- fn-moteThis is not sufficient because the TV you are showing the video on can (does/will) take the screencaps.
- This is definitely a best case scenario.
As important as I think questioning is, there’s another side of it where people push their own agenda with questions on topics that were decided by other/more senior people hashing it out. At some point this does need to be dealt with. All I see is the yapping questions wasting meeting time, though.
- > the bread is just as flavorful
“Thin bread.”
No sourdough enthusiast or artisanal bread baker would agree. You even get a different metabolic pathway active at higher temps.
Try the “low and slow” method, rise then let it sit a day in the fridge, see if it’s really the same taste.
- I’m glad “super secure” is in scare quotes.
I’m glad I have never heard of this app.
Security and trust go hand in hand.
- Nobody I know believes Duolingo is in it for anything but the money. To make money, cast the widest net. The people serious about learning don’t use Duolingo because it is so ineffective. Maybe the Duolingo CEO is sincere, I don’t know, but it smells bad to me.
- I’m pretty sure the point is to have a conversation with someone (something) who is speaking correctly.
As another poster here noted, the effect of error correction is nowhere near the effect of having correct input. (See the “comprehensible input” poster.)
- > Lozanov claimed that suggestopedia cannot be compared to a placebo as he regarded placebos as being effective.
It doesn’t sound like the author of that method believes in science?? I’ll pass.
- Look, we’re all here instead of studying our Anki decks, so… you got that “dopamine fix needed” problem nailed.
- Nobody believes this is right.
The question is: will you roll over and die without a fight for your rights?
At least you have time you are spending on HN that could be devoted to learning to fight. The fewer people that fight, the faster your rights disappear.
- The Industrial Revolution is coming again. Look at data center spend for massive companies like Microsoft. Love it or hate it, the AI you see today isn’t going away. It will only become more capable.
Maybe the next generation can / will need to start the Butlerian Jihad but we’re stuck for now.
- They shipped it to you. They associated a machine UUID with you at that time, as well as the SIM card.
Now maybe you mean the TV? That’s not what this particular thread is about.
- The point is what if you DON’T just connect something to bypass all the slowness. Maybe in a tech forum everybody has done it, but certainly not out in the “real world”.
- Always wondered if this was a deliberate strategy to enable more tracking… but it sounds way beyond the ability of their corporate planning.
- > You never hear about “starving athletes” I guess is what I mean.
Go to the 'hood and see the one returning pro ball player interacting with forty no-money kids trying their hardest to make it.
All of the kids would be better off pursuing a higher-probability-of-success career (including unionized manual labor), but that's not what's happening.
Those are some starving athletes.
- > The difference between sending it over a chat and handing it over to a clerk (who then photocopies it [...]
The difference is that the paper copy is local and only accessible to the hotel (and any government employee that might come knocking).
The digital version is accessible to anyone who has access to the system, which as we know well on HN includes bureaucrats (or police) with a vendetta against you and any hacker that can manage to breach the feeble defenses of the computer storing the data. That computer isn't locked down because the information is not valuable to the person who holds it; they're paid to satisfy a record-keeping law, not maintain system security.
> at least "Typing it into the computer" doesn't leave them with a picture, just most of the data.
Agreed, except now uploading a scan is the easiest way to file the data.
- How do you know you’re not losing?
How many years of evidence do you have?
I think I won my battle against being addicted to games… but I don’t go back to find out.
- > Chinese name based in Australia with a shipping address in the US isn’t immediately a red flag
And a good thing, too, or I would be concerned about posting that I knew it was going somewhere forbidden.
- You could have an AppleTV with 48 GB VRAM backing the local requests, but... the trend is "real computers" disappearing from homes, replaced by tablets and phones. The advantage the cloud has is Real Compute Power for the few seconds you need to process the interaction. That's not coming home any time soon.
- GP means they aren't good at knowing when they are wrong and should spend more compute on the problem.
I would say the current generation of LLMs that "think harder" when you tell them their first response is wrong is a training grounds for knowing to think harder without being told, but I don't know the obstacles.
- > Franklin's name is a link to a paywalled Medium article.
I'm frustrated that in 2025, I am reading a dismissal of Franklin's contributions because someone has never heard of her and clicks on a link to Medium article to draw their conclusions. Wikipedia would be better. The 1950's was so long ago that there are (gasp) actual paper books on this history of the discovery of the double helix.