chrisbrandow

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by chrisbrandow 8d ago
How is Face ID un-accessible for those with visual impairment? I hadn't heard that before.
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by chrisbrandow 26d ago
I've had the same trouble with AI tech docs, and I struggled to articulate it. There is something difficult about trying to point to the specific "problem" with a given document
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by chrisbrandow 2mo ago
Craft isn’t craft if it doesn’t produce something. So enjoying the utility of it is not a secondary aspect. That’s a key difference between craft and art.
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by chrisbrandow 2mo ago
Famously, the Apollo Mission control team learned to handle multiple conversations stream simultaneously. The side effect was that going to cocktail parties was a nightmare, because they couldn’t turn it off.
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by chrisbrandow 3mo ago
Presumably the years including 1999 and earlier
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by chrisbrandow 3mo ago
Clever!
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by chrisbrandow 3mo ago
This is so obviously true. Most people that had sudden wfh transitions after or during COVID that I know even with well established networks and families, have really grieved the loss of daily contact with coworkers.
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by chrisbrandow 3mo ago
Working alone at home is far more novel and unusual than any arrangement of work and socialization that has existed in the last 500 years
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by chrisbrandow 4mo ago
I’d hardly consider this a side effect. Decreasing traffic in one path within a network of exchange has the direct effect of increasing traffic/demand on alternate paths. Increased demand == increased prices.
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by chrisbrandow 4mo ago
I think what gets conflated are two aspects. 1. LLM/transformer technology is legitimately amazing and revolutionary. 2. In the end, they function as an enormous, effective database for most human knowledge. Point 1 obscures the fact t
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by chrisbrandow 4mo ago
They experimental details in the paper itself. Tl;dr you lower the pH. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413
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by chrisbrandow 5mo ago
I don’t think the fact that the robot was instructed to lie to a human and was able to do so successfully makes the story much less scary for most people.
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by chrisbrandow 6mo ago
Framing & launching LLMs as a "chat" interface is the source of many ills. I don't have a simple solution, but leaning away from conversational interfaces would lead to less anthropomorphizing.
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by chrisbrandow 8mo ago
Looks very cool, so congrats, but I'm not that interested without a description of the genomes, etc.
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by chrisbrandow 8mo ago
I used to work for the Air Resources Board of California, and while there is a warm-up period, modern ice cars are so profoundly cleaner than cars even from the early 2000s. It’s pretty stunning. Regardless, there’s nothing cleaner than no
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by chrisbrandow 8mo ago
Hopefully this shakes out better than eestor… iykyk
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by chrisbrandow 10mo ago
If so, presumably because it kills the weeds that feed the bugs.
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by chrisbrandow 10mo ago
Herbicides kill plants, pesticides kill bugs, right?
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by chrisbrandow 10mo ago
I’m not actually familiar with current state of scientific research. Are there any quality studies that contradict the ghost-written report? I understand the valid reasons for pulling the study, but that does nothing to specifically address
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by chrisbrandow 10mo ago
Try changing tabs when reviewing a PR. 5-10 seconds on basic PRs often
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by chrisbrandow 11mo ago
Two things kicked in around mid 90’s: 1. Dropping levels of elemental lead in folks born 20 years earlier, so lower impulsivity. 2. “The internet”, leading to higher levels of homogenization of culture
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by chrisbrandow 11mo ago
In app purchases from (crappy) games is top revenue source in App Store. Anecdotally, I’d be shocked if the majority of that wasn’t from kids using their parents’ phones.
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by chrisbrandow 11mo ago
I wouldn’t expect that either given the little that I know about the rigorous software requirements for aviation. But I assume that neither of us has anywhere near enough expertise to “refuse” to believe that any computer/software syst
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by chrisbrandow 11mo ago
This was poignant. Thanks.
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
This reads like one of the clearest intros to C that I have seen in a long time. Feels approachable the whole way through.
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
the liquid glass video controls on iOS absolutely does obscure more of the content than the pre-26 players did and it's not even close. it's just UI chrome for its own sake
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
it's not a change in webkit. the webpage just displays the current OS video player. i read the page in Sequoia and it shows the old version
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
It reminds me also of the original head of development of the Safari browser talking about at least the early days of building the browser. They had a rule that no commit of code could cause the browser benchmarks to get slower. And apparen
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
Having seen the shuttle in person in LA museum, I was struck by how much it looked like a plane sitting on a flat heat shield surface
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by chrisbrandow 1y ago
Someone posted about a little Easter egg wherein the Next icon was buried somewhere in iPadOs but I’ve never been able to track it down since.

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