midnightdiesel

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by midnightdiesel 6mo ago
It seems like Anthropic is constantly changing the rules and pulling out rugs, and always entirely by surprise. I’m not sure if they’re incompetent or just careless, but I stopped paying them because of this a while ago, and my days are muc
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by midnightdiesel 6mo ago
What a product name choice! I wasn’t expecting ARM to pivot to selling snake oil.
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by midnightdiesel 7mo ago
Enshittification strikes again. For a normal user, the software seems to be getting worse and more cumbersome, and the company seems to continue focusing solely on pushing business- and enterprise-centric features that I have no use for. Th
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by midnightdiesel 7mo ago
I wonder how long before this gets defunded too?
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AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years(lesswrong.com)
8 points by midnightdiesel 2y ago|0 comments
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by midnightdiesel 2y ago
AirPods also drop audio quality severely when their mic is active, just as with Bluetooth. Apple hasn’t solved that in any way with some nefarious extension.
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GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving(nytimes.com)
172 points by midnightdiesel 3y ago|184 comments
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by midnightdiesel 3y ago
They still need to spend at least as much on fixing their continual quality and software problems.
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Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada?(noahpinion.substack.com)
5 points by midnightdiesel 3y ago|0 comments
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by midnightdiesel 3y ago
Being able to communicate clearly with high signal-to-noise is essential. When hiring, I’ve learned it’s often better to take a great communicator with less experience over a poor communicator with great experience. Cover letters can be a h
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by midnightdiesel 4y ago
Meanwhile Peter Thiel is off plotting his next gambit to fleece and destroy this country.
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by midnightdiesel 4y ago
Irrelevant, and fountain drinks are only $1 at McDonald’s anyway.
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by midnightdiesel 5y ago
Hopefully it never comes back up!
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by midnightdiesel 7y ago
Google sucks nowadays. So much of what it does just makes technology and the web worse, not better.
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by midnightdiesel 7y ago
I'm glad this tech is starting to move along, but, boy, is this stuff at a crude and barbaric level. I can't imagine putting this crap in my head.
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by midnightdiesel 7y ago
Are there any official announcements about this? It seems odd for Apple’s leadership team to make statements about unreleased products to reporters like that without any other context.
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by midnightdiesel 8y ago
This is great. I was just lamenting the lack of a nice tool like this, and I’m looking forward to seeing this develop.
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by midnightdiesel 8y ago
Ah, the imminent decline of Spotify. I’ve been wondering what was taking so long to get that going.
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by midnightdiesel 8y ago
There’s no “what if” about it. Amazon.com’s UX has always been chock full of dark design patterns and incongruous UI choices. The same is true to varying degrees for many of their platforms and products. It’s not really a huge deal, althoug
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by midnightdiesel 8y ago
This is a nicely polished theme that mimics the new Chrome chrome really well, and it includes a dark mode. I didn't realize Firefox themes could look this nice, and I hope we see more designs like this as FF gains attention.
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MaterialFox userChrome.css makes Firefox look just like the new Chrome 69(github.com)
3 points by midnightdiesel 8y ago|1 comments
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by midnightdiesel 8y ago
This must be a joke, right? Using the word “library” twice in the new logo looks ridiculous. As do the variations where “library” is split in two.
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by midnightdiesel 9y ago
This is a nice analysis, explained well. The results seem to jive with the impressions I’ve heard about these apps. I wonder how other places compare to San Francisco, though? The variables involved with solving vehicle routes can differ a