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Really interesting deep-dive reverse engineering of Din Sync (Sync 24)

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This was really fun. Nice job.

Interested to know what's changed (if anything) in the two years since this was written.

They specifically used "VPN" in the error message but I can't remember the exact text of the whole message.

Last night I was blocked from HBOMAX (or whatever brand they go by these days) for being on a VPN. That was the first time I've ever encountered something like that on HBOMAX. I wonder if there is some coordinating event here.

I made several attempts to try to get it to generate something more esoteric. Here is a story about a computer falling in love with a potato chip who becomes a sentient meth addict.

https://g.co/gemini/share/598cc68832a9

I don't get it but I'm not sure I'm supposed to.

    life + death = mortality
    life - death = lifestyle

    drug + time = occasion
    drug - time = narcotic

    art + artist + money = creativity
    art + artist - money = muse

    happiness + politics = contentment
    happiness + art      = gladness
    happiness + money    = joy
    happiness + love     = joy

Having kids is an excellent solution to this feeling. Besides occupying any time you used to have for unnecessary work, they have an uncanny ability to remind you just how little you actually control. However you get to the end of the OCD tunnel, the journey is often very worthwhile.

I really enjoyed this. I try to run my team similarly.

Where I disagree slightly is vendors. If the need filled by the vendor is well-defined and low-complexity, sure, I'll go for it. Otherwise, I'm doing it in-house nine times out of ten.

Where this starts to get tricky is when some worthy competitors emerge, utilizing your foundation to scale quicker and more effectively. Then you might wish you had hired more people earlier. But overall, I think starting from this perspective is a lot safer than the opposite.

> It did not reduce student drug use. In face, it backfired and taught kids about interesting drugs that they probably wouldn't have found learned about otherwise.

I will never forget the day in fifth grade when a DARE representative came to our class with a briefcase full of samples of esoteric (to me at least) drugs. The way they were presented made them extremely appealing to me, similar to perusing the choices at a high-end candy store. I don't know for sure if this had any effect on me but I strongly suspect that it did.

My 6-year old was invited into the cockpit for the first time on January 1, 2024. I was wondering the same as you up until that moment.

JetBlue US Domestic

I propose that this fellow does not have any children or other dependents.

Cognitive behavioral therapy can help.

The intellectual pursuit of empathy often results in individuals who know what empathy should look like and are good at faking it.

Real empathy requires you to recognize and process your emotions differently. This can be learned over time but usually not by directly attacking the problem.

This is just based on my own experiences.

But I can imagine this is frustrating for you and it seems like you’re already doing the hard work of recognizing there’s an issue. Good luck to you.

This is phenomenal. Great work!

I have a bigger problem with how IP law is written and enforced than the actual notion of IP law. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that IP should enjoy some protections, however, the current enforcements are in many cases downright abusive to consumers and smaller creators alike.

Sample applications are rarely difficult to make. I built a bot as an experiment for my team (https://m.me/PigeonCorps) and we've run into a lot of issues that fall outside of intent classification and response. The most complex issues related to non-trivial chatbots (or atypical chatbots) in my experience have been:

  - session management
  - horizontal scaling
  - dealing with platform changes
  - dealing with platform downtime/bugs
  - hierarchical data presentation
  - matching intents within hierarchical/nested flows

I agree, however, that most chatbots we see are not incredibly complicated, however, I think the typical points that are emphasized in these types of articles (intent classification) are not the hard parts.

Thanks for the quick reply and helpful explanation.

Tried to add my first chord Bmaj7(no3) and it doesn't seem like the app recognizes it (can't play the chord or change the key of the song).

Occam's Razor tells me it's because they are being painted as capable of subverting seemingly larger-than-life systems and institutions. I imagine it's an ego boost to a lot of these tech CEOs.

Yeah, like many of the UX gestures I perform on my iOS devices, I discovered this one by accident.

Display Zoom is a different setting than Text Size.

Another hidden UX: you can long press the keyboard and it'll turn into a touchpad that you can use to move the cursor (still not as easy as cursor keys but much better than the long press and drag method).

I agree that the second degree charge was proper but adding it in after the jury had heard the entire case seems unethical.

The podcast is called "Sword and Scale".

http://swordandscale.com/

In what I'm sure is unrelated news /s, Altria Group stock has spiked to a 5-month high today [1]. Although there are legitimate reasons to consider banning E-Cigarettes, we should also be cognizant that Big Tobacco sees this as a benefit to their business. That alone makes me very suspicious of the potential benefits of this considered ban.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/article/altria-group-inc-mo-has-spike...

I'm not advocating Juul use as a strategy for quitting. I'm merely sharing my own experience, which was that Juul was the only thing that allowed me to quit (after 10 years of many attempts using most available options). Why did it work? I'm not sure. Perhaps it created just the right amount of elasticity in my addiction.

The Royal College of Physicians strongly disagrees with you. This is the same group that sounded the alarm on cigarettes in 1962 with their groundbreaking report "Smoking and health" [1]. Their 2016 report, "Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction" [2] stands in staunch disagreement with your statement.

[1] https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/smoking-and-hea...

[2] https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-withou...

I was able to quit using Juul. That is to say, I no longer smoke cigarettes or Juul.