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by lph 2y ago
Yeah, I know the point of this site is to give us a dystopian shock by showing us how much information Big Tech extracts from our photos, but it's inadvertently a pretty good advertisement for Google's Vision API. It did a fanta
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by lph 2y ago
I wonder how unique those floor tile patterns are? If that's taken on a military base in Korea, it might be possible to find the exact location of the photo.
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by lph 2y ago
> The military’s professional norms are a check against a potential abuse of power. Right. And norms might be a bulwark for six months or two years, and then they'll crumple against relentless assault. It's the same progressio
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by lph 3y ago
It sounds like a debutante ball for the newly-minted ultra wealthy
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by lph 3y ago
Every ad I've seen from Temu is either AI-fabricated non-existent products, or real products with impossibly low prices. I wish somebody would sue them into the ground for false advertising.
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by lph 3y ago
Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads... now there's a band from the days when the bin man was hard
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by lph 3y ago
If you flip it from "Explore" to "Research", the UI becomes a lot more practical.
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by lph 3y ago
It's a shame, the Ameristan near-future dystopia parts of Fall were quite good, but the virtual world plot became increasingly silly. My mood would pick up whenever I landed on a chapter that got back to the "real world" plot
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by lph 3y ago
I call it "trust arbitrage"
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by lph 3y ago
Such bad memories of the team where everything was oriented around the weekly demo: One day a week spent on throwaway work to make a demo run, and then getting yelled at for not being productive enough.
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by lph 3y ago
No. Most companies have employees sign paperwork that prohibits them from doing exactly this.
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by lph 3y ago
Excel is an ancient and complex beast. I get the appeal of building this project---it sounds fun---but trying to duplicate the Excel engine to the level of producing identical outputs is, frankly, bonkers. The author caught the one discrepa
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by lph 3y ago
Same. I had a terrible experience with Google CS and the original Pixel, which I ended up throwing in the garbage after less than a year because it was defective and they wouldn't do anything about it. Will never make that mistake agai
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by lph 3y ago
The graphs in the post show the traffic decline starting around May 2022, months before ChatGPT was available. I'd wager the cause is a change in Google's algorithm. Most of the time I end up on Stack Overflow, it's because I
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by lph 3y ago
This is lots of fun! Reminds me of Windows '93 [1] [1] https://www.windows93.net/
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by lph 3y ago
I took so many damn showers in grad school.
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by lph 3y ago
You can emulate Amiga software in-browser from the Internet Archive's collection [1], but AFAIK there's no emulated web system that's has a bunch of stuff installed on a hard drive like Infinite Mac does. The Amiga Forever [
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by lph 3y ago
...and the same folks who rail against immigration can often be found lamenting the low national birth rate. It makes one suspect their complaint isn't with the rate of population growth, but with its hue.
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by lph 3y ago
This is outstanding. And the limitations of its speech recognition are actually a feature - it forces me to really concentrate on pronunciation. Now do Mandarin and take my money please :)
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by lph 3y ago
> 3,500 seems SO worth it if this can be used to comfortably replace external displays Agreed, but that's a huge IF. The ergonomics problems with VR headsets are well documented - has Apple really managed to transcend them? I&#x27
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by lph 3y ago
Seems like only a matter of time before LLM-powered search is also injecting ads. "Ancient Romans had a difficult life with a variety of unpleasant jobs. But after work, they liked to kick back and enjoy all-new garum-flavored Dorito
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by lph 3y ago
There are some people for whom Elon Musk could stroll into their house with a sledge hammer, smash through the walls, douse it with gasoline, and set it on fire---and they would still call him a visionary and a genius.
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by lph 3y ago
I'll go further than "sounds weird". It's a shibboleth that associates the speaker with certain misogynistic red-pill internet subcultures. Anybody who doesn't want that association should probably just say "wo
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by lph 3y ago
That quote from Schnee seems odd to me. I mean, what do you get if you try to decompile the binary? That output should be more useful than "a database of every phoneme it had ever uttered". And, as someone else pointed out in this
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by lph 3y ago
It's absolutely trivial if you have a human review changes. But that's expensive. So I'd assert the problem is trivial but expensive, and Amazon lacks the proper incentives to do anything about it: they make money from fraudu
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by lph 4y ago
So if Jim Cramer recommends buying the Inverse Jim Cramer ETF, does it have to sell itself? I'm just asking the important questions here.
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by lph 4y ago
It's possible, but you have to carefully choose where to live. I spent my 20's in Seattle with no car: I lived in an apartment-dense neighborhood close to shops and groceries (Capitol Hill), and relied on buses, walking, and bikin
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by lph 4y ago
It's not about rent so much as density. Seattle has this "urban village" concept where designated areas have zoning that allows apartment buildings and usually has a commercial strip. I'd guess the urban village map [1]
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by lph 4y ago
> Why would I do it? Because the investors want you to [1]. Companies are using this as an excuse to cut unprofitable projects (e.g., Alexa). They over-hired before interest rates went up, when borrowing money was essentially free. >
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by lph 4y ago
Most of the tech companies having layoffs don't "have to" have layoffs. They're doing it to depress worker compensation across the whole sector. It's a shameless money grab at the expense of their employees.

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