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by Sloppy 7mo ago
I have owned two high end OLED TVs both got horrible burn-in within a year. I'll never get another. This will only be worse on a computer screen with permanent areas like menu bars and docks to ruin the OLEDs. I've heard all the &
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by Sloppy 1y ago
You need Google Translate to read it. <--- read with a high degree of irony.
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by Sloppy 1y ago
On my deathbed; "I wish I'd spent more time ranting about crappy software made by monopoly companies that just don't give a ... ack ... gasp xxxxxxxx"
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by Sloppy 1y ago
Far to little effort and attention has been devoted to creating beautiful text online. The web set text back centuries. In some ways it was never this bad except for the monospaced typewriters. This is welcome indeed.
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by Sloppy 2y ago
Now maybe AI will buy their products?
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by Sloppy 2y ago
"Apps" suck. Use a web ui and tell Apple and Google to shove it. If anti-trust and/or our consumer protestors in various US legislatures won't fix the app stores by breaking them up, the app devs can just drop making app
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by Sloppy 2y ago
Wait a minute, is this a metaphor for our relationship with high tech? I want to breakup with my Pixel 6 because its camera lacks megapixels...
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by Sloppy 2y ago
Today I drifted in AI generated dread feeling that half of what I read (including this article) was AI generated -- maybe more since it included AI generated music. Was it due to my recent return from some number of days in the Oregon outba
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by Sloppy 3y ago
Haha, followed the link in Firefox but it was blocked because of my ad-blocker. Who has the time to track all the stuff Google collects about you? At least spread out the tracking by NOT using every Google app. They've become the singl
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by Sloppy 3y ago
The consensus seems to be: - Cmd-v should paste to match formatting everywhere. No one wants that formatting or if they do they are in a tiny minority that can be served with some new shortcut. - there are several more or less cheesy ways
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by Sloppy 3y ago
The article is a load of confused rubbish. I couldn't find anything remotely insightful or even coherent in it.
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by Sloppy 3y ago
Very nice ideas, please please please someone pick this up! Doing anything on a mobile device is far more painful than people assume. A generation of people are now unfamiliar with using a PC and although it has its problems, the use cases
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by Sloppy 3y ago
Thanks. Why are paywalled posts left or even allowed on HN? I'm sure there are other sources of this exact content. I have nothing against paywalling unique content, just don't expect me to buy a subscription just to blab about it
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by Sloppy 3y ago
same as for non-logged in users, namely popular for various categories
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by Sloppy 3y ago
If you are not logged in to YouTube you get generic crappy recommendations, why not this for someone without history turned on? I use the YouTube recommender extensively and understand the issues about getting increasing crap in recs. I rea
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by Sloppy 3y ago
Wow, Red Bull does give you wings!
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by Sloppy 3y ago
Hype is ever-present, beware. OK. ML was overhyped but has proven useful, OK. But the new Generative AIs are fundamentally different. They are trained without any notion of a ground truth. They therefore have no concept of reality. They onl
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by Sloppy 4y ago
As a data scientist who has created AI applications and built many models over the last 10 years, I can say beware of ChatGPT. AI derived knowledge should be used only by those who understand its limits. One of the simplest AIs is a recomme
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by Sloppy 4y ago
You really have to ask? Don't force subscriptions! If everything I ran - occasionally - required a subscription, no matter how small, I would drop 99% of it. I have already done this for MS Office and Adobe Creative Suite. I don'
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Every new/subsequent round of funding will dilute your shares or options. If you have good management and investors, they will add "anti-dilution" shares when new funding is taken so early hires are re-incentivized. Stay on t
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Some of the article's conclusions seem over simplified. Mastodon has federated moderation, some servers have almost none and others have strict rules--kind of like group message boards. The only rule you can apply to Mastodon of the fu
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by Sloppy 4y ago
I played with a similar compositor when they first became possible and concluded that they were pretty and wow-able but 95% useless for your GUI.
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Maybe true but is it causal? Said another way, maybe counties with poor medical facilities, poorer people, etc. are more attracted to voting Republican. The title might read "The downtrodden are more attracted to Republican ideas&quot
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Doesn't work for washingtonpost.com, "disabled" for the Economist. WTF, legal problems?
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by Sloppy 4y ago
I don't mind paying for content but not all content is worth paying for. If micro-payments ever become viable I'd be game for that but the paywall options of today are far too onerous! I sometimes clear cookies, use Brave in priva
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Why? An NPM package??? I'm baffled.
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Add VPN, TOR support, private search, IPFS, etc. and maybe Brave is a better choice.
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Thought experiment #3 Create a hypothetical new stable coin. Issue one coin for every dollar put into the stable coin. For every dollar subtracted pay out the dollar and take the coin out of circulation until another USD comes back in. Make
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Taglines in search of a product? Even the demo gets a "so what" review.
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by Sloppy 4y ago
Something unique has happened and I don't think anyone sees it for what it is. A new type of agent has taken control of human behavior--or at least has taken a major stake in influencing human thought. Call it the algorithm, call it AI

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