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> and then grab a beer at a bar to be social

I feel like you're missing the point. The bar a necessary part of the equation because alcohol has a social monopoly on physical locations.

aren't they going with open source firmware / OS this time around? even if it gets sold, user support will be possible

7z also does this now FWIW

I'd still bet it's Usenet users that installed WinRAR way back when and have stuck to it ever since

they claim to love capitalism, but when the free hand turns away from them they call foul and institute social programs for the owning class

> - making cringe hardware that basically noone purchased (Zune, Windows Phone)

Add the most recent lineup of Xbox consoles to this

Kids have low standards, so you can sell low quality content if you slap a "for kids" label on it

> their efforts have been "lackluster" in terms of "AI integration" - as if "maximally integrating generative LLMs" is the goal in and of itself!

That does feel like the ultimate goal with many of these AI initiatives. I have a suspicion that a lot of the negativity thrown towards Apple's AI integration comes from people hoping Apple will legitimize their product, not from people wanting their phone to be better.

I suspect a lot of that comes from the "how to detect whether window x is window x" settings

You'll have to define modern workstation for me, because I was under the impression that unless you've purpose-built your machine to run LLMs, this size model is impossible.

In gaming, there's the terms "skill floor" and "skill ceiling" to describe a game's capacity for handling user adeptness. A low skill floor means anyone can play with low requirements, and a high skill floor means it demands a lot from the player. Low skill ceiling means that it takes very little time to reach the peak skill level, while a high skill ceiling means it can take years of play before taking full advantage of the tools it gives you.

Tablets seem to have a low skill floor and low skill ceiling by design. There's no file system, they can't run unsigned code, they can't write code, and are essentially just internet media players.

A PC has a somewhat low skill floor as well (as any mass consumer product should), but the skill ceiling is very very high. A confident user can also easily break something essential.

I hate that one of the examples given is "make a corporate social media post". We need to have a really serious talk about how to remove corpos from the human internet.

Could some kind of microwave / laser attack from a high altitude air vehicle be possible?

Instead, it seems he's created the LAN of the lost

> they and their peers were fairly proficient with tablets, etc.

I'm really curious what people mean when they say that. I didn't grow up with smart screens, but I've never felt particularly encumbered by them, and I wouldn't even consider using them a skill. What does the difference between a "bad iPad user" and a "good iPad user" really amount to? Is swiping Tiktok and watching Youtube really something you can become proficient in?

I'm not a fan of the growing "The US needs to become more autocratic before the bad guys get us" narrative that AI proselytizers keep sharing.

"as bad as it can get" is somewhere in the realm of universal paperclips

The SE has always seemed, to me, a way to repurpose older iPhone components into a more modern shell, which is why the SE line has been replace by the 16e. 16e uses iPhone 13 dimensions.

3" sounds like a novelty, but the Jelly Max seems a bit more reasonable at 5". Cool company.

a poorly designed game makes applying the rules boring. a fun game makes applying the rules interesting.

OJ Simpson is was such a famous case that I'd be inclined to treat it as an outlier in many ways, not the norm.

Many of Kubrick's movies were panned at release and only received merits upon reexamination. Even 2001 was initially met with a mixed reception.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywoo...

Most people don't have the equivalent of home internet plumbing in general. They have a hole drilled into the wall (by the ISP) where the all-in-one modem-router-switch-wap sits on a shelf. There's probably a third party service to get ethernet run through your walls, and maybe even replace your all-in-one box with something good, but most people are just doing the equivalent of getting water straight out of the water company's tap with no plumbing.

My guess is that the custom share sheet lets reddit see what services users are sharing to

It's difficult for me to judge their usefulness as a tool. I've used them in lieu of a google search and gotten good information, but i've also got bad information from them. The lack of reliability means I can't just ask an LLM and keep rolling, but the high probability that it will save me some time scouring the internet means there's some value there. I'm not sure I can provide a definitive judgement on them.

do we have evidence that this is the actual prompt or is it just allegedly.

The thing about tools is that they need to be predictable. I can't remember the source, but it's a concept I read that really stuck with me. A predictable tool can be used skillfully and accurately because the user can anticipate how it works and deploy it effectively. It will always be aligned with the user intent because the user decides how and when it is used.

A tool that constantly adapts to how it is used will frequently be misaligned with user intent. Language models constantly change their own behavior based on the specific phrasing you gave it, the context you deployed it in, and the inherent randomness in token generation. Its capacity to be used as a tool will be inherently limited by this unpredictability.

A big reason BoBF is so bad is because the exposition it focuses on is fucking lame as hell. It was also contradictory to the character's premise, a bounty hunting nomad deciding to settle down and become crime lord of bumfuck nowhere is the opposite of what his character arc should be.

People just treat "yield" signs as "look out" signs because of their severe underuse. Nobody would know to treat it like a stop sign in this case.

> If it wasn’t generally accepted, the world wouldn’t use it in well over 9 out of 10 cases.

This is driven by standardization, not any kind of human perception limit.

"brain rot" is a subjective criticism. objectively speaking, the kids are making art and sharing it with each other. it's at worst an extension of the entertainment industry. you can not like the art, but it's at least art.

the finance industry doesn't produce anything of value. it just turns $1 into $2 and liquidates productive industries.