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>Didn’t they also go with a plan to cut CarPlay and android auto. Seems like they are on track to shittify and get left behind

No, this isn't the case at all. To enshittify (you forgot the "en") means to get worse over time, as a result of poor management decisions that seek to increase profits. It implies that there was a time before, when the thing was actually good. But this is GM here: it's been making terrible cars for many decades now. I don't really see how it can enshittify.
Google is now "a tool" not "the tool" for finding information. Perplexity and Phind do a good job and DDG is there for the privacy angle. In addition to LLMs just giving you the answer you need.
I will not rent a movie, ever. If I buy it I should own it. They only want us to stream the content (when it's available) from them, and they looove removing the small amount of interesting content they have over time.

The current system does not work for consumers, and people pirating media is a result of that. They need to get their shit together, not us.

Meanwhile I'm more than happy to pay for Spotify.
Very nice tutorial, and extremally nicely done!

It's worth knowing that some of those effects can also be achived (of course much much more simplified) in all modern browsers using the Web Audio API.
I created mobbler[0] using that, and I also wrote a small tutorial on how some of the effects can be achieved using simple modules (it might seem too complex at first glance, but you can just look at the pictures)[1].

[0]: https://github.com/Megaemce/mobbler

[1]: https://github.com/Megaemce/mobbler/wiki/Tutorials
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Perhaps I should have said "AI hype-skeptic"? I am just not seeing the productivity gains that others claim ITT.
It’s certainly possible that AI is being overhyped, and I think in some cases it definitely is - but being tired of hearing about it in no way correlates to its actual usefulness.

In other words, lot of people seem to think that human attention spans are what determine everything, but the technological cycles at work here are much much deeper.

Personally I have used Midjourney and ChatGPT in ways that will have huge impacts on many activities and industries. Denying that because of media trendiness about AI seems shortsighted.
I’ve been hearing about the AI bubble being about to pop for more than decade now. And then just a couple of years ago AI took a huge leap…so now another AI winter is even more likely?
No, backup cameras are better than rear visibility has ever been. If a small child is sitting directly in front of your rear bumper, can you see that in any car? I don't think so. But with any modern car with a proper backup camera, the kid is easy to see on the monitor. This, in fact, is the main reason these cameras were mandated: lots of kids were getting run over, usually by their own parents. Of course, worse visibility makes it even more likely, but rear visibility has never been great in any car.
that was not what you forgot and your summary is still wrong. kens is correct. i suggest programming some simple simulations using a random number generator to get a better feel for the space
isn't the energy consumption of travel, driving, and shipping food to you pretty catastrophic? Do you consider the issue of energy consumption so abstracted you don't worry about it? Do you do anything to offset your increased carbon emissions?
I don't use AI at work at all.

I pay for Leetcode, which usually gives editorial examples in Python and Java and such, and paste it into ChatGPT and say "translate this to a language I am more familiar with" (actually I have other programs that have been doing this for some language to language conversions for years, without AI). Then I say "make it more compact". Then again "make it more compact". So soon I have a big O(n) time, big O(1) space solution to Leetcode question #2718 or whatever in a language I am familiar with. Actually sometimes it becomes too compact and unreadable, and I back it up a little.

Sometimes it hallucinates, but it has been helpful. In the past I had problems with it, but not recently.
I think at some point we might need to accept that preserving every piece of human creation ever made is not possible and perhaps not even desirable.

This is kind of the problem with data hoarding: it’s more about the act of preservation than the content being preserved. The whole practice is based off of anxiety and fear of loss rather than any productive purpose. There’s often low to zero demand for a huge amount of the content.

Just like my grandma’s record collection or fine China, it all amounts to a bunch of stuff that meant something to someone else but not to me. It was offered to me in a vain hope that I might enjoy it in the same way, despite the great improbability of that being the case.

That’s why those items are siting in a landfill somewhere.

I would guess, for example, that most people read very few books that were written before the 1800s. They would be difficult to read, their subject matter would be foreign, and without extensive rewriting/translation/adaptation, they wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Most certainly there are many classic works that survive much longer than a few hundred years, but the percentage is a tiny sliver of all the stories people have created. And that’s ultimately perfectly okay. That’s just how things work. Nobody has enough time on earth to consume such a massive amount of content that humans have made, and a lot of it is straight up bad, or just repetitive of other similar content.

Lastly, there is also another possibility entirely: that the original creators don’t want future generations to see their work.

I think it’s important to remember that all rights are reserved to the creator of the work. As an artist I can sell a print of a painting for a year and decide that it will never be sold again after that. It’s my right to stop selling new copies and my right to prevent people from redistributing copies until the work reaches public domain, because it’s my work.

