al_borland

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by al_borland 4d ago
I think the issue people run into is that the types of errors the LLM makes are ones humans wouldn’t make, like having a basic misunderstanding of the goal of the software and making silly logic errors that technically work, but don’t serve
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by al_borland 4d ago
These sites are doing everything possible to make sure real users quit using their sites and go outside instead. Good for them.
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by al_borland 4d ago
If the user needs to accept the viewing agreement to get through the initial setup, and agreement enables those features, then it's an opt-out feature, not an opt-in feature. The only alternative would be to not accept the agreement an
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by al_borland 5d ago
The iPhone has a mode called Assistive Access. It’s meant for older people or those with cognitive impairments, but could work well for children as well. It changes the UI, limits the apps available, and simplifies those apps, so they just
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by al_borland 5d ago
It doesn’t have to be a massive nationwide project on par with the national highway project. It can start with local communities. The mayor of Carmel, IN thought traffic circles were better than intersections and wanted more mixed use devel
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by al_borland 5d ago
Very few people buying a new car keep it long enough to make it cheaper than buying $5-10k cars. The last cheaper used car I bought, I kept for about 10 years, it was $10k. I sold it to my brother in-law after that, who had it another 5 yea
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by al_borland 5d ago
I hear this a lot, but it’s not an excuse for never starting. Amsterdam started taking their non-car infrastructure seriously in the 1970s and now it’s seen as an example for the rest of the world. “A society grows great when old men plant
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by al_borland 5d ago
Give it a few years. I’m sure it will come eventually.
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by al_borland 5d ago
I know they said the A20 was desktop class, but beating the M5 is wild to me. I can’t wrap my head around the fastest chip (at least for single-core performance) is in a phone instead of a desktop. I thought maybe they clock the M5 down for
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by al_borland 5d ago
You don’t need to upgrade every year, they are simply available. The yearly upgrade rarely makes sense, as things don’t change much year to year. However, when you are ready for something new, it’s nice that a recent phone it’s available an
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by al_borland 5d ago
This is why they went on to say it doesn’t make sense with modern RAM sizes. I remember when I first came across this rule when getting into Linux for the first time. If memory serves, I had 256MB of RAM, so I set swap for 512MB, which seem
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by al_borland 5d ago
I probably should have said "everything was already enabled"... Opt-in/out was on the mind, and neither seemed like the right wording to convey that the choice was already made for me in the wrong direction.... I was opted in
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by al_borland 5d ago
I regret signing up for 98% of the sites I’ve signed up for over the years, if for no other reason than deleting those accounts (and the data attached) is difficult or impossible.
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by al_borland 6d ago
They say these features are opt-in and they reject dark patterns, but in my experience setting up LG TVs, everything was opt-in and I had to manually hunt through all the menus to turn this stuff off. Their statements don’t align with the r
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by al_borland 6d ago
I didn’t call anyone a “commie”. The push to allow illegal immigrants to stay, or to just give them citizenship unchecked, started well before any of the more recent ICE issues. Sanctuary cities existed before Trump’s current term. If citie
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by al_borland 6d ago
Illegal immigration. Preventing it, and correcting lax enforcement of the past is now labeled a maga issue, with democratic cities actively trying to work against ICE and people who support the left protesting against it. Here is a short cl
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by al_borland 7d ago
This is what I’m worried about. Not so much the time fixing it, as the “well, that’s good enough” even though it might have issue. Over time, those small errors that may have seemed trivial at the time could become more serious issues.
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by al_borland 7d ago
Positions that were mainstream in the Democratic Party 10-15 years ago are now being labeled as far right. There are a lot of normal people who haven’t changed their politics very much, but were left behind by the Democratic Party. The righ
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by al_borland 7d ago
I don’t see how maga is the logical conclusion of the mindset. Both sides do suck, and the answer isn’t blind tribalism, it’s common sense and reason. There is a lot of basic stuff that most of America would be on board with if they stopped
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by al_borland 7d ago
Yeah, I had this happen last time I went to the doctor… one of the last places I’d want it. At least with the Apple one they talked about how it works and it’s not some random product off Amazon doing god knows what. My dad is probably the
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by al_borland 7d ago
It’s to compete with all the failed AI wearables with the same features.
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by al_borland 7d ago
I wonder how long before we see how well these summaries hold up in court.
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by al_borland 7d ago
My hope is it’s off by default and most people choose to keep it that way. This featuring is undoubtedly to compete with, and crush, all of those stand-alone AI wearables that do the same thing. All those products failed, because people eit
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by al_borland 7d ago
If memory serves, it’s only on the ones with the wireless charging case. They get a few quality of life upgrades over the base AirPods, without stepping all the way up to the Pros.
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by al_borland 7d ago
I would venture to guess that the average user can’t tell. Most of the time, I’m just looking for some background noise, not a listening experience. The speaker on the iPhone is good enough for that. I have a pair of wired Seinheisers, and
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by al_borland 7d ago
I’ll definitely need to head to an Apple Store to see how it works for my hand before making any decisions on it.
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by al_borland 7d ago
The iPhone X was better than the 6-8, I think the screen filling the whole thing helped it out, but it was still too large for my liking. I moved to the mini when it came out to get a smaller phone. I found it interesting that the intro of
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by al_borland 7d ago
I think the iPhone 3G was peak iPhone design. It felt good to hold and was small. Later small models hand sharper edges and didn’t feel as good in the hand. The Duo’s folded size has the same screen size as the iPhone mini, so they did go o
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by al_borland 8d ago
I would need more information to comment on that. While I am pretty anti-Google and like to assume they are dragging their feet to collect more data, if we don’t assume the worst… I’m betting the changes to comply with new privacy laws requ
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by al_borland 8d ago
I stayed at an Airbnb in Shinjuku back in 2017. It seemed like it was already banned at that time. When I got to the room, there was a sign in the bathroom that said something to the effect of, “if anyone asks who you are, tell them you’re

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