is a very different declaration than "flying got significantly worse after 9/11"
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by FreakyT 3y ago
> the flying experience gets worse every year People always say this, but I haven't seen any evidence that it's true. In my view, the flying experience at least in the US has actually gotten better over the last few years.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
That’d be really exciting if they managed to get a working Malaria vaccine out of this research. Would be useful in so many places.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
To be fair, it’s the security team’s idiotic position on IMAP that prompted the parent commenter to find a workaround. It’s like how having super draconian password reset and complexity requirements ends up being less secure because users w
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Exactly this -- people have just seized on the the "not FDA approved" line because it sounds reasonable if you don't really understand how FDA approval works or what it really means. As soon as it's approved, the goalpos
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by FreakyT 5y ago
The OG Rift is still pretty great -- unlike the newer products, it doesn't require a Facebook account, and you can use it with SteamVR if you want and not really even bother with the Oculus software.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
It's really a shame what has happened to Blue Origin. They've gone from a promising space startup to yet another purveyor of perpetual vaporware. Where is the BE-4 engine? Delayed, again and again. New Glenn, the rocket that could
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by FreakyT 5y ago
> Obviously it’s Tinder posting the fake profiles because they want men using their software. How is this at all obvious? I mean, even if we assume they're definitely fake profiles, wouldn't the more likely explanation be th
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by FreakyT 5y ago
I really hope Epic wins that lawsuit against Apple, not because I particularly care about Epic, but because I'd like to see Apple forced to allow alternative web browsers. Still don't get how it was a problem for Microsoft to &quo
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by FreakyT 5y ago
IIRC, unvaccinated are more likely to get infected and also typically have higher viral loads, which corresponds to higher infectiousness.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Exactly -- people are still free to not get vaccinated, but they're not free to go to aggregate settings where they might infect everyone there, which seems like a reasonable compromise. It's the same approach as with antivax pa
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by FreakyT 5y ago
The key difference between Toyota's approach and Tesla's was simple: Tesla built out their own charging infrastructure. Just like with battery-electric-vehicles, there's a chicken and egg problem: no one will buy a car if the
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by FreakyT 5y ago
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by FreakyT 5y ago
You're getting downvoted, but it's true -- CEQA is a great example of how well-intentioned environmental legislation can be abused by basically anyone to stonewall any project for any reason. A common-sense change might be requiri
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by FreakyT 5y ago
The key argument against this is that many of the planned highways were also supposed to go through richer neighborhoods, but never got constructed because the residents of those neighborhoods were able to successfully fight against them.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Exactly -- you can't build big projects without stepping on someone's toes. What we really need is equal-opportunity toe-stepping.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
People on here seem to be missing the point — one of the (only 2) major political parties in the US has effectively declared that a core party doctrine is “any election that we lose is, ipso facto, fraudulent”. That sort of belief is what
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by FreakyT 5y ago
IIRC Skymall used to feature Hammacher Schlemmer products pretty often, so it's not surprising that there'd be a lot of overlap.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
I feel like Apple's approach to hardware made their job much easier -- they just ensured that every retina Mac had a display with exactly 2x the pixels as its pre-retina equivalent, so they never had to deal with fractional scaling lik
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by FreakyT 5y ago
I feel like most tech-workers can be divided into two camps: Type 1: "It's obvious that remote work is the future, and anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in the past" Type 2: "Remote work is infinitely inferior to
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by FreakyT 5y ago
On Android, there's nothing stopping Facebook from doing that right now. Why haven't they?
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by FreakyT 5y ago
I'm still a bit disappointed the Pine64 folks didn't go for a low-power reflective LCD like the ones used by this or the Pebble.
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by FreakyT 5y ago
FB Messenger does have data takeout, it comes in some kind of JSON format. Be prepared for some surprisingly massive file downloads though -- my chat history alone was over 50gb!
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by FreakyT 5y ago
Agreed -- the problem with most dynamic avatar generators is that all the avatars look basically visually indistinguishable, which pretty much defeats their purpose. I prefer ones like Wavatar and Robohash because they generate unique loo

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