KeytarHero (u/KeytarHero)

KeytarHero commented on Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life cnet.com/tech/mobile/with... · Posted by u/retskrad

nerdjon · a year ago

My opinion is that most of the real uses of AI (like ML has always been) will be largely hidden things that are LLM based but not screaming at your face "AI". Particularly once the bubble pops and money stops being shoved into things just sticking an LLM in a pretty package with little to no value.

Some of the things coming in iOS like notification summaries and similar features are big examples. It's clearly LLM based but it's not a lot of the shoving AI needlessly into things that we are seeing now and provides a true improvement given the notification overload that we have right now.

KeytarHero · a year ago

Exactly. Ask customers "do you want AI in your phone?" and their response will probably be "meh", as shown in the article. But ask "do you want notification summaries, a better camera in low light, Siri to be able to look up more things, searchable photos, etc?" - and they absolutely will.

KeytarHero commented on Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation hacks.mozilla.org/2022/11... · Posted by u/TangerineDream

jraph · 3 years ago

I think the click bait is assumed. The use of "this one weird trick" is humorous at this point (edit: and I found the article actually interesting/worth reading, the title not really deceptive, which is usually the main problem with click bait. and... yes, it is actually kind of a weird trick?).

To expend on your summary, this trick is necessary on Windows (only), because it does not allow over-committing and also does not have an OOM killer which you can instruct to kill content processes instead of the main process.

KeytarHero · 3 years ago

> The use of "this one weird trick" is humorous at this point

Only when it's used ironically. If the article uses that as a headline and forces you to read the whole thing before giving so much as a hint what the "one weird trick" is, then it's legitimate clickbait.

Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting article. I just think if an article is attempting to humorously use a clickbait headline, then it owes it to the reader to at least add a subheading.

KeytarHero commented on Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert cell.com/current-biology/... · Posted by u/lamename

xypage · 3 years ago

Well animals can hear sounds at frequencies that we can't, so the cutoff shouldn't be when we can detect something. But in that case, do we set a cutoff on the lowest/highest frequencies that we know some animal can hear? Then we might discover something later that increases the range, what do we do then? It just makes more sense to generalize sound past what's actually audible, in my opinion at least.

KeytarHero · 3 years ago

Then would you consider radio waves to be "light"?

KeytarHero commented on Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert cell.com/current-biology/... · Posted by u/lamename

polynomial · 3 years ago

Is it really sound if it is undetectable as such? Isn't sound our reaction to a pressure wave (in a certain range over which we have 'hearing')?

KeytarHero · 3 years ago

Exactly. It's not sound, it's infrasound. "Sound" means audible to humans, much how "light" means visible to humans (e.g. radio waves are not considered "light").

KeytarHero commented on GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models thedrive.com/news/gm-make... · Posted by u/seitzej

ricardonunez · 4 years ago

Did you see the BMW subscription seat's addon?

KeytarHero · 4 years ago

As ridiculous as that is, it's not on the same level as GMC's mandatory subscription.

KeytarHero commented on Those HTML attributes you never use smashingmagazine.com/2022... · Posted by u/makaimc

agumonkey · 4 years ago

The enterkeyhint is brilliant. Yet it's sad it can't affect physical keyboards because it would be an ergonomic boom for all the non tech savvy people (input order and submission is often slowed down and confusing due to that, yet something that was leaner in old as400 terminal UIs).

Maybe keyboards will have a few lcd keys, or for cost cutting a colored led keys to match these kind of hints

KeytarHero · 4 years ago

I don't really see the point on a physical keyboard. It makes sense to repurpose the enter key on a phone or tablet where there's limited real estate and the keyboard covers half the screen. On desktop/laptop, that isn't necessary - you can just tab over to the next field (or click it, for the less tech savvy), and click the "submit" button.

Also, it's right in front of your eyes, so it's clear when it says something else. Your computer keyboard isn't, and people don't usually look at the enter key before hitting it (even hunt-and-peck typers should have the enter key committed to muscle memory). Forcing people to look down at their keyboards before hitting enter would make ergonomics worse, not better.

