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Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:35PM (#47170951)
interesting! Discovered any prompting best practices while iterating with nano banana?
Re:FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:55PM (#39310853)
Have you ever had to reply 'from' a random iCloud email? Is it possible?

I faced that with Costco support. My method is custom email on personal domain name. Had to setup email alias in gmail to do so. Was a pain.

Have you looked into their privacy/data collection policies?

Generally prefer local solutions but gave up on Pi-hole some time back after recurring issues. Currently using client-specific adguard; however the centralized management with nextdns is enticing.

Re:Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:44PM (#39234080)
Nice implementation. I like it.

In addition to source/topic customization that others have already mentioned; it would be nice to be able to ask follow up questions on a news story that one would like to know more.

After installing UTM, did your Mac experience a noticeable slow down, even when no VMs are running? It was frustrating enough for me to uninstall it altogether.
How does it compare with Arq Backup (for Mac)? It's a bummer that Arq has still not added support for Azure.
One more vote. This seems to help. Thank you for the suggestion. Now I am wondering if I should also turn off "Predictive" in the settings.
Same here. Been using an iPhone since 3s. Glad (not really) to see its not only me. I tried Pixel 2(?) for sometime in between and my typing accuracy / experience was better with it.

With all the so-called AI/ML being used, shouldn't the typing get better?!

Re:Mullvad is now available on Amazon on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @07:55PM (#32258689)
ah.. Does WireGuard app have a widget or shortcut support?
Re:Mullvad is now available on Amazon on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @05:22PM (#32244229)
Been using Mullvad for over 6 months now. Really like it. I wish they offer a way to whitelist streaming apps on iphone or atleast make a widget to make it easy to turn VPN on and off.
I have PiHole as well. How to verify that FB SDK requests are blocked by it?
Can I use Arq to backup disks connected to my airport extreme router? I don't have a desktop; will be installing it on my laptop. Can I schedule when to backup ?
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:54PM (#11261777)
As always, there is a relevant XKCD about this phenomenon.

http://xkcd.com/1425/

Re:Moving on from Picasa on Friday February 12, 2016 @04:43PM (#11090880)
Have you figured out a way to have a shared (family) photo library? My wife and I use different iCloud accounts, are part of iCloud Family. However, I cannot setup a single shared library for all the kid's pictures we take.
Re:SnappyData: OLTP and OLAP Database Built on Apache Spark on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:51PM (#11029189)
This can be great if it lives up to it's promise.

I could not find any performance numbers from real-life scale deployments. Will have to wait before giving a verdict.

Re:iOS 9.3 Preview on Monday January 11, 2016 @05:53PM (#10884234)
Can this impact Kodi side-loading in tvOS?! I don't know if it relies on any 'private framework'
Does it have something equivalent to Evernote Web Clipper? I rely on it heavily.
I saw this "documentary" a while back: "How Beer Saved the World" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832368/

I had to spend an hour on wikipedia afterwards to determine if it was a spoof or serious show! (I still don't know about some parts of it :)

This post reminded me of the ideas discussed by Malcolm Gladwell in "The Tipping Point". IIRC, talks about highly networked individuals starting new trends.
Re:Ritzy – A collaborative web-based rich text editor on Sunday August 23, 2015 @03:28PM (#10106475)
Looks very promising. Been looking for Google Doc alternative for sometime now.

I realize that there is a commercial service aspect that is being worked on to provide server side hosting, however, how easy would it be to self host this on sandstorm.io?

Re:Handwriting Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks on Thursday July 23, 2015 @01:40AM (#9934178)
General AI has always been very fascinating and exciting to me. However, recently I feel like it will serve us humans better to continue along the path of ML.

We want an AI trained with ML to keep focusing on flying plane. We may not want an AGI pilot who can also get bored just like humans and can get distracted playing games.

Re:Facebook’s Blu-Ray Powered Cold Storage Data Center on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:57PM (#9814289)
I see that they have 100GB BDXL MDisc available now. Have to invest into BDXL writer but that's just one time investment.
Re:Facebook’s Blu-Ray Powered Cold Storage Data Center on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @05:06AM (#9810732)
I am glad companies like Facebook is using Blue-Ray. Hopefully this will trigger progress in increasing density of optical discs and/or decreasing cost of high capacity discs and writers for consumer market.

Eager to archive my yearly ever increasing personal media (thanks to having a kid) onto a high capacity disc and just store it in the safety deposit box.

Re:Credit Karma Has Raised $175M on a Valuation of $3.5B on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:27PM (#9767099)
I had the same thought as soon as I read the HN title. Even NerdWallet is supposedly valued around $1B. I guess we need to get used to the new normal of billions of dollar of valuations.
Re:Credit Karma Has Raised $175M on a Valuation of $3.5B on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:23PM (#9767061)
As I understand, there is no such thing as a singular FICO score.

FWIW Recently went through a refinancing process. Two of the bureaus had slightly different score. However, both were similar to what CK had.

Re:Who'll be the next president – Google Search on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @05:02AM (#9763435)
Nice example of how much ground "AI" has to cover before it can be considered "intelligent". OTOH, lot of humans struggle with differentiating facts from opinions, so can't be too hard on these systems.
Re:The Best Way to Organize a Lifetime of Photos on Thursday April 23, 2015 @05:27PM (#9429956)
+1 After few iterations, currently I too have landed with Carousel/Dropbox. It just works. Although, there are several features that it lacks related to editing. If Apple Cloud Photo service proves reliable, I might switch over (My family has all apple devices so makes it easy)
Re:Elevator.js on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:20AM (#9418882)
It worked perfectly for me in Safari (OS X 10.10.3)

Do you have ublock? Try disabling that on this page.

I am planning to get a probiotic anyways, wouldn't mind trying out the one that was used in the study.

This will be one instance where I would not mind an affiliate link ;-)

Re:Apple – OS X – Photos on Thursday April 09, 2015 @02:54AM (#9346091)
I currently use Carousel by Dropbox and have 200GB worth of pics and family videos. Ofcourse I use selective sync to not have them on my MBP

I like Apple photos auto smart sync and a native Mac app.

If I want to move/copy my pics from Dropbox to iCloud drive, any alternatives to having download them to local machine and upload again to Apple server? Any cloud based sync product that supports iCloud?

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