chrisbrandow

How is Face ID un-accessible for those with visual impairment? I hadn't heard that before.

I've had the same trouble with AI tech docs, and I struggled to articulate it. There is something difficult about trying to point to the specific "problem" with a given document

Craft isn’t craft if it doesn’t produce something. So enjoying the utility of it is not a secondary aspect. That’s a key difference between craft and art.

Famously, the Apollo Mission control team learned to handle multiple conversations stream simultaneously. The side effect was that going to cocktail parties was a nightmare, because they couldn’t turn it off.

Presumably the years including 1999 and earlier

Clever!

This is so obviously true. Most people that had sudden wfh transitions after or during COVID that I know even with well established networks and families, have really grieved the loss of daily contact with coworkers.

Working alone at home is far more novel and unusual than any arrangement of work and socialization that has existed in the last 500 years

I’d hardly consider this a side effect. Decreasing traffic in one path within a network of exchange has the direct effect of increasing traffic/demand on alternate paths. Increased demand == increased prices.

I think what gets conflated are two aspects.

1. LLM/transformer technology is legitimately amazing and revolutionary. 2. In the end, they function as an enormous, effective database for most human knowledge.

Point 1 obscures the fact that if someone just created an SQL database with every digital artifact in existence and provided it for free upon request, there would be no ambiguity whether that was legal or not.

But distillation, etc obscures this relationship and it looks like something other than straight lookup, at least in part because it is obviously more than that.

They experimental details in the paper itself. Tl;dr you lower the pH.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413

I don’t think the fact that the robot was instructed to lie to a human and was able to do so successfully makes the story much less scary for most people.

Framing & launching LLMs as a "chat" interface is the source of many ills. I don't have a simple solution, but leaning away from conversational interfaces would lead to less anthropomorphizing.

Looks very cool, so congrats, but I'm not that interested without a description of the genomes, etc.

I used to work for the Air Resources Board of California, and while there is a warm-up period, modern ice cars are so profoundly cleaner than cars even from the early 2000s. It’s pretty stunning.

Regardless, there’s nothing cleaner than no combustion, and I can’t wait until EV‘s have replaced them all

Hopefully this shakes out better than eestor… iykyk

If so, presumably because it kills the weeds that feed the bugs.

Herbicides kill plants, pesticides kill bugs, right?

I’m not actually familiar with current state of scientific research. Are there any quality studies that contradict the ghost-written report?

I understand the valid reasons for pulling the study, but that does nothing to specifically address its claims or evidence.

Try changing tabs when reviewing a PR. 5-10 seconds on basic PRs often

Two things kicked in around mid 90’s:

1. Dropping levels of elemental lead in folks born 20 years earlier, so lower impulsivity. 2. “The internet”, leading to higher levels of homogenization of culture

In app purchases from (crappy) games is top revenue source in App Store. Anecdotally, I’d be shocked if the majority of that wasn’t from kids using their parents’ phones.

I wouldn’t expect that either given the little that I know about the rigorous software requirements for aviation.

But I assume that neither of us has anywhere near enough expertise to “refuse” to believe that any computer/software system could be used in dangerously absurd ways even accidentally.

This was poignant. Thanks.

This reads like one of the clearest intros to C that I have seen in a long time. Feels approachable the whole way through.

the liquid glass video controls on iOS absolutely does obscure more of the content than the pre-26 players did and it's not even close. it's just UI chrome for its own sake

it's not a change in webkit. the webpage just displays the current OS video player. i read the page in Sequoia and it shows the old version

It reminds me also of the original head of development of the Safari browser talking about at least the early days of building the browser. They had a rule that no commit of code could cause the browser benchmarks to get slower. And apparently he was maniacal about the rule.

I don’t know if that’s a good or realistic rule for most projects, but I imagine for performant types of applications, that’s exactly what it takes to prevent eventual slowdown.

Having seen the shuttle in person in LA museum, I was struck by how much it looked like a plane sitting on a flat heat shield surface

Someone posted about a little Easter egg wherein the Next icon was buried somewhere in iPadOs but I’ve never been able to track it down since.