I know in the case of corporate filmmaking the lack of available works is more about apathy to specific old pieces of content basically being worthless to them, but it’s still a little point to keep in mind.
Err — sorry I mean https://containers.dev/

Which has pretty nice support across IDEs. For example - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers

I set this up for my last company where we had all sorts of “works on my machine issues” and a needlessly painful onboarding experience. Local development became streamlined with this tooling BUT pre-apple silicon macs couldn’t handle running Docker like this. Glacially slow. We had a python monorepo with a bunch of services within it.

I am curious whether nix is an alternative / improvement for this. Was going down the nix road at first but an infrastructure team member steered me toward devcontainers instead and I’ve been pretty happy since!
I was thinking mostly of the bits of the tech designed for working when the launch site is hits with nuclear explosions
Tried Waymo in SF. Didn't take a single cab/Uber after and only used Waymo during my trip.

Putting my own music and not having to interact with anyone is pretty great.
Exactly, everyone in those generations was a tyrant. Therefore nobody was. It’s not about the thing itself, it’s about how it compares.

My point is that kids need to be able to play together, regardless of what ‘play’ means in this generation. If I make mine unable to play/communicate with his peers abot any topic relevant to them, I’m essentially deliberately isolating him.
AI is trending right now. The most important thing for new companies is finding investors, and those people have been throwing cash at any company with AI.

Customers are also more interested in AI products. The tech industry has stagnated for years with incremental improvements on existing products. ChatGPT and generative AI are new capabilities that draw interest, and companies have been doing anything they can to stand out today.
What if the money saved isnt used to help save thousands of other jobs but makes its way up to the C suite compensation?
That fails to note that `FD_SETSIZE` only applies if you're statically allocating your sets and rely on the libc defaults. If you do dynamic allocation (or, on some libcs, if you define the macro before including headers), you can select() a million FDs just fine.

It's still a bad idea for performance reasons (though `poll` can actually be worse on dense sets), but it's not actually the open-file limit that's the problem.
There are a lot of things preserved in the library of congress which remain inaccessible to most people. It's better than having works vanish entirely, but our culture is still poorer and shrinking as a result.
It's considered controversial 'oh shit' territory for Github and they made a quick and concise action based on fear rather than having a spine about it.
They're both notebooks for TypeScript, but Observable is highly specialized in data visualizations (graphs, plots, etc...) and runs in the browser.

Srcbook is built for different use cases: we focus on a backend runtime (node) and want to solve for non-data-visualizations workflows. Use cases like prototyping with a third party npm library, running a script to test your app's behavior, or building an AI agent.
I have an Radxa X4 on order, thinking it would be somewhat on par with other X4's.

Your writeup is making me somewhat regret-im-advance this purchase. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/radxa-x4-sbc-unites-i...
More likely music. I do remember a few people with dsl or isdn at home, t1 at work.
decentralized solar will never be able to provide power at scale. even the scale of 1 household. only homes with lots of land could afford the amount of panels needed. the average home will always need to consume power generated offsite
Fair enough. I remember my dreams most days, often
multiple per night, but you're right that I can't be sure I remember all of them.
Musk has built amazing companies and can legitimately take credit for pushing the automotive industry towards EVs. But judging by his actions, in my book he's also a complete asshole. These two facts can co-exist.
Aware of this, but somehow it seems to miss the mark? It's hard to use third party libraries, and is a little buggy. We asked a lot of devs if they had used it, and often got the answer that they tried it and churned because it wasn't a good experience.

Do you use it? Does it work well for you? I'm interested in learning more about your use case if you don't mind sharing.
Oh god the ‘object oriented’ refactor. I wish everyone who had OO thrust upon them in the early 2000s received some explicit communication that what they were taught is essentially a hoax and bears no resemblance to Alan Kay’s original intention
Tbh I’d say it’s pretty obvious what people consider GPTs.
I sometimes pirate movies because I’m cheap.

I know how and where to buy the movies. I don't (except for Netflix & Amazon Prime subscriptions) because I'm cheap.

At least I’m being honest.

Some people here are seriously justifying stealing with excuses like “stealing is more convenient and free so it’s the company’s fault”.

Just admit that you don’t want to pay. It’s fine. Everyone knows. No need to come up with elaborate excuses to steal. Everyone can see through them.
I was getting a lot of mixed messaging at my job for 6-12 months.

On the one hand, we got an email from high up saying not to use Copilot, or other such tools, as they were trying to figure out the licensing. But at the same time, we had the CIO getting up in front of the company every other month talking about nothing but GenAI, and how if we weren’t using it we were stupid (not in those exact words, but that was the general vibe, uncontrolled AI hype).

