In all seriousness, this is very interesting, if only because the methods are easy to control and reproduce.
That said, I'd really like to see comparisons against a more typical warmup routine. I'm not sure the tendon vibration is doing anything more than simulating a warmup. Even that on its own is interesting, just because it opens the door for more targeted experimentation.
Yeah, I meant for AI stuff specifically. Their main products are...well I wouldn't say "good" but they successfully choked out all competition in the 90s so...
Microsoft has nothing worth using. Microsoft hasn't made anything that's even worth talking about. Anyone with an OpenAI key and an afternoon to kill could make something every bit as good as what Microsoft has done. They put the absolute bare minimum of effort into everything they've done with AI.
The only advantage they have is customer lock-in. Historically, that's usually enough for them. I hope it's not this time.
Eventually Microsoft will probably buy a company with people who know what the fuck they're doing. I think that's their only way forward because it looks like the brain drain has finally caught up with them.
Binary Eye
It's a QR/barcode/etc. reader. Very simple, and after trying like a dozen different QR readers I've found it to be the most reliable.
I know that a lot of brands' built-in camera apps can read QR codes nowadays, but I find a dedicated app faster than the all-purpose camera apps I've used, and if you use open-source camera apps like AOSP's or OpenCamera, then you won't have that feature built in anyway.
The problem is that they are naively inverting the colors, which doesn't work for photos. Lazy, yeah.
In principle I think it makes sense (as much sense as the feature in general, anyway). Personally I do not understand the push in iOS and Android to make all icons look the same, but if that's what you want, then excluding shortcuts would be an eyesore, right?
UN-confirmed
In case anyone misread that, they mean the United Nations (UN) confirmed it.
Yes, it's a genocide. Genocide is bad. It's not that fucking complicated.
So cool!
TIL SVGs can have text. Selectable text! And the font is determined by the client, apparently (at least, I'm getting different fonts in two different browsers I tried).
This completely changes my view of what an SVG fundamentally is. I always thought of it as an image format but I guess it's really a...document format? Huh. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Now I wonder what kind of layout tools it has. Could you make a whole web site in SVG format? I see a new rabbit hole in my future...
Is that picture real? It looks like it should be a KenM post, talking about the very normal-looking restaurant shack instead of the prominent pile of un-binned garbage.
There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers.
"Right now" meaning every year for the past decade or two.
It's always something with Nvidia drivers. Performance+stability is more the exception than the rule.
That said, AMD drivers have a bad rep too. Personally I've had zero issues since I switched to AMD but experiences seen to vary a lot from what I've read.
Before that, I don't think I ever got through a full year without at least one weekend lost to troubleshooting Nvidia bullshit. CUDA is a pain in the ass even on Windows.
Jesus Christ what a dumb take. But at least they didn't say that millennials are killing the cell phone industry. I guess that doesn't make for good clickbait anymore.
Reminds me if the parable of the broken window, in which French economist Frédéric Bastiat explains the painfully-obvious truth that breaking windows is generally a bad thing, even though it drums up business for the glass maker.
But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."
It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way, which this accident has prevented.
Good advice but let's be real: in practice, this means having no social media profile, and even that is a half-measure.
Even if I carefully curate my friends list (most people don't), and share my photos with only my inner circle (most people won't), I have no control over what my friends do. If my cousin posts a photo he took at Thanksgiving, it's probably going to be visible to all his friends, and even friends-of-friends. That's thousands of people I've never met and there's not much I can do about it.
There are pictures of me on Facebook, and I do not use Facebook. The social cost of getting on everyone's ass about taking/posting pictures with me is too high even for a grumpy old fart like me. At least I'm not tagged (since I don't have a profile), so it's not neatly pre-sorted for potential attackers. But that's at best security through obscurity, and it isn't even very obscure. Anyone targeting me specifically would have no trouble finding pictures of me, and none of that is realistically within my control.
It's more like "beater bike security". Any bike lock can be thwarted by a dedicated thief, so the best strategy is simply to be a less attractive target than the other bikes around.
This is a systemic problem. It goes beyond individual choices and even beyond social media policies.