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sniggers··on Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
Restraint won't make the unpredictable gamma ray burst or unstoppably-sized asteroid go away.
sniggers··on GPT-4o
Personally I've always said it with a hard r
sniggers··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Yep. It's amazing to see how quickly people start denying reality when they don't like someone's beliefs/behavior.

I could acknowledge that a hypothetical smart, woke, furry, trans, porn-addicted programmer that regularly makes great FOSS contributions is intelligent and capable while still disliking their beliefs/behavior.

Separate the "art" from the "artist."

sniggers··on The most talented person in the world
This is definitely the best option. Community search blocklists, like uBlock Origin
sniggers··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Incorrect, he led a recruiting battle for Ilya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nORLckDnmg&t=75s
sniggers··on Wasp-193B, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy
IANAPNA either, but a solid object like a planet blocks light differently than dust clouds. Dust clouds, even dense ones, still allow some wavelengths through that planets do not. I would guess that's what allows them to be confident that it's a planet.
sniggers··on GPT-4o
Not when they've replaced every customer-facing position. Oh and all teachers.
sniggers··on Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)
Hacking doesn't hurt people, theft/scamming does
sniggers··on Apple introduces M4 chip
It is being optimized, it's just that the optimization is geared towards vacuuming money from brainwashed pockets instead of making a product that's worth the money.
sniggers··on Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019)
I said "people that value style over substance and non-technical people," you appear to have read "non-technical people."

>ignorant

In fact the only techy people I know that enjoy MacOS seem to be ignorant about what they're missing. I've had multiple people be very surprised when I showed them the clipboard manager built into Windows and explained how insanely slow switching between windows over and over to copy and paste multiple things on MacOS feels without it. They genuinely had no idea because they, again, never leave their Apple bubble.

Like the iPhone the one thing Macbooks objectively have going for them is (overpriced) good hardware.

sniggers··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
Why would Israel have to do anything? With the flagging system, even if there's just a minority of pro-Israel users anything anti-Israel is now effectively banned.
sniggers··on Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019)
Like the other replies are saying: you're in a bubble, like most Apple users.

MacOS needs third party apps to not be incredibly frustrating, and often the apps are subscription based. (Window management, clipboard history, and power management are the big ones - even if you go with a free option like I do, it's not good that the base OS is missing essential features in these areas.) There are many little annoying things that can't be easily disabled, like Apple Music launching every time you connect your bluetooth earbuds. There are incredibly bizarre UX choices, like not having "pin" in Finder be a right click option.

As for development, Windows + Powertoys can do everything MacOS can better, plus game (and game dev). For anything Linux I can use WSL2. I can natively develop any kind of software for literally any non-walled-garden platform on Windows (and use a VM if I'm forced to make an iOS app, god forbid). Why would I intentionally choose to limit what my computer can run and what development I can do?

I'm forced to use a Macbook for work, but would never use it if given the choice. MacOS is for people that value style over substance and non-technical people, just like everything else Apple.

sniggers··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
Making something cool and selling it for a profit isn't grifting
sniggers··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
Which is more "hacker" - Rabbit or Google?
sniggers··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
Are you referring to this? https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins

Rabbit's approach is one-sided (train their model to generate needed API calls, and maybe also perform Selenium-style simulated actions?) which should make it more flexible if inherently less reliable than dedicated plugins written by developers from the apps looking to be called via AI

sniggers··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
It's cool. Would not have been as cool as an app
sniggers··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
It can do a lot more than ChatGPT's app, let alone Siri which can do even less.
sniggers··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
>OpenAI can do it in their app, or Google/Apple as a built in phone integration

Have they done so or described any upcoming plans to do so? Rabbit is doing it now.

Man this site is so anti-hacker it's insane. Probably because it's 90% big tech employees that are actively hurt by startups shaking things up. Should be renamed

sniggers··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
The ChatGPT app requires a subscription, and offers no "Large Action Model" behavior (i.e. API tie-in to perform actions on other apps like Spotify/Doordash/Uber/Midjourney). The former is a nice bonus (10 months of ChatGPT $20 sub = one time purchase price of Rabbit R1), the latter has the potential in its fully realized form to make Rabbit infinitely more useful as an assistant.
sniggers··on Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
For me, it's just less hunger and being full faster. I still want the milkshake, just a smaller one and less often.
sniggers··on The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars
The concepts of freedom and being comfortable in your car do not compute for non-Americans (and city-slicker-Americans)
sniggers··on The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars
Fair enough, BMI can be misleading for powerlifters!
sniggers··on The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars
You are medically obese, with a BMI of 36.2: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi...