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ClassyJacket··on US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward
It's only two day in America? It's next day in Australia. And we haven't even had Amazon for long...
ClassyJacket··on Hyprland 0.44
I have to install a separate program on Mac to get 3 finger click and window snapping. What's the big deal?
ClassyJacket··on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
Because Tesla wants 10$ a month for Premium Connectivity.

But you can add a Carplay\Android Auto screen to most cars.

ClassyJacket··on Depth Pro: Sharp monocular metric depth in less than a second
It would be fairly easy to construct something like this it's never seen before to test it. Go try it. Cut some shapes out of paper or 3d print something weird.

I'd suspect that a good model will infer what it can from universal depth cues (E.g. Bokeh and perspective) when present but not perform as well if they're as not there or as well as it does on familiar objects.

ClassyJacket··on Britain's last coal-fired power plant shuts down
Nah, people always spin this as "the horrible evil communist government is killing 800 JOBS!!!". Happened in Australia a few years ago - the parties on both sides only spoke about it as purely a negative thing because of loss of jobs, not a peep about carbon emissions or other pollution.
ClassyJacket··on A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions
Tiktok pops it up frequently and at random, irrelevant times. I think they're hoping I'll press it by accident, or without thinking.
ClassyJacket··on OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B
Eh it was pretty limited. The Leaf (then) couldn't go from my house, to the airport in my city (Melbourne) and back on one charge. That always made it a dealbreaker for me.

And that's going by Nissan's claimed range, not even real world. So that's on a 100% charge, when the car is brand new with no battery degradation, and under the ideal efficiency conditions that you never really get.

ClassyJacket··on The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US
We say it how we spell it and so do americans.
ClassyJacket··on Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms
My car bluetooth (2022 Tesla Model 3) is great and reliable, EXCEPT the huge latency. It connects and disconnects when it should, and is fine for audio, but if I want to sit in my car and watch a video (when public charging, when eating, or on my break at work, so a common situation), it literally has about one second of latency making everything completely unwatchable.
ClassyJacket··on AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO
Plenty of companies IPO before releasing anything, or before building a large audience. That's how lots of things that requite a long lead time and large initial investment get made. It's just a bigger risk for the investors.

Tesla IPOed in 2010 after selling only a few hundred Roadsters.

ClassyJacket··on Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
Why is Bluetooth so bad? This, plus the literal second of latency to my car's speakers.

All these problems are solved by headphones with proprietary wireless dongles and they work great, so why can't Bluetooth incorporate those improvements so we can get them on other devices than desktop PCs?

ClassyJacket··on Bop Spotter
Yes, I'm quite upset about the repurposing of "bop" to be offensive, it was a good word and I liked its old meaning.

For anyone who doesn't know, 'bop' to gen Z is a derogatory term for a sexually active woman, it basically means 'slut'.

Redefining existing words is something that really irritates me, particularly when it's used to attack women.

ClassyJacket··on Godot team block dev for political reasons
Why are the maintainers allowed to have politics but the devs aren't? What do you define as "inflammatory"? Knowing what a woman is?
ClassyJacket··on FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia
Yes there are? Antibiotics for one.
ClassyJacket··on Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round
Metaverse isn't VR. Meta in particular just happens to be integrating them since they make both.
ClassyJacket··on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Thankyou, I was wondering how the hell the screens could possibly be in focus without lenses.
ClassyJacket··on Mkbsd: Download all the wallpapers in MKBHD's "Panels" app for free
Isn't this copyright infringement?

The FAQ says "MKBSD accesses publicly available media through the Panels app's own API. It doesn't do anything shady or illegal.", but I don't think that logically follows. Just because something doesn't have DRM, doesn't make copying it not piracy. There are plenty of PC games with no DRM but you still aren't licensed to use them without buying.

Like, it's not as if I could care less about a bottom line of an already rich YouTuber, but is this really the hill to die on, especially with legal risk?

ClassyJacket··on Google Cache is fully dead
Before Stadia came out, I specifically warned people not to get invested in it because Google will just shut it down in 2 years, and all their games and save files will be gone forever. I was dead right, and as far as I'm concerned that's the final nail in the coffin for trusting anything Google makes. Anything that isn't a major core product will be abandoned immediately, it's just not worth the risk.

Unfortunately my TV is built on the Google TV OS, which probably means all smart features will be unusable in six months.

ClassyJacket··on Entire Subreddits Full of Bots
This post I assume:

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1fnglt7/entire_subr...

ClassyJacket··on Ask HN: Legacy @hotmail.com Email Address?
What do you need it for?

I still use mine as my sign up email so I'm probably not giving it away, but I have to ask out of curiosity.

Were you testing a spam filter or something?

ClassyJacket··on London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
I don't believe for a second that the reduced emissions are enough for these kids to actually notice. ULEZ is a tax on being poor, nothing more.
ClassyJacket··on Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB
That's horrendous, but it fits with Google's method of releasing a product, immediately abandoning it, and shutting it down permanently a year later.
ClassyJacket··on Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
This should come preconfigured with pinterest and quora blacklisted.
ClassyJacket··on Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
What copyright did they infringe?
ClassyJacket··on A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees
" They let a company with less resources, fewer engineers, no fab trounce them"

Which company are you referring to?

ClassyJacket··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
I think they meant for assembly of the iPhones.
ClassyJacket··on OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning
That'd be pretty normal if you asked it of a manager.
ClassyJacket··on OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning
It doesn't see "straw" or "berry". It sees a vector which happens to represent the word strawberry and is translated from and to English on the way in and out. It never sees the letters, 'strawberry' is represented by a number, or group of numbers. Try to count the Rs in "21009873628" - you can't.
ClassyJacket··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
You are making a claim that somehow someone was sitting on something as powerful as ChatGPT, long before ChatGPT, and that it was in widespread use, secretly, without even a single leak by anyone at any point. That's not plausible.
ClassyJacket··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
:'( I thought I was clever for realising this parallel myself! Guess it's more obvious than I thought.

Another example is how data on humans after 2020 or so can't be separated by sex because gender activists fought to stop recording sex in statistics on crime, medicine, etc.

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