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by rebeccaskinner 18d ago
on-device filtering is the right way to go, but it shouldn’t be a matter of sending metadata about the user to a service- instead services should provide standard metadata about the content to the device and the device can choose what, if a
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by rebeccaskinner 2mo ago
Jellyfin will let you set up alternate metadata providers and select between different episode ordering if available ( https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-resolved-dvd-order-instead-of-a... ). For tv shows especially TVDB will tend
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by rebeccaskinner 5mo ago
I don’t think pricing is the only problem with theaters. Especially over the last 15 years or so they’ve been increasingly competing with alternative ways of watching movies, and for a lot of people watching at home wins at any price. Fanci
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by rebeccaskinner 6mo ago
It is pretty riddled with ads though. By default the Home Screen shows the tv all and it’s completely crammed with ads.
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by rebeccaskinner 7mo ago
I sometimes talk with ChatGPT in a conversational style when thinking critically about media. In general I find the conversational style a useful format for my own exploration of media, and it can be particularly useful for quickly referenc
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by rebeccaskinner 8mo ago
I shared the story as I remember it. Memory is imperfect. It's been years since I deleted my account, and I don't have the luxury of access to server or moderation logs. What I do remember unambiguously is being an active member o
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by rebeccaskinner 8mo ago
I was a pretty active member in the comments for a long time and left a few years ago after getting chastised by a moderator and accused of spamming for sharing a link to a blog post I had written, even though the content was purely technic
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by rebeccaskinner 9mo ago
The only acceptable number of ads is zero.
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by rebeccaskinner 9mo ago
I’m finishing up Haskell Brain Teasers ( https://pragprog.com/titles/haskellbt/haskell-brain-teasers/ ) It’s much shorter than my first book, Effective Haskell, and leans more advanced, especially toward the en
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by rebeccaskinner 10mo ago
I worked on a foveated video streaming system for 3D video back in 2008, and we used eye tracking and extrapolated a pretty simple motion vector for eyes and ignored saccades entirely. It worked well, you really don't notice the lower
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by rebeccaskinner 11mo ago
Although thus isn’t directly related to the idea in the article, I’m reminded that one of the most effective hacks I’ve found for working with ChatGPT has been to attach screen shots of files rather than the files themselves. I’ve noticed t
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
I’ve had similar experiences where AI saved me a ton of time when I knew what I wanted and understood the language or library well enough to review but poorly enough that I’d gave been slow writing it because I’d have spent a lot of time lo
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
Looking at my own use of AI, and at how I see other engineers use it, it often feels like two steps forward and two steps back, and overall not a lot of real progress yet. I see people using agents to develop features, but the amount of tim
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
It would be much less interesting than the actual chat histories. My experience with chatGPTs memory feature is that about half the time its storing useful but uninteresting data, like my level of expertise in different languages or fields,
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
I remember back in the gnome2 days there was still a lot of fragmentation. Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker, AfterStep, Enlightenment, ratpoison. Linux has always appealed to tinkerers and that was always going to lead to some amount of fragmentatio
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
The biggest issue to me is that beyond and impossible aren’t just making replacements that are worse than meat, they are making things that are worse than the alternatives we already had. A beyond burger might be more like meat than a patty
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
join has the type `m (m a) -> m a`. That's the thing that really shows off the monoidal structure. People normally implement monads in terms of bind, but you can easily define join in terms of bind for any Monad: `join ma = ma >&
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
Unfortunately even without engine noise people will still install gigantic subwoofers in their car and roll around rattling windows. This has consistently been the biggest problem with my sleep for years, and nothing I've been able to
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
Several years ago I (briefly) worked at a startup that was trying to do this for publishing (but has since pivoted into generic ad-tech). My impression at the time was that most publishers weren’t onboard. True or not, they seemed to think
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
I’ve been lucky enough to work on a number of teams in my career that are full of brilliant high performing people who are also kind, empathetic, and focused working together to deliver something to customers. These days I’m lucky enough to
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
I don't really remember when they started, but they now include 1-2 prerolls for other Apple TV+ content. You can scrub past them, but you can't disable them.
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
yeah, the pre-rolls for the other shows are exactly what I'm talking about. Those are ads. And they are only skippable if you scrub forward past them. You are forced to deal with them.
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
> Apple TV+ / movie-streaming services (without ads) Apple TV+ doesn’t have an ad-free tier. They have a tier they call ad-free where they still force you into pre-roll ads for apple products. Unfortunately that’s the same for most
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
Don’t forget recursion schemes. The last example in the article was just asking for a hylomorphism.
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
> While it's possible to bake in this particular inductive bias (repetitive actions might be useful), they decided not to (it's just not that interesting). What's interesting to me about this is that the problem seems real
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
I think most people care about some things. Most people don’t have the capacity to feel strongly about every issue, but there are some overarching ones that tend to hold along political lines, and people will tend to have pet issues as well
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
I think there are parts of the policy that people wouldn’t be able to agree on because of differences in values. To look at another example, some people view the purpose of prisons as being primarily for causing suffering and to punish peop
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
> pro-choice, pro-LGBT, and pro-immigration may very well vote Republican because they work in the US Automotive industry, and so do their friends and families and people who they care most about. What you care most about is a statement
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
> I reject this idea, someone voting for the "least worst candidate" does not wholly endorse everything they stand for The thing about values is that they don't just capture the notion of what we thing is right or wrong, b
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by rebeccaskinner 1y ago
> Don't bother with Those People, They Have Different Values, They Aren't Like Us I didn't say that you shouldn't bother with people. I said that discussing _policy_ is not useful if you don't agree on _values_.

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