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josho

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About josho

brazen.cog-0s@icloud.com

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    Comment #48728183

    I don't think it's superficial at all. I genuinely find my apps harder to navigate now than I used to. Part of that is that I have far more apps installed today, but the uniform wh…

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    Comment #48450977

    > It’s really disappointing to see the on-device models being limited to so few devices. At first I thought it was the usual planned obsolescence. Then I realized it may be a true …

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    Comment #48366091

    I loathe that I can't even rename the desktops. Wouldn't it be great to have them named "Design", "Dev", "Productivity", "Games". Or whatever makes sense given your needs, instead …

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    Comment #47454875

    The meta data is useful. Eg, When a prompt had a bad result and was edited, or had lots of back and forth to correct tool usage that information can be distilled and used to improv…

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    Comment #46851687

    Similarly I worry about how these apps automatically update themselves. I know it can be done securely. I also doubt that these companies invest the engineering effort to do so.

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    Comment #46319228

    The problem is that consumers are not savvy. They go to the store, and compare TVs based on features presented. Colors, refresh rate, size, etc. Its only when they get home (and li…

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    Comment #46271224

    This is the second app that I’ve tried with an AI voice for meditation. And frankly it’s off putting. The voice is great for other settings. But when my eyes are closed and I’m foc…

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    Comment #46222454

    Good analogy. The solution, however, isn't prohibition or age restrictions; it's either regulating the algorithms or holding these companies responsible for the adverse outcomes th…

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    Comment #45741039

    They didn't have a better definition of AGI to draw from. The old Turing test proved to not be a particularily good test. So lacking a definition money was used as a proxy. Which t…

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    Comment #45405536

    The EU should go even farther. Force hardware vendors to decouple from services. Eg. AirPods work better with iPhones than Bluetooth. Why? Because of software integration. Apple Ph…

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    Comment #45130929

    4k jobs across the economy is far less than random variation in the stats. Salesforce reduced their headcount in 2023 by 8-10%. Another reduction by 5% attributed solely to AI coul…

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    Comment #44615611

    Why? What problem does this solve? With a car it’s common for people to not maintain correctly or to get in a major accident and not disclose. What are the common factors that caus…

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    Comment #44427906

    The solution here shouldn't be technical; it should be legal. If we rely on the technical path, Comcast can achieve the same by how many active IPv6 addresses are in use. Even if y…

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    Comment #44018750

    Well if the demand isn't there then I suppose there's no need to have a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, right? The reality is the legislation was to push industry and it seems industri…

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    Comment #43151743

    Let’s ask ourselves what happens when the story doesn’t end well and it’s a service that government has been providing. The answer may be lives are lost, the economy breaks, enemie…

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    Comment #42807528

    This is a common misunderstanding. The US doesn’t send its military around the world because they want to protect freedom and democracy. The US does this to protect open markets th…

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    Comment #42716017

    I think you've been propagandized because having autocratic private institutions having undue cultural power is proving to be worse for our culture than anything a foreign country …

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    Comment #42539122

    The real next step is standardizing battery sizes. Think of all the other gadgets that have replaceable batteries. (Eg. Power tools) Most of those batteries are standard at the who…

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    Comment #42474644

    Sailors have figured this out centuries ago to travel against the wind (called tacking). Some of the same principles apply, like orienting the sail so that photons push against the…

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    Comment #42389212

    I suspect you can increase your conversion rate to paid quite easily. I've been using the free version for sometime. And I have no idea if the paid version gives me the improvement…

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    Comment #42159878

    Those taxes were often imposed because of past engineering errors. For example, Don't deploy during business hours because a past deployment took down production for a day. A great…

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    Comment #41872305

    Wow, difficult crowd. It reminds me of the initial Dropbox launch. Their pitch was a USB drive for the Internet, which was torn to pieces by this crowd. Then, Dropbox built a video…

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    Comment #41756988

    What you described is exactly what real estate folks do. They put each property they own under a separate LLC. There are legitimate reasons to use different bank accounts and legal…

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    Comment #41621048

    > As a fresh college grad still, I needed the job and stability. This is why we have student debt. It keeps employees compliant and subservient. No I don't think there is a cabal o…

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    Comment #41584172

    IMO this is your business model. Build an Alfred clone that is AI first. It has a potential to be a nice lifestyle business. Mac users still buy software and I’ve wanted to buy som…