lph · HackerTrans

Yeah, I know the point of this site is to give us a dystopian shock by showing us how much information Big Tech extracts from our photos, but it's inadvertently a pretty good advertisement for Google's Vision API. It did a fantastic job of summarizing the photos I threw at it.

lph

2 年前議論

I wonder how unique those floor tile patterns are? If that's taken on a military base in Korea, it might be possible to find the exact location of the photo.

lph

2 年前議論

> The military’s professional norms are a check against a potential abuse of power.

Right. And norms might be a bulwark for six months or two years, and then they'll crumple against relentless assault. It's the same progression we've already seen play out in many areas of government with Trump's first term.

lph

2 年前議論

It sounds like a debutante ball for the newly-minted ultra wealthy

lph

2 年前議論

Every ad I've seen from Temu is either AI-fabricated non-existent products, or real products with impossibly low prices. I wish somebody would sue them into the ground for false advertising.

lph

3 年前議論

Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads... now there's a band from the days when the bin man was hard

lph

3 年前議論

If you flip it from "Explore" to "Research", the UI becomes a lot more practical.

lph

3 年前議論

It's a shame, the Ameristan near-future dystopia parts of Fall were quite good, but the virtual world plot became increasingly silly. My mood would pick up whenever I landed on a chapter that got back to the "real world" plot.

lph

3 年前議論

I call it "trust arbitrage"

lph

3 年前議論

Such bad memories of the team where everything was oriented around the weekly demo: One day a week spent on throwaway work to make a demo run, and then getting yelled at for not being productive enough.

lph

3 年前議論

No. Most companies have employees sign paperwork that prohibits them from doing exactly this.

lph

3 年前議論

Excel is an ancient and complex beast. I get the appeal of building this project---it sounds fun---but trying to duplicate the Excel engine to the level of producing identical outputs is, frankly, bonkers. The author caught the one discrepancy they noticed, circular reference handling, but how many did they miss? How do they know different inputs won't cause it to deviate from Excel? I didn't get the sense from the blog post that this had extensive test coverage. Putting it into use for a business-critical financial calculation is a massive risk, but I guess that's how Uber rolls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It would have been less fun but way, way less risky to wire a headless Excel up to a javascript front-end.

lph

3 年前議論

Same. I had a terrible experience with Google CS and the original Pixel, which I ended up throwing in the garbage after less than a year because it was defective and they wouldn't do anything about it. Will never make that mistake again.

lph

3 年前議論

The graphs in the post show the traffic decline starting around May 2022, months before ChatGPT was available. I'd wager the cause is a change in Google's algorithm. Most of the time I end up on Stack Overflow, it's because I've typed a question into a search engine.

lph

3 年前議論

This is lots of fun! Reminds me of Windows '93 [1]

[1] https://www.windows93.net/

lph

3 年前議論

I took so many damn showers in grad school.

lph

3 年前議論

You can emulate Amiga software in-browser from the Internet Archive's collection [1], but AFAIK there's no emulated web system that's has a bunch of stuff installed on a hard drive like Infinite Mac does. The Amiga Forever [2] package comes with a lot of software you can run locally, but not through a browser.

[1] https://archive.org/details/lynx_Shadow_of_the_Beast_1992 [2] https://www.amigaforever.com/

lph

3 年前議論

...and the same folks who rail against immigration can often be found lamenting the low national birth rate. It makes one suspect their complaint isn't with the rate of population growth, but with its hue.

lph

3 年前議論

This is outstanding. And the limitations of its speech recognition are actually a feature - it forces me to really concentrate on pronunciation. Now do Mandarin and take my money please :)

lph

3 年前議論

> 3,500 seems SO worth it if this can be used to comfortably replace external displays

Agreed, but that's a huge IF. The ergonomics problems with VR headsets are well documented - has Apple really managed to transcend them? I'm not gambling $3500 for a thing that probably ends up sitting in a drawer because it gives me neck cramps or eye strain or motion sickness.

If Apple wants to drive adoption they need to lower that risk. A way to have a trial period or a one-week rental would help.

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