What if a TV technically is vastly superior to its content?
Comedian Gallagher said:
“I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a knob called ‘brightness,’ but it doesn’t work.”
Readit Newsk310 commented on Samsung's new $29,999 Micro RGB TV looks good engadget.com/home/home-th... · Posted by u/ksec
k310 commented on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? cacm.acm.org/opinion/will... · Posted by u/ketanmaheshwari
The web is full of garbage but one can find sources of specific and detailed information, and also to contact friends directly. So, I choose to go to sites for information (product, “how-to”, or Wikipedia-like), to use aggregators like Hacker News to get a broad brush picture of what’s going on (because no “news” site can be so diverse) and to contact friends directly, and not via a “social” site with billions (?) of users.
Likewise, AI is biased, tries to be all things to all people, and is outright wrong in many cases. It is too easy to nudge in strange directions, and is NOT a nice companion. The lure of advertising is too big not to enshittify it.
However, in strict verticals, it can be helpful.
Since it is by structure non-social, it can’t be used to connect people.
It’s really a matter of choice, and people choose poorly.
“My Internet World” consists mainly of two aggregators, heavily moderated, sites that serve my interests directly, and communications with friends. The latter could be improved by “group forums” outside of the surveillance capitalism monster sites, but nobody seems to care, and should be part of operating systems, but Apple, Google and Microsoft, for example, will never agree on anything, so it’s left to third parties to crack a billion-device market. Fat chance.
As an example, I used to host Moodle on laptops and servers for docs, where people could comment, and it had built-in controls. Perhaps, some outside hosting? Small is beautiful.
People and information. They’ve been poisoned and probably always will as long as people use “big” sites.
Oh, and as for advertising. If I want information, I’ll just go get it. Anyone who pushes information on me is poisoning my cache. Out, damned slop.
k310 commented on Ask HN: Why do we still not have a single source of truth for the dev? · Posted by u/Kamil_19
Because Microsoft tried that and (many) people hated it.
Monoliths tend to suck, especially when bureaucracy kills great ideas. And then people implement great ideas on their own.
Now, since they tend to be unconnected, one can go back to the "mother ship" or innovate a system of inteconnects or API's to get them to work together.
"In suckage, there's opportunity."
In fact Linux and open source in general grew from dissatisfaction with monoliths, and compare the good they've done compared to the dinosaurs in the computer history museum.
Many companies gravitate towards monoliths as growth opportunities, and IT managers like "one throat to choke" (heard that WAY too many times. ) but flowers, people, and apps are different for good reason.
I was thinking that the book might be "How to beat procrastination and get things done on time."
By Washington Irving. :-)
No such luck.
k310 commented on US to paint southern border wall black to make it hotter english.elpais.com/usa/20... · Posted by u/geox
The cruelty isn't just the means; it's the end.
As I've often said, BIG people lift others up. SMALL people try to cut others down to their level.
I hadn't noticed. I haven't frequented a fast food place in 10 years or more. And I worked at Mickey D's when they were bragging about selling a million.
Icloud email works fine. With icloud plu$, you can alias fake email addresses that forward to your inbox and can be deactivated if and when they collect spam.
Firefox said on the most recent update that it also offers email aliases (but forward to what? I didn't check)
There are also some security features (in settings) standard.
I tried to stop message threading, but Apple Mail still offers "context", which tucks a previous message below the current one. In my case, I replied to an individual in a group message, and they replied to me individually, but it looked for all hell like the reply was to the group, which was an embarrassing optical illusion.
I really ask email to do as litte as possible.
A lot of my (extremely long) Apple experience consists of turning off gratuitous features that interfere with my workflow. But mail is reliable, and also accessible at icloud.com (log in) if you enable icloud web access.
k310 commented on · Posted by u/MarcusWasRight
"Breakthroughs" get commoditized. When something new becomes pervasive, people will refuse to pay anything but zero. "But everyone has it."
So, like Apple's "Google is the preferred search site", which is the first thing I undo, any "serious" will be spent by companies providing real products and services and paying some other company to provide them. Give or take some companies, or government agencies, ahem, with internal uses.
Like auto companies paying Tesla for carbon credits.[0]
[0] Tesla's Carbon Credit Revenue Soars to $2.76 Billion (Jan 2025)
https://carboncredits.com/teslas-carbon-credit-revenue-soars...
My opinion.
I only need to monitor two indicator lights on pump protection boxes. Green is fine. Anything else, I make the trip down there to check stuff. Reason is that in addition to the protection boxes and breakers, there are (ta-da) slow-blow fuses in the mix. Once, the fuse on the submersible pump blew, but since the tank is 2000 gallons, I didn't notice it until it went empty. Restarting was easy. Replace the fuse. Pump. But I had to re-prime the lines, and the city boy in me failed.
Alternatives:
check once a month or so. I do that.
a photocell on each green indicator with relay to a light in the line of sight.
a water depth gauge, duhhh. [0]
a mirror so that I can actually see the indicators with binoculars. They are inconveniently 90 degrees to my line of sight, behind the tank. But adjusting the mirror will require two people, and it's just me and myself up here.
Any outage of the booster pump is immediately obvious. No need to monitor.
[0] Some of the mechanical designs are quite interesting. I just don't plan to climb to the top of the tank to install stuff. (using a ladder, of course)