noahtallen

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by noahtallen 2y ago
Well, they pay $25B+ per year to be the default search engine on various platforms, so that seems unlikely in the near term. ( https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/27/google-paid-26-billion-i... )
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by noahtallen 2y ago
No, cars are still very space inefficient which is a big problem in the densest cities in the world. A train carrying a thousand passengers past every three minutes is much better than the capacity of a road, especially during congestion
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Well, last point isn’t quite true. Alaska Airlines is primarily iOS. So, iPads scan your boarding pass and are used for printing luggage tags outside security, Flight attendants use iPhones on the planes, etc. And they were of course mostly
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I mean Ticketmaster’s current best practice seems to be NFC tickets stored in a mobile wallet which do work offline
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Wireless mouse issue isn’t Mac-specific. Bluetooth wake-from-sleep is a thing on both Linux and windows depending on the device. Fingerprint issue has been super annoying though. Only happens when waking, where it wakes and then turns it of
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Not sure this is true — then every device by definition gets a high score, singe the display or batter is simply “not able to be serviced” on devices with poor repairability.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
250lb bike? Wtf are you talking about. The heaviest e-bikes are like 50lb. Bikes are so safe that they require none of these extra steps that cars require, because cars are much more dangerous. It’s simple physics. There have been dozens of
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by noahtallen 2y ago
That’s one part, but the other massive part is noise from freeways and the baseline white noise from faster roads, where most of the noise comes from tires. EVs are not better (and typically worse since they’re heavier) — the only way to fi
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Definitely noticeable on Netflix, but I also have some specific issues with Amazon Prime, where certain scenes have these weird, thin horizontal artifacts.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
And Deno! Which also has compilation tools and is written partly in Rust.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
It’s a fair point. At the same time, I think it’s pretty important to cover VCS at some point in college. My CS degree included a couple classes with projects where we did project management, code review, VCS, working with stakeholders, de
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Maybe it will be lucrative for them, but I disagree that it requires them to wipe away their privacy stance for a few reasons: 1. Privacy makes them a lot of money right now; it's a huge part of their brand, and one the CEO talks about
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by noahtallen 2y ago
> But it seems the goal now is just "Make it an LLM," instead of focusing on recognizing the task that the user wants to do, and connecting it to APIs that can do those tasks. I almost completely agreed with you, but this is no
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Passwords.app is coming to windows (iCloud is on Windows already)
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I don’t think that’s completely fair. It basically puts Apple in the same bucket as Google or OpenAI. Google obviously tracks everything you do for ads, recommendations, AI, you name it. They don’t even hide it, it’s a core part of their bu
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I thought from the Apple keynote that Siri is getting a big update to be based on Apple Intelligence, not that this context stuff was getting hacked into the existing Siri model. They talked about new voice transcription features, the abili
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Yeah, that's a great point. At the same time, it only takes a couple YouTubers/researchers to do some testing for us to know the answer
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Apple also talked about their private compute cloud, which allows larger models and workflows to integrate with local AI models. It sounds like they will figure out which features require bigger models and which don't. So I think there
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by noahtallen 2y ago
> I just hope it will be clear how to keep my external brain (phone) from being scanned by OpenAI. It's very clear, the keynote demonstrates that Siri passing a prompt to chatGPT is completely opt-in and only happens when Siri think
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by noahtallen 2y ago
> All other AI features within the OS are powered by Apple's Private Compute Cloud Clarification: All other AI features within the OS are powered by on device models which can reach out to the private cloud for larger workflows &amp
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings. Switch "Live Photo" to on. Then disable live photos when taking a picture.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
The parent is partially right, the keynote mentioned that OpenAI agreed to not track Apple user requests.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I think most of what you're talking about is going through Apple Intelligence, not chatGPT. That "Apple Intelligence" stuff is supposed to be more local and personal to you, accounting for where you are, your events, things l
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Yes, also covered explicitly in the keynote that Apple user's requests to openAI are not tracked. (Plus you have the explicit opt-in to even access chatGPT via siri in the first place.)
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I think the headlines are REALLY muddying things. From watching the Keynote, most of Apple Intelligence is their own stuff, mostly on-device. Siri explicitly asks you if you want to use chatGPT to answer a query. It does so when it thinks
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by noahtallen 2y ago
They did talk about Siri being better at voice recognition using Apple's own on-device models, so I imagine that will eventually apply more broadly.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
I don't think this is a fair take. It sounds like the vast majority of the new AI features (including the local personal context for Siri, the various text/image editing features, better photo categorization, and the list goes on)
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by noahtallen 2y ago
The great thing about Shottr vs system screenshots is the annotations you can put up very quickly. E.g. 1. $hotkey for screenshot 3. Hit enter to edit 4. Press A to draw an arrow with the mouse 5. Cmd-c to dismiss the edit window and copy &
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by noahtallen 2y ago
True, but we’re talking household income which includes partner income. Eg $140k + $60k or $120k + $80k. Your main point is still fair, though.
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by noahtallen 2y ago
Newer PHP versions are certainly supported (and required by many hosts due to the significant performance improvements of PHP 8.0): https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/php-comp...

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