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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Nokia correctly predicted that iPhone would stand for "coolness" factor. It's amazing how Apple carried that brand since its inception and precisely what allows it to levy "Apple tax". The execs even noted that the
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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?(newyorker.com)
3 points by abhayhegde 2y ago|1 comments
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
I have been receiving various spam texts under the pretext of USPS has lost my mails and would like to reaffirm my address to them. The scammers are pretty smart to build an identical looking to site USPS (pretty easy if they copy CSS but c
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
In other words, excessive regulation makes the trustworthiness hard.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Sure, but I'm not inclined to believe that number on its own. Practically, even the cheapest grocer like Aldi could turn out to be expensive than the quoted $3.37.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Counterpoint: VISA and Mastercard.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Considering this is from 2015, I wonder how much does inflation bring $2.5 a day to.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
I used to look forward to his takes. Some of the past posts were genuinely insightful, but now all I hear is the cliched difficult road leading to an AGI whose consequences always seem utterly dire for anyone involved, perhaps except OpenAI
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
In my opinion, matters of respect and kindness are given more than due consideration at death and perhaps only then for most people. Sure, go to the funeral and pay your respect, show how much they meant to you, but perhaps, do it much befo
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Postmodernism Generator – for generating random text from recursive grammars(elsewhere.org)
3 points by abhayhegde 2y ago|1 comments
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
This is so awesome! Well, it'll stay awesome until they decide to kill randomly on a bad Tuesday.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
The displays on these iMacs are so crisp, but disappointing that 24" only. Happy that the base RAM is increased, perhaps trying to pander to AI audience. But, who buys these at costs almost at Macbook Pros? Isn't this just a monit
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
I agree very much with Paul here. Many a times as I'm thinking, I realize none of those are legitimate thoughts until I can put them in words. Describing your intuition is fundamentally a hard task, because it is trying to decipher the
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Micro Man: Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness (2018)(reanimationlibrary.org)
2 points by abhayhegde 2y ago|0 comments
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
What stops me from using a spreadsheet for this? I mean why is it priced?
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Great platform for invigorating research discussions! But seeing only AI based (or broadly CS based) research as featured papers is a bit discouraging. Perhaps there isn't enough critical mass for other topics yet.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Wow, how is this not getting enough attention when it is almost the same thing?!
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Does not have to be fake or anything. You move from one institution to the other and cannot maintain it forever anyway.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Perhaps by linking to their actual arxiv id?
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
This is crazy! What if one day the citizens in the game can be mapped to real ones also?!
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
That's a fair point. I kind of hate that the world has come to this. Everything needs to be justified through an economic lens. I wonder if life was easier in the past with regards to this.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
> The implication here is that everyone has one best place, but in reality there are many local maximums. This is even better than what the article argues and thus not an antithesis. The author tries to convince us that there exists atle
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Is it possible that the Android implementation could be less secure given the lack of a dedicated secure element? Perhaps not, but I am curious why Apple does it that way.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
I didn't understand what you disagree with. I'm glad companies create such useful tools. I'm just saying the prospect of continuation seems to be contingent on whether it's profitable (at least in the long run). Hopefull
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
Hopefully many other important things by Google don't bite the dust. I extensively use Keep, Scholar, and Finance. I don't see if any of them make money for Google which is what seems like the only metric they care about anyway.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
That is a good point. I would also think that buyers must vote with their money. Stop buying cheaply made products as much as possible, when an alternative slightly-expensive yet well made things exist. Of course, easier said than done, esp
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
> Every time I read takes like this I think people forget why big brands exist? I think the article made a great point why big brands exist -- to deliver on the promise of unbridled growth, often leading to enshittification. > But big
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
This reminds me of Andy Matuschak's notes website [0]. I dig this view for much better understanding. [0]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
It just feels wild to suggest turning a $1000 phone into something a $100 phone. However, I see the appeal.
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by abhayhegde 2y ago
This looks amazing! To generate multiple (almost) equal positions with a given set of pieces can be handy while practicing. I love that there is a way to analyze it on Lichess as well. Would it make sense to export a PGN file of the positio

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