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gavinward
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Despite the name I would not have guessed you could pick up Atlantic 252 in the US. The quality of it wasn't great for listening to music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_252

"Although the transmitter was in Ireland, the signal's reach meant that it was often looked upon as a "UK national station". Reception reports were received from such locations as Berlin, Finland, Ibiza and Moscow."
gavinward
·8 mesi fa·discuss
The endgame is getting corporate customers hooked on cloud-hosted subscription-model everything, then jacking the prices up.
gavinward
·8 mesi fa·discuss
The same with the AI thing Meta added to Whatsapp. After spending a while trying to search for a message whose exact wording I couldn't remember, but whose content was easily described, I thought I'd give the bot a try. Turns out it doesn't have access to my messages.

I expect MS will get there long before Meta does given they don't have the encryption issue to contend with.
gavinward
·anno scorso·discuss
I find it interesting that the Spanish consider the ñ to be a separate letter, in their 27 letter alphabet.
gavinward
·anno scorso·discuss
> if you didn't know better

It's funny how The New Yorker clings to this given its readership is mostly people who absolutely do know better.
gavinward
·anno scorso·discuss
The author, if I remember correctly from twitter, was a thorn in the side of the people who developed this system for quite some time. Given his profession I expect he made sure he was on the right side of the law before publishing this.
gavinward
·anno scorso·discuss
Agreed. I can't think of another area where AI could amplify the effect of my existing level of knowledge as it does with coding. It's far exceeding my expectations.
gavinward
·anno scorso·discuss
It must be heartening for a startup trying to build the best general search engine in the world to know that Google has absolutely no interest in competing with you.
gavinward
·anno scorso·discuss
I asked it to phrase something in early modern English and then asked it a few unrelated questions without closing the window and it kept up the bit (doth this answer please thee?) and I felt obliged to keep laughing at it just like I would with an actual person.

I do find myself praising it as effusively as I would a human doing my bidding, and being slightly apologetic about asking for revisions.

No point in learning an entire new way of talking.