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HeavyFeatheron Cantu a tenore

At the core, I think there's just a lot of cultural and historical sites in Italy specifically because of the Roman Empire and its tentacles.

Then there's the fact that UNESCO sites receive funding, which Italians love.

Then Italians are (overly?) proud of their history and food and they won't pass up an opportunity to tell the world they're the best. [1]

  1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp2uDyzxP6g

HeavyFeatheron Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division

Good luck with that. Porn still dominates charts and sex still sells. You’re not changing either one because they’re both what humans want.

HeavyFeatheron Apple Music Classical

That number is common in professional contexts, Apple is just publishing the highest “quality” available. Whether this is useful is up to the listener, who can just as well decide to listen to 192kbps AAC instead.

In a world where videos and photos are still shared at laughable resolutions, let’s not scorn decisions to preserve media in the highest possible quality.

HeavyFeatheron Apple Music Classical

Give them time, it’s not like they can afford to hire capable people.

HeavyFeatheron Apple Music Classical

The best part is that it isn’t even set up: https://applemusic.apple/

This awkward press release lives at https://learn.applemusic.apple/apple-music-classical

Drop the pathname and you get a nice 404.

HeavyFeatheron Apple Music Classical

So Apple wrote this. Worse yet, their specialists in classical music wrote this. The page is littered with Apple logos and it lives on a .Apple TLD, no need to be an apologist for 2.5 trillion dollar company.

HeavyFeatheron PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”

A set of people you say? Sorry, our policy does not allow x-smiths to use this service.

HeavyFeatheron Apple passwords deserve an app

> they run pretty much everywhere they're allowed to.

Yep, they’re allowed to run on Chrome, that’s Google’s platform.

Good luck using your Chrome/Google passwords outside Chrome/Google apps.

Firefox at least does (or used to) offer a Lockbox app to use the password on your phone.

HeavyFeatheron Apple passwords deserve an app

The problem is that the integrated managers really do work best on platform, i.e. alternatives aren’t nearly as well-integrated.

So here I am using Safari on my computer and phone.

HeavyFeatheron Apple passwords deserve an app

Do you really need to go back to your car, open your trunk, get the wallet just to show your ID?

Passwords are my ID, sometimes I have to enter them onto another computer or app or just share them with someone; I shouldn’t need to hunt my ID in the trunk of my car.

Keychain Access did this right decades ago, so there’s some logic behind it. The issue is that the app is not built for this decade and its UI is lacking.

HeavyFeatheron Apple passwords deserve an app

Are you talking about that utility that looks straight out of Windows 98? Surely it could use some love in 2023. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it updated, it’s not an acceptable UI for consumers.

HeavyFeatheron The fastest rm command and one of the fastest cp commands

That's a very liberal way to define "confirmation", especially since modern OSes will delete trashed items on a rolling 30-day basis, without any further action.

To rephrase:

> mv dir .old-dir && rm -r .old-dir &

it's how most GUI desktops “delete” stuff, they just run the two actions separately

It's kind of a stretch anyway since the core idea of the command was the final `&`

HeavyFeatheron ChatGPT 4 saved my dog’s life

Googling requires the user to interpret the results; ChatGPT can interpret them.

> badgering their doctors/vets

You're saying it like being aware of possible diseases is a bad thing. One just has to avoid saying "you're wrong" to a doctor and instead just ask for a second opinion.

HeavyFeatheron A nasal spray protects against coronavirus including immune-evasive variants

Effective at what? This discussion is about preventing COVID.

HeavyFeatheron The fastest rm command and one of the fastest cp commands

I don't think any GUI move items before a confirmation, so I don't see the link at all.

HeavyFeatheron GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data

I wouldn’t say it doesn’t matter. You can say it’s a weakness that can be improved.

HeavyFeatheron OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

Over my dead body.

You realize that Google Search still brings in mountains of cash, right? Search generates 57% of Alphabet’s total revenue. [1]

We’re extremely far from that point.

  [1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-advertising-business-breakdown-.html

HeavyFeatheron OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

Just because it does, it doesn’t mean they’re being interpreted correctly, so watch out for https://xkcd.com/906/

HeavyFeatheron Cheating is All You Need

> Very high performant bullshit generators which outputs need to be carefully reviewed.

So just like every one of your colleagues? Because that’s what they are. These bots are your new colleagues and they respond directly to you, without complaining, exceeding your knowledge.

Today I sent a PR fixing a bug in a language I don’t know anything about.

It worked. The bullshit worked.

Then I tried working on top of that adding more features and lost the rest of the day. But hey it’s still March 2023 and my colleague is still a junior. We should celebrate that they managed to fix a bug. I don’t know where I’ll be in March 2024.

HeavyFeatheron ChatGPT Has Submitted a Pull Request to Rails

I know it sounds funny, but GPT-4 could already probably swallow the whole repo and propose a whole patch and gh-cli command to actually do the thing nearly by itself.

I’m just here waiting for a “Fix issue” button on GitHub tickets, then I’ll be impressed again, for a week.

HeavyFeatheron ChatGPT Has Submitted a Pull Request to Rails

How? ChatGPT did not send the PR and cannot ingest a whole repo. I assume the author picked and fed it the 4 affected files, making it less “ChatGPT submitted a PR” and more “I used ChatGPT to write this code and text” which is pretty ordinary right now.

HeavyFeatheron Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator

Does your art live on Adobe.com? I tried to make this clear. Currently “who made it” isn’t as clear as for paper and pencil. AI isn’t a seen as a plain tool yet, it’s part of the artist.

HeavyFeatheron Adobe Firefly: AI Art Generator

I hate limitations as much as the next person, but these tools are viewed as generators by company xyz. You don’t want Disney to sue Adobe because the tool can circumvent IP and abuse it.

“Draw a Disney logo but for adults”

That image now lives on Adobe.com

HeavyFeatheron Bing Image Creator

What? I’ve been asking insane prompts via Jailbreak for weeks and it’s all good here. I very much doubt you get “banned” over an adult novel, I went much farther than that.

HeavyFeatheron Show HN: Get a Professional Headshot in Minutes with AI

It’s photos of your face. Billions of people upload billions of selfies every day. No one cares. If you don’t want your face to be seen, wear a mask and don’t leave the house.

HeavyFeatheron Why we added package.json support to Deno

> I've rarely had a negative experience with it

We all bury bad memories. Feels like yesterday TypeScript couldn’t resolve a package because I set “moduleResolution: node16”

Oh wait, that’s still happening, because a dependency does not use the correct package.json exports setup.

HeavyFeatheron Why we added package.json support to Deno

This whole ordeal completely smells like “15 competing standards”

HeavyFeatheron Curl 8.0.0

Major instead of patch is far better than patch instead of major. Nothing breaks due to this new version.

HeavyFeatheron Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS

I think PiP still doesn’t work in the app for me and sponsors aren’t blocked. I get less value from Premium than just SponsorBlock + YouTube PiP. I just have to deal with 720p videos though