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xutopia

4,547 karmajoined il y a 19 ans
Programmer and manager, father, amateur cook and volleyball player.

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xutopia
·il y a 12 heures·discuss
I have a really good friend who used Starlink for his cottage in Canada and as soon as there was broadband he switched away. Starlink was unreliable and slow compared to what he has now.

In my country today the people who use it the most are in northern cities that don't even have roads going to them.
xutopia
·hier·discuss
Their web site has a missing image.
xutopia
·avant-hier·discuss
I'm convinced that the internet is mostly dead at this point. Sites like reddit or this one don't ask people for their identity. Nothing on here could be real and we'd be none the wiser.
xutopia
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
I live in Quebec and this is the first time I hear about it.
xutopia
·il y a 5 jours·discuss
I once zipped at 300km/hr (186mph) in the countryside while drinking wine. When I was at my destination I stepped out and walked a really short distance to get a meal in a square. Everyone in the destination city had everything they needed at walking distance.

People in North America don't realize how freeing it is not to have to own a car to do things but without adequate transportation they only see the inconvenience of not having one.
xutopia
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
Why?
xutopia
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
Wait... what's gaming like? Can you describe it for someone who only ever could play Unreal Tournament back in the day on Linux?

What games are available? Do you use emulators or stuff like Wine?
xutopia
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
What doesn't inflation consider though? Government numbers on inflation make no sense to average folks.
xutopia
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
Just because vitamin D supplements helps with rickets doesn't mean supplementation helps all the other things we seem to attribute to vitamin D.

I think a good hypothesis for the discrepancy regarding why people with "naturally" high levels of vitamin D fare better than those who do not has to do with how vitamin D is produced naturally.

If you take the vitamin orally it might help for rickets and a few other issues but if you take it naturally via sunlight you might actually be having other benefits that aren't properly measured today.

With the current state of fear surrounding sunlight I doubt people are getting enough to see benefits and all studies use oral supplements instead of time in sunshine.
xutopia
·le mois dernier·discuss
An IPO can be a very volatile moment for any stock. This isn’t about AI so much as it is about an unproven company h th at is actually losing money right now.
xutopia
·le mois dernier·discuss
You’ll work with Ruby but the rails part is barely relevant at Shopify.
xutopia
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Heat training does much of what EPO used to do. It's amazing how much science has caught up in this field.
xutopia
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
With AGI we expect a huge return on investment and a GDP growth that could be accelerating at a rate we couldn't even comprehend. Imagine an algorithm that improves itself each iteration and finds ways to increase its capacity every day. Robots suddenly capable of doing dishes, grocery shopping, picking produce from the field. Imagine all your ailments handled... age becomes just a number.

Also with AGI we expect a winner take all situation. The first AGI system would protect itself against any other AGI system. Hence why it's go time for all these AI companies and why they stopped sharing their research.
xutopia
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
How do you use this? Do you use opencode or another frontend?
xutopia
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
2 reasons I can see.

Kia have way smaller and cheaper cars with less security features to market. Tesla had front page news at some point saying how they were the safest car ever produced.

Tesla is giving people driving their cars a false sense of security.
xutopia
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Well the notifications on your web site doesn't provide the full idea of how limited it is in Safari. We have to ask users to install the shortcut before allowing notifications with Safari. Guess how many users actually go through with installing the shortcut? Nearly none.

If we had to ask users to go into their settings and switch the "enable notifications" flag we wouldn't call that supporting anything. The whole process of installing a shortcut to even get to the point where we can ask for notifications is even more convoluted on iOS.
xutopia
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
OMG my app just got rejected because I didn't have the right screenshots to their liking... an app specifically made to remember stuff like this LOL the irony!
xutopia
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
For those wondering why this is a big deal it means that every developers attempting to run a development version of an iPhone, iPad or MacOS app cannot run their apps right now.

This is worse than Github being down and Apple Developers who pay 99$ a year for the privilege of writing software on this ecosystem aren't event getting a status page update: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
xutopia
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Can we see this for Apple please?
xutopia
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I’m under the same impression. I don’t think LLMs are the path to AGI. The “intelligence” we see is mostly illusory. It’s statistical repetition of the mediocre minds who wrote content online.

The intelligence we think we recognize is simply an electronic parrot finding the right words in its model to make itself useful.