StephenMelon

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by StephenMelon 2mo ago
The killer app is military usage, so they just need enough consumer and b2b demand to keep what they charge governments within what they can justify to taxpayers
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by StephenMelon 8mo ago
I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek to tell me about a contemporary Scottish indie band that hasn’t had a lot of press coverage. ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok all gave good answers based on the small amount of press coverage they have had
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by StephenMelon 8mo ago
The problem with the App Store model is that the app could just be switched off by the powers that be. It would be better if something like this could be built into the OS. If one decentralised use case took off, then there could be other a
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by StephenMelon 9mo ago
It just wouldn’t be possible to have a fair election when a sizeable percentage of the population is living under foreign occupation.
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by StephenMelon 9mo ago
Google currently has an advertising campaign for Gemini (in conjunction with Netflix!) which is all about how you can use AI to tell you what the key episodes are so that you don’t need to watch the whole thing. If that isn’t an admission t
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Scottish weather 1: Tesla 0(twitter.com)
2 points by StephenMelon 6y ago|0 comments
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by StephenMelon 7y ago
Seems like autonomous personal air travel would be a far, far simpler problem to solve than road-based driving? Far less edge cases, once you are in the air the only obstacles you really need to worry about are other vehicles, birds, leaves
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Maybe never reported in the wild? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8535618.stm
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Isn’t that what Cambridge Analytica were aiming for?
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Facebook jumped the shark when they started trying to encourage private individuals to “create engagement” and pay to boost their posts. If internal marketing jargon is leaking into your UX, you clearly have serious problems with how your s
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Nuclear weapons are the reason why the competing global powers have found new ways to compete and project power abroad. Global wars have mostly moved from being violence-based to being fought via propaganda and economics. It probably mirror
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Why are we still teaching assemby and C over development languages more popular, enjoyable, and accessible? It is not a good career path, it is not popular with kids or with the masses, and it is a lot more expensive than any other genre of
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
I am getting the Wikipedia list (“I found this on the web”). Tried asking it to search Wolfram Alpha (which spellcheck corrected to WolframAlpha btw!) and it said it couldn’t find that info on WolframAlpha
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Apple autocorrect has gotten worse over the past few years. The worst part is that it often changes words that were correctly typed to something wrong without the user noticing. There are also obvious mistakes with location that just should
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Like those janky Bin Laden videos from a few years back?
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
I'm really impressed that the shadows behind in the window are reasonably realistic too.
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Wouldn't the solution to that be to render in the cloud?
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
The two future directions that Apple are heading in are AR (augmented reality) and AS (autonomous systems). Mapping is more than key to both of those domain. It’s a complete no-brainer for Apple.
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
I think the new Facetime features are gamechangers in terms of driving usage. All this stuff was already available in Snapchat etc. but Snap's problem is that the impressive AR stuff they were doing 3 years ago is now built into the OS
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
Unfortunately “Hey Siri” starts to grate the 70th time you say it in 3 days. I would actually now rather walk across the room to touch the Homepod than have to say the phrase so much. It’s still in uncanny valley territory a lot of the time
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by StephenMelon 8y ago
With up to 2 billion people already profiled by unethical 3rd parties using big data to spot the correlations between likes and behavioural patterns, the privacy ship has in effect already sailed unless all those users delete all the post l
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Besides the scientifically proven downsides for society and general human wellbeing that inequality is known to cause, why should people’s lives be improved or not at the whim of “business” and the “non-common”, most of whom are the benefic
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
The data that Shazam can gather must be incredibly useful to record labels, in that many people wanting to know the artist/song is a strong signal that a track is a potential hit. Since Apple already have data about what people are act
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Taxation is the price of living (or participating in a market) in a developed country and benefiting from shared infrastructure. Apple needs somewhere for their distribution planes to land, their users need affordable electricity, no-one wi
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Are you implying that you’d be happy for a corporation to pay minimal tax, as long as the amount paid sounded like a large number?
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Actually, given that lawmakers are in effect captured by large corporations, and Apple are the largest of all, what they think about tax law actually really matters. Tim Cook has spoken out about cash repatriation several times and the deba
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. The brand values include good citizenship, disability awareness, eco-friendliness and diversity. Appearing to be money-grabbing corporate assholes could cause them real damage, so protests absolutel
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
You mean what every rational organisation and person that are already rich enough to hire a “creative” accountant does?
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
Well ransomware is a growth market...
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by StephenMelon 9y ago
It’s not clear to me whether Facebook is in bed with government agencies at a corporate level, or has just been compromised by them, but I have seen active censorship with my own eyes in the UK during politically sensitive periods so this i

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