jrobn's comments

Combination of disinformation, “entitle-ism”, denial, and money.

Freedom of speech or the “right to say anything you want” is a myth. I’m sure you view would be different if someone started tweeting hateful things towards you that incited others to take potential harmful actions, no?

This is the problem with the internet. It is evolving into a platform for disseminating hate and careful crafted malicious fake “realities” and events.

Our society and our brains haven’t had time to evolve to it.

All good things eventual evolve into bad. Something like that.

I agree. We are seeing the weaponization of the internet like nothing before. It's becoming more dangerous than nuclear weapons at this point. When people can't come to a consensus on basic reality and are primed to respond with hate and violence when their reality is challenged.

The world is moving quickly into a darker future.

I always feel like Erlang and more generally BEAM is the language for a lot of today’s problems but will never see any kind of traction because of “worse is better”.

Hopefully Apple will go back to being a integrated hardware and software company.

It makes absolute sense to me for a future MacBook Pro to have a great AMD/Intel CPU and one of their high performance A13X chips with neural accelerators to accelerating specifics tasks to improve performance and battery life.

I'm thinking audio/video encoding in FCPX, neural AI assisted tracking, color matching, face detection, ProRes acceleration, H264/H265 acceleration.

Would make the price tag of a new MacBook pro much more palatable for FCPX/Logic X users anyway.

YouTubers already don’t make a lot of money off Adsense. The shift is already happening with companies working with individual youtubers. An integrated ad from someone you like/trust/have a relationship with is orders of magnitude more effective than a typical YouTube ad.

Expect to YouTube to try and get a piece of this pie as well when there is a “integrated” ads apocalypse when YouTube changes its terms of service.

It’s expensive to store, process, and deliver all this video.

YouTube has been making money off advertisement to kids for years. Now that is being regulated.

I layed of 7 employees (mandated closure of non-essential business) and we called them each individually over FaceTime to do it.

Maybe this virus will kill enough baby boomers to balance the social security solvency and transfer wealth up a few generations.

I’d you don’t agree with me, than what makes what I said any different than the Topic of this thread.

This event will be a good mine in refining and implementing models for pollution control and reduction.

Never have we had events as large as this to observe.

Google is easy to get rid of. It requires willpower.

1. Don’t use or get off gmail (fastmail is good but not free).

2. Limit your use of google search. If you need to try to mask your identity as best you can.

3. Don’t buy google hardware. Because you and your data are the product for google. The hardware is a Trojan horse.

Consoles are now branded PCs with DRM lock-in. Makes way more sense to buy a PC.

What’s the cost of just flinging it out into space towards the sun?

I generally think we are seeing the the sunset of a “representative” democracy in the United States.

Fake News and propaganda is unchecked and rampant. Public intelligence and understanding is at an all time low. Income inequality is at an all time high. Which leads to millions of Americans making their mind up based on emotions and not facts.

“Build a Wall” is not a logical decision.

“Abuse of power is not impeachable” is not a logical decision.

“Socialism is evil” as you collect your Social Security check and rely on Medicare is not a logical decision.

I fully expect another decade or more of racial unrest and outright politically sanctioned violence in the US as mass migrations pick up due to climate change and unrest caused by a resurgence of Nazism and “not one of us” movements.

I don’t trust google products. I will never buy anything they want to sell to me. Burden is on them.

I tore off my nest thermostats and replaced them with dumb ones. I miss the ability to change my heat remotely, but at the end of the day. I don’t need that functionality.

I have an extensive sonos setup for my business. I’ve experienced a lot of trouble with the system just cutting out, skipping tracks over and over, and connecting to Apple Music. Every couple of weeks it just totally shits the bed.

Would love speakers that could serve music off my Synology NAS reliably and without microphones in my speakers to spy on me.

With the whole google/nest fiasco I don’t want to actively try to thwart a speaker from collecting data on me and my family. It’s exhausting.

Someone needs to start a company, like, Elgato Eve, where their primary feature product is privacy focused products. They would have my money every time.

This is true of almost everything human created.

I don't see humanity doing anything but descending into self-destruction. I'm sure tax-haven offshore city states will prove once again that humans, taken as a whole, are craven ruthless creatures. It's the reason we are the dominate species on this planet.

LOL, this is exactly the problem. You shouldn’t have to download a third party launcher, desktop, app screen to use the device efficiently.

I think iOS and Android are both shit shows. I pick up an android device and it’s a pain in the ass to figure out. That’s terrible design.

iOS seems to break their own rules and hide more and more in the name of minimalism. It’s asinine. 3D Touch was moronic. More than three gestures is moronic. Context sensitive swipes off the screen are moronic.

All of this became abundantly clear seeing my 77 year old grandma, who used a old android phone for years, have so many WTF moments on iOS 13. It’s not clear what is a button. She accidentally gestures and thinks her phone is busted.

This is a symptom of OO languages. You don’t nearly get as much word soup in good functional languages.

People really diss Erlang for its syntax but I find it to be extremely readable and understandable in most cases because pattern matching is a first class citizen in the language. Humans are excellent at recognizing patterns.

Same goes for the ML family.

It's also this quasi-metric for "professional quality" so first timers tend to spend the money to acquire these fast lenses in hopes it will suddenly make them a quality photographer.