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Yep.

And groundbreaking.

No honour among thieves

Well, you can be as firm as you like about the claim, it's still reads as if Dieter Rams worked for Apple.

Dieter Rams no doubt had significant influences and admiration for those who shaped his work and design philosophy, should we credit those people as being behind Apple also? How far should we go? Perhaps we need to point out da Vinci is also one of the men behind Apple's design philosophy.

Seems reasonable to suggest "the man behind" is generally understood to mean "the person directly responsible for".

Yep, as I mention above

> Dieter Rams is the man behind Apple's design philosophy.

Rams and his work at Braun may have inspired Apple's products via Jony Ives, but Rams never worked on an Apple product (as far as I'm aware).

It's a bit like claiming "Thomas Edison is the man behind Tesla's motor technology".

A few reasons that occur to me:

1. The volume of snow to be collected would have been significantly greater than the resulting water.

2. Heating snow at elevation requires more energy.

3. Perhaps getting snow into the steam generator wasn't so easy.

If I could travel by train domestically in the USA as is common in Europe, I would prefer it.

It's a real shame that the USA has yet to develop decent passenger trains.

Q: What do you think should not be legal?

A: Illegal things.

Seems this exchange has run its course.

So, where's the line?

Or are you saying that there is literally nothing you consider acceptable to outlaw when it comes to what you're allowed to watch?

It's actually a different question that superficially reads as the same question.

This "whataboutism" is actually quite good for illuminating my perspective:

If it could be proved that porn sites are overwhelmingly a net negative for society, would you agree that they should all be shut down?

On one hand, it is absolutely the responsibility of parents to raise their children.

But on the other hand if children using a service is reliably and consistently resulting in negative outcomes for the children and their families, it seems reasonable to suggest something should be done. And that something could be 'companies don't provide chat bots that allude to children murdering their parents'.

Taking a legally or logically 'correct' position on something when it's actively harming people isn't really a morally defensible position in my mind.

> Maybe even a compiler that takes something like Xcode's Interface Builder's .nib files

Please never let this happen.

We don't need another version of HyperText Markup Language.

We need something else. I don't know what it is, but another way to markup text doesn't sound like a great fit for a new way to build user interfaces.

I recently interviewed at Microsoft with a relatively well-known VP. I was surprised as I didn't think I was a fit in terms of domain experience, and then I was encouraged to apply online for another role with the same VP & team.

A week or two later I received rejection letters for both. It occurred to me that I might have been a stooge to make the VP's project look good on paper somehow.

You mean to tell me this doesn't convincingly look like people working on their laptops on trestle tables in the forest at dusk?

Last time I worked on my laptop on a trestle table in the forest at dusk it looked almost exactly like this.

Another interesting datapoint:

Every time I try out something other than React (Vue, Svelte, etc), I have to learn some new syntax, understand the runtime magic, and add a syntax/LSP to my editor. But React is just JS/TS, which is straightforward.

Being disappointed by a library/framework because your LLM of choice can't produce decent code doesn't really tell me very much about the library, other than it's usage is varied.

Introducing the Orb by World: the eye-scanning ID device from World, making your world a better world — one World scan at a time.

I own 33% of my company.

I can't say I "love" the idea of having an office, let alone spending more than five days a week in one.

Sounds like the kind of thing children tell each other in the playground.

But who gives a fuck about people who's lives are ruined in the interim 1-2 years, right?

This is just a certificate of authenticity that one either trusts or not, based on whatever one knows about secure enclaves, cryptography, or the device/person issuing the key/certificate.

I think the reality is that photographs and video are now like text, you trust the source or not.

I can write about Cleopatra's ability to snowboard and play Xbox, or I can make a photo with the caption "Cleopatra doing a 1080", and now I can make a video of it (probably).

I can also give you a certificate/key/blockchain whatever to prove it's "valid".

I'm not sure what my personal concerns are specifically, so I don't have a good answer to that question.

But I think there's a difference between a crud photoshop picture that a person has on their PC, and a (more or less) convincing deepfake video of a person being broadcast.

I think you're likely right that there is an element of panic. I don't know a lot about Korean culture, but I imagine the concern is that deepfakes can have real-life negative impact on people's lives, either because people think it's real or because it creates a hyper-sexualised social environment that endangers women. Both are worthy of concern in my view.

> When I grew up "a photo never lies" was a rule you could rely on.

It was a rule you thought you could rely on.

The appearance of doctored photographs coincides with the appearance of photography.

It's more problematic than photoshopping a person's face was decades ago because we didn't have pervasive online social media decades ago. Computers weren't in your pocket, and an offending image couldn't be beamed to everyone you know instantly.

> If it's joked about harmlessly on mainstream TV, it's probably not a huge concern.

There are plenty of mainstream TV jokes about horrendous things. Our ability to joke about something is a poor way to gauge how concerned we should be.

Indeed two 4090s provide more CUDA/RT/Tensor cores, but the A6000 gives you 48GB of RAM which can end up making the card faster at certain tasks that would require swapping out data to system RAM on a 24GB card.

> they're deceiving customers year after year about costs and computing capacity

> a modest increase for their top model ... limited RAM, at very high prices

Yes, I see your point, and agree.

There are far too many products in the range, and the consumer cards seem to be intentionally hampered to protect their professional / studio card business. eg. huge unnecessary 3-slot cooling arrangement on 3090/4090.

Well sure, current generation mid-range performs like previous generation high end. That's a tech product truism.

> they are just reselling the same computing capacity as they have been for the last ten years

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to say here, but as far as I can tell a 4090 offers quite a bit more "computing capacity" than a Titan RTX, and that's just over five years ago.

> RTX 4060 is a RTX 2080

Probably, but I just put one in a small desktop for $280, not the $700 a 2080 cost new. So, yeah they're selling the same stuff, it just costs less.

3D rendering engine benchmarks suggest what you're saying is nonsense.