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> LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output > The magic and absurdity of life is a necessary thing to create such works. These two points seem slightly…

The irony is that beef and cattle feed use vastly more water than oat milk production. Oat milk would help reduce water use if its used as a substitute for dairy.

By that logic, 'Basque', 'Cantonese', 'Cajun', and 'Tex-Mex' shouldn't exist either

> why have mechanical keyboards become so damn popular and not "keyboards on screens?" I mean... have you ever used a phone?

This reads a bit like like a pre-PC take: "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?" Imagine it’s 1992: Cookbook: Open book, follow steps. PC: Turn on tower, wait for DOS, fi…

I tried for a while to get ChatGPT to generate connections style puzzles with some suggested topics, including red herrings to create some answers that seemingly fit in multiple ca…

just record as mp4 in the first place, gif has limited colour palette, low frame rate and poor compression

Yes I'd bet most users just 50/50 it, which actually makes it more remarkable that there was a 56% selection rate

Playlists allow spotify to create a moat. It encourages you to listen to (and build) playlists, that wouldn't then be easily available if you try to switch platforms

It just needs a little hint Me: spell "strawberry" with 1 bullet point per letter ChatGPT: S T R A W B E R R Y Me: How many Rs? ChatGPT: There are three Rs in "strawberry".

Apple delivers ads (for e.g. Apple Music) in the Settings app of iPhone. Wouldn't be surprised if macOS ends up with similar things.

Well, my point was made in reference to the original comment which said > If consciousness is not well understood, how is AI on silicon allowed, or any computing machines at all Wh…

We understand it well enough to know that animals suffer, yet still commit on the order of a Holocaust per hour (in terms of number of lives)[0]. We have accepted that we don't car…

How can you stop that? An intelligent AI will send emails, create companies, hire people, and literally anything else you can do digitally in order to create means by which it can …

No display, 2 cameras, much thinner form factor

Maybe unrelated, but I think some people do this to check (at least partially) what email is tied to an account. E.g. if you suspect an anonymous instagram user to be your friend B…

not really marbles = (BlackMarble() for _ in range(random.randint(0, 10))) all(isinstance(m, BlackMarble) for m in marbles) Surely should always be true

Agree, if anyone knows themes that make this better I'd love to know

Also IGTV standalone app

The point is that Mark's vision is much more social... The most Apple showed was FaceTime but with added 3D on their avatar. There's so much missed opportunity here for true spatia…

There's a small but passionate group of VR enthusiasts, more so than most other consumer tech categories in my experience

Of course every one has been wrong. If they were right, you wouldn't be here talking about it. It shouldn't be surprising that everyone has been wrong before

Disabling updates in a recipe for malware - you can remove the search bar in 4 clicks.

Or more likely, ask ChatGPT to simplify it.

Give it access to a Python repl, show it how to send HTTP requests, how to take look at images of webpages if it needs to, and how to spawn new instances of itself - give it a budg…