erwan

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erwan ,

Luckily not even the Cybertruck is immune to those

erwan ,

My car (Citroën) has a contact less key, I don't have to get it out of my pocket and the car automatically opens.

But it still includes a small physical key to open the car when the battery (of the car or key) is dead.

erwan ,

GOOG-411 was created specifically for Google to gather voice samples, with different ages, accents, etc. to train voice recognition. It was never for the sake of providing a service.

erwan ,

In France if you have a parking spot, you have a legal right to get a plug there even if you're renting.

It doesn't fix the problem for people with no parking who do only street parking, but people who can't afford a parking spot rarely buy a shiny new EV to start with.

erwan ,

In France installing a charger in appartement building is mandatory if the resident asks for it, even if they're renting.

erwan ,

Also when Mac went from PPC to x86

erwan ,

Just buy one if you need. I don't understand people who prefer forced bundles over deciding what to buy.

Unless you think an included charger is free. It's not, it's factored in the price.

erwan ,

It's probably replacing garbage written by humans that nobody was reading either.

So in this case, garbage content that nobody reads, AI is probably a good idea.

erwan ,

This is only useful if you're not using your own cable. Otherwise you can simply use a "power only" cable.

erwan ,

I thought the Apple network and the new Android network work together? Meaning it just work just as well as an apple tag

erwan ,

If she's been flagged as shoplifter she's probably black!

erwan ,

And it was overpriced. I can see people buying a useless toy for 50 bucks, but not for $700.

erwan ,

10 years ago it was "how do we convince Google to buy this company?"

iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called "Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers" (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

erwan ,

Yes that part is clear, but the question is about the collateral damage on legitimate usage.

erwan ,

In some languages (like French) "I wonder" is said like "I ask myself". So I think it's a translation mistake.

erwan ,

Especially coming from Google, who was one of the good guys pushing open standards and interoperability.

erwan ,

There is also the issue of determining if a given image is real or AI. If AI were legal, that means prosecution would need to prove images are real and not AI with the risk of letting go real offenders.

The need to ban AI CSAM is even clearer than cartoon CSAM.

erwan ,

Crypto means cryptography, stop using it to talk about cryptocurrency.

erwan ,

Crypto currencies doesn't mean "hidden currency", it means currency based on cryptography.

erwan ,

IANAL but probably not

erwan ,

They want us to believe it was by accident but I'm pretty sure it wasn't.

erwan ,

They asked her already and she refused.

erwan ,

It worked because the web was much smaller.

erwan ,

That's typical clickbait: give a vague title to make people click.

erwan ,

It's weird that backups got deleted immediately. I would imagine they get marked for deletion but really deleted something like a month later to prevent this kind of issue.

erwan ,

OK, generative AI isn't machine learning.

But to get back to what AI is, the definition has been moving forever as AI becomes "just software" when it becomes ubiquitous. People were shocked that machines could calculate, then that they can play chess better than humans, then that they can read handwriting...

The first mistake have been to invent the term to start with, as it implies thinking machine but they're not.

Or as Dijkstra puts it: "asking whether a machine can think is as dumb as asking if a submarine can swim".

erwan ,

We kinda started already, Mars is inhabited by robots already.

erwan ,

Trains suck if you don't have frequency, and because of the population density with a good frequency more than half of the trains will be completely empty and the rest almost empty.

erwan ,

OK, it's 2pm. With this system, you call a pod and ride it. With a rural train, you check the schedule and see that the next train is at 5pm. And you have to plan your trip back as well. Great, time to take your car.

And you might say "let's have trains run at least once per hour then". That means running empty trains all day, not sure it's the best way to spend public money.

erwan ,

Obviously if the pods take 2h to arrive it's not worth it

erwan ,

The population in rural areas is so low that no matter how you induce demand, it won't work.

erwan ,

Yes, I mean how many companies get their brand turned into a verb?

erwan ,

Let's call people who grow up with X the "X gen".

erwan ,

Just because it's not a completely new concept doesn't mean it's stupid.

It can bring value even if it's a small iterative innovation over existing buses.

erwan ,

It might not be fake but companies built on top of the OpenAI API don't bring significant value and won't last.

If you already have a solid product and want to add some AI capabilities, the the OpenAI API is great. If it's your only value proposition, not so much.

erwan ,

It started this way tho, people renting a room or a couch in their home. Pretty quickly it became either full units or rooms in a share appartement with other AirBnB guests.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air ( 9to5mac.com )

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

erwan ,

The performances is not inherent to ARM, x86 can definitely catch up to this.

erwan ,

That's the crux of the problem: they'll make it so you can't (as for any other celebrity) but there is a high risk that the safeguards can be circumvented.

erwan ,

Sounds just like the Rick and Morty episode "Night Family".

Went great for them!

erwan ,

To be fair when Google solved SEO spam in 1999, thanks to pagerank, it was no small feat. The others were bad not because they abused ads but because they didn't know how to deal with cheating webmasters.

erwan ,

Pagerank worked first, but SEO adapted since with link farming.

erwan ,

There are much better devices to tinker with.

erwan ,

I've seen cases where it takes some time to the group of people in the elevator to figure out the obstruction. Because it won't even touch the object, just reopen again and again.

So no, elevators don't do that, and I assume the parent comment is sarcastic.

erwan ,

Working outside sounds great when you're working indoor all the time. And at first it will be refreshing.

However after a few years (months?) of working outside, in the cold, the rain, the heat, you'll envy the office workers and their perfect temperature open space with a nearby coffee corner.

erwan ,

In IT sometimes you open an old project and wonder who the fuck wrote this shit.

As a contractor you tear down a wall and discover the house wasn't built as you expected, and wonder who the fuck built it this way.

erwan ,

Reading the article, it's not the content that caused the ban but sharing it to too many people (her beta readers) she was seen as a spammer.

erwan ,

The discount cycle is on purpose. First you bank with the impatient whales who will buy not even the full version at $70 but the deluxe version with useless cosmetics at $100+.

Then after some times has passed, you do a sale at $45 so people who are willing to pay just this price buy it.

Then lower again, and again until all potential customers have bought the game at the maximum they're willing to.

erwan ,

That's precisely because they made a business around it that they got attacked.

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