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Comment · 9 months ago
Not long before (or it's already happening) LLMs start training on stuff they wrote previously and it becomes the largest echo chamber the internet has ever seen.
Comment · 10 months ago
But that's the author's point, no? Icons are great when used as visual shortcuts, but the way they're implemented makes absolutely no sense to the point of being detracting. They're inconsistent from menu to menu, even in the same application, and don't even necessarily represent the action they're assigned to.
Comment · 2 years ago
Pretty similar to how a lot of people in IT are using it:

- Generating boilerplate code for a process - saving time and then just customizing basic code after feeding it an idea and some basic requirements

- Troubleshooting - especially on systems I'm not familiar with - this often gets me 95% of the way to a solution. Obviously not just copying & pasting scripts it spits out, but it's been very good at figuring out some obscure linux issues, oracle config issues, even 3rd party integration software.

- Meal prepping - give it a list of ingredients and preferences and have it spit out a plan on how to portion it out, make each different meal roughly equal nutrition-wise, plan out when and how to cook each piece on a day to make it the most efficient, and even generate a shopping list. Output it into a nice table and the hardest part is done.

Comment · 3 years ago
To everyone saying GCP will be gone - it generates over $8 billion in revenue per year and $400 million in profit. There's no chance they kill it any time soon.

Yes it posted heavy losses in the past, but any major infrastructure does, and obviously there is a major amount of potential - and they have around 10% of the total cloud market share, not insignificant by any means.

Comment · 3 years ago
Yep - the fact that they listed this at the very top of the reasons above any kind of debt or spending numbers is pretty telling.

And they're not wrong

Comment · 3 years ago
Homelessness isn't just caused by someone not having a home. There is a massive overlap of mental illness and substance abuse/addiction.

Just giving a homeless person a house will not solve the underlying problems that caused them to be homeless in the first place. There needs to be movement on multiple fronts - mental health, physical health, rehab, job training, personal finance, etc.

If the solution was easy, someone would have done it. The uncomfortable truth is when you have someone who is addicted to heroin or fentanyl or meth who isn't really participating in society like everyone else..sometimes there's not much you can do for them. Overcoming addiction is incredibly challenging even for people with means and support systems. Without those, sadly the numbers are abysmal.

Comment · 3 years ago
Wouldn't something like this actually be great at breaking up clots?
Comment · 3 years ago
There are adapters that let you use multiple and bypass that limit. Kensington has a few.

This one is pricier but also doubles as a docking station/100w PD:

https://www.kensington.com/p/products/device-docking-connect...

They have some cheaper, more basic models too.

edit: for the record I think this limit is stupid and the biggest flaw of the Air. You're right that other than that, it's a damn near perfect daily driver.

Comment · 3 years ago
We're allegedly going to see this in 2H '23. The 2 CU iGPU performance is about half of a 5600/5700g, so if we see an 8-12 CU model...it could completely replace the low-mid market for gpus.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's movable of course, but this is still a downgrade from win10. My biggest peeve is that there seems to be no option anymore to not-condense icons, and you can't change the notification color (when an app flashes its icon).

I miss notifications on my work computer all the time because the flash color just doesn't stand out very much with my dark theme, and I can't even expand the width because...well it feels like they released an unfinished and unpolished product, again.

I hate that there's trade-offs that shouldn't need to exist with every new version.

Meanwhile my mac I don't think has ever lost functionality or customizability in the last..8ish years I've been using it as my daily driver.

edit: caveat...this is a work computer and obviously has group policies/etc that might affect things. I will correct this post if I'm wrong :)

Comment · 3 years ago
Agreed - especially if I'm remoted into a box and not necessarily running a full-resolution screen. Bad UI design is magnified when you're at 1024x768.
Comment · 3 years ago
It just doesn't make sense though for that reason. You can't sneak up on an engine. There's not a single engine out there that wouldn't recognize a mate in 2 moves. Unless the opponent blunders (which actually might be forced if the best defensive move is blocked).

It just seems like you're changing the objective of the game entirely to the point where it's only slightly related to chess.

Comment · 3 years ago
What are they supposed to do? Demand ramped up significantly during covid - they needed staff to support it. They really had no choice but to hire that staff unless they wanted to have an undersupported platform with extremely long wait times for things like customer service or onboarding new restaurants. And with DD having a lot of competition (Uber Eats, Postmates, etc etc), someone else would pick up their slack and keep that business.
Comment · 4 years ago
So he can't be held liable because he is the Prime Minister of SA.

Essentially the same thing here where the sitting President cannot be directly charged with a crime (or sued personally).

Comment · 4 years ago
Absolutely appalled there are apples below Red Delicious on this list.

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