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oasisbob

2,875 カルマ登録 16 年前
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oasisbob
·7 時間前·議論
We were a provider very intimately dependent on Apple's ecosystem and had no appetite whatsoever for a fight.
oasisbob
·7 時間前·議論
It rounded down to nothing. Might have been $10 or $100 to make it real consideration.
oasisbob
·14 時間前·議論
As someone dealing with similar on a large site, I'd love to see a private community to discuss some of these issues.
oasisbob
·3 日前·議論
Elaborate enough?

Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.
oasisbob
·5 日前·議論
Can only speak to my experience here in Washington, but 40 years ago you still needed to go to the reservation for the fun stuff. Even basic small firecrackers were outlawed in my county.
oasisbob
·7 日前·議論
I wasn't speaking to morality, but copyright law, especially in the US, cares about the fixing of a creative act in a specific medium.

Like a monkey at a camera, the automated output from an LLM does not automatically afford protection.
oasisbob
·7 日前·議論
I don't think that's true at all. Capnography, the measure of carbon dioxide partial pressure is wholly separate from pulseox:

> Pulse oximeters have some limitations. They can only employ light at two wavelengths. Thus the devices can only distinguish between hemoglobin and oxygenated hemoglobin. When carboxyhemoglobin and methemoglobin are also present, there are two additional wavelengths required for differentiation. In the presence of elevated carboxyhemoglobin levels, pulse oximetry overestimates the true saturation of oxygen as carboxyhemoglobin binds with a higher affinity than oxygen. In the case of carbon monoxide poisoning, the absorbance spectrum of carbon monoxide is very similar to hemoglobin, which results in a falsely high level of oxygen (overestimation of oxygen saturation) ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539754/
oasisbob
·7 日前·議論
There needs to be a meter for the amount of AI writing in blogposts. Same physics, same climb, same afternoon fog.
oasisbob
·12 日前·議論
Yeah, this article is pretty sloppy. No effort. No research. Just raw plagiarism and AI tropes.
oasisbob
·12 日前·議論
How much instruction do you need though?

What if I prompt Claude to go prompt Suno? What if the same chain happens internally at Suno? Easy to imagine the human input being very dilute and a small part overall.
oasisbob
·12 日前·議論
> We will therefore not knowingly attribute royalties to music we identify as wholly AI-generated.

Seems like Tidal is leaning on a probable lack of copyright for fully generated works here, otherwise wouldn't this run head-first into the music modernization act?
oasisbob
·19 日前·議論
How is this sarcasm? I had almost the exact same thought in earnest: A gas turbine company being called Solar Turbines is quite interesting and unexpected if you're not familiar with that particular corporate history.
oasisbob
·19 日前·議論
Magneto Optical discs were also somewhat popular in this era.
oasisbob
·20 日前·議論
Discussing style is only scratching the surface on classical rhetoric.

An LLM will rarely be able to move the needle on ethos or pathos beyond generating well-formed sentences with proper spelling.
oasisbob
·21 日前·議論
As Alex Shigo likes to point out, it's too easy to try and explain infrastructure damage in terms of trees, while giving expansive soils a free pass.

That's like explaining frost-jacking of a wall in terms of temperature instead of hydrology.
oasisbob
·23 日前·議論
The iOS app "Is it snappy?" Is great for things like this.
oasisbob
·24 日前·議論
If a PE vulture keeps a company with marginal profitability alive, there is absolutely no way they're devoting any kind type of human capital to proper maintenance.

It's likely running on the original infrastructure from acquisition, is full of EOL dependencies, and likely wasn't well-secured to begin with even before the takeover.

Any changes to regulatory requirements are also likely ignored. The EULA is probably full of all sorts of falsehoods about how they maintain the site. ("We use commercially standard methods to secure and blah blah blah ...")

Keeping these kinds of zombie sites online is not a win-win situation.
oasisbob
·26 日前·議論
Lock-out vacations were one of my favorite things about being at a bank. Auditors cared about the ability for employees to keep a thumb on the scale, so it was a policy requirement that all workers with a certain amount of access needed to take an uninterrupted vacation of N days, with login ability disabled.

Fantastic tool for shaking out hidden bus factors.
oasisbob
·26 日前·議論
Been wondering the same. GCP recently increased their egress pricing, and was expecting AWS to follow.

So far, haven't seen any other notable cloud price increases. Thought for sure they'd be reevaluating by now, I'm surprised to see the stability.
oasisbob
·先月·議論
I think the post you're replying to was commenting on "web dev is a culture shock in so many ways", not the concept of cooldowns overall.