steveBK123

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by steveBK123 3d ago
Good luck proving your data was laundered and included in a training run
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by steveBK123 3d ago
I umpired baseball in my early teens and even 30 years ago it was bad. Grown men getting into the face of 14 years old umpires over calls, at games for kids barely out of tee-ball. It just doesn’t matter that much. I remember a coach who wo
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by steveBK123 3d ago
They already trained on pirated content, what makes you think they are going to honor ZDR?
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by steveBK123 4d ago
Maybe just giving themselves an exit ramp off the capex arms race they are increasingly finding it difficult to fund?
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by steveBK123 5d ago
Historically ignorant comment. 9/11 resulted in building collapse throwing something like 1-2 million tons of debris into the air, which then fell and was on fire in a huge pile for 100 days. Concrete, drywall, glass, asbestos, you nam
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by steveBK123 6d ago
I've also found new hobbies sometimes allow cheaper gadget purchases / higher enjoyment-per-dollar than buying more junk for longtime hobbies. The logical mechanism for me was - a hobby I've done 30 years I have probably upgr
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by steveBK123 6d ago
> People under-appreciate (or have forgotten) that a lot of happiness is is related to anticipating as opposed to getting Shoppers & hobbyists who spend too much time browsing gear are well aware of this though generally don't l
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by steveBK123 7d ago
As someone approaching mid 40s.. Is Apple screen enlargement over the years just matching the aging eyes of their core demographics? Close focal vision degrades, hold phone further, bigger phone useful. Kind of like the stat how burning ma
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by steveBK123 7d ago
lol yes I’m still searching for signs of 10x productivity in SWE showing up in actual consumer facing product improvements industry wide.
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by steveBK123 7d ago
This is a problem that one of the richest 10 companies in the world should be able to solve with time & money. Simply making your product worse is not normally a solution outside monopolies.. ah, I see.
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by steveBK123 7d ago
This goes to my same complaint re: some Apple products. Some stuff is solved. It's fine, email / photos app / texting apps are solved problems. Keep upgrading the backends for compatibility / security / whatever, b
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by steveBK123 7d ago
I was at a big European company that was also somehow still on Lotus Notes in 2015, for similar reasons. Moving back to Outlook after my 5 years there was a breath of fresh air.. for a time. I do have to say Microsoft has spent the last de
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by steveBK123 8d ago
I always find these sort of "we'll pick up our ball and change homes" threats by non-monopoly capital interesting. It's almost a real thread from say GM, ignoring the billions of physical plant infrastructure that would
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by steveBK123 10d ago
Indeed, "I wish there was tech to stop me from lying to myself" is just not a tech problem.
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by steveBK123 10d ago
Local encryption is not going to help 100 year recoverability
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by steveBK123 10d ago
Yes, AI will simply vibe code drivers for devices it can't talk to in order to read formats it can't read More likely it will just hallucinate content that plausibly could be on the disc and display that for the unwitting
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by steveBK123 10d ago
Right thats the much more likely issue! Some Google-like reaction in the future where using service X (chat/mail/whatever) from Amazon results in being banned across an entire account which also happens to be the account you wrot
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by steveBK123 10d ago
I think more & more that hobbyists need to keep air gapped old-OS/hardware machines in the garage to manage this kind of stuff. Otherwise you quickly run into connectivity / driver / application / OS compatibility ha
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by steveBK123 10d ago
The risk is they get bored and retire it / retention terms start to get iffy / they 100x prices.
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by steveBK123 10d ago
> 100 years is long enough, and 1000 years was always a wild-ass theoretical abstraction. The software will be an issue before the hardware anyway inevitably
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by steveBK123 11d ago
Yes I was joking
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by steveBK123 11d ago
Bleak stuff I’ve noticed sometimes my wife puts on a playlist and it’s almost like weird covers or remixes I can’t quite put my finger on. Like it has a melody of a real song but the style / tempo / vocals are changed.
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by steveBK123 11d ago
I’m sure more agentic coding loops will improve these inefficiencies
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by steveBK123 11d ago
I timed how long it took to open Spotify and play a song on a $2500 Mac on low latency gigabit fiber internet. 15 seconds. Incredible stuff.
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by steveBK123 11d ago
They are in my top-3~5 list of "actively & aggressively getting worse" software products.
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by steveBK123 11d ago
What great productivity gains are Spotify achieving in making their product worse?
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by steveBK123 13d ago
The Big AI Lab LLM Industrial Complex does seem a pull back to the era of thin clients & thick servers. You will own nothing.
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by steveBK123 13d ago
There's a big difference in level of Veblen between a silly $200 gadget and a $3k handbag.
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by steveBK123 13d ago
> buy fresh fruit and vegetables in the middle of a harsh winter This is extremely recent, most people even in my age range (40-50) recall growing up on frozen/canned in the off season for the most part. The idea of getting year ro
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by steveBK123 13d ago
> Yet they still tried it... Must've been a helluva famine. Humans have lived at subsistence level, one bad harvest away from famine for most of history. Our modern abundance is very recent (1-3 generations) thing depending on wher

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