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jsjohnst··on Apple Succession Strategy: Keep the Old Guard Around as Long as Possible
Apple Watch and AirPods as two product categories panned at launch which have become power houses. Vision Pro might get there after a couple generations, too early to tell.
jsjohnst··on Apple Succession Strategy: Keep the Old Guard Around as Long as Possible
> They’ve been going around demanding 30% of everyone’s revenue

Sorta Apples vs Oranges, but you should see how high the cut is for selling goods via places like Walmart/Amazon/Best Buy/etc.

jsjohnst··on Apple Succession Strategy: Keep the Old Guard Around as Long as Possible
merchant providers don’t generally also handle customer service for the payments either, but that doesn’t entirely excuse apple’s behavior none the less
jsjohnst··on The Threat to OpenAI
It’s actually better than the H100 by a mile in some inference workloads, but in others falls behind.
jsjohnst··on Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
That is quite literally not true. Many states have speed cameras at intersections.
jsjohnst··on AI cameras spot toddlers not wearing seat belts
You realize I’m against the surveillance, right?
jsjohnst··on AI cameras spot toddlers not wearing seat belts
> said it was "truly alarming" children were among those captured on camera

Agree with the quote, but for a very different reason. Government overreach when they are this invasive with recording everything, sadly seems on par for the UK.

jsjohnst··on AnandTech Farewell
> I estimate that I can read an article about 10x faster than an equivalent video

Especially due to all the filler b/s that every YT video has these days, be it over sharing their back story, Like and Subscribe! (And ding that bell!), sponsored ad reads, here’s my ten other videos you need to watch, etc etc.

jsjohnst··on Hot Page – a graphical site builder
> more on whether it's a good idea to do that

If you want to shift goal posts to that, then we are in agreement, adding AI to something without real care in how it works with the experience isn’t a good idea.

jsjohnst··on Whisper-WebUI
--help does list the info btw, but that wouldn’t have helped if you didn’t know the file format extensions
jsjohnst··on Hot Page – a graphical site builder
> I don't think so at all, AI generated stuff usually has a certain soulless generic air to it that I don't think would suit this.

I can’t believe I’m forced to defend myself here as I generally agree with the premise that adding AI doesn’t make something better (hence the smiley face in my original post), but FFS the FUD and hyperbole is simply in bad form. LOOK at the examples on the site. TRY the experience. Then come back and try and tell me you can’t generate endless amounts of images just like that what’s shown trivially with AI. You are entitled to your own opinion about AI, but that doesn’t make you factually right.

jsjohnst··on Hot Page – a graphical site builder
> My god man, not everything needs AI.

1. This is a tongue in cheek website builder, something generative AI would be great at making images (Dalle, Imagen, MJ) and text (GPT4, Claude, Gemini, etc) for a product like this

2. Basically every website builder of substance has AI features now

So maybe chill with the hyperbolic language? ;)

jsjohnst··on Hot Page – a graphical site builder
Where’s the AI? Feels like an obvious add-on for something like this. :)
jsjohnst··on Canon R5 Mk Ii Drops Pixel Shift High Res – Is Canon Missing the AI Big Picture?
> that's crippled by an insulting and nearly-useless micro-HDMI port

:P Feels like a page out of the Apple playbook…

“There’s a dongle for that”

https://a.co/d/ez3xF2i

jsjohnst··on Did you lose your AirPods?
Might I recommend something like IsoTunes? Far better product to use in a work environment where you might need to hear something going wrong.
jsjohnst··on Did you lose your AirPods?
There’s a magnetic contact that the “bra” case engages that turns off the headphones so the battery doesn’t needlessly drain. Bunch of companies make after market cases/covers, you should get one of them at least.
jsjohnst··on Did you lose your AirPods?
Apple officially doesn’t, but the community does…

http://www.openradar.me/

jsjohnst··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
As someone who’s been rescued via helicopter, I can state at least in my case there wasn’t a large bill. The only thing I was charged for was the out of network ER visit.
jsjohnst··on DEF CON's response to the badge controversy
I mean, you are you, but maybe take a breath and stop picking fights?
jsjohnst··on Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)
There’s more to it than that.
jsjohnst··on Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)
Sure, but what did Yahoo also do? They settled the patent suit that was jeopardizing Google’s IPO. What were those terms? Find out and learn a fascinating part of Google’s history.
jsjohnst··on Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)
> Urchin is not Google advertising's only origin story...

Further because that leaves out the Overture / Inktomi part of Google’s revenue origin story…

jsjohnst··on A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization
> One thing that probably has a good answer is why to use floats at all; even at 32 bits? Is there an advantage relative to using just 32 bit ints?

Sibling commenter gave a better detailed answer, but I will share a succinct tl;dr in case that’s more your desire.

INT32 maximum value: 2,147,483,647

FP32 maximum value: 3.4028235 x 10^38

If you need to exactly represent all digits between 10,000,000 and 1,000,000,000, then INT32 will handle it fine, but FP32 won’t. But instead if you need to represent a range of values from 1.00 to 35,003,986,674,493.00 and it’s ok to just be directionally accurate, FP32 has you covered.

jsjohnst··on Third-party cookies have got to go
The “right” solution imho is to outlaw the selling of private information. Good luck trying to enforce it though.
jsjohnst··on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
> Then again, there’s a lot of small business commercial stuff I ignore because I’m at a union shop and we can’t compete with a one man electrical van when it comes to wiring up a 1500 sq ft nail salon or whatever, there’s no money in that market anyways.

Ding ding ding... so are they businesses or not? I didn't comment on whether you could make money as an electrician on them, but to imply the hundreds of thousands of businesses like what you just described above aren't _businesses_ especially considering they are on commercially zoned property is just silly.

jsjohnst··on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
It's more than just factories and large hotels by far, but still not "most" businesses (which implies greater than 50%).
jsjohnst··on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
> Sorry to be pedantic, but most US businesses have 208/120V or 480/277V three-phase electrical services.

Sorry to be pedantic, but define “business”. As someone who’s worked on many job sites doing commercial electrical work, it’s not as common as you imply that there’s three phase service running to a business. Do a lot have it, yes, most, no. Literally everything else you said I’m aligned with.

jsjohnst··on An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
What makes you think these are all derivatives of Katherine? Especially names that start with G or Q.
jsjohnst··on An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
/^[KC]a(t(h?ie|e|h?y|h?erine)?|y)?$/
jsjohnst··on An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
Their first name isn’t derived from Katherine. ;)
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