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iMarkon UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours

I agree that laws such as this to be defined very carefully, but I think "images" is the appropriate term to use, rather than "photos". LLMs make it near trivially easy to render a photo in countless styles, after all, such as paintings, or sketches.

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I've just asked the most important question that has been asked. Obviously.

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The Steyn Paradox asks "What is the Question?"

My name is Mark Steyn, and that is the Steyn Paradox.

iMarkon Author Clock: a novel way to tell time

Is there some sort of internet law which says that any device providing a service which could be an app will eventually be replaced by an app?

iMarkon Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%

In the wake of brexit, I'm not sure the argument that both parties differ only on minor issues holds up.

iMarkon Hogmanay

The view from Inverness Park is also pretty great.

iMarkon Apple Rankings

Well, yes.

iMarkon Apple Rankings

I wonder how many fewer clicks the article would have received had the title been “Ranking apples”

iMarkon iPadOS 16

My hope is that Stage Manager is configurable in a manner similar to the dock, such that it can be hidden off screen until the cursor hits the edge of the screen.

iMarkon Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, Says Tim Cook

I wouldn't overlook the impact of battery life.

I've never squeezed more than 4 or 5 hours out of my two year old Macbook Pro. A 20 hour battery life in addition to the speed gains make upgrading a tempting prospect.

iMarkon Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration

Shaving my head was the best decision I ever made regarding my hair. I never knew what to do with it before that.

Vastly happier now.

iMarkon Being fat linked with worse heart health even in people who exercise

What sort of incidence of eating disorders did you witness in the group either group?

iMarkon Elon Musk becomes world’s richest person as wealth tops $185B

I'm been an avid comics fan all my life. I remember "millionaire Bruce Wayne" giving way to "billionaire Bruce Wayne", and idly wondering how long before we'd see the first reference to "trillionaire Bruce Wayne".

It seemed impossibly distant once. Not now.

iMarkon Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims

That was pre-tax income. Apple's profit for 2019 was $55 billion.

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Score is 6/10 for repairability.

iMarkon Ask HN: How are you holding up?

Years ago, I visited the zoo in Central Park in NYC and watched a polar bear, as it swam around and around in a pool. It swam in a triangle, touching the three same points on the wall of the enclosure as it made each circuit.

Last month I walked around Greenwich Park in London 125 times, each time following exactly the same route. I thought about that polar bear a lot as I walked.

iMarkon A first look at Unreal Engine 5

Mark Cerny's tech talk emphasised that performance is determistic:

'So how does boost work in this case? Put simply, the PlayStation 5 is given a set power budget tied to the thermal limits of the cooling assembly. "It's a completely different paradigm," says Cerny. "Rather than running at constant frequency and letting the power vary based on the workload, we run at essentially constant power and let the frequency vary based on the workload."'

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-plays...

iMarkon Hachikō

The wiki page lists a number of possible inspirations, including Hachikō

iMarkon "Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"

If you want to enjoy gaming on a high-end GPU, you almost certainly care about latency.

iMarkon Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps

But if people don't use the service they'll cancel it.

And viewing figures are going to have a big impact on future Apple tv content.

iMarkon Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps

That's becoming less true with Apple's increasing revenue from services.

iMarkon Major study debunks myth that moderate drinking can be healthy

It’s being worked on

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/alco...

iMarkon New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1

Throwing money at a problem doesn’t guarantee a positive outcome.

iMarkon Do you guys miss real books? (2014)

I have a large screen phone and decent eyesight, so I'm perfectly happy to read books using the Kindle app.

Books are lovely physical objects, but the convenience of carrying a library with me at all times far outweighs any sentimentality I have.

iMarkon Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve

It's been macOS for the last couple of years.

iMarkon Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/firefox-web-browser/id989804...

(but yes, I know it's still using webkit behind the scenes)

iMarkon The new Yahoo? Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history

Yahoo failed, in part, because its competitors were better.

Being better than Facebook doesn't mean just replicating its technology, it means having a better social graph.

That's a hard problem to solve.

iMarkon Beyond Sexual Orientation (2016)

I experimented and eventually realised I'm asexual.

I'm not depressed, or ill. All my parts function. It's just that I'm not sexually attracted to anyone.

I'm still perfectly capable of having, and enjoying, sex, but it's been a long time now. Even before I realised I was asexual, I was still aware of an asymmetry in what was going on, that I wasn't experiencing things in quite the same was as my partner.

I still like the idea of love and partnership, but I've let this get in the way of my finding it.

iMarkon In the Future Movie Stars May Be Performing Even After They're Dead

In the future we may see likenesses of actors perform again after they're dead.

That's such an important distinction. It's true that an actor's appearance is one of their most memorable traits, but its not the sum of their accomplishments. Acting is a skill.

I'm not and never have been an actor, but I was impressed with Wil Wheaton, when he detailed on his blog how he prepared for auditions, the choices he would make about how to approach a particular scene. That level of thought, and experience will be lost forever when an actor dies.

With technology, we may see the likeness of a particular actor again, but we'll never again see their particular like.

iMarkon Can you get 32 level grayscale out of an E-ink display?

All the years e-ink displays have been available in consumer products and we're still only talking about 5 bit greyscale?

I gave up my Kindle as soon as 5 inch displays were available. I thought the market would have made more progress by now.