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by sholladay 13d ago
In my view, intelligence includes an ability to learn and adapt to never-before-seen situations. And then general intelligence is an ability to apply that across a wide variety of domains. Machines can certainly recognize patterns and achie
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by sholladay 29d ago
Unfortunately, they don’t have to be very successful to have an impact. Even just their introduction to the marketplace normalizes the concept, just a bit. Google Glass failed and so have other camera-equipped glasses, but notice that they
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by sholladay 29d ago
Shout out to AVA for running all tests async by default, which not only finds order-dependent issues, but also race condition and other timing related issues. https://github.com/avajs/ava
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by sholladay 29d ago
Amazon built their own in-house logistics network because UPS et al. weren’t cutting it. They offer one-hour delivery for a lot of basic items where I am and it’s not even a particularly urban area. I think in urban centers those same items
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by sholladay 29d ago
In my experience, Etsy and Amazon are both following the same trajectory. Lower quality, lower value, fake and imitation products becoming more common, etc. On Etsy, it used to be the norm that a product would be unique, interesting, and pr
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by sholladay 1mo ago
Everything I said applies to overseas labor, too. I’ve worked at both types of companies, those that co-locate support with the product teams, and those that pay bottom dollar and don’t care at all about support. With the latter type, there
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by sholladay 1mo ago
> That human would have also been hopelessly uninformed for all the same reasons. Not really. At minimum, a half-way decent support person would ask a few people internally or search Slack before answering. In fact, they would have likel
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by sholladay 2mo ago
The cookie banner is a significant accessibility problem, for blind and low vision users, among others. I would like to see a stronger push to attack it from that angle.
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by sholladay 2mo ago
Mistral and ElevenLabs seem to be doing pretty well. Also, here in the U.S., we’ve managed to screw up so badly on data privacy and basic rights that the EU has been systematically replacing their entire tech stack with sovereign components
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by sholladay 3mo ago
I understand the appeal, but let’s be honest. Costco is designed for rich people who think they are frugal. You drive your big SUV there to load up on months worth of food and goods, which you can only do because you have a big house with e
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by sholladay 3mo ago
Music producer here. High resolution audio is useful for editing and anywhere there might be downstream processing or format conversion that may or may not be high quality, let alone lossless. The article covers that pretty well. However, t
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by sholladay 3mo ago
My guess is you are deleting the word each time. Unlike the FUTO keyboard, the iPhone keyboard will give you different results each time after you delete because it assumes that if you delete a word, it’s probably because the autocomplete g
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by sholladay 3mo ago
This keyboard seems to ship with a dictionary that includes a lot of curse words. No more ducking around.
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by sholladay 3mo ago
> it doesn't deal well with doubled vs single letters, etc. You mean like the two E’s in “feel” or the two L’s in “fell”? I just tried and it handles them well. Are you aware of the circling technique? When you want to double up on
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by sholladay 3mo ago
If sunscreen is supposed to provide specific health benefits, namely to reduce cancer risk, then it is a drug, not a cosmetic. Regulations should ensure it provides the intended effect without undue harm. Cosmetics are given more leeway bec
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by sholladay 3mo ago
I encounter this all the time, I just want to help people and pass along things I’ve learned but it’s not always received well. For sure, many adults would not want to be told how to tie their shoelaces. My only advice is to start by approa
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by sholladay 4mo ago
Do you not consider Tunguska an explosion? It’s always described as such. IIRC, it never even hit the ground. Sure, a lot of the damage was caused by the air being compressed from above, but it created an air burst, which would have release
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by sholladay 4mo ago
Open models are pretty good at this point but the problem is that they are limited by the tooling and infrastructure that surrounds them. For example, the last time I tried to set up web search with an open model, the experience was pretty
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by sholladay 4mo ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by sholladay 4mo ago
I can't tell whether you are being sarcastic about it discouraging retaliating. When they had us both in the room, I said to the staff, "If you're just going to give me detention anyway, then the next time he punches me, I&#x
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by sholladay 4mo ago
Some of the generic policies can be very strange, too. I once got detention for getting punched in the arm. I was much taller than any of the school bullies, so they mostly didn't start anything with me. But every now and then, they wo
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by sholladay 4mo ago
That all sounds reasonable until you realize that the same logic is how we ended up with customer support systems that try to walk you through a phone tree and if you are lucky, you will be able to press 0 to speak to a human without answer
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by sholladay 5mo ago
You explained it well. Representative democracy complicates systems of fairness since it adds another layer that itself also needs to be fair. And each is an opportunity to be corrupted into unfairness. Our education curriculum is also a bi
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by sholladay 5mo ago
You can disable it, actually. Settings > General > AirDrop > turn off Use Cellular Data That said, I don’t really see why you would disable that. It’s only a backup method for when the peer-to-peer connection fails. Unless you are
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by sholladay 5mo ago
Imagine if MS just did a git revert all the way back to ~2020. That was peak GitHub for me. We got some niceties the first couple of years after the acquisition - free private repos, Sponsors, secret scanning, a new mobile app and CLI - but
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by sholladay 5mo ago
Not only that, but with iOS 17.1 or later, AirDrop transfers will continue to work if you go out of Wi-Fi range during the transfer. It seamlessly switches to an Internet-based relay.
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by sholladay 5mo ago
The “butterfly bush” is native to China. Milkweed is native to North America. Milkweed is the only one that can feed the Monarch at all stages of its life, from larva to caterpillar to butterfly. When people plant butterfly bushes, it “tric
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by sholladay 5mo ago
Stop planting butterfly bushes! It’s a trap. Instead, plant milkweed. Support their entire lifecycle. The names of these plants ought to be changed.
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by sholladay 5mo ago
Do you use a case? My guess would be that when you swipe up, you're not quite starting low enough, perhaps unconsciously, because of the case being in the way. See if a case with a thinner front or smaller bezels helps. Using your inde
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by sholladay 5mo ago
It’s not you or your setup. I experience the same behavior. Tried with and without Private Relay, residential and commercial ISPs at different locations, and more to debug it. Same results. I think GitHub has just gotten so aggressive with

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