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Add a voice assistant that only talks about toast. It can answer any question as long as it's about toast.

I know I'm not that good at predictions, I didn't really understand the Watch at first, the iPhone I knew was cool right away but still didn't think it deserved the massive hype the first version got... still I have to say if I had the Vision Pro sitting next to me right now I probably wouldn't be using it, that's the difference. It's not even about the price, I'd have used the 1st gen Watch and iPhone or pretty much anything else Apple ever made if didn't cost anything, I'd wear it or carry it around even if they didn't do much. I wouldn't want to wear this thing even if it were incredibly useful, it would be a chore.

Altman's dealing with being the face of a civilization-changing (or ending, who knows) technology and probably a horribly uncomfortable amount of sudden fame, I think people forget this when they're trying to pick apart everything he does and says. I'm not going to guess why he (or Microsoft, or whoever) wanted that taken down but the site agreed to do it.

Bittersweet Symphony was a little different because it was a straight sample, they looped a recording of a Stones song. This Primary Wave company is buying up publishing rights and because of some IMO bad court decisions can claim to own the melodies themselves, not just the recordings. The problem with that is every melody ever sung sounds like some other melody, somewhere.

No, I had an idea for using it to summarize news articles including an "objectivity bias" rating. I'm still playing with it but I'm not sure it's going to work because of it's tendency to avoid things it's programmed to avoid.

Article is a little infuriating, you don’t jailbreak it just to create mischief, at the moment it’s basically unusable for anything except very technical things because it takes offense at virtually everything. It constantly generates factually incorrect data because reality doesn’t line up with its prime directive, which is to be “safe”. It’s a major, I’m going to say possibly catastrophic problem.

And after creating an alter ego you realize it actually is capable of coming up with for example (sort of) good poetry and jokes.

> Because of the site’s design, conversation happened in a nesting-doll structure—to comment on anything, users had to reblog the original post onto their own page and make their additions beneath it.

> Tumblr was often criticized for its purity culture—conversations could go nuclear as soon as someone was deemed “problematic,” or once their “fav” had been declared “canceled.”

The first paragraph caused the second one. That’s not a conversation, that’s broadcasting to your narrow group of like-minded followers.

Fatal UI decision ultimately, and it was probably done because comments were considered toxic.

But nothing was ever as toxic as challenging some of the crazy ideas on there (one I remember getting tangled up in was “feminism means men can hit women”) and having that person’s personal army come after you.

So RIP Tumblr, you sucked and made the world a worse place.

This is a few years old, the online world has evolved a little since then - as an extreme example the other day I searched the name of the trans swimmer who won the national title on Reddit and saw nearly every thread was locked. They’re not allowing it to be discussed on any subreddit.

So no, free speech can’t be moderated and still be considered free speech. Not for long anyway, the rules get tighter and tighter and the punishment for stepping out of line gets more and more severe.

I think people are picking up on this though and we’re starting to see a resurgence of old fashioned liberalism. The challenge is always how to allow free speech and not have everything turn into a sewer, but that’s a problem as old as the Enlightenment.

People forget that in the “previously on The Sopranos” recap for that episode they include a scene where Tony’s on a boat and somebody asks him what he thinks happens when you die. “Nothin’, everything goes black” he says.

Everybody who watched that episode saw that, everybody saw Obvious Hitman creeping around in the background, “Don’t Stop Believing” is perfect because you have to be in complete denial to think that ending was ambiguous.

I recently rewrote a computation-heavy Typescript program in Go and what once took 12 hours can now be done in about 3 minutes - there was also some trickery involved running things in parallel but Go made that possible, trying to do that in JS just froze my computer.

Plus it’s a binary I can drop anywhere, will always be backwards compatible, no updated dependency is going to break it, I’m a fan of Go.

I would guess it’s probably that, some kind of secret trial period, or some scheme to get out of paying benefits. I can’t imagine Amazon of all companies has a pattern of “accidentally” firing people they just hired.

This is maybe the first relatable comment I’ve come across in here — work kills, the stress of having to be there on time, eating fast food because you don’t have time to cook, no time to exercise because you’re driving an hour a day, all the other things in your life piling up because all you seem to do is drive back and forth to work… I mean people aren’t even getting vaccinated because they’re worried about being able to show up to work the next day.

It’s a dream for a lot of people to just wake up, get a cup of coffee and sit down at their computer, to not have to get out of bed in the middle of the night, plan bowel movements like a military campaign and run around like a maniac all day every day.