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Comment · 16 hours ago
Probably true if development accelerates because of AI, but if it's reasonably stable then hopefully new bug reports will plateau.
Comment · 20 hours ago
I suspect most professional cinematographers are all very good at what they do, but directors and producers mostly won't let them exercise their skills due to time and money constraints.
Comment · 1 month ago
Or Christmas lights
Comment · 1 month ago
Same, for me it made it possible for me to work on Linux with teammates on Mac with very little messing around of the setup scripts.
Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe browser font tech wasn't quite there yet. It's not shown in the video but if you want the text to show mid animation then you need to do a skew effect on the text.
Comment · 1 month ago
I always thought the argument was that "continuing to drive the cars we have is better than building new cars even if the new cars are EVs". Which, even if true, doesn't sound particularly helpful or useful because very few people had the financial ability to replace their IC car early just because it isn't an EV (which has historically been far more expensive).
Comment · 1 month ago
Airlines are just about the only business that have the ability to charge credit cards without real time authorization by the network. This is for things like buying a drink while in flight. I wouldn't be surprised if this was all part of the negotiation.
Comment · 1 month ago
Flights are one of the very few cases where this happens automatically though the card providers systems. It's called L2 data, and it's sent a little while after the transaction goes through.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't think this is the reason, cash will always have no fees. In some senses it can have negative fees if you're not very diligent with your tax reporting *wink wink*.

Not accepting cash is probably more to do with not wanting to deal with it, not needing to trust employees with it, keeping poor people out, and preventing robbery.

Credit card companies and banks know basically squat about your purchase except in certain circumstances (buying gas or flights causes more data to follow, called L2 or L3 data), or if they work with a data enrichment provider. There is a lot of action in this space right now, but the banks are hardly equipped to handle more data even if it became available.

Comment · 2 months ago
Perplexity really fell off for me, especially the free version. Their syntax highlighting stopped working, and even the fonts seemed messed up. You could tell they were mixing and matching whatever the cheapest model was because the sources would be messed up and printed as plane text <grok source 1 http:// ... />

I guess it makes sense though, unless you've got the lowest pricing on your own model how can you compete.

Comment · 2 months ago
As others have mentioned it doesn't stop YouTube ads or search ads. Most likely because Mozilla is still quite dependent on Google for it's income.

Which is why I think we need to be less critical everytime Mozilla tries to make money some other way. They need to become more self sufficient in order to improve Firefox.

Comment · 2 months ago
I don't think there's anything like that going on. They just word vomit into a secondary area, and then there is an internal prompt that says "clean this up and summarize for the user".
Comment · 2 months ago
Is it? I can't imagine why a language model would do well on this sort of problem at all.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm surprised to hear that it's so successful beyond banner ads. I figured most platforms would use the same domain for their ads as their content. I'm pretty sure YouTube and my "smart" TV do that. Plus I'd prefer to use DNS over HTTPS instead of using unencrypted DNS.
Comment · 2 months ago
These takes are not interesting, relevant, or helpful.

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