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john2x··on Apple Invites
A quick search suggests the Android user end needs to install 3rd party apps for it to work? Has that changed recently?
john2x··on Apple Invites
I'm still waiting for iMessage to work with Android phones.
john2x··on Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief
Just say it’s AI generated
john2x··on Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously
Cropping the centre of a fisheye photo will look the same as a normal or telephoto lens if they are taken at the same distance (the crop will have less resolution of course)
john2x··on ChatGPT Pro
at 1k/mo I suspect people would get quite upset if the product doesn’t deliver all the time. and for something as vague as an LLM, it will fuck up enough at some point.

$200/mo is enough to make decision makers feel powerful and remain a little bit lenient on widdle 'ol ChatGPT

john2x··on Noise
Does it work with multiple inputs on touch screens?
john2x··on Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those that don't cooperate
Different sets for different wavelength ranges
john2x··on Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
Thanks to Valve and Steam, it is a viable option and apparently a pretty good one at that
john2x··on Asking the wrong questions (2017)
Yes, exactly. Which is why I still think LLMs are here to stay (in local-only form, none of these hosted solutions). We worked around capacitive touchscreen's limitations and quirks. But the hype and valuations around LLMs at the moment is about as ridiculous as if we were to hype whatever company was behind the iPhone's touchscreen back in 2007. And now these touchscreens can be bought by anyone off Aliexpress.
john2x··on Asking the wrong questions (2017)
LLMs are like the capacitive touchscreen that the iPhone introduced. A novel way to interface with computers. It’s being hyped like it’s the iPhone itself. But it’s really just one piece of it.
john2x··on CNCFsweeper
Needs to be a periodic table
john2x··on Show HN: Hacker News for film buffs
dang
john2x··on NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
Maybe that’s one way to retain engineers who are effectively millionaires.
john2x··on Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking
Horses don't revolt
john2x··on Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool
It was Wings3D for me. It's like Vim bindings for 3D modeling software. It's written in Erlang too, which is completely unexpected.
john2x··on Ask HN: Why does no one seem to care that AI gives wrong answers?
Line go up. The only three words that matter nowadays.
john2x··on Infrastructure setup and open-source scripts to train 70B model from bare metal
once the model is trained, what happens to the hardware and infrastructure?
john2x··on React 19 Breaks Async Composability
The funny thing is that they eventually circled back to server-side rendering. It just has a cool TLA now.
john2x··on Debian's /tmpest in a teapot
It’s easy to find. It has a unique icon and everything. It even has a dedicated shortcut to move files to it. Why would you not use it?
john2x··on The Scully Effect
Yeah the 3rd season really upped the stakes. Kinda makes sense if the target audience grew up alongside the series. But for newcomers, it’ll probably be quite jarring.
john2x··on The Scully Effect
Have you seen Hilda on Netflix? It’s amazing.
john2x··on Emacs used as a message router in Germany's ATC systems in the 1990s (2021)
It has a good text editor now, thanks to evil-mode
john2x··on iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
3D TV and Cinema
john2x··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
I hope that it's this. Artists are trend setters, and often define a generation's culture.

Alienating them is (or should be) a huge mistake in my mind.

john2x··on Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
I bet it's Guix users doing this /s
john2x··on AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars
Practically fool proof. A net positive for society.
john2x··on Why isn't anyone signing up?
> Then pay for your crap!

Yeah, they may want to reword that.

john2x··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Don't want that to end up in the training data huh
john2x··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Just a couple million years of training!
john2x··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Is that talk mentioned in the quote available online?
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