josho

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by josho 3mo ago
I don't think it's superficial at all. I genuinely find my apps harder to navigate now than I used to. Part of that is that I have far more apps installed today, but the uniform white borders also contribute. They make every icon
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by josho 3mo ago
> It’s really disappointing to see the on-device models being limited to so few devices. At first I thought it was the usual planned obsolescence. Then I realized it may be a true technical limitation. I suspect an embedding model is req
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by josho 4mo ago
I loathe that I can't even rename the desktops. Wouldn't it be great to have them named "Design", "Dev", "Productivity", "Games". Or whatever makes sense given your needs, instead of simply
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by josho 6mo ago
The meta data is useful. Eg, When a prompt had a bad result and was edited, or had lots of back and forth to correct tool usage that information can be distilled and used to improve models. And now imagine if you are focused on this for wee
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by josho 8mo ago
Similarly I worry about how these apps automatically update themselves. I know it can be done securely. I also doubt that these companies invest the engineering effort to do so.
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by josho 9mo ago
The problem is that consumers are not savvy. They go to the store, and compare TVs based on features presented. Colors, refresh rate, size, etc. Its only when they get home (and likely not even right away) that they discover their TV is spy
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by josho 9mo ago
This is the second app that I’ve tried with an AI voice for meditation. And frankly it’s off putting. The voice is great for other settings. But when my eyes are closed and I’m focused on nothing but the voice it stands out as negative. Now
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by josho 9mo ago
Good analogy. The solution, however, isn't prohibition or age restrictions; it's either regulating the algorithms or holding these companies responsible for the adverse outcomes their platforms contribute to. Safe harbor laws made
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by josho 11mo ago
They didn't have a better definition of AGI to draw from. The old Turing test proved to not be a particularily good test. So lacking a definition money was used as a proxy. Which to me seems fair. Unless you've got a better defini
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by josho 1y ago
The EU should go even farther. Force hardware vendors to decouple from services. Eg. AirPods work better with iPhones than Bluetooth. Why? Because of software integration. Apple Photos works better than third party photo management apps bec
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by josho 1y ago
4k jobs across the economy is far less than random variation in the stats. Salesforce reduced their headcount in 2023 by 8-10%. Another reduction by 5% attributed solely to AI could be a half truth and the reality could simply be Salesforce
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by josho 1y ago
Why? What problem does this solve? With a car it’s common for people to not maintain correctly or to get in a major accident and not disclose. What are the common factors that cause a computer to prematurely wear out? I can imagine there ar
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by josho 1y ago
The solution here shouldn't be technical; it should be legal. If we rely on the technical path, Comcast can achieve the same by how many active IPv6 addresses are in use. Even if you aren't using your phone, the device is going to
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by josho 1y ago
Well if the demand isn't there then I suppose there's no need to have a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, right? The reality is the legislation was to push industry and it seems industries response was ‘nah dawg we’ll just lobby our way
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by josho 2y ago
Let’s ask ourselves what happens when the story doesn’t end well and it’s a service that government has been providing. The answer may be lives are lost, the economy breaks, enemies win victories, etc. Move fast and break things is fine in
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by josho 2y ago
This is a common misunderstanding. The US doesn’t send its military around the world because they want to protect freedom and democracy. The US does this to protect open markets that it then gets first right to exploit. The US has benefited
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by josho 2y ago
I think you've been propagandized because having autocratic private institutions having undue cultural power is proving to be worse for our culture than anything a foreign country has done to us. Don't believe me, we've got l
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by josho 2y ago
The real next step is standardizing battery sizes. Think of all the other gadgets that have replaceable batteries. (Eg. Power tools) Most of those batteries are standard at the wholesale level. But a thin plastic layer added to house the ba
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by josho 2y ago
Sailors have figured this out centuries ago to travel against the wind (called tacking). Some of the same principles apply, like orienting the sail so that photons push against the sail reducing the angular momentum.
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by josho 2y ago
I suspect you can increase your conversion rate to paid quite easily. I've been using the free version for sometime. And I have no idea if the paid version gives me the improvements that I care about. I'm sure a 7 day trial, or an
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by josho 2y ago
Those taxes were often imposed because of past engineering errors. For example, Don't deploy during business hours because a past deployment took down production for a day. A great engineering team will identify a tax they dislike and
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by josho 2y ago
Wow, difficult crowd. It reminds me of the initial Dropbox launch. Their pitch was a USB drive for the Internet, which was torn to pieces by this crowd. Then, Dropbox built a video showing how it worked, and their product went viral. Folks
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by josho 2y ago
What you described is exactly what real estate folks do. They put each property they own under a separate LLC. There are legitimate reasons to use different bank accounts and legal entities to conduct business. So the defendant needs to sho
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by josho 2y ago
> As a fresh college grad still, I needed the job and stability. This is why we have student debt. It keeps employees compliant and subservient. No I don't think there is a cabal of industry conspiring to achieve this. But, with tho
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by josho 2y ago
IMO this is your business model. Build an Alfred clone that is AI first. It has a potential to be a nice lifestyle business. Mac users still buy software and I’ve wanted to buy something like this for years.
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by josho 2y ago
I would be happy with incorporating Mac mail search into your tool. So you just proxy spotlight/mail search capabilities.
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by josho 2y ago
Fun fact, prior to the partnership it was called LiveScript. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Creation_at_Netscap...
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by josho 2y ago
I’ve learned that’s what’s the law and what’s done in practice are often quite different. Eg. A tool belt may not be necessary to get your job done, so the company won’t provide one. However it may make the work experience a 100x better, so
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by josho 2y ago
If these were metrics for your startup I’d call them vanity metrics. You just used data to explain that the US captures higher margins on their products and China does a lot of low margin or commodity production. The data doesn’t help us in
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by josho 2y ago
I would have thought that rate limiting would be an easier solution to the problem of using chatgpt as an api.

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