realharo
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- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
It’s a desktop, so you will obviously need an external monitor. Most of the new monitors these days also work as USB hubs - you just run a USB C cable from the computer to the monitor and you get both display and additional ports.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 3 weeks ago:
If they’re counting all the auto-completed code that’s inserted after pressing Tab, then I easily believe it.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 3 weeks ago:
Tesla stock prices in the expectation that they’ll have robotaxi services and general purpose robots in the near future. And also that they will be leaders in these fields, ahead of the competition.
How likely/unlikely that is to happen is debatable, but that’s why some people are valuing the company so high right now.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
Practically speaking, 10 vs 11 barely makes a difference.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds 1 month ago:
Just pretend to be a travel YouTuber, or a live streamer.
- Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds 1 month ago:
You can do this with any camera, including the one in all the phones out there. The only thing specific to the glasses is that it’s more convenient and inconspicuous to be wearing it on your face.
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
Most of them probably get 0 visits or close to it.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
Sounds like he’s just repeating a common meme. I don’t see anything about higher level design that would make it more difficult for an AI compared to lower level tasks.
- Comment on Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] 3 months ago:
And AI scrapers and bots.
I wonder if all the political shilling is in hopes of future AI learning from it and being biased in the intended way.
- Comment on Local AI is one step closer through Mistral-NeMo 12B 3 months ago:
You can run the model locally in ollama ollama.com/library/mistral-nemo
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If you don’t figure out something’s wrong after a couple pages, it’s kinda your own fault.
- Comment on Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations 4 months ago:
This seems more like something they would integrate into Google Slides as a feature, rather than a separate product.
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 4 months ago:
More likely it’s the thing that generates all that heat in the first place.
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Usually when you don’t have internet access, it’s because you don’t have any signal at all.
- Comment on Pine64 Oz64 is a single-board PC with ARM and RISC-V CPU cores - Liliputing 4 months ago:
Experiment how?
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
And judging by the recent Claude Sonnet 3.5 results, OpenAI may not even be the top AI company anymore.
- Comment on Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced 5 months ago:
The ironic thing is that if it weren’t for free software, the entire AI industry would likely be a decade behind where it is today, if not more.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 months ago:
If users have the “I can always upgrade later” option, that screws with the purchases of the higher end models “just in case I need it in the future”.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
That’s trivial to filter if you just look at how much time has passed between posting and editing.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 6 months ago:
Another advantage is that it doesn’t force people to initially buy the higher version because “what if I end up needing it in the future” (like what Apple does with non-upgradable storage). It lets you buy the cheaper version for now, with the possibility to change your mind later.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 6 months ago:
Which is exactly like the “camera collabs” that phone makers sometimes do that end up being nothing more than marketing gimmicks.
Like the OnePlus camera “by Hasselblad” that is quality wise the same as any other smartphone camera in that price category.
- Comment on The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water" 7 months ago:
With enough technological advances, they might be able to just switch to salt water.
It’s silly to imagine all these “way out there” scenarios without also imagining progress in other areas.
- Comment on OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 7 months ago:
It does - it’s also mentioned in the article.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly exploring a partnership with Google for Gemini-powered feature on iPhones 8 months ago:
They are, it’s just not very good (yet?) …substack.com/…/apple-is-working-on-multimodal-ai
Remember the early days of Apple Maps?
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 8 months ago:
Until what? 100% replacement of human-driven cars? Being rolled out for areas covering 50% of the population? Where is the goal line here?
We are already at the stage of commercial operation, with rides available to the general public - even though only in a few locations.
Sure, it’s far from being everywhere, but why pretend that progress has stalled, when it clearly hasn’t?
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 8 months ago:
Yes actually (except more than a few years).
Waymo is already operating a robotaxi service in 3 cities, now they just need to expand and find a way to make it not lose money.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 8 months ago:
The right way to implement this is where they don’t even have any persistent identifier that could be used for tracking. They should only ever see a derived single-use signature that gives them a yes/no answer and nothing more.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
Do you have the full text of the notification that you could post here? Kinda hard discussing the specifics otherwise.
If it really contains the quote “Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok”, I do consider that misleading.
People are making a lot of noise about disinformation campaigns on sites like Facebook and YouTube (and that’s just from user-posted content that the sites fail to moderate, not posted by the sites themselves), so I don’t see why this would get a pass.
- Comment on AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead 8 months ago:
But why couldn’t an AI do the same?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
I also just noticed in the article:
TikTok urged its users to protest the bill, sending a notification that said, “Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok… Let Congress know what TikTok means to you and tell them to vote NO.”
So they were literally sending out misleading notifications (because a forced sale is not a total ban), and then the users wrote to Congress based on that…