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wildrhythms commented on The attr() function in CSS now supports types   amitmerchant.com/attr-fun... · Posted by u/speckx
account42 · 3 days ago
I can't wait for someone to make a CSS style sheet that lets you specify all properties through HTML attributes as if CSS was never invented and we were still using good old <font size=2> just with all the styling additions since then.
wildrhythms · 3 days ago
We have that, it's called Tailwind and it's wonderful
wildrhythms commented on Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests   theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/robaato
oldpersonintx2 · 3 months ago
your grandparents probably read for entertainment instead of tiktok

your grandparents were more physically active - brain and body are connected

your grandparents didn't eat ultra processed food because it hadn't been invented yet...once again, brain and body are connected

wildrhythms · 3 months ago
>your grandparents probably read for entertainment instead of tiktok

This is a reach... Have you met old people? They vegetate in front of the TV channel surfing- their version of TikTok- never questioning the content or researching topics further on their own. And after 40 years of this activity still don't know how to operate the remote.

wildrhythms commented on Here's how to get ChatGPT to stop being an overly flattering yes man   old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/... · Posted by u/miles
motorest · 4 months ago
I'm seeing so many complains that 4o became a yes man, but I wonder if anyone ever used Gemini. What an egregiously sycophant persona. Users are blasted with infantile positive reinforcements just by posting a damn prompt.
wildrhythms · 4 months ago
It's customer service speak
wildrhythms commented on Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails   apnews.com/article/pacifi... · Posted by u/geox
wildrhythms · 5 months ago
Where are the Marxists?
wildrhythms commented on Jeff Geerling won't connect his dishwasher to your stupid cloud [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=5M_hm... · Posted by u/nikodunk
wildrhythms · 5 months ago
What scares me is if these appliances will connect to any open network in order to phone home without the user's consent.
wildrhythms commented on Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs   eugeneyan.com/writing/rec... · Posted by u/7d7n
whatever1 · 5 months ago
Why we don’t have an LLM based search tool for our pc / smartphones?

Specially for the smartphones all of your data is on the cloud anyway, instead of just scraping it for advertising and the FBI they could also do something useful for the user?

wildrhythms · 5 months ago
Pixels already have the Screenshots app that indexes screenshots and makes them searchable. My assumption is the context window size is still too small for all of your data to go into it.
wildrhythms commented on Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs   eugeneyan.com/writing/rec... · Posted by u/7d7n
x1xx · 5 months ago
> Spotify saw a 9% increase in exploratory intent queries, a 30% rise in maximum query length per user, and a 10% increase in average query length—this suggests the query recommendation updates helped users express more complex intents

To me it's not clear that it should be interpreted as an improvement: what I read in this summary is that users had to search more and to enter longer queries to get to what they needed.

wildrhythms · 5 months ago
No you don't understand, more queries = more engagement!
wildrhythms commented on The iPad's "Sweet Solution"   macstories.net/stories/th... · Posted by u/trw55
pjmlp · 5 months ago
We are already experiencing this for years on Windows, that is why its current development experience turned into a mess.

New generation of employees, without any Windows development culture, or even experience, as from the blank stares when asked about stuff that has been on Windows for decades during community calls, and Webview2 being pushed all over the place on the OS.

wildrhythms commented on Xbox pushes ahead with new generative AI   wired.com/story/xbox-muse... · Posted by u/01-_-
ndiddy · 6 months ago
From the Xbox press release (https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empoweri...):

> Today, countless classic games tied to aging hardware are no longer playable by most people. Thanks to this breakthrough, we are exploring the potential for Muse to take older back catalog games from our studios and optimize them for any device. We believe this could radically change how we preserve and experience classic games in the future and make them accessible to more players.

> To imagine that beloved games lost to time and hardware advancement could one day be played on any screen with Xbox is an exciting possibility for us.

To me this shows that they're just bullshitting to pump the stock price. There's no way that using generative AI to port nontrivial games based on gameplay videos and recorded inputs would produce anything more than maybe a tech demo at best. You wouldn't get anywhere near the accuracy of emulation or a direct source port, but saying "we're hiring emulation experts to improve our backwards compatibility" doesn't juice the stock like "we're using generative AI to preserve games" does.

wildrhythms · 6 months ago
Tl;Dr a hammer looking for a nail.
wildrhythms commented on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users   nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/Leary
BrenBarn · 7 months ago
It's odd to me that people seem to be mostly viewing this as a free speech/democracy issue. To me it's more like if newspapers were printed with toxic ink or something. The negatives of TikTok have nothing to do with the speech expressed by the "creators" on the platform, but rather with the overall harmful effects of the algorithmic firehose.

It's true that this means all similar US-based things should be banned as well, but banning them isn't a matter of suppressing the speech and letting TikTok continue isn't a victory for free speech. It's just a victory for a gross sort of psychological pollution.

wildrhythms · 7 months ago
>the overall harmful effects of the algorithmic firehose

What material effects are those?

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