tambeb
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Comment · 6 days ago
Google and every one of its apps and services sucks now except for Fi, which has been life changing for me with regards to spam.
There's a setting that only allows calls and texts from your own contacts, period. (Though anyone you've texted or called recently is allowed for a month.) Prior to enabling this I had all the usual stuff like Call Screening and even though it caught most spam I still was annoyed at seeing the silent notification that meant is was in the middle of getting a call, and honestly even the few junk calls that made it through just irritated me to no end.
Comment · 16 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
You think Microsoft does a joint venture with them and it gets named MSAnthropic à la MSNBC?
Comment · 2 months ago
The performance improvement can actually be pretty significant, depending on the exact setup of course. In my case I delidded 3 Intel CPUs a few years back (i9-9900k and similar vintages) and replaced the thermal paste under the lid with liquid metal (from Thermal Grizzly) and also used liquid metal between the outside of the lid and either a water cooler block or a heatsink and fan. I forget the exact figures but I wanna say idle and even maximum load temps were around 20 degrees cooler... and all 3 were max overclocked to 5GHz. In fact I still use all three as network storage servers now.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, nobody has a cohesive theory of consciousness.
At the same time I can say with 100% certainty that LLMs (or any current "AI") is in any way, shape, or form, conscious. Not even close. A decade or two ago it was the Internet that was a possible emerging consciousness.
Comment · 5 months ago
> According to him, the agent operated largely autonomously, with only minimal guidance
"Minimal guidance" is just vague enough to mean anything, including specifically prompting to encourage the claimed blackmailing.
Comment · 5 months ago
I'm not worried about missing food notifications because they send me an email and a text (... and a fax and a hardcopy confirmation letter in the mail.)
Comment · 5 months ago
Another sneaky behavior in Android is that categories that have yet to send a notification, which of course includes newly added auto-enabled channels, are collapsed under the 'show unused categories' button.
Comment · 5 months ago
Notification categories are like mailing lists now. You may have unsubscribed from the daily deals email but you're still going to be auto subscribed to every new slightly modified category in perpetuity. Unless you fully disable notifications for an app (in Android at least, in my experience), new enabled by default notification categories are added all the time.
Comment · 1 year ago
I also like this solar system model from NASA, https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/how-big-is-the-s....
They compare it to a US football field.
"On this scale, the Sun, by far the largest thing in our solar system, is only a ball about two-thirds of an inch (17 millimeters) in diameter sitting on the goal line — that's about the width of a U.S. dime coin. ...
The inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — are about the size of grains of sand on a football field scale. They would be dwarfed by a typical flea, which is about 3 millimeters long.
Closest to the goal line is Mercury, just under a yard from the end zone (.8 yards to be specific). ... At this scale, Mercury's diameter would be scarcely as large as the point of a needle.
Venus is next. It is 1.4 yards from the end zone. ...
On to Earth, sitting pretty on the 2-yard line. ...
Mars is on the three-yard line of our imaginary football field. ...
Jupiter remains pretty close to our end zone on the 10.5-yard line. ...
Saturn is on the field at 19 yards from the goal line. ...
Uranus ... is about 38 yards from our end zone.
Neptune is where things start to get way out. It is 60 yards from our solar goal line on the imaginary football field. ...
Tiny Pluto is much closer to the opposing team's end zone. It's about 79 yards out from the Sun ...
On this scale, our little friend Voyager 1 has left the game and is well out in the stadium parking lot or beyond."
Comment · 1 year ago
Also for focusing a digital camera for astrophotography.
Comment · 1 year ago
Very common in the Middle East too.
Comment · 3 years ago
So far I've found 88 combos involving the poop emoji.
Photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wCNxKjzi61rCJUsU8
Comment · 3 years ago
For any Arrested Development fans out there, a friend sent me this link related to the iceberg today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/comments/13309l...
Comment · 3 years ago
I've been using VirtualHere since 2015, with multiple paid licenses.
It's a great tool with infinite use cases. I'm glad that it's a successful business for you!
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