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Re:A Phenomenology of Spotify and Vinyl on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:00AM (#42830941)
I recently discovered and fell in love with vinyl music and definitely play the albums I buy.

Playing music without interacting with a phone is wonderful.

Re:Infinigen on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:24AM (#42804908)
I was thinking of it as an end-product for use by the average joe rather than a tool for professionals like blender.

Imagine wearing an apple vision and building your memory palace through a verbal conversation with an AI.

I'm on the waitlist for a Minimal Phone and am hopeful that will help my phone-related compulsions.

I can doom scroll HN to the last page on my phone, but I never do that on a computer.

https://www.minimalcompany.com/

How many ransomware incidents?

I personally know of a hospital that had no computers for a week due to ransomware. People died. The company running the hospital was unprepared before the event, inept during it, and unchanged after it.

Re:Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:08AM (#42793608)
> IT professionals around the world should gird their loins for the inevitable friends and family support calls when Windows 11 24H2 makes a surprise appearance, and uncle Fester is surprised that things have suddenly started working a little differently.

I hate this take, UIs changing without user consent or control is just plain WRONG.

Re:Infinigen on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:50AM (#42793401)
An LLM frontend for this would be amazing.

You could describe the scene you want in normal english and iterate eith conversation.

It could automatically create scenes from novels and poems.

Has anyone used their 33Hz color monitor?

It's super tempting, but I've never seen one in person.

https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-paperlike-color-worl...

Re:We've lost our respect for complexity on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @08:33PM (#42787654)
We're recreating a demon haunted world that will foster cargo cults. The algorithms we interact with are inscrutible, so we make up rules of thumb and assign agency where there is none. E.g. In 5 years there won't be a way to truly know how to minimize your personally-customized prices at the grocery store, but there will be tons of cargo cult opinions (put your phone in airplane mode, walk through iles 3 times before you pick up an item, pick up a generic version before the name brand, ...).

Algorithms and AI are the new divine agents to appease with ritual.

I wonder how long the transit from 45N to 45S latitudes will be. My gut says the pole will move fastest at the equator (a la the zero crossing of a sine wave).

In the not too distant future humanity will see the magnetic pole at the equator. Wow.

Re:Garmin's –$40B Pivot on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @08:08PM (#42787403)
This is where Garmin shines - the niches.

They're also the Cadillac of dog tracking and training collars.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/outdoor-recreation/sporting-d...

Re:Prime Numbers Are So Memorable That People Hunt for Them on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:16PM (#42785290)
Sounds like the patron saint of LLMs