tshaddox

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by tshaddox 6d ago
Most smartphones and smart phone speakers are always listening for a wake word, right? I think that’s very different from “always recording.”
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by tshaddox 7d ago
I'm no expert, but I suspect that a pattern of lashing out against opponents during in a high stakes business dispute would not typically be considered clinically significant on its own. I don't know how you or others in this thre
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by tshaddox 7d ago
Fair enough. But people here are expressing disdain at this new feature, which is not that.
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by tshaddox 7d ago
Surely it would be very rare to want to listen to music at its highest quality while simultaneously recording your voice. It’s perhaps conceivable for some sort of niche mode of music or audio production, I suppose.
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by tshaddox 7d ago
This is certainly the opposite of my experience. The sound quality from someone speaking via their MacBook microphone is noticeably worse than someone speaking via their AirPods microphone.
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by tshaddox 7d ago
15 seconds at a time, when the owner activates the feature. The scale of its recall is not meaningfully different than someone scribbling down 15 seconds worth of what they hear someone say (or even just remembering it), and does not pose a
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by tshaddox 7d ago
Apps already work on Apple devices with many different aspect ratios.
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by tshaddox 7d ago
In what way does this violate the privacy of anyone around them? It doesn't even store audio recordings, which is something every smartphone has been able to do for 20 years.
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by tshaddox 7d ago
iPads have the same issue (to a lesser extent) if you're really looking for a device primarily for fullscreen 16:9 video. To be honest, the iPhone Duo (and iPads) are much more suited for multiple tiled apps and multi-column app layout
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by tshaddox 7d ago
Only if "pure marketing juice" means "plainly telling people about a straightforward feature they're adding to one of their products." Which like, okay, that is what marketing is, but are you suggesting they don&#x
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by tshaddox 7d ago
> Providing ready-made UI components and templates has never been a million-dollar business, nor should it be. Depends what you mean. I think it’s totally reasonable for a small team with a great reputation to offer a well-made component
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by tshaddox 8d ago
I doubt the modem would cost more than $5 at scale. No idea what sort of off peak data deals you could get at scale but I have to imagine it’s close to being feasible.
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by tshaddox 8d ago
I’ve heard rumors of that, and also of TVs shipping with cellular modems with which to phone home. I don’t know if either have been confirmed, but it would be ridiculous for such a thing to be legal.
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by tshaddox 10d ago
I never suggested it was out of the goodness of their hearts. I suspect it’s because it’s what customers want.
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by tshaddox 10d ago
> Fifteen years ago, you absolutely could have written a web crawler that aggregated torrent links... Sure, and you'd probably be culpable if you wrote the software. But if you purchased Quicken99 to do your taxes, and that software
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by tshaddox 10d ago
The Forester still has the awful infotainment system with the vertical screen, first introduced on the 2020 Outback. I actually like the vertical aspect ratio, and the screen is pretty bright and high resolution, but the underlying software
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by tshaddox 10d ago
For certain specific cases, sure, but there is a general concern about an AI agent doing something illegal or harmful against the intentions of the human operator. And this analogy of a BitTorrent client being used intentionally by a human
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by tshaddox 10d ago
I don't know. Any of these criticisms can be applied on a case be case basis, but I think I would be justifiably upset if any of these happened: 1. my qBittorrent client pirated content without me intending it or taking any irresponsib
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by tshaddox 13d ago
I don't really get what you're suggesting. You give a 1 year grace period for Metallica to pull all its music off the Internet, but then as soon as I host some of their MP3s on my Wordpress blog it's "public property of
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by tshaddox 14d ago
> Also, I disagree - I don't think "fruit salad", or "chicken salad", or "egg salad" etc are "figurative" (not sure what you even mean by that), I would absolutely consider them legitimate sal
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by tshaddox 15d ago
I’m fine with their first consideration: > A salad must be a mixture of greens. The only additional realization you need is that things like “fruit salad” and “chicken salad” are using the word “salad” figuratively . There’s no reason t
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by tshaddox 18d ago
Will TVs stream UHD Blu-Ray rips off the network anyway? I guess modern TVs all have H.265 decoders now, so there’s no reason they couldn’t as long as the network interface is quick enough and they know how to handle common video containers
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by tshaddox 19d ago
Even UHD Blu-Ray isn't likely to need sustained transfer rates over 100 Mbps. The spec allows transfer rates of about 128 Mbps, and some discs reportedly have momentary spikes above that, but I suspect the vast majority of titles would
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by tshaddox 19d ago
> I'm strenuously disagreeing with the 75%, especially in terms of usage. Oh for sure. I wasn't weighting by usage.
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by tshaddox 19d ago
I've used it almost exclusively since around 2019, but that has been in the Bay Area and LA area where the data has presumably been very good relative to other areas.
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by tshaddox 19d ago
I find that Apple Maps is typically pretty smart with its automatic zoom. For a typical intersection with just one turn to navigate, it will zoom in to give you a good sense of the lanes, stop signs/lights, etc. But when there are cons
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by tshaddox 19d ago
> in Spanish, gender is pretty easily determined from the word ending 99.9% of the time unless it's a Greek neuter, and there are only a few of those. Isn't that 99.9% referring to the reliability of spelling heuristics for th
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by tshaddox 19d ago
In Spanish, native speakers typically learn (implicitly) or memorize (explicitly) the gendered article along with the noun, so instead of thinking "hmm, let me remember the gender of mapa " they'll just have that noun stored
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by tshaddox 20d ago
It’s a silly question, since (short of a major life change or economic system change) you need the grocery store and the job to have decent quality of life. You need to trade your labor for money, and you need to trade your money for food.
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by tshaddox 21d ago
Don’t you just mean that one set of vibes resonates with your own vibes better than the other set of vibes?

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