synicalx

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by synicalx 2y ago
I don't really get the hate; work is boring, if some tool can make it happen faster and with less effort I'm all for it. I don't hear the line cooks at McDonalds complaining that they have to use a semi-automated grill that b
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by synicalx 2y ago
After Netflix et. al. cancelled/didn't renew about a dozen shows I was either in the middle of watching, or really wanted to watch I ragequit and decided to funnel all my streaming service money into physical media. A few years, l
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by synicalx 2y ago
They're either brainwashed, or being paid by Amazon.
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by synicalx 2y ago
> After three years of hearing about AI every day if you've never tested a single inference API then why are you applying to an AI startup. Devil's advocate; why would I have made an API request if my employer has never used th
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by synicalx 2y ago
I fully support, including financially, this project. But I worry that it will become what Mastodon has become which is (IMO) a complicated, shrinking, Twitter alternative with HOA's running large parts of it.
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by synicalx 2y ago
Yes, but are you also a thought leader?
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by synicalx 2y ago
> not going around and inflating the price of the other vintage camera stuff I want to buy. I don't think I've ever seen the vintage camera market this inflated, stuff that would have been <$50-100 5 years ago is going for $
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by synicalx 2y ago
Yeah a grip on a new CMS
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by synicalx 2y ago
1EB with only 30k users, thats a wild TB-per-user ratio. My frame of reference; the largest storage platform I've ever worked on was a combined ~60PB (give or take) and that had hundreds of millions of users.
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by synicalx 2y ago
I was fully prepared for a list of image board and ogrish/liveleak related trauma but this was relatively wholesome.
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by synicalx 2y ago
Excellent so as an Australian when an Australian-based company I do business with, lets call them "Optus", leaks all my personal data right down to the 100 points of ID I was forced to provide them, the CEO will wind up in jail? I
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by synicalx 2y ago
> At best it's unsettling To say the least... This one looks like something out of a horror movie. We've had models that can generate realistic looking people and coherent text for a while now, if they're going to insist o
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by synicalx 2y ago
Having one of the "creases" be exposed while the phone is "closed" makes me nervous. Traditionally folding screens have been exceptionally fragile especially in comparison to regular phone screens, having the most fragil
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by synicalx 2y ago
On PC you have your choice of marketplaces so it's somewhat less of an issue. On console you're locked into just the one marketplace with digital-only consoles, so if Sony wants to charge $100 for a game then that's the price
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by synicalx 2y ago
> WooCommerce should be filling the role of viable self host alternative to Shopify, but it falls short. WooCommerce itself is mostly fine as a backend, but the themes for it (including the built-in/free ones) are mostly awful. Ugly
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by synicalx 2y ago
Is having your message be a different colour really a punishment?
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by synicalx 2y ago
On the pricing scale of rent, typically thousands of dollars per month, $35 is relatively inconsequential in most cases.
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by synicalx 2y ago
RCS messages are also still going to show up in green bubbles as far as I know.
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by synicalx 2y ago
The Gen AI company they just acquired seems to be making their own model that, amongst other things, can generate coherent and heavily stylized text. For a platform that makes logos, branding, marketing material etc that seems like a natura
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by synicalx 2y ago
I can't wait to hear the fallout from their first PCI audit; "what the f** is a tamper proof bag?", "Key ceremony? No, sorry I'm not religious" But seriously I wish them luck, and I sincerely hope they know wha
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by synicalx 2y ago
> That and every mobile OS shows very obvious warnings whenever media capture is being used Does that show up with the always-on "hey siri/google" listening?
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by synicalx 2y ago
> without blowing anyone up Not for lack of trying
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by synicalx 2y ago
I just ran half a dozen identical searches on DDG and Bing, and yeah it looks like DDG is returning the same main results as Bing (if you ignore all the AI stuff at the top of Bing searches).
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by synicalx 2y ago
I'm a unionised engineer, albeit in Australia where unionising is simply a case of finding a union and joining it.
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by synicalx 2y ago
I genuinely can't think of use cases other than tax evasion, and 'discrete' purchases.
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by synicalx 2y ago
From a capacity planning perspective that's very useful information for sure.
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by synicalx 2y ago
I'm not really talking about the electricity we (global 'we') are generating right now, because we're still talking about curtailing our usage of it so it's obviously not enough. I'm talking more about electric
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by synicalx 2y ago
I've often wondered if we're focusing on the wrong things with lines of thinking like "does X use too much power?". It's not like our demand for electricity is ever going to be lower than it is right now, so trying
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by synicalx 2y ago
I don't believe those two things are equivalent, that isn't the purpose of an analogy.
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by synicalx 2y ago
That's ~43 minutes a day, or the approximate length of an episode of a TV show - it really isn't that much.

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