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yunwal commented on Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad   victorwynne.com/vision-fo... · Posted by u/curtblaha
saynay · 6 days ago
The confusing choices are deliberate way to exploit psychology of potential buyers into up-selling themselves. The idea is to entice them by the more reasonable base price, but use the uncertainty on if it will really meet their needs to push them up a ladder of upgrades.

Maybe the 16e sounds good at $599. But, it might be a bit underpowered, so maybe you should just upgrade to the 15 at $699. Then it is only $100 more to just go for the 16 (or 15 Plus), so might as well right? But maybe you want a bigger screen or twice the storage, which are both another $100. Then for another $100, you can get the nicer materials or the extra camera, etc for the 16 Pro...

This is a marketing strategy you see in a lot of the phone market, and has proven to be successful at pushing customers into the higher-margin devices.

yunwal · 6 days ago
> The confusing choices are deliberate way to exploit psychology of potential buyers into up-selling themselves.

I would argue that this is due to a lack of intention, and that the endless upgrade possibilities actually exhaust potential buyers into opting for cheaper options. I have no way to prove it, but it's quite obvious to me that part of Apple's market power is due to their historically simple and intuitive product lineup, and they were able to get away with being the most expensive, high margin products on the market. The more options they give, the more it starts to feel like a commodity product.

yunwal commented on Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way   pudding.cool/2025/08/onio... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
zeroonetwothree · 9 days ago
Standard deviation is a poor measure because you care more about avoiding big pieces than small ones. Penalizing for having a few tiny pieces doesn’t make sense.
yunwal · 9 days ago
You probably don’t even care about the “standard” deviation at all. You care about the deviation from some desired size. Probably the more accurate problem is “what is the fewest number of straight cuts I can make such that all pieces are below some target size”.
yunwal commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
galleywest200 · 11 days ago
Why not purchase the discs and copy them yourself? At least artists can get paid that way.
yunwal · 11 days ago
Most shows don't get a dvd release anymore.
yunwal commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
galleywest200 · 11 days ago
Physical media offers the first three, but not option four.

I, too, would pay per show/movie to download and save DRM-free videos to my own drives.

yunwal · 11 days ago
Physical media has arbitrary device limitations.
yunwal commented on What does Palantir actually do?   wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil
yunwal · 12 days ago
Ok so like what does Palantir actually do?

From what I understand Palantir is basically a data consulting company with a suite of data mining/visualization tools at its core. Essentially, it sends an engineer armed with these tools into the customer organization’s various disparate databases, funnels all that data to one tool, and then gives you some nice graphs or whatever.

IMO it’s mostly bullshit, which is why they make all their customers sign ndas. I’ve still never met anyone who worked with them that could tell me any significant value they brought.

yunwal commented on Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show   ingram.tech/posts/evaluat... · Posted by u/scrollaway
scrollaway · 12 days ago
By that metric, everything is gameable. Any case we'd make for it would be purely based on vibes (and our take on that would not be any more useful than the general community opinion there).
yunwal · 12 days ago
> By that metric, everything is gameable

Usually in cases like this you would use a testing set created after the model was trained.

yunwal commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults?   asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
lordnacho · 13 days ago
> I immediately become suspicious of anyone who is very certain of something

Me too, in almost every area of life. There's a reason it's called a conman: they are tricking your natural sense that confidence is connected to correctness.

But also, even when it isn't about conning you, how do people become certain of something? They ignored the evidence against whatever they are certain of.

People who actually know what they're talking about will always restrict the context and hedge their bets. Their explanation are tentative, filled with ifs and buts. They rarely say anything sweeping.

yunwal · 13 days ago
> how do people become certain of something?

They see the same pattern repeatedly until it becomes the only reasonable explanation? I’m certain about the theory of gravity because every time I drop an object it falls to the ground with a constant acceleration.

yunwal commented on The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know   deanebarker.net/tech/blog... · Posted by u/deanebarker
maxbond · 13 days ago
Protocols are normally built on top of other protocols. RSS could be the transport for "let me know." (Though my recommendation would be ActivityPub, XMPP, or email.)

Whether that is a protocol or an application running over a protocol is semantics, either interpretation is valid.

yunwal · 13 days ago
No need for a separate protocol here. You can just read an rss feed until you get a hit on your filter and then stop reading it. Same data over the wire, just a different client.
yunwal commented on The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know   deanebarker.net/tech/blog... · Posted by u/deanebarker
hoistbypetard · 13 days ago
The protocol is not being specified. Requirements for such a protocol are being proposed. Though my assumption from reading these requirements would be that the user-agent would be performing an HTTP GET request.

Whether proposing requirements for a protocol without proposing a specification is ragebait or not has more to do with the individual reading the proposal than the proposal itself; I did not find it the least bit enraging.

yunwal · 13 days ago
What requirements are being proposed here? It seems like we’ve got a requirement for a separate endpoint, but no explanation as to why it’s necessary (as opposed to just requesting the endpoint(s) you’re interested in). Then we’ve also got a response format with no proposed request format for a task that as described is impossible to specify.
yunwal commented on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable   arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919... · Posted by u/Cynddl
perching_aix · 13 days ago
Well I'll be damned, in some ways I'm glad to hear there's progress on this. The original cited trend was really concerning.
yunwal · 13 days ago
Obesity has been considered a disease since the term existed. Overweight is the term that is used for weight that’s abnormally high without necessarily indicating disease.

There’s been some confusion around this because people erroneously defined bmi limits for obesity, but it has always referred to the concept of having such a high body fat content that it’s unhealthy/dangerous

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