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- eloisiushttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/pus...
- If you think eastern philosophical traditions have resulted in comparatively less consumerist desire in Asia, you’re in for a disappointment. You don’t have to transcend to some spiritual enlightenment. I understood what the author was getting at very well, and it makes sense to me. When you have a mission in life, things that don’t serve your mission are worthless to you. When you don’t have a mission, it’s easy to get caught up in vain consumerism.
- Hidden in the sense of neural net layers. I mean intermediary representation.
- From a single picture it infers a hidden 3D representation, from which you can produce photorealistic images from slightly different vantage points (novel views).
- I think that’s the same idea behind clicker training for dogs. There’s a delay in giving them the actual treat, but the instantaneous click sound lets them now they did the thing that results in a treat
- It's not about what non-0.001% people invest in, but what they spend on. More evenly distributed wealth would mean more money for people to spend on education, food security, and housing, which in turn would spur increased production of those goods. Below a certain wealth threshold, people aren't putting every additional dollar into "investments" in the financial sense of the word. There's more ROI by sending your kids to college or moving to a better neighborhood.
- I agree with that. I only mean that it’s not as simple as “if we gave everyone Elon’s money then we could all afford homes.” But you’re right, the higher concentration of wealth means there’s less investment into producing more resources that people need, so indirectly it does mean there are less homes to go around.
I do agree with what (I think) GP might have been trying to say though. Conspicuous spending itself is not a problem. Way rather have the ultra wealthy buying yachts that deciding to be a wealth-proportional amount of everyday commodities.
- The concentration of wealth isn’t a problem so much for poverty, because without doing something to increase the production of things people need, having more money would just result in higher prices. Like you said, the 0.001% aren’t consuming half the world’s food production, so redistributing there money alone would not solve world hunger.
A bigger problem as that fewer and fewer have any say in the direction of society now. That concentrated investment means they get to shape the world we live in. Years ago I had a more libertarian mindset about that as well. “They’re more likely to make better decisions with it because they made the money to begin with.” I no longer feel that way. It increasingly looks like the most wealthy are happy to destroy the world for everyone in their quest to become ever more elite.
- One that represented compressed videos as an embedding that gets reinflated by having gen AI interpret it back into image frames.
- I doubt that’s what’s happening too but it’s not beyond the pale. They could be feeding both the input video and audio/transcript into their transformer and it has learned “when the audio is talking about lips the person is usually puckering their lips for the camera” so it regurgitates that.
- I do too, but I’m looking to get proper solution soon. A Pi is a pretty lousy NAS. It can’t even power two drives so you can’t have redundancy unless you get a powered USB hub. And even then, I used one of those for a while and the drive connected to it prematurely failed. I think maybe because the power supply wasn’t stable.
- Same. This is just the next iteration of all those spam sites back in the 2010s that used to mirror GitHub issues, but wowee it uses AI and you can chat with it! Forever grateful to Kagi for the ability to block sites from my results.
- I don’t think you have to go that far backward. You can get a QNAP or Synology NAS, a storage VPS and use syncthing. I don’t even have the NAS yet, just a Pi with an external drive and I’ve gotten pretty far.
The part I haven’t been able to crack is syncing the Documents folder on my iPhone. All the syncthing apps for iOS are abysmal because there’s no real background sync. You can add a SMB share in the Files app, but that doesn’t get you offline access.
- I’m also a CLI old timer, but there’s undeniable utility in having a Postman-like collection to test drive a mobile app API. You can save state from responses and use it in subsequent requests. E.g. log in, save the access token, create a post, save the id, post a comment under the post using the id. It’s all very useful, to say nothing of the fact that you can give said collection to non-technical stakeholders and they can solve a lot of their own problems without going to get one of the engineers to Do A Command Line(tm).
All that said, I wouldn’t touch Postman. Last time I needed something to fit this bill I looked around to find the open source equivalent and found Bruno.
- Surely it would be possible for victims to come forward and provide a paper trail of WhatsApp transcripts and blockchain transactions.
- In some branch of the Manyverse Kagi is working on mail hosting that will get announced in time to save me.
- I appreciate you taking the time to engage with your customers here. I’ll say this announcement doesn’t thrill me, as a long-time customer. I’ve been paying for Fastmail for at least six years. It may be as many as eight but I can’t find my oldest receipt.
I use Fastmail because of the excellent mail service, customer support, sieve rules to keep my inbox manageable, and because of the little details like WebDAV that I have unexpectedly found useful for things like syncing browser bookmarks. I pay for Fastmail because it has been excellent, not because I’m captive.
This app signals to me that there may be a change coming in our relationship. One in which you may start to neglect IMAP or make it harder for me to choose my own mail client. It tells me that Fastmail might be pivoting into “growth” and treating me like a “user” rather than a paying customer. It won’t surprise me, and I can’t really say I’d be mad. Most companies get to that point. There’s probably a lot more money to be made from vendor lock-in than happy, $50 per year customers. As for me and mine, I will switch to the next small-to-medium-sized mail provider the second I get a sense that this is the direction.
- I avoid Electron apps because in every case that I've used one, they have completely in-house UI and window management. Thunderbird is ugly as sin, I'll give you that, but, but at least it mostly let's me manage windows the way I want. Slack, on the other hand, won't even let me have tabs for two different channels. Let alone open the preferences while not navigating away from a chat I'm in the middle of.