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dav43
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Comment #48593203
My take, is that this effect has removed a lot of the micro communications we make - not necessarily random conversations. It’s taken away random moments that may trigger a short s…
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Comment #47612076
A misconception is that chess is all memory. If you look at some of the research, it’s learning to remember patterns, not all the moves. Eg when they tested good chess players on r…
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Comment #47402734
The mesh in version one lasted just over 12 months. Repair bill at Apple was 90% of the cost of a new pair. Truly the worst built product I’ve bought from Apple. Never again.
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Comment #47263833
If his son had half a brain he wouldn’t be trading in this quasi derivative
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Comment #46851624
My thousand dollar iPhone can't even add a contact from a business card.
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Comment #46498244
Singapore to a tea. Spooky that I had a similar path, Sydney -> HK -> New York -> Singapore. Crescendo-ing up to New York, then off a cliff into a full blow school-like world (but …
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Comment #46361971
Super strange when there are several on the front page, older, with less votes and less comments. To say it’s off topic is a little narrow minded given the current environment
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Comment #46337318
Anecdata- I did this as a 13 year old in the 90s. My old man came upon it after I was repeatedly ending up in hospital in Australia with asthma as a kid. I think there was a presen…
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Comment #46322923
The App Store is an absolute sh!t hole of an experience. Irrelevant ads, impossible to find anything decent. It’s the internet of 1998 pre google.
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Comment #46239024
I have benn beating ths drum for yrs
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Comment #46052579
It’s crazy you can pay for premium, which is not cheap, and you can’t disable shorts. The number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts.
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Ask HN: Does Apple dictation (iPhone) process on device?
I come with frustrations. My new iPhone 16 max is a dog. I use to use dictation a lot, has it changed from on device because I can’t get a straight answer from Apples documentation…
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Comment #45651334
The big problem is that it’s shit and terrible UX. We should stop complicating feedback :)
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Comment #45633681
possible, seems this is done in other modes. quote - google ai mode: "DuckDB offers robust capabilities for querying data stored partially on S3, particularly when dealing with Par…
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Comment #45527167
started with overland (was great, but hurt the battery a lot) - there was an iOS app for it. I then just moved on to PSObserver as it was self contained, I could export off my phon…
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Comment #45511531
Don’t know if you have seen the work DuckDB is doing on ducklake. Maybe there is an overlap in vision for versioning data across multiple data sources - and similar to SQLite it’s …
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Comment #45511476
I have been recording my gps every few mins for the past 10years for this exact product. Looks interesting.
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Comment #45423356
Working on an AI/Governance and compliance system that also integrates with the cli for teams developing the actual code and the systems that are commonly used, GitHub, bitbucket, …
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Comment #45318883
I replay liked the design of NLM, and thought it was a great implementation of using LLMs beyond a simple chat. Well done.
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Comment #45285350
I use them too for similar uses. Brilliant. I also use zero AI. I don’t care. I totally understand ppl not buying them because they are meta. I get it.
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Comment #45217830
Been using iPhone for years and I swear the keyboards accuracy has turned to absolute shit. I am convinced through my experience that they have definitely changed something and mad…
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Comment #45194408
I just use infuse or vid hub app and an SMB share.
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Ask HN: Do cloud provided LLMs get "dumber" during business hours
I have heard this mentioned, online and in casual conversation ** During business hours these endpoints may get so highly utilised that accuracy and quality decline (ignore latency…
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Comment #44981695
Wouldn’t duckdb be a good fit for this?