KeytarHero commented on Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Deck from YouTube exputer.com/news/nintendo... · Posted by u/throwaway2048

danShumway · 4 years ago

There's a really surprising amount of confusion in these comments about how copyright (at least in the US) works. More confusion than I expected to see on a site like Hackernews. Emulators are legal, including emulators for current-gen systems. Switch emulation is exactly as legal as Gameboy emulation.

You can argue current-gen emulators are irresponsible, you can say they're mostly used for piracy, but Nintendo doesn't have a right to stop people from talking about emulators. Taking down videos that talk about emulators is not Nintendo protecting its IP, it is an abuse of the DMCA or other non-DMCA tools in Youtube to shut down conversation that Nintendo has no legal right to shut down. Nintendo does not have the legal right to demand people not talk about emulators or share how they work, that's not a right that IP law grants. To say that they're protecting their IP is just false, they're claiming IP rights that they don't have.

Of course in this scenario, no one is going to challenge these takedowns because no one wants to get sued, and the stakes are ultimately unbelievably low. But a video about how to install an emulator is probably not copyright infringement, and (IANAL), I would be very surprised to see Nintendo get a positive ruling if they actually sued someone over showing how to install an emulator on a computer. Again, IANAL, but I'm not even sure you would claim fair use in a case like this. Fair use is a defense for violating copyright, and emulators don't violate copyright.

Discussions about the morality of emulation and the proliferation of piracy are fine, this can be a complicated subject with moral ramifications. But legally speaking, at least in the US, emulators are not piracy and talking about them is not copyright infringement.

KeytarHero · 4 years ago

> Emulators are legal, including emulators for current-gen systems. Switch emulation is exactly as legal as Gameboy emulation.

I know you're talking about emulators, not ROMs. But it's also worth mentioning that the legality of Switch ROMs actually is quite different from Game Boy ROMs. I was recently surprised to discover archive.org has ROMs for older systems - IANAL, but apparently this is covered by a DMCA exemption for obsolete formats [1]. Also, Switch ROMs are encrypted on the cartridge, and while I really don't know the details, breaking the encryption also seems to open another legal can of worms (remember when people would get tattoos of the DVD encryption key?).

Once again IANAL, but I suspect Nintendo would have a better case against videos that include instructions on acquiring & decrypting Switch ROMs. I'm not sure if that's the case with these videos or not.

[1] https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

KeytarHero commented on Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution kaggle.com/benhamner/word... · Posted by u/benhamner

hkmaxpro · 4 years ago

If Yellow/“Maybe” really means “the letter is in the answer but in a different position”, then the final T satisfies this definition.

Another commenter points out the actual implementation may deviate from this definition though.

KeytarHero · 4 years ago

Try TWEET in today's Wordle and you'll see what I mean

KeytarHero commented on Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution kaggle.com/benhamner/word... · Posted by u/benhamner

hkmaxpro · 4 years ago

> Note that all of these 243 possibilities aren't valid in practice. For example YYYYM will never be seen because if the first four letters are correctly placed and the fifth is also in the word, it will be correctly placed.

Not true. For example if the correct answer is TWEED and you guess TWEET, then you’ll get YYYYM.

Edit: As pointed out by two commenters, the actual implementation contradicts the following claim in the post:

> “Maybe” - the letter is in the answer but in a different position

If the correct answer is TWEED and you gess TWEET, you will still get YYYYN, because the actual implementation uses a different definition of “Maybe” than what is written in the post.

KeytarHero · 4 years ago

> if the correct answer is TWEED and you guess TWEET, then you’ll get YYYYM

No, this would give YYYYN

KeytarHero commented on Open-Sourcing our Firmware frame.work/blog/open-sour... · Posted by u/aram

rg111 · 4 years ago

Anything but the flag.

Why not use full language names?

I am very tired of seeing one flag represent my language where that is the newer nation using that language as national language. But that language is spoken for a thousand years or more in other regions.

KeytarHero · 4 years ago

> Why not use full language names?

If I end up on the page in a language I don't know, then how would I find the language selector?

I agree that flags aren't great, but I don't know of any other solution to this problem.