shawnc's comments

shawnc | 11 months ago | on: Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?

Yes, thank you for saying so. I agree. And that's what should be being discussed everywhere.

shawnc | 11 months ago | on: Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?

Yes, this. I was about to post my own comment and will instead reply and upvote yours.

This strikes me as setting the conversation to be whether it's 'secure', and can then everyone can discuss that part - instead of the fact that's not where or how that conversation should have been happening at all.

shawnc | 1 year ago | on: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

Can I just say, the comments that have happened here before mine, have been stellar. Wow. And also, it's so weird to have some nostalgia for all of this now...

shawnc | 1 year ago | on: Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize

Thank you! I too have aphantasia and I really appreciate this comment :)

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages

Ditto. Exactly what I pictured from the title and I was already thinking how interesting that would be. I’m curious to try something like it now.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

Wasn't the CEO of Disney on stage when the Vision Pro was introduced/announced? From an IP standpoint having Disney on stage over Netflix seems like the better choice...

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Dissolves: The out-of-fashion film trick that makes 'The Holdovers' so affecting

Thanks for the link!

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Dissolves: The out-of-fashion film trick that makes 'The Holdovers' so affecting

No subscription yet so I haven’t read the article. The dissolves were excellent in this film tho. But overall the slower pace and time with little moments is what made it so good for me - to stop and have time for a slow (but so so good) film like this is what was perfect.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Beeper Mini is back

Really shows to me why so many developers end up focusing so much more on the iOS versions of their apps. I would have expected the same.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?

I work with a lot of 4K elements and video in Apple Motion, After Effects, and other applications. The better the chip the faster things go, especially previews and encoding. Every second ends up counting.

I can see why others like me may upgrade. But I’m not going to bother just yet.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

I don't recall which interviews I saw it stated in, but I believe Sam said in one or two of his world tour stops, where he stated they deliberately have gone with a technical name instead of a human name to help remind those using it that it's not a person. So I think that coupled with the mindshare (as others have stated) it already holds, makes a lot of sense to stick with it.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin

There's SO MUCH MORE TO DO at home or with close friends, coupled with everything else already said in the other comments, that it just doesn't meet the threshold of enjoyment or need it once felt like it did.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Fandom can't decide if leaked songs are real or AI-generated

Great point. It's fascinating that the trend of the pop music industry has been towards more and more electronic control over vocals and instruments and everything else for a very long time... and now that AI can basically replicate it, and with all the auto-tune that we got used to, we can barely tell if it's 'real' or AI-generated.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Lie still in bed

Thanks, this convinced me to give this a try!

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac

Been using it for a couple months, and Jordi keeps improving on it at a steady clip. It's great!!

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

Since we have no eyes into the Custom Instructions - and while i personally haven't tested WHEN it takes these custom instructions into account, it says this before you use them: "Your instructions will be added to new conversations going forward, and you can edit or delete them at any time."

So, is it POSSIBLE that the custom instructions editing could have caused this, and there are weird instructions being changed between chats?

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

Fair enough - the sentence in question was indeed 'What's Happening?'

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

My 14yr old daughter sent me this screenshot the other day with the comment "I think that one sentence sums up twitter pretty well".

https://capture.dropbox.com/GqgTAxRimqAXzrdo

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking

I haven't used Notion, but in my research its AI feature is only the Smart Write/Edit that Mem has - tho I am unsure how well it uses the rest of the content you have inside of Notion, as their sales page doesn't really make that clear.

Mem.ai has integrated many aspects into it - I love that I am now unconcerned about tags or folders or categories.

shawnc | 2 years ago | on: Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking

This looks great! I was about to start learning and diving into Obsidian about a month ago, finally driven to begin building a personal knowledgebase...

And then I found Mem.ai and dove into that instead, and i've been extremely happy with it. It accomplishes this aspect he's offering here (where it uses your knowledgebase to assist in your writing). However, it's also got built in chat with your knowledgebase, and helps with auto-sorting and all of that.

For those that want their data on their computer, I totally see why Obsidian is the most desirable. So this sort of addition would be the best of both worlds for them.