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Eleven v3 1 year ago

ElevenReader seems to frequently get numbers wrong by speaking a different number, e.g. a year. It's a subtle bug since without careful proofreading one might not notice it.

Ah, that's one of those websites that accept a password of any length without error, truncate it, and show you a "wrong password" the next time you try to log in. Then you go through password reset roulette until you find a short enough password that works. Don't do this.

Sounds like Elon's "fourth attempt [..] to reframe his claims" might actually be close to the target.

Otherwise, why would they engage in a publicity battle to sway public sentiment precisely now, if their legal case wasn't weak?

Nice project. It's useful for listening to a specific speaker, allowing to skip other speakers who don't add useful information. It enables listening to podcasts even with annoying interviewers. Would be great if this were built in the major podcast listening applications.

The New Internet 2 years ago

can’t have random employees circumventing security policies by setting up tailscale and leaving permanent backdoors in my corporate network

Tailscale isn't exactly an open door. Only machines signed-in via SSO can access a Tailscale network.

If you don't trust your employees to safeguard their credentials and machines then how do you trust them at all? Keep them in an airtight underground bunker chained to their desks? Not sure what threat you're modeling for...

The New Internet 2 years ago

As a buyer you also don't pay VAT to the government. You pay the seller a price that's marked up exactly by VAT, which the seller then pays to the government.

In summary, if you don't pay it directly doesn't mean you don't pay it indirectly.

In such an economic system, the need for automation would be obvious and once implemented, all people would receive the benefits of automation. This would include such a wide allowance for leisure and free time that authors would no longer need to restrict access to their books to extract profits from their value their shared knowledge creates. All people would be free to do what they will.

Oh, hello there, dear communism. Same dream, same problems. No, this time around you don’t work either.

GPT-4o 2 years ago

Funnily, I’d prefer HAL’s unemotional monotone over GPT’s woke hyperbola any second.

Great idea to treat of personal finances like a business. Also makes a great source of data for stats.

Can you share more on the system you've come up with? In what format do you store the data? Do you store files per account, or per day, etc.? Do you have a CLI helper to quickly read, write, edit the files? Maybe you can even share a demo repo?

Who runs a company “for the greater good”?

Surely, anyone taking on and enduring the pain of running a company does so for egoistic reasons.

Your implicit assumption is that altruism exists. In the limit, every living being is egoistic. Anything you do is ultimately for egoistic reasons - even if you do it “for others” at first sight, it ultimately benefits you in some way, even only to make you feel better.

A common misconception is that “egoism is bad”. Egoism doesn’t have to be bad. If the goals align it’s a net benefit for both sides. For example, a child might seek care, while parents seek happiness. Both are egoistic, but both benefit from each other.

Do you use the voice chat in the ChatGPT app?

In my experience, stopping to talk even for a moment already makes it submit. This makes a real conversation with pauses for thought difficult, because of the need to hurry before it cuts off.

Asciinema is great! The only thing it’s lacking is full screen support for mobile. Currently, on mobile the full screen button doesn’t work. I can zoom in the page but this never really aligns well.