brandon272

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by brandon272 6d ago
There is also an uncanny valley aspect to the videos. Outside of the formulaic transitions, I find the scenes where they are standing in various parts of the building distracting, because everything looks fake, as if they are standing in fr
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by brandon272 7d ago
There is widespread crippling phone addiction in our society. That is one reason why people want premium flagship features. If you are going to stare at your phone for 3+ hours a day, spending more to get the latest and greatest makes sense
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by brandon272 7d ago
I'm not even sure I'd point to "media coverage" when it is Anthropic's own employees stating plainly on Twitter that they think there is a >10% chance AI kills all humans within the next decade.
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by brandon272 8d ago
What configuration? What harness? These matter greatly to how a local model performs, in my experience.
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by brandon272 15d ago
What if the cousin goes bankrupt in year 5?
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by brandon272 17d ago
Canadian companies and government websites that use embedded Google Maps are displaying “Lake America”. Not good.
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by brandon272 1mo ago
This implies that writing styles are simply "correct" or "incorrect". I'd prefer to read someone's natural writing style, even if they do not consider themselves a good writer, because it comes from them genuin
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by brandon272 1mo ago
I had tried Kagi a few years ago but it didn't stick. Tried it again now and it feels like a breath of fresh air, which is probably less of a statement about Kagi's advancements and more a statement of what Google has become.
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by brandon272 1mo ago
If the article doesn't help you fix your brakes, it has confused you and wasted your time. Not immaterial.
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by brandon272 1mo ago
> However, just look at this article! Zero pictures for a process that _really_ needs it. It just drones on. Buckle up, because the next phase of this AI content generation nightmare will be articles like this featuring AI generated imag
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by brandon272 1mo ago
> I don't understand the desire to run own AI models for programming locally. Privacy. Security. Not bulk uploading your trade secrets and intellectual property to Sam and Dario’s servers.
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by brandon272 1mo ago
They aren’t prosecuted because they’re in a club that you are not in. Not all citizens have to abide by the same laws and rules.
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by brandon272 2mo ago
The effort to erode privacy is so much greater than the effort to preserve it. Governments around the world are like a dog with a bone when it comes to increasing surveillance. An apathetic and ill informed public doesn’t help matters.
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by brandon272 2mo ago
Where is your DeepSeek model hosted?
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by brandon272 2mo ago
When you are bulk copying data off your former employer's network share, that is a lot more than "stealing ideas".
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by brandon272 3mo ago
"Not training on input data" is not the same thing as "We will never use your data for any purpose"
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by brandon272 3mo ago
Not sure about the "last true revolution" claim, but the release was a seminal moment in computing. Growing up in the 90s, for me it feels like the milestone achievements or turning points were: - Windows 95 - Broadband Internet -
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by brandon272 3mo ago
Unfortunately the configuration I need is not available through any of those retailers. The way I approach these purchases is amortized cost over time. I do not expect prices to be lower in 2 years but if I can keep using my older hardware
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by brandon272 3mo ago
Was looking at upgrading my M1 Air (16/1TB) to an M5 Air (24/2TB). This price increase changes the time horizon of that upgrade from “now” to “let’s try and get 18-24 more months out of this thing”.
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by brandon272 3mo ago
Politicians pretend it’s much lower. Or claim that deflation is occurring through statements like “we are bringing prices down”.
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by brandon272 3mo ago
Some people have a much better instinct for when and how to ask for permission than others, including when "asking for no" is the right move. It's a dance with nuance and it's hard to capture it as advice in an article.
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by brandon272 3mo ago
I admit to not having yet taken a deep dive on Apple's privacy claims (i.e. on device, private cloud etc) but one thing that Apple is going to be providing in this case is an actual privacy commitment that takes into consideration the
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by brandon272 4mo ago
I have always had this notion that buying a Mac is the "premium" option, not just in quality, but maybe in price too. I am in the process of trying to find a business notebook for my spouse who is a Windows user. The goal is to ha
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by brandon272 4mo ago
When Dropbox first came out I loved the simplicity of it for years. That rock solid little icon in my system tray that never bothered me, just reliably synced my files. It was excellent. At a certain point (mid-2010s) things started to go o
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by brandon272 4mo ago
>it's not going to get those same students a job What jobs? The job market is anemic AND these students are literally being told that jobs as we know them are soon to be a thing of the past. At the same time, no one is explaining ho
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by brandon272 4mo ago
I think that AI is less analogous to "traffic jams" and more analogous to "wheel-based transportation". It's an entire category, not a specific problem. The traffic jam is more analogous to excessive energy consumpt
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by brandon272 4mo ago
> Seeing who is being laid off, especially on my team, it's the people who make things run. As a Cloudflare customer, that's reassuring! .. not.
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by brandon272 4mo ago
It feels absurd to have seen E2EE fought for and considered table stakes by many users, especially the technically-oriented, now rolled back a short time later by these companies who never really cared about privacy to begin with and clearl
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by brandon272 4mo ago
> The biggest UX issue Apple has for that persona isn't the wallet, it's the lack of physical home button. I'm in my 40s and don't have much trouble with reaching Home by swiping up from the bottom. But anecdotally, w
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by brandon272 5mo ago
>Covid causes a loss of grey matter affecting impulse control and emotional regulation. It seems this statement is not fully supported by the data. While there have been mixed studies linking COVID with impacts on grey matter, we can&#x2

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