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by iMark 7mo ago
I agree that laws such as this to be defined very carefully, but I think "images" is the appropriate term to use, rather than "photos". LLMs make it near trivially easy to render a photo in countless styles, after all, s
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by iMark 2y ago
I've just asked the most important question that has been asked. Obviously.
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by iMark 2y ago
The Steyn Paradox asks "What is the Question?" My name is Mark Steyn, and that is the Steyn Paradox.
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by iMark 2y ago
Is there some sort of internet law which says that any device providing a service which could be an app will eventually be replaced by an app?
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by iMark 3y ago
In the wake of brexit, I'm not sure the argument that both parties differ only on minor issues holds up.
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by iMark 4y ago
The view from Inverness Park is also pretty great.
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by iMark 4y ago
Well, yes.
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by iMark 4y ago
I wonder how many fewer clicks the article would have received had the title been “Ranking apples”
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by iMark 4y ago
My hope is that Stage Manager is configurable in a manner similar to the dock, such that it can be hidden off screen until the cursor hits the edge of the screen.
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by iMark 5y ago
I wouldn't overlook the impact of battery life. I've never squeezed more than 4 or 5 hours out of my two year old Macbook Pro. A 20 hour battery life in addition to the speed gains make upgrading a tempting prospect.
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by iMark 6y ago
Shaving my head was the best decision I ever made regarding my hair. I never knew what to do with it before that. Vastly happier now.
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by iMark 6y ago
What sort of incidence of eating disorders did you witness in the group either group?
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by iMark 6y ago
I'm been an avid comics fan all my life. I remember "millionaire Bruce Wayne" giving way to "billionaire Bruce Wayne", and idly wondering how long before we'd see the first reference to "trillionaire Bruce
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by iMark 6y ago
That was pre-tax income. Apple's profit for 2019 was $55 billion.
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by iMark 6y ago
Score is 6/10 for repairability.
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by iMark 6y ago
Years ago, I visited the zoo in Central Park in NYC and watched a polar bear, as it swam around and around in a pool. It swam in a triangle, touching the three same points on the wall of the enclosure as it made each circuit. Last month I w
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by iMark 6y ago
Mark Cerny's tech talk emphasised that performance is determistic: 'So how does boost work in this case? Put simply, the PlayStation 5 is given a set power budget tied to the thermal limits of the cooling assembly. "It's
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by iMark 7y ago
The wiki page lists a number of possible inspirations, including Hachikō
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by iMark 7y ago
If you want to enjoy gaming on a high-end GPU, you almost certainly care about latency.
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by iMark 7y ago
But if people don't use the service they'll cancel it. And viewing figures are going to have a big impact on future Apple tv content.
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by iMark 7y ago
That's becoming less true with Apple's increasing revenue from services.
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by iMark 7y ago
It’s being worked on https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/alco...
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by iMark 7y ago
Throwing money at a problem doesn’t guarantee a positive outcome.
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by iMark 8y ago
I have a large screen phone and decent eyesight, so I'm perfectly happy to read books using the Kindle app. Books are lovely physical objects, but the convenience of carrying a library with me at all times far outweighs any sentimental
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by iMark 8y ago
It's been macOS for the last couple of years.
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by iMark 8y ago
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/firefox-web-browser/id989804... (but yes, I know it's still using webkit behind the scenes)
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by iMark 8y ago
Yahoo failed, in part, because its competitors were better. Being better than Facebook doesn't mean just replicating its technology, it means having a better social graph. That's a hard problem to solve.
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by iMark 8y ago
I experimented and eventually realised I'm asexual. I'm not depressed, or ill. All my parts function. It's just that I'm not sexually attracted to anyone. I'm still perfectly capable of having, and enjoying, sex, bu
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by iMark 9y ago
In the future we may see likenesses of actors perform again after they're dead. That's such an important distinction. It's true that an actor's appearance is one of their most memorable traits, but its not the sum of the
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by iMark 9y ago
All the years e-ink displays have been available in consumer products and we're still only talking about 5 bit greyscale? I gave up my Kindle as soon as 5 inch displays were available. I thought the market would have made more progress

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