@thomasfuchs well, unlike the Touvhbar, I will bet money they actually update the hardware and software for the Vision.
Doesn’t guarantee success. But completely abandoning the Touchbar helped guarantee failure
@thomasfuchs well, unlike the Touvhbar, I will bet money they actually update the hardware and software for the Vision.
Doesn’t guarantee success. But completely abandoning the Touchbar helped guarantee failure
@phiofx I agree at the high level. But it’s already changing at the edges. And that gives me some home it might change in the middle sometime soon
An interesting, painfully comprehensive look into search engine quality. Spoiler: all are bad, and the commercial ones are really bad. Which you already knew.
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT https://danluu.com/seo-spam/
@thomasfuchs there’s an unfortunate ambiguity in that phrasing.
How about “I’ll wear a fucking mask so I won’t kill or maim myself or other people”.
Otherwise it’s hard to tell if the mask is killing, or preventing it.
Stupid English.
@thomasfuchs I was perfectly healthy, but with multiple (usually latent, like my heart problem) long term issues. I.E., I thought I was healthy, but was set up for failure.
@thomasfuchs I *think* that’s what happened to me. I have a bunch of minor life long issues, but they all got cranked to 10 in October 2020. My only theory is that I got asymptomatic Covid, which then gave me long COVID. (I’ve been mostly disabled since then.)
I feel *more* vulnerable, but others are way less vulnerable.
Those not vulnerable people will be the influencers who will be platformed, telling everyone it’s not dangerous. IMO, messaging has to take that into account
@thomasfuchs again, I don’t think that’s true. I don’t know it, but what I’ve read seems to indicate it. E.G., I have ehler’s danlos syndrome, which is a collagen deficiency, and people with issues like this seem to be a huge chunk of people getting long covid.
It looks like there’s a solid chance you need some underlying issue to get long covid. That means some people can “safely” get sick again and again, while others get hit because of some issue they did not know they had.
@thomasfuchs I expect that math isn’t right - that at least some component of probability of long term damage is genetic and/or behavioral or related to health history.
Some people will likely never get long term damage, and others are so likely to get it that they get hit very quickly.
That doesn’t mean you should not worry. But it does change the diffultynin convincing people to care.
@thomasfuchs who has to terminate the cables? Better not be me
@thomasfuchs well, a lot of people who are rich and powerful will no longer be. So for them, it’s catastrophic. And of course, they’re the ones fighting all the change
@mawhrin @baldur @danjac yes - a recent story showed that a primary effect of hiring MBAs was that they tended to drive down the cost of labor.
They have no idea how to make the company better, but they sure know how worsen labor relations by making it cheaper.
@clive @thomasfuchs I could not find the source data, but:
“Survey data from vehicle research firm Strategic Vision shows a third of today’s pickup owners rarely or never use their truck for hauling, while two-thirds rarely or never use it for towing.”
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-weight-safety
@clive @autumn @thomasfuchs @vfrmedia @sidereal some do. But the golf carts just all seem kinda crappy for the price. 50% more expensive than a Sprout, but almost no features, low quality materials everywhere, basically disposable if something goes wrong.
@clive @vfrmedia @autumn @sidereal @thomasfuchs I’m trying to solve something a lot like this for my parents - they live in a community that often uses golf carts, and they need to do super light towing for gardening.
Most golf carts seem very old tech. But I have not found a modern equivalent that also tows. Those tiny electric cars, like the Wink Sprout, look great, but don’t quite fit for them.
@thomasfuchs @clive @philbaker1 @mlanger I wish America still respected the minivan. We often rent them, and they’re so great, especially compared to SUVs. More space, more practical, easy for the older people in our lives ito get in and out of.
Because I am me, I just want a souped up version. :)
@thomasfuchs @shanselman I sent mine to live on the farm ages ago.
@thomasfuchs I am eager for the day that Linux achieved democracy’s success:
The worst thing out there, except for all of the others.
But… it is not there yet.
(Full disclosure: I am in the process of building my first PC in almost 20 years, mostly for gaming on windows but I will also be installing Linux on it. No idea what I will do with it.)
@thomasfuchs I’m on the verge of buying my kids their first real keyboards and am struggling with this.
They love the cherry blues on mine. And they really like the profile of my drop ctrl. But… that’s a very expensive keyboard for a kid. And they are not available with cherry switches, or apparently even anything clicky. I have not had luck assembling them myself in the past.
So I am a little stuck.
Dear Abby: my teenagers have three friends staying over tonight. Their teachers are on strike tomorrow, so there is no school.
It’s only 12:19am, but they’re all quiet and seem to be asleep.
Is there something wrong with them? Are they… not listening to enough punk? Is their D&D game just not exciting enough? Do I need to buy them the latest VR headset? Are their phones too slow?
Signed,
Worried Father
@thomasfuchs I’m unwilling to claim it’s better. But it’s definitely different.
Its output sits in the stream with stuff we use and need, where crypto was trying to create a new stream.
If crypto is bad you can just ignore it. If LLMs are bad, they have still filled your stream with shit. And either way, you can’t ignore it, because it’s fucking everywhere.
I do think LLMs will produce something of value. But their net worth will be wildly negative because of all the shit.
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