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jolt42··on What is a species, anyway?
I've assumed for a long time that the number of species is way over-inflated, just because it sounds cooler to discover a "species" rather than some variation within a species.
jolt42··on Internal tools often make bad startup ideas
Yeah, also confused. I will say that when I look at off-the-shelf stuff often I'll find something that is %80 of what is needed, and that other %20 is more difficult to retrofit than something from built internally that can grow with the company.
jolt42··on We need to talk about parentheses (2020)
I define functions as often in let/letfn blocks than I do as separate functions, so they are local and in context. Makes it easy to read.
jolt42··on Vision Pro teardown part 2: What’s the display resolution?
Disappointing to hear. I was hoping laptop work to be on par with a 27" 4k monitor, otherwise can't see I'd use it "enough".
jolt42··on How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
Since I only deal with "in person" sales, to me it's less sketchy than most eBay purchases. I had a similar happening to this story, but with eBay. I don't know why they bothered trying the scam, I got my money back relatively easy, just had to be patient.
jolt42··on How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
I was thinking if that camera was only $30 I'm not sure I'd jump thru the hoops, and so more people would get scammed.
jolt42··on Apple releases MGIE, an AI-based image editing model
I don't yet know if its as good/better, but it appears to be at least on the cusp.
jolt42··on Apple releases MGIE, an AI-based image editing model
You can run your laptop and other apps with multiple screens as big and layed out where how you want while still having a usable (seeable) keyboard? Is the latency such that you don't get nauseous? Seems useful for productivity. Do other goggles have these feature, yes, but there's a difference between being a toy versus actually being as good/better than how I work now.
jolt42··on Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016)
The article also pretends that there is only one correct answer, which seems atypical of the domain. The 1 green spot should extend somewhat fuzzily in each dimension in the ML case.
jolt42··on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
Unless it lacks the ability to give a MacOSX Look & Feel, I don't see a problem.
jolt42··on Don't disable buttons
Can we also talk about aggressively deleting form fields? Forgot password? Let me forget the email you just typed in when trying to login. Guessed the wrong password? I'll erase that field for you.
jolt42··on The coolest robot I've ever built [video]
Pretty sure Mark Robar has a rant about this that creators are pretty much forced (mathematically) to make longer videos if they want to be successful.
jolt42··on Archive of novelty answering machine recordings
I figured this was a comment somewhere! Can I use AI to create the song with my name?
jolt42··on Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
Has someone figured out the ideal frequency / amplitude of the wave? Maybe the frequency that matches the strength of a one-brick straight wall? The pictures strike me as possibly wavier than needed.
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