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I started using Sun workstations in the late 80s. I remember when their revenue reached $1b. I had a Sun on my desk as my dev machine for 7 years.

They, and the software that ran on it (Dataviews), and their customers (Westinghouse Software in my case) were all soon undone by the arrival of powerful commodity Wintel.

You'd have to build your own fab from ground up - meaning no ASML. Is not going to happen.

I don't think "you own your own hardware" will be true for long.

Spirits don't get much legal protection.

Patents are still a very strong protection

I agree that prices will go down dramatically in occupations that primarily involve code, words, and numbers - and in general knowing the "rules". But there are so many occupations that will have to wait for AI to enter the physical realm. I also predict that the backlash will largely prevent that from occurring.

> sell it back to us at a mark-up

sell it back to us as markdown

> them out of business any time soon

No. It'll be like software. Entry level employment will be affected. You wont want or need associate attorneys when you can hire a brilliant AI associate for 1/10th the price.

>special Unity editor component

I'd be interested in hearing more.

Including the internal Microsoft community

I use EF now - but only for the string interpolation in Database.SqlQuery and Database.ExecuteSql. We don't use POCOs but instead use XML and JSON with Linq.

I think it's great for journalists and journalism because maybe people will stop paying attention to crap on social media, which won't have such verification, and they'll be instead looking at legit journalism.

I know what cancer is. Many scientists believe that all human adults above the age of about 30 have "cancer".

I really meant solving a specific cancer disease for a specific individual, which will require individualized medicine, which will require us to leverage AI to make it possible to do for the general population as opposed to doing it just for Lance Armstrong and the like.

I know I'm an optimist, but I really think AI is gonna result in drastically improved healthcare for a much lower price.

But we own the cameras

> a topic with an unusual level of specification

Solving cancer also has an unusual level of specification. Many real world problems have that characteristic.

> This entire system relies on trusting apple

It does indeed, and that is a fundamental flaw. but as has been discussed here, it is better than the alternative, which is no verification.

During the pandemic, I outlined a scheme for using blockchain technology for image provenance and authenticity tracking. The idea was that instead of any one entity assigning authenticity that it would be done in a crowdsourced manner and that the device would overlay a score whenever an image or video is shown to a user.

My assumption was that the desire of users to see such scores would force all manufacturers to implement this open protocol. But my approach suffered from chicken and egg problem, which Apple's does not.

> images that were confirmed to be "taken like this on an iPhone"

No, because images will be confirmed to have been taken on "this iPhone". The New York Times will be able to publish an article and to attest that the photographs shown were taken by their journalists, and then your user agent will verify that provenience.

> looking at the repost of a screenshot of the verification UI

I don't follow. It's my user agent that's verifying the image, and my device will tell me that it's not verified.

Rather than logins or regional filters, how about they just be a content provider to local libraries and perhaps use an app like Libby.

Government and taxes are the price we pay for having a civilization. If you don't trust your government institutions to do good by you, then you could go live on a deserted island somewhere and see how that works out for you.

Those are not mutually exclusive. I'll take #1 and #2 combined, thank you very much. #3 is the purview of the advertisers and CC companies.

"Google doc" is my girlfriend's term for asking Google medical questions.

My orthopedic doc and Google doc both said to get Hoka for the foot pain I am having.

I was at a small restaurant last week. Was chatting with the two owners. All three of us were wearing Hoka Bondi.

I am an ex-runner (hip issues). Wore Asics gel kayano for 30 years. Now I'm a Hoka man.

Nested false awakenings are the worst. Now I have a phrase to use for when that happened to me.

I dreamt that I was attacked and killed by a monster. Getting killed in a dream makes one wake up immediately, lol. I was hanging out with a friend of mine and telling him about the dream and as soon as I told him what happened he turned into a monster and killed me.

I was driving down the road with my friend Lloyd who was a passenger beside me in the car and telling him about this crazy dream. As soon as I mentioned the monster killing me, he turned into a monster and killed me - while I was driving my stinking car! Then I woke up and I was like "am I fucking really awake now?" I was.

I eat the apple skin (of most apples) but I do not eat the core.

> When charged particles moving faster than light travel in, for example, water, they perturb the energy equilibrium of the atoms that are in their way.

Why? How good an analogy is a sonic boom?

Sleep Paralysis is for sure my favorite oddity. I've not experienced it in 20 years and I miss it. It happened about once a year when I was young and into my early 20s. Mine often had weird noises and hallucinations and creatures floating around. The first few times it was rather scary but then I realized it was pretty neat. The trick I learned is to tell myself I just have to move my toe.

Regardless of who did what when, my fear is that now all mathematicians of that caliber will have to join either team Anthropic or team Open AI to pursue math at this level

All ownership is temporary. Even Earth's ownership of its atoms is really a lease granted temporarily by the Solar system.

Funny this came up hn today. this week I did some organization of my cable boxes. I use banker boxes on a steel shelving unit. I put the cables and parts inappropriate boxes and labeled them and feel that my corner of the universe is a little bit better organized than before.

Mine is similar but I split audio and video since I have a lot of audio-specific stuff. "Video" only has the various monitor cable standards going back 20-odd years.

Feature request it would be fun to draw snowflakes but to do that there'd have to be another setting to constrain things you draw to be straight lines at just the angles that ice crystals would allow.