pwinnski

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by pwinnski 5d ago
One imagines that they're trying. I work at not-a-frontier-lab and my company still ended up hiring someone who apparently wasn't aware that we track system access. He was turned over to the federal authorities after trying to exf
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by pwinnski 5d ago
Anthropic and OpenAI have no leg to stand on here, for the reason you mention and others. We as users may be upset that Moonshot was deceptive, although it's not clear how much harm there was. Anthropic wanting us all to be upset on th
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by pwinnski 5d ago
Polls use sampling to avoid the sort of social bias suggested by your question. Ask the right person, like someone who protested, and they could tell you that literally everyone supports the protests. Why, everyone they know participated
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by pwinnski 5d ago
I'm really happy that we live in a world in which people who don't know how to use the tools they have (and can't be bothered to find out) can use a coding agent to make their own tool that does what they want the way they wa
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by pwinnski 5d ago
I think you're learning that Toast exists due to "skill issues."
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by pwinnski 5d ago
I'm sorry Finder hurt you. Please refrain from taking it out on me.
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by pwinnski 5d ago
That's progressive disclosure, and it's usually considered to be a good thing for usability. Let's be clear: if you save something in macOS, by default you get: 1. a text field with something like "Untitled" alr
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by pwinnski 5d ago
Finder is fine: not the best, not the worst. Your list seems very preference-shaped, not pointing to actually-missing features I can see. You could make a case about discoverability, but it's hard to see how letter combinations that on
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by pwinnski 3mo ago
The word "most" is doing a lot here. Europe guarantees consumer rights by law, while the US relies on companies adopting the practices voluntarily. Most do, but larger companies more universally than smaller, and it's by no m
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by pwinnski 3mo ago
It may be only a matter of time before all devs remember to append ", and make no mistakes" to the end of their LLM prompts, but I don't think we as an industry will ever reach a point at which every release of every package&
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
Sorry for the late response; it's been a busy week. As a user , I don't care how complicated is the means of displaying images in a terminal session. I would only want to do so when I'm deep in a text-oriented context and th
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
This will alarm you, then. I set Siri to a masculine voice, because I disliked the gendered assumptions I felt with the default. I gave my Claw Discord bot a feminine identity (Ada, with a pfp of Ada Lovelace) for the same reason. But then
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
Sure, of course sometimes an image conveys things better than a thousand words. But a very large percentage of what most people do with computers is primarily text, with more images in ads than useful content. By and large GUIs don't u
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
I use actualbudget.org to track all spending, but only update investment accounts ("off-budget" in Actual Budget terms) once a month. Completely deterministic, as all things related to numbers should be. I have pointed my LLM at t
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
I kept asking this question last year, especially after that initial METR report showing people believed themselves to be faster when they were slower. Then I decided to dive in feet-first for a few weeks so that nobody could say I hadn&#x2
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
You could double or quadruple the number of pixels, and it wouldn't make any difference in how much information humans comprehend easily. You would be using more computing power and more memory to deliver the same amount of useful info
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
Every year or so, I look into alternative to my Paperwhite, which has been in "airplane mode" since I bought it. So far, nothing else seems to be quite up to the level of my existing device for my use case, let alone better. It&#x
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by pwinnski 5mo ago
Something seems wrong. A half-million tokens is almost five times larger than I allow even long-running conversations to get too. I've manually disabled the 1M context, so my limit is 200K, and I don't like it to get above 50%. Is
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by pwinnski 2y ago
I appreciate these kinds of posts, and I've been semi-Degoogled for years now. What hasn't been easy for me to move away from so far is Docs/Sheets. Apple's Numbers and Pages seem very far from ideal. Zoho didn't qu
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by pwinnski 3y ago
It's easy on the creators primarily, they get to skip a lot of steps and don't have to explain away things like cell phones. For consumers, they get quantity. Although it shouldn't be impossible, it seems really hard to get a
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by pwinnski 3y ago
Of course! I don't disagree. And yet here we are at 69.43% desktop market share[0] for Windows for March 2023, decades after I started hearing about how this year, for sure, was going to be the Year Of Linux On The Desktop™. Most peopl
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by pwinnski 3y ago
Most people will sign up for a Microsoft account, or already have, and so won't even see these ads. But let's say you use Microsoft Windows, but don't want a Microsoft account. You're going to leave Windows over this? An
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by pwinnski 3y ago
And yet Duke Nukem Forever has shipped, and Cybertruck has not. So right now, today, at this moment, DNF is not vaporware, and Cybertruck is. This is true regardless of how one feels about it.
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by pwinnski 3y ago
> Regulating data privacy isn't Apple's job, if you want that fixed then you should take it up with the government or someone who can actually hold them accountable. I live in the United States of America, where the government
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by pwinnski 3y ago
Because Facebook announced publicly that Apple's privacy policy changes would cost them $10 billion[0], putting them on the record as having strong motive to avoid the App Store. 0. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02&#x2
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by pwinnski 3y ago
Think about it this way: any app that refuses to go through Apple's store is telling you that you're not a customer they want. If Facebook makes that choice, it's a great time to give up Facebook!
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by pwinnski 3y ago
Yes, nobody is saying that Apple Card is the only card for everyone, just that it's a great card for tap-to-pay.
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by pwinnski 3y ago
4.15% is lower than 4.81%, but how did you decided that UFB defines "current market rates?" UFB, I note, does not offer a debit card. 4.15% is not the highest yield currently available, but it would put them fourth on this list[0]
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by pwinnski 3y ago
That they're blocking tracking is still privacy-focused. There are unsubstantiated claims that they exempt themselves from the same tracking, but reports of their advertising revenue doesn't contribute anything to those claims. At
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by pwinnski 3y ago
I'm not sure the initial comment lends itself to that reading, but it isn't clear it lends itself to my initial response either, so I'll switch over to your more charitable reading. Thanks!

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