aemreunal (u/aemreunal)

aemreunal commented on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses meta.com/smart-glasses/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

karaterobot · 2 years ago

What I hope happens is that a few people with actual power are caught on camera by one of these things, and feel their privacy was violated, and then consent laws around recording in public change as a result. The ones we have are pretty old, and not ready for the future that is already here, let alone the one that is coming. I'm not holding my breath for this, it's just what I can imagine being the best outcome.

aemreunal · 2 years ago

The issue with that is that it's a very slippery slope. Same laws could be used against people recording police interactions in public, for example, or other interactions where a private citizen is harassing another private citizen. It really needs to be carefully worded to avoid those pitfalls and I have a feeling that a lot of lawmakers would want to keep it intentionally vague.

aemreunal commented on Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users kagi.com/stats... · Posted by u/tech234a

lloydatkinson · 2 years ago

I wonder why brietbart and Washington post are filtered so much?

aemreunal · 2 years ago

I'm sure you can guess why Breitbart is blocked so much...

aemreunal commented on Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod mikebeauchamp.com/misc/se... · Posted by u/edent

Xen9 · 2 years ago

Idea: Scientific headphone studies

Double-blind / blind headphone testing where price and manufacturer / model are not revealed. Possibly additional methods; multiple tests in a long timespan, multiple people testing, different locations (studio, sports etc.) and so on.

The reviewers are allowed to use any and all digital measuring tools in addition to listening by ear.

A rigorous version of this would integrate above in rtings.com headphone testing method.

aemreunal · 2 years ago

People in Audio Science Review forums do scientific studies of headphones: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?forums/he...

aemreunal commented on Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes earth.com/news/breakthrou... · Posted by u/webdoodle

idlewords · 2 years ago

The key claim in the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.12310.pdf) is that there are detectable changes in cosmic ray activity around 15 days before major seismic events. One posited mechanism is that stuff happens deep in the earth that affects the magnetic field first, and then kicks off some big earthquake. But they don't rule out loopier ideas (like sunspot activity driving changes in the Earth's dynamo that then kick off earthquakes).

One thing that troubles me in the paper is that the researchers appear to have gone looking for precursor patterns in an ad hoc way, with no physical theory in mind, just trying different binning techniques and delays until they got a signal. I'd love to hear the opinion of someone who knows this field on the soundness of this research.

aemreunal · 2 years ago

Reminds me of: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

(There seems to be a lot of death-related stats in there, so beware if that's triggering)

aemreunal commented on Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus

aemreunal · 2 years ago

As the article points out, having a choice, and not being pressured by society into having kids one doesn't want, certainly is a good thing. On the other hand, as the article notes:

> [...] cannot afford to have more children, or because of other policy failures, such as housing shortages [...]

the financial aspect is a huge blocker for those who want to have children. We live in a world where the majority of young people can't afford to live in a city center without 2+ roommates, let alone afford a lifestyle where they have any amount of disposable income, of which a lot is needed to have children.

This policy and societal failure of squeezing every bit of wealth out of the new generation and not giving them anything will eventually drain cities of young people and those cities will be left behind as times change with the newer generations. The cities will miss out on culture, societal change, modernity, eventually of sheer people. See San Francisco, New York, Seoul, etc. It doesn't seem like countries are treating this as the problem it is and I fear for the future of all these currently-popular cities.

aemreunal commented on Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine findthatmeme.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/whoisburbansky

mandatory · 3 years ago

Author here: KnowYourMeme is one of many sites that memes are continually ingested from (any site that has memes I try to ingest regularly) :)

aemreunal · 3 years ago

Amazing work! Also, thank you for making that feed on the main page, been laughing for a while here :D

aemreunal commented on Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine findthatmeme.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/whoisburbansky

CobrastanJorji · 3 years ago

This title really undersells the absolute insanity of the described solution. This is a beautiful example of "if it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid." The justification is very convincing.

One thing I'm curious about: how did you build your corpus of meme images and videos?

aemreunal · 3 years ago

(Not the author) Maybe they leveraged https://knowyourmeme.com/? But that can't possibly have all the random memes, could it?

aemreunal commented on I'm done with Google deijin.bearblog.dev/im-do... · Posted by u/memorable

silisili · 3 years ago

In the current system where Google plays lame duck, sure.

But all G has to do is say 'yeah if you want us to feature your content, you must agree to X'

With 90% of the search market, half of phones, and who knows what percentage of the smartTV market, they could institute a death sentence to those they wanted to.

IF they wanted to.

aemreunal · 3 years ago

That sounds like a pretty big abuse of their power and potentially raises anti-trust concerns. They could easily wield that power for nefarious reasons and I don't think any of us would want that. We can change laws. Companies should abide by them, however insufficient they may be at a given point in time.

aemreunal commented on Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 start menu borncity.com/win/2022/08/... · Posted by u/userbinator

ChuckNorris89 · 3 years ago

Everyone on Twitter is a critic, thinking their opinion is the right one, and looking for their 5 minutes of fame by shitting on some low hanging fruit for clicks and likes hoping that will lift them out of their anonymity.

I can't imagine a great designer like Jonny Ive (not that everything he did was perfect), sinking so low as to shit on Windows's start menu as he probably has bigger fish to fry.

Great people don't need attention from shitting on other people's work because they get enough recognition from the quality of their own work. Only the has-beens with over inflated egos do that.

aemreunal · 3 years ago

Honestly, I think Jonny Ive makes good industrial design (minus the far too extreme "minimalism" push with the butterfly keyboard MacBooks; they really need an "editor" like Steve Jobs) but their UI/UX design has really not been good. Alan Dye is way worse.

I find modern Apple software UI/UX design to be really devoid of functionality, information density, etc. I'm not the only one with this opinion (just listen to any Accidental Tech Podcast episode where they talk about it).