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Comment · 14 days ago
My iPhone 15 has a weird one. I beta tested the glass updates. Part way through the beta it broke, and my phone will only show glass visuals during movement. Once it stops it turns opaque. This happens across the entire phone. Resetting the phone from a backup doesn’t fix the issue. My only fix is to wipe my data and start over. Hardly a solution. I’m no longer on the beta, even a few major versions updated now. Issue remains.
Comment · 1 month ago
Only caveat is you’re buying time. Not a physical good. It’s only worth what you’re able to get out of it in that time.
Comment · 1 month ago
I share the sentiment. I want a new car, but only if I can guarantee all telemetry is hard disabled. But I don’t have the kind of money to buy a new car and risk bricking it. Luckily I’m pretty handy, so I’ll have to keep my 2014< cars forcefully running as long as I can.
Comment · 2 months ago
You can do this already. Leave the map up, but silence all direction corrections. Then try to make your own way. If you already have the time to chill, you can take a little more time to think ahead about the route you’ll try. Make a wrong turn or exit and the map will still point you in the right direction.
Comment · 3 months ago
> niobium arsenide may not be a practical replacement for copper – arsenide is toxic, after all

So may it replace, or may it not replace? Title contradicts the closing statement.

Even still, awesome to see more alternatives advancement’s and improvements to synthesis processes. Faster testing is the real breakthrough in this piece.

Comment · 4 months ago
They could say anything and the visitors would have to believe it. A canyon tour guide tells me a story about why a rock formation is named the way it is. I have no clue if it’s true. But I enjoy it still.
Comment · 7 months ago
What if you could group multiple of them. Long queries run on the group that’s commonly doing those. Shorter queries que faster because they’ll execute faster.
Comment · 8 months ago
Will kids raised on it not know anything different? Seems a path to reduce computer literacy. Then again, being blocked from doing something I wanted is what lead me to find ways around said block. But I already had unrestricted access to the system to bend it to my will. Seems like these kinds of systems won’t allow for the user to learn how to works at all. It’s a mystery box.
Comment · 9 months ago
Because the early adopters are the nerds that will discover how to exploit it, the popularity will make others want to use it, and the normies will take the easy route it gives them since self hosting is hard for them.

Different groups.

Comment · 9 months ago
The easier/convenient a cloud makes it for a business to use, the more the industry will continue to trend towards lock in
Comment · 10 months ago
The best way it works is if you have trust with just a few people, and your network availability grows as people connect to more people.

Could even start as a virtual private network of sorts.

I have trust with my friend A. They add. Friend B, who I can only see because I know A. If we have a need to talk to each other, then we can proxy through A.

Don’t know exactly how this scales… it becomes a tor network of sorts. But you actually know the peers chaining your requests together to some degree. You get a bad request, you respond that you don’t want communication with that peer anymore. The message hops back through the chain and each peer decides to drop the route for you.

Each peer has their own rate limits, preventing certain floods from happening. One bad actor floods out from many locations, eventually it all connects back toy eh bad actor. Don’t need a vpn on this network, as you’re already tunneling around through others.

How to handle bot nets would be interesting. Basically as nodes detect bad traffic eventually the word gets around to put those nodes into a high risk status. Owners of those nodes would be able to see they’re being restricted. It’s up to them to stop the bad traffic from coming from their own devices.

This idea is still forming…

Comment · 10 months ago
My guess would it has to do with find my iPhone and AirTag tracking features.
Comment · 1 year ago
Imagine someone quietly developing, and then suddenly releasing a modern chip with this kind of design in mind. They’d get a lot of publicity just for being different. And the process would be their own, so if anyone likes it, or there turns out to be any benefits to the design, it would be a while until someone replicates it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Depends on which part we’re betting on survive the bubble pop. There’s a lot of capability being dismissed in low power inference while the large players push they need more money for large inference. After the pop people will start realizing how much benefit we can get without needing to create a Dyson sphere. More power is needed for continued major progress, but little power is needed for what’s going to stabilize as the normal use 95% of people need. Businesses will be users of the pricey inferences.

Only time will tell how things really play out. But these are my predictions as of today.

Comment · 1 year ago
If the graphics aren’t adding to the fun and freshness of the game, nearly. Rewatching old movies over seeing new ones is already a trend. Video games are a ripe genre for this already.

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