We were left sitting there saying, “what do you want from us? Do as you say or do as you do?”

Eventually they signed the deal with MS and we got Copilot, which then seemed forced on us. There is even a dashboard out there for it, listing all people using it, their manager, rolling all the way up to the CEO. It tells the percentage of reports from each manager using it, and how often suggestions are accepted. It seems like the kind of dashboard someone would make if they were planning to give out bonuses based on Copilot adoption.

I’ve gotten regular surveys about it as well, to ask how I was using it. I mostly don’t, due to the implementation in VS Code. I might use it a few times per month at best.

Maybe that would be different if the rollout wasn’t so awkward, or the VS Code extension was more configurable.
If you are hiring remote workers why choose the ones that cost more?
if you write down two binary numbers on paper and add them, you will almost certainly do the computation bit-serially, adding each pair of corresponding bits with the carry from the previous operation. serial computers work the same way
I think that he meant that pirating nowadays is as easy as it was to rent a physical tape or disc in a rental shop in the 90s.
Please, please disagree with this comment instead of downvoting it. As a normal person, I have no idea if there is a good counterargument, or if the downvoting is just kneejerk politics or a disapproval of tone.
Well, time dilation and length contraction do occur at relativistic speeds :-)
I've trained as a neuroscientist and written a book about consciousness. I've worked in machine learning and built products for over 20 years and now use AI a fair bit in the ed-tech work we do.

So I've seen how the field has progressed and also have been able to look at it from a perspective most AI/engineering people don't -- what does this artificial intelligence look like when compared to biological intelligence. And I must say I am absolutely astonished people don't see this as opening the flood-gates to staggeringly powerful artificial intelligence. We've run the 4-minute mile. There are hundreds of billions of dollars figuring out how to get to the next level, and it's clear we are close. Forget what the current models are doing, it is what the next big leap (most likely with some new architecture change) will bring.

In focusing on intelligence we forget that it's most likely a much easier challenge than decentralized cheap autonomy, which is what took the planet 4 billion years to figure out. Once that was done, intelligence as we recognize it took an eye-blink. Just like with powered-flight we don't need bioliogical intelligence to transform the world. Artificial intelligence that guzzles electricity, is brittle, has blind spots, but still capable of 1000 times more than the best among us is going to be here within the next decade. It's not here yet, no doubt, but I am yet to see any reasoned argument for why it is far more difficult and will take far longer. We are in for radical non-linear change.
Carplay doesn’t provide the backup camera. That’s safety equipment, including Apple in that loop would be malpractice.

Ever wonder why there’s a delay when you shift into reverse? That’s a whole other system. Made, tested, and proven by actual engineers. Not the bootcamp types.
I’m not the OP and I wouldn’t say that AI has doubled my productivity, but the latest Claude models in particular have made me less of a skeptic than I was a few months ago.

I’m an experienced backend dev who’s been working on some Vue frontend projects, and it’s significantly accelerated my ability to learn the complexities of e.g. Vue’s reactivity model. I can ask a complex question that involves several niche concepts and get a response that correctly synthesizes those concepts. I spent an hour the other night trying to understand a bug in a component to no avail; once I understood the problem well enough to explain it in a few sentences, Claude diagnosed the issue and explained it with more clarity than the documentation and various stack overflow answers.

My default is no longer to assume that the model has a coin flip’s chance of producing bs. I still verify and treat answers with a certain degree of skepticism, but I now reach for it as my first tool rather than a last resort or a gimmick.
Where are you selling them? What are they? Used get only a few $ here.
Justine Tunney on X: "I just launched whisperfile"
common anywhere. Even if you paid only $3 a month 10 years ago, that subscription would still be more expensive to a lifetime professional as of now ($360) than your upfront price of $289. maybe a bit cheaper when you adjust inflation, but another year would close that gap.

So you get the allure from the business side, since they are also continually spending time and probably labor updating the tech.
Llamafile v0.8.13 (and Whisperfile)
You absolutely do not need to be getting Microsoft copilot licenses:

Open weight and open source models can be hosted on your own hardware nowadays, and its incredibly easy.

https://dublog.net/blog/open-weight-copilots/

You can even use something like RayServe + VLLM to host on a big chonky machine for a small team if you're concerned about data exfiltration.
Over 60% extra...

It's only a bargain if you need it. For a general purpose computer I'm with you, but the Pi5 often isn't used as a general purpose computer so if you know the software isn't going to be using it then it is pure waste.
tailscale and wireguard for work, expressvpn when needing a specific location for media streaming.
I don't understand this idea that you can do anything "privately" on a device designed to collect and leak your personal information whose admin is a corporation that can make changes to the system at any time without your consent or awareness, and where multiple parties (carrier, and manufactures) have privileged access to do the same, and where your own access is extremely limited and controlled. The entire system is totally insecure and non-private by design.

