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by monkeynotes 3y ago
> might have been called that in major media outlets -- but within the tech community it had been widely acknowledged... There is a huge UAP community of believers. I don't see why a community belief makes it more legitimate. It&#x2
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
> just hobbies Hobbies are hugely important to a healthy life.
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> The tool may save the developer, let's say 3-4 hours / week Seriously? Half a day a week?? As a professional FE dev there is no way this would save me 4hrs a week, every week. The existing dev tools are familiar, and while no
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
Needs to count days in the green or some other success metric to accumulate.
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
We are going to see a lot of this sort of thing. It's like the internet all over again, stuff you used all the time starts to feel old and naive in comparison to new paradigm tools. What is surprising is quite how quickly this has happ
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
Exactly, are these people entirely cut off from the internet or do they just use their ridiculously cheap mobile data? Imagine this article 10 years ago talking about UK people ditching their land line and surmising those people are being l
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
Isn't this basically how all economies work? You get taxed on your paycheck and then on purchases too. It's not unique to the UK to recognize taxes diminish your purchasing power. In Canada tax rates are similar, although we do ha
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I see, the objection is specifically levelled at the mystic side of what he's saying. That's fair.
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
> Even if you try very hard This is the paradox, while you are "trying" as you have observed, you are still desiring. Letting go of desire is effortless.
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Some humans live in a state of satisfaction because they have dispensed with desire. This is one of the principles of buddhist enlightenment.
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I think this is substantiated, we absolutely desire our needs. I can't think of one single desire that does not demand satisfaction. Perhaps I am not understanding something.
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
Erm, SMS has been solid for decades. RCS is end to end encrypted. It's not a "terrible" idea and it's nothing like putting Comcast in charge of the internet, that's just hyperbole.
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
So you bought an iPhone SE? Personally I think the Pixel 6a would be a better option, more battery, better camera, screen, worse processor though. I honestly think processor is much less of a concern than the screen and camera on a budget s
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
My Pixel (and I wouldn't buy anything other than Google hardware for Android because the integration and UX is top in the industry IMO) syncs up to my Google account, all my photos are freely stored, my phone backup is free, and any ot
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
How does iOS save you money?
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RCS is good enough to replace key functionality of iMessage and it's a protocol anyone can adopt. I am very satisfied with RCS on Android.
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
> I'm sure Google could figure out how to make it play along nicer. Nope, Apple intentionally blocks anything like this to encourage people to buy iPhones. Basically what is happening is intentional.
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
I love watching artists like this mind melding with their hardware. You can see all that muscle memory from years of loving what they do. Drum machines are instruments too!
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
> Signing up for FastMail or Migadu and redirecting your mail is very easy... > If you use a custom domain... I'd suggest trying to talk the average American into doing that. You'd have to be quite out of touch with everyday
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
Getting regular folk, myself included, off of these popular platforms - especially Gmail isn't economical for most people. Just changing your email address and migrating to another provider isn't an easy sell. Whilst the motivatio
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What's to stop the money being spent on video games and red bull, basically reinforcing the problem?
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> Free speech for my folks and downranking for the wokes. Twitter files show it was simply the reverse before Elon. If you think that a private company like Twitter is going to be unbiased you have more faith in humanity than I do. Whate
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by monkeynotes 3y ago
Free speech doesn't mean equity in voice amplitude. Saying that modulating the amount of Ukraine chatter could lead to lives lost, oppressive regimes is hyperbole at best, and plain reactionary. Ukraine tweets are negative about Ukrain
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
> I have to wonder if those making these grandiose claims about the near future of AI have actually used GPT-4 and its predecessors in their work I have used GPT-3 a fair bit, and used GPT-4 today. The differences are impressive, scary i
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
I don't know. It sounds like a rather substantial problem for those affected.
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I see posts like this comparing past attempts, and in this article even 1990s Homestead, and I immediately think this person does not get it. Additionally all the statements that follow along the lines of "GPT today has a hard time wit
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
"Feels personal" is the problem that AI solves, isn't it? I mean there is a difference between "feels personal" and "is authentically personal". AI can definitely do the "feels". Besides that, it
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Piles of impersonal junk created by humans at work. People lope through life, especially work life, a lot. If you are doing repetitive welcome emails they are almost guaranteed to be impersonal, I don't think anyone could rinse and rep
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
Simple answer to this: "Hi, I am company X's AI, I'd like to get to know you because we will be working together here and there <welcome message>." Basically endource the AI and be clear that it is the thing welcom
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by monkeynotes 4y ago
YouTube being used as your source of emergency medical information is an edge case. Certainly isn't a routine or even tertiary use case for the place where we watch reaction videos and SNL clips. You don't ask book stores to provi

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