kyleplum

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by kyleplum 2y ago
> Is this actually true? I mean Google obviously thinks it is otherwise they wouldn't be paying Apple $20 billion a year.
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by kyleplum 3y ago
I wish someone would make a social media version of the North American house hippo commercial that ran in the late 90's.
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by kyleplum 3y ago
That situation just requires a longer hose
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by kyleplum 3y ago
It seems dishonest to leave out Windows 11 when talking about how MS is for announcing in advance what support will be. They did not give anywhere near proper notice about the TPM/UEFI/Secureboot requirement ahead of time.
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by kyleplum 3y ago
Isn't that what happened to SVB?
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by kyleplum 4y ago
This is actually a more apt analogy than I think you intended. We do have planes that can fly similarly to birds, however unlike birds, those planes do not fly on their own accord. Even when considering auto-pilot, a human has to initiate t
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by kyleplum 4y ago
> I'd also argue that being sold at a big box store is not really indicative of much in the 21st century. If you haven't already, I'd recommend spending some time reading about what it takes to get a product on the shelf a
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by kyleplum 4y ago
IMO the only thing that separates this from racketeering is that it's technically legal.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
> Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here. From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad,
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by kyleplum 4y ago
You could replace "money" with any specific area of human expertise. I don't need to fully understand how my body works because my doctor does. I don't need to fully understand how my car works because my mechanic does.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
I am convinced that him not believing in it, getting paid a boatload to do a commercial stating he doesn't believe in it, then it failing is definitely the plot for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
> Our third quarter revenues were $69.1 billion, up 6% versus last year or up 11% on a constant currency basis "Constant Currency Basis" seems to be the latest innovation in the non-GAAP methods of reporting revenue. The creati
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by kyleplum 4y ago
As I mentioned in another comment - there is such an effort underway https://contentauthenticity.org/ They don't intend to dictate who can authorize media, only provide a verification mechanism that the media was sourc
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by kyleplum 4y ago
It's not as far away as one might think. There was a demo earlier this year (Jan) showcasing the proposed 1.0 spec working in Microsoft Edge: https://c2pa.org/jan-2022_event/
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by kyleplum 4y ago
There are ongoing efforts to enable digital signatures of online media. The idea is that you (or your browser) can validate that an image or video is unmodified from the source that produced it. https://contentauthenticity.org&#x
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by kyleplum 4y ago
When someone uses Photoshop to create artwork, nobody believes that the Photoshop algorithm has any claim to be the author of that artwork. I don't see how the code behind e.g. an AI image generator is fundamentally different than the
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by kyleplum 4y ago
Without taking a concrete stance on the current state of patents - I developed something similar using GPU compute shaders while employed at AMD/ATI https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ef/d2/2c/b5
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by kyleplum 4y ago
On a global level? No. On a local level? Maybe? But consider that the US workers of the most valuable car company in the world (by a factor of about 3)are not part of the UAW, so it's debatable at best.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
One is big enough to influence the global market price for it's product, the other is small and localized and has effectively no influence on the going market rate for it's product.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
I'm not convinced that a single labor union has the power to influence the labor market outside of the specific company the union represents. This is not the case for OPEC who has sufficient power to manipulate the market. > isn&#x2
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by kyleplum 4y ago
No because the company has other options for labor - it can fire it's entire workforce and rehire, or relocate. The same can't be said for cartels which have complete control over their respective markets.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
Consumers do care about things like battery life. I imagine most consumers would prefer to stick with what they know (windows), but as the battery life/performance gap grows, people will be more likely to make the switch.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
As far as I can tell, the ARM hardware linked is vastly inferior to the current M1 hardware, let alone M2. > But this is a multi-year journey which is likely to give Intel/AMD time to produce something more competitive. And during t
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by kyleplum 4y ago
I have faith in MS software development - I believe they can get windows on ARM working - but as far as I can tell, all non-Apple ARM hardware implementations are significantly lacking in the laptop space. There are vendors making decent ph
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by kyleplum 4y ago
I can't help but wonder what Microsoft's answer to Apple Silicon will be going forward. They don't really make hardware, but selling Windows laptops gets harder and harder the further Apple gets ahead. It seems inevitable tha
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by kyleplum 4y ago
Can you elaborate on the workflow you use where this is a incompetence-defining issue? I'm trying to understand but it just doesn't seem like a reasonable workflow - the only thing I can come up with is that you use the current ti
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by kyleplum 4y ago
There are always going to be some subjective decisions in the lossy encoding process. Determining which bits to drop via encoder configurations/customization is far from an exact science. These decisions themselves can act as a waterma
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by kyleplum 4y ago
There is a discussion to be had around watermarks surviving transcoding but I was mostly trying to understand whether the opinion > It is modifying what the artist intended you to hear in a destructive way. It is destroying the original
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by kyleplum 4y ago
Are you against all lossy compression methods as well? The watermark can simply be a slight tweak of the compression algorithm that could as well have been done for non-watermarking reasons.
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by kyleplum 4y ago
He did mention changing the monetization scheme used by twitter from being ad-based to being subscription based. I've heard this idea floated around for awhile and my favourite version is something along the lines of requiring a monthl

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