Readit NewsI've always wondered why someone doesn't just bundle a nice looking shell prompt with common nerd fonts and make it the default in a single package you can install.
If you record a network packet capture, you will see it communicating with history.google.com. You might also notice that each time you load your browser history, that domain will be contacted to sync your history with Google's servers.
Much of your uploaded data can be seen from here, but you'll need to be logged in to see it: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?pli=1
I wonder what the speedup would be without field telemetry. Also what is the electrical consumption for all the telemetry-related packets hopping around the internet? What would the speedup be like for the internet itself if we stopped using telemetry on everything.
e.g. Netflix/YouTube
Sorry folks, but it turns out that the creators of Vi(m) didn't actually invent the ultimate UI paradigm half a century ago. It's bad enough that a text editor that ignores the past few decades of UX research is still in widespread use, but please, for the love of God, stop incorporating that broken paradigm into new products.
What a pity, because Nyxt looks like a well-designed piece of software otherwise.
Cue endless debates about how Vim is the best ever ...... I'm sick and tired of everyone telling me that their neovim setup with a tiling window manager with million customized rc files is somehow better than vscode with a mouse (which mind you still has plenty of keyboard shortcuts) with sane windows. /rant
In essence, this tool will eventually allow us to scale things like private tutors and make educators more productive and effective.
We already have really convincing text-to-speech and really good speech recognition. It won't be long before we pair this with robotics and have lifelike tutors for people that want to learn. Kids of the near future are going to be so advanced at scale compared to any previous generation. A curious mind needed to have smart adults around them willing to get them resources and time. Soon anyone with curiosity will have access.
With their massive codebase and already deep investment in AI/ML, I'm pretty sure Google and likely MS already have the ability to do massive refactoring, validate it using tests, reiterate, train, rinse and repeat.
I think Cargo is doing better, but I've yet to get a shared directory working for every build on a system. I shouldn't have to spend 2G per Rust project.
Without giving major spoilers about the end, its china and chinese above rest of humanity, every single non-chinese I recall is portrayed as evil. Also the end was properly disappointing. Can't call a novel great with such big flaws, but I understand why HN crowd likes it so much.
For what's worth, I enjoyed ie Hyperion cantos much more. A bit less quantum gadgetry (or is it) but basically 7 very different stories ranging from space operas to nearly cyberpunk and characters I enjoyed following till very end.
The second book still had some good character writing (mostly in Zhang Beihai, although Luo Ji had a okay arc), but I felt like the plot really meandered to the point where I almost put the book down before the reveal of the Dark Forest concept, which was interesting and novel enough to compel me to finish.
The final book has the whole kitchen sink of cool sci-fi conceits thrown at it, but there are even fewer memorable characters, and the plot time-jumps so many times that it feels like the antithesis of “show, don’t tell”.
What’s sad is that the core storytelling skill of Liu is clearly there (for example, with the fairy-tale allegories), but it’s so buried under the drive to introduce a new technology every chapter that it’s hard to appreciate the final book as a good novel.
when I hear people complain about these projects it just sounds like hypocrisy.