The idea that dating app could prevent your preferences from being collected seems unlikely to me too. If people are posting profiles and messaging each other on a platform, that platform is going to have no problem learning what their interests are. They don't need to know what you're searching for, as long as they know who you're finding.
How is a $3.99 digital rental any different than picking up a VHS from Blockbuster in the 90s?
I think all this can be true, and we are still in a massive AI bubble that may pop at any moment.

ChatGPT truly is impressive. Nonetheless, i still think most companies integrating "AI" into their products is buzzword bs that is all going to collapse in on itself.
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I’m not saying you are telling me to. I’m pointing out that you are depriving sites from their chosen method of monetization while continuing to consume their content. Effectively “averting your eyes” from their ads, instead of just not visiting the site.

I’m not accusing you of anything. It’s just simply what you are doing. It’s the mental gymnastics these threads are always full of justifying the wholesale disavowal of all ad-supported content that is hard to follow.
Fantastic technical depth plus artistic and thematic analysis here. Great video!
Hard to say they replaced them, when they use Google in their backend...
They were writing pro-AI articles less than 2 months ago. They can just post AI-hype and AI-boredom articles so both sides will give them clicks. It's like an alternate form of Gell-Mann Amnesia that you're feeding.
With books there is a requirement for to upload all books published in Australia to be put in the Australian National Library. The US has something similar.

It's surprising that something like that hasn't been legislated for film and possibly for TV.

It would be quite doable today technologically.
You shouldn't be. For code bases where context is mostly local they destroy human throughput by comparison. They only fall down hard when used in spaghetti dumpster fire codebases where you have to paste the contents of 6+ files into context or the code crosses a multiple service boundaries to do anything.

A competent engineer architects their systems to make their tools as effective as possible, so maybe your idea of competent is "first order" and you need higher order conception of a good software engineer.
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If bugs weren’t so prevalent I’d think a squirrel’s been eating your wires haha. That’s a lot. My Honda has a few but I’m happy with it although I think someday it might kill me with these phantom lane corrections.
I'm sure it's about money, I don't think it's based on the market though.

I reckon it's based in indirect governance structure subsidies being sent to those companies that have been set up to harvest data.

The reason I think this, is I don't think I invest any of my resources according to what adverts are shown on a screen. Also, I don't think I know anyone that does spend according to advertising.

I realise companies' 'advertising spend' may also includes brand awareness and other non-sale elements... But you'd think that sometimes the spend would result in an actual sale to justify the spend.
2D skeletal animation is an order of magnitude easier than 3d, but still a huge task in and of itself, with unique issues working with sprites compared to meshes. So it still requires very skilled understanding of art and physics, but there's a lot less demand as the AA/AAA industry is 99% 3d in the west.

It's not open source, but the best competitor to Spine is probably Live2D, which is used by a lot of Eastern studios (and basically dominant in the mobile space). You'd probably find some open source implementations over in Japan.
Just an aside: for SF and fantasy, the scifi stack exchange is an invaluable source to identify a story by a few random bits, they have a specific tag/label for questions like that and it never failed for me.
IIRC Pi 4 has a hardware encoder and 5 does not, so 4 might be your sweet spot.
> And you can't apply that to everyone who is doesn't know every law.

If you're going to move the goal post can you at least keep it on the same planet so we can pretend this is civil?
I was at a UX / Usability conference and it was basically the same. Everyone talked about AI here and AI there, but no one had an actual usecase or idea how to incorporate AI in a purposeful way. I can genuinely understand, why people feel that AI is a fad.
This is utter nonsense. I happen to be a white guy working in aerospace. I love that we're finally starting to address some of the bias that has led to preferential hiring of people like me. The non-white, non-male, non-christian, and non-hetero colleagues I have are absolutely brilliant and earned their positions though hard work.
I've known they have been dead for a while when you can buy them for a dollar at the pawn shop.

When Netflix wrecked their dvd business, that was a sure sign as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11foot8
If it had more intelligence than a gorilla , wouldn’t it be somewhat like us ? Why would it want to hide in the forest ?
You are forgetting marketing is temporal. Fifteen years ago you could sell your software as the Cloud version of a legacy app. Right now, there's a window that being the AI version will get you a call.
But doesn't it lack hardware for that. Streaming software goes s far as to warn against it.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-ac...
Man you’re a lost cause. It takes you two days to understand a simple idea and when you finally do you’re incapable of even acknowledging it, and instead have to move the goalposts to an irrelevant aside only to be wrong again.

Is this a kink? Do you get off on appearing incompetent? If so good job.