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If you get a chance to talk to an Iranian, try explaining them why it's fine that they're losing access to internet because the internet was brainwashing them to hate their governm…

Youtube Unhook extension does that and it does a lot more to improve Youtube's UI.

I used Whisky with M1 and M3 Macbooks. It certainly helped me run games much faster than a $300 Windows laptop ever could.

But we moved beyond LLMs? We have models that handle text, image, audio, and video all at once. We have models that can sense the tone of your voice and respond accordingly. Whethe…

There is no indication they haven't read the article. This product, much like iMessage and others, provides an inferior experience to non-Apple users. It aims to make other devices…

So, just like a human brain.

I'm not sure the best way to change minds is using a facetious tone and quoting meticulously-crafted numbers from a right-wing think tank. Billionaires get richer through asset app…

Wealthy people are in the same social circles, of course they keep hearing these concerns about commercial real estate. They don't have to formally coordinate because they share th…

Yes but they don't just use a random set of photos. They take multiple 360 photos for the specific purpose of feeding them into their virtual tour app. That's why you can pan aroun…

Youtube is fast but the interface is certainly bloated. I highly recommend the browser extension Unhook which declutters and simplifies Youtube's interface.

> There is a Netflix box inside the ISP data center that streams video to subscribers without going through the Internet. Can you clarify what you mean by this?

> the US state apparatus answered to the media and the public, as is their duty. No, the state feeds the media what it wants to see reported. They can share what they want and they…

It doesn't matter because it's tiny. The inequality between a Google engineer and a Starbucks barista is tiny compared to the inequality between a Google engineer and Elon Musk. Th…

The question isn't whether genocides are acceptable. The question here is whether you can build a chatbot free from politics. There was a time when slavery was considered acceptabl…

It's a term that describes how people feel to pressure to conform to a certain popular view and they are hesitant of speaking their opinions. Depending on the context, they might b…

> Companies either pulled out because they were legally obligated (That's what sanctions are) AFAIK, there were no sanctions regarding multinational corporations. McDonalds etc. we…

Not sure if these are similar arguments. These are relatively minor cosmetic issues. Window management and package management on the other hand are essential parts of the operating…

What do you mean their preference is not relevant? They're providing an example using their personal experience.

Sure but if you want to learn a specific technology by making a project, it makes more sense to make a project that can actually benefit from that specific technology.

In the hypothetical example, they are providing wrong information to Google. If they provided no information, it would be a different story.

I'm glad someone is bringing this up. I witnessed so many people lose access to their accounts because they wiped their phone that had an authenticator app, or they lost their phys…