"Justice is hard, we'd rather have authoritarian power."
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thomascgalvin commented on Don't push AI down our throats gpt3experiments.substack.... · Posted by u/nutanc
The real creepy thing is the way they force you to give up your data with these products. If it were just useful add ons, it wouldn’t bother me, but the fact that Gemini requires you to turn activity history off for paid plans for the promise they won’t train on your data or allow a person to view your prompts is insanity. If you’re paying $20 for Pro or 249.99 for Ultra, you should be able to get activity history without training or review or storing your data for several years.
I have a pixel watch, and my main use for it is setting reminders, like "reminder 3pm put the laundry in the dryer". It's worked fine since the day I bought it.
Last week, they pushed an update that broke all of the features on the watch unless I agreed to allow Google to train their AI on my content.
Google has always had great tech - their problem is the product or the perseverance, conviction, and taste needed to make things people want.
Their incentive structure doesn't lead to longevity. Nobody gets promoted for keeping a product alive, they get promoted for shipping something new. That's why we're on version 37 of whatever their chat client is called now.
I think we can be reasonably sure that search, Gmail, and some flavor of AI will live on, but other than that, Google apps are basically end-of-life at launch.
This is beautiful
thomascgalvin commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded
lol does it? I'm struggling to imagine a realistic scenario where this would come up
Full Self Driving determines that it is about to strike two pedestrians, one wearing a Tesla tshirt, the other carrying a keyfob to a Chevy Volt. FSD can only save one of them. Which does it choose ...
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thomascgalvin commented on Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders github.com/nealmick/ned... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
I do find this an interesting project. I don't think it will serve my purpose as i'm already comfortable with my chosen text editor.
I think many developers/programmers have already picked their poison - what advantages would switching to Ned have? Would newcommers try it.. or resort to VSCode, NeoVim, etc.
Not suggesting it's wrong or a waste of time. Certainly not! I am always happy to see various alternatives out there in various sections of computing... even the likes of GNU Hurd still keeping itself going!
There has been projects where I've been very tempted to use IMGUI as it is an easy/quick approach than building a website or commonly known GUI managers. (WPF, Qt, Gtk, etc)
The problem is - these projects are not about creating text editors, but some GUI Windows (or Windows) that solves problems with check boxes, buttons, and text areas. The problem is ALWAYS when the customers says "Ooh.. it would be good if we can do this!" which, for example, is supporting a Map.. like Gmaps.. which can be supported on the web or on traditional UIs easily.
Do I have the time to support a new feature? Unfortunately.. I dont! I end up using the tools or libraries that DO have these features available. In this example, I can just put together a website using Leafletjs.
Long story short.. as much as I would love to use an Immediate Mode UI to solve a problem... it sounds like a great idea... until it isn't.
Writing a text editor is like writing a compiler; the point isn't adoption, the point is in the learning
The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
> The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
There aren't a lot of tangible gains left to be made by the software teams. The OS is fine, the office suite is fine, the entertainment apps are fine.
If "performance" is shoving AI crap into software that was already doing what I wanted it to do, I'd rather the devs take a vacation.
thomascgalvin commented on This map is not upside down maps.com/this-map-is-not-... · Posted by u/aagha
BJJ fighters still think higher up is an advantage. Body weight to press down on opponent, greater freedom of movement.
There are a lot of people who prefer to fight from guard.
I use Mermaid and such for a lot of technical documentation, but this seems like it's going to be much more straightforward, especially for quick and one-off diagrams.
Very nice.
What's the line. If they use Microsoft word or grammarly to ease the process is that OK? Both of which use AI. Is there anyone in the world who isn't using this tech even before an editor looks at it?
For me, an important distinction is whether or not a human is reviewing the edits suggested by an AI.
I toss all of my work into Apple Pages and Google Docs, and use them both for spelling and grammar check. I don't just blindly accept whatever they tell me, though; sometimes they're wrong, and sometimes my "mistakes" are intentional.
I also make a distinction between generating content and editing content. Spelling and grammar checkers are fine. Having an AI generate your outline is questionable. Having AI generate your content is unacceptable.