jackothy

I think you know that this service is impossible to provide for free, and that the quality to cost ratio of Mullvad's service is highly competitive.

You can just input your $X per month/week/whatever yourself as API credits

Exactly, that's what I wanted to know. No other way to find out than to test, though. Don't know how easy it would be to wire it up.

Does it make sense to create a Wasm build of this for the browser? Or is the speedup mainly due to the browser spawning step rather than execution/rendering itself?

All AI features are purely work saving

Performance is an excellent proxy for transistor count. Somebody else replied with the actual transistor counts, which had basically equal scaling.

What is that, 6 years for less than a doubling? Nothing against the Apple chips themselves, but gone are the days of Moore...

The problem is they don't "let the developers do the work themselves"

If only the platform was open enough that developers had real access, Apple might get away with like you say not providing first party support for gaming.

I also find it a bit extreme how many people feel the need to add some sort of disclaimer every time they say something nice about the guy who died:

- "I strongly disagree with Charlie Kirk, but [...] Condolences to his wife and small kids"

- "I have scant philosophical agreement, but..."

- "While I'm not a fan..."

Says something about the level of polarization that people are so afraid of accidentally being mistaken for a supporter, even in these circumstances. He was not a particularly niche character, his views are probably similar to a decently sized share of the American population. The American people are struggling so hard to find any kind of unity.

It's just that a lot of people argue badly, either because of lacking skill or lacking goodwill.

That doesn't mean their arguments are necessarily wrong. It is necessary to try to reframe such badly made arguments in a way that presents the message properly in order to be able to actually compare competing ideas and find truth.

If you compare one well-crafted argument to a poorly crafted argument, the well-crafted argument would seem to come out on top even if its underlying ideas were actually wrong.

E.g. if I say "Apples are good because my grandma loved apples and you are stupid!"

And my opponent says "Apples are bad because there are other fruits that can be grown much more efficiently and feed people better"

Then my opponent would probably "win" the argument. But that doesn't mean apples are actually bad. Try to remake the argument for why apples are good in a better way, in order to fairly compare the two sides and find the truth.

I want a version of this where the camera is flush with the surface of the phone. I understand and accept that this means the camera will be worse.

Clearly the logical threshold is when a single private corporation becomes the gatekeeper to your life. The internet itself is decentralized so that's fine. Mobile phones as a concept is also fine.

The "use a website instead" angle should work for the majority of things people spend phone time on. For the few things that could not be a PWA, some extra effort is needed.

The problem is larger than just smart phones. Smart phones are the templates for all future devices. You car now runs Android as well.

In the future, when your whole house is controlled by a computer, do you want that computer to be controlled by Google or to be controlled by yourself?

Society is held back so much when the most capable have to live by rules made for the least capable.

Give the knowledgeable the freedom to use their skills. Separately, develop ways to help/protect specifically those that need it.

I have come to the conclusion that both Android and iOS, along with the banking systems, are all doomed platforms.

Even something like GrapheneOS, in theory the best path to security and privacy and liberty, was falling way short even before this latest announcement from Google.

The problem lies partially in the app ecosystems, which embrace spyware and exploiting users (requiring all the worst Google APIs), and partially in governments, which will leverage any centralized organization like Google to gain control (EU chat control etc.).

The solution cannot be just a custom OS or an OS fork. In fact, ecosystem compatibility is toxic and slows down growth of real alternatives. There needs to be some wholly independent and decentralized offering.

The challenge is hardware compatibility and core services like digital IDs. Most apps should be solved by using a website instead.

These issues are especially important because the future is increasingly digital. Smart phones, smart glasses, smart watches, VR glasses, smart homes, and even brain implants. I don't want to live in a future where I'm either left behind or my whole life is controlled by Google/Apple/the government/etc.

This answer always comes up but then how do you explain the other 4 Nordic countries?

The usual one is "NGMI" (Not Gonna Make It)

But you just have to assume based on context here that he intends to say "Aren't Gonna Make It"

The Instagram app surfaces Threads posts and automatically redirects you to the Threads app if you click. Threads web visitors is very low compared to rivals, it's mostly this Instagram clickbait tactic driving the numbers for the mobile app.

I have never heard of Grok using actual slurs. Controversial reaponses from the custom tuned Twitter bot, sure. But never as far as a slur.

Wish they had said something about open sourcing their SDK.

They mentioned Leptos as an inspiration but this is clearly very different and has a lot of interesting features.

Because it's hard to fully comprehend or feel complete certainty of what is going to happen.

It seems like you're saying that if we can't guarantee success then there is no point even trying.

If their assessment of the eventual significance of AI is correct like you say, then what would be your suggested course of action to minimize risk of harm?

"how someone so smart can be so naive"

Do you really think Ilya has not thought deeply about each and every one of your points here? There's plenty of answers to your criticisms if you look around instead of attacking.

Yes exactly that's why I went back right away to edit - if the whole screen is white but one pixel is off and you can spot it, then my logic holds.

Do you have some more recent examples?

I grew up in Norway. The way I see it is that weekends are for spoiling yourself with the most delicious food. Another common tradition would be making pizza on weekends. Taco Friday is seen as a special weekend treat.

I know taco and pizza aren't really that special or fancy meals, but I guess they turned out that way in Norway since they came from abroad. They're still not seen as "fancy", but they are many people's favorite tastiest food.

Had one happen to me recently where I was scrolling Spotify, and they do the thing where if you try to scroll past max they will stretch the content.

One of the album covers being stretched had some kind of fine pattern on it that caused a clearly visible shifting/flashing Moiré pattern as it was being stretched.

Wish I could remember what album cover it was now.

Though really it's simple enough: As long as you can still spot a single dark pixel in the middle of an illuminated white screen, the pixels could benefit from being smaller. (Edit: swapped black and white)

It's not so impossible to spot flaws if you're using worst-case testing scenarios. Which are not worthless because such patterns do actually pop up in real world usage, albeit rarely.

Makes perfect sense, thank you!

I haven't seen any historical maps of the road so I no longer have any reason to believe it stems from that. I was just going based on that (flawed) logic.