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There's measurements to support your feeling that primes are better than zooms: https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/11/stopping-down-some-... and https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/02/things-you-didnt-wa...

No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country.

As you say, network programs activating from a master network management is, of course, the history of Unix. It's ironic to see knee-jerk complaints about it.

This to me is interesting when it comes to free software projects; sure there are a lot of people contributing as their day job. But if you contribute or manage a project for the pleasure of it, things which undermine your enjoyment - cleaning up AI slop - are absolutely a thing to say "fuck off" over.

There are already companies promising to attack Wikipedia and product LLM-bait YouTube content. Ship's sailed.

Foxes live happily in urban areas all over Britain. The problem here is the Google employees.

> AI companies aren't seriously arguing that copyright shouldn't apply to them because "it's bad for business".

AI companies have, in fact, said that the law shouldn't apply to them or they won't make money. That is literally the argument Nick Clegg is using to ague that copyright protection should be removed from authors and musicians in the UK.

If you cared about your privacy, why are you handing all this stuff to Sam Altman? Did he represent that OpenAI would be privacy-preserving? Have they taken any technical steps to avoid this scenario?

> Designers hated Nielsen.

Several of the designers I worked with liked him, in as much as he gave them research to back them in their arguments with clients that the site should actually be usable.

It is still one of the high points of my career that I was part of a team that shipped an internet banking application that worked well in the then-current major browsers of IE 6 and Navigator 4, but also worked in Lynx and on a Palm Pilot browser.

We've now degenerated to the point that "engineers" demand Chrome everywhere.

I imagine Telegram-based training data will bias Grok to reflect Musk's own views more reliably than any other platform out there.

You're correct that Christian Zionists only care about Jews to the extent that the right number of them will be in Israel to be killed as part of the End Times prophecies based off of Revelations. But they are fanatical supporters of the state of Israel because they see it as necessary to bring about the rapture.

Man, I remember the absolute hysteria here over the non-profit trying to reign Altman in. You'd have thought they were murdering babies.

I agree with your analysis, but it's hilarious that it's now top-voted, when the sentiment was so negative when the board saw the same thing coming ages ago.

> South Korea

The West supported an brutal military dictatorship in South Korea for decades. South Korean democracy is the result of internal struggle by the South Korean people.

I mean it's true that there's a rule, but at this point in US history I think we have reason to be sceptical that it will be enforced.

And yet South Africa and Israel aren't glass.

It's stupider than that - a lot of people believe that the manufacturer will just eat a 25% hike in tax. Build a tariff wall and make China pay, as it were.

Before the election: "Project 2025 isn't real".

Now: Oh you better believe it's real.

> This is obviously aimed at the Leica/Ricoh crowd,

No-one who shoots M-mount at this point is giving up their rangefinder for an LCD-only camera with no viewfinder.

"Worse glass" is a religious position if we're talking about Sigma glass. Especially considering how likely it is that any given name-brand lens is actually a Sigma design, or a Sigma design and build.

Firstly the main failure of connectors in cameras isn't the connector per se, it's generally the board that the connector is mounted on breaks off from the mainboard.

Secondly, and more importantly, the lifespan of your camera is now the lifespan of the internal storage. That seems very unappealing.

"We need you in the office for CoLlAboRaTIon." "OK, we'll have coffee after our morning standup." "Absolutely not."

Would you say the East India Company had no command when its armies conquered India?

The only CEO who I've worked for who I would describe as winning at capitalism is a former bank CEO who worked in the job for 8 years, retired in his late forties (IIRC) having pulled in a minimum of $50m over that time. And actually retired.

The rest of these people are as addicted as heroin addicts.

The only formal study that I've seen shows that there is 15% more fraud in remote financial services work. Do you have any studies pointing to this being wrong?

No-one you know, old person.

I don't know. Why don't you ask Matthew Sheppard or Brandon Teena?

Donald Trump is a wallet inspector. So is Sam Altman.

> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs.

This is why programmer-driven open source projects are a paragon of usability and have taken over 90% of the mobile phone, desktop, and app market.

I am a great deal more risk of being killed by a driver when I walk than I am being murdered on a train.

Especially as Waymo program their death machines to blow through pedestrians at crossings 70% of the time.