abhibeckert @ abhibeckert @beehaw.org

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If he had deliberately caused the monkey to take that photo, he might have owned the copyright.

If you pay a photographer to take photos at your wedding, you own the copyright for those photos - not the photographer.

That's not how copyright works. It's perfectly legal to create exactly the same image that someone else made... as long as you didn't copy their image.

I am an experienced programmer. I can do C/C++/Rust/assembly/Ruby/Perl/Python/ etc… The language itself is not a barrier.

Well, first of all, don't try to use any of those languages and recognise that the language is a barrier. Choosing the right tool for the job is critical. Those are great languages... but as far as I know there are precisely zero good user interface frameworks available in those languages.

Just like a good function starts by picking a good name and argument list, a good user interface has to start with a good user interface design. Unfortunately user interfaces are complex beasts and it's virtually impossible to get them right the first time. You absolutely must pick a user interface tool/language/etc which allows you to make major changes (including scrapping the whole thing and stating over) in a short amount of time (minutes, preferably).

The best user interface languages are declarative ones. You should be describing the structure of your interface, largely ignoring the functionality - that's something which can either be done for you by the framework or done yourself as a completely separate task, in a different file, maybe even a different git repository, and probably a different programming language.

It should be possible to get a rough interactive version of your app up and running very quickly, so you can test it, learn what works/doesn't work, show it to other people, and you need to be able to rewrite entire sections of the interface by simply rewriting two or three lines of source code.

I recommend HTML/CSS as a good starting point. After you've got your head around that first (it won't take long, it's relatively simple). After that look into more modern tools like React Native. Learn to crawl before trying to walk.

The article you linked to is just wrong. It suggests this process:

1. Define a layout for each screen that has UI elements.
2. Create source code for all of the app's components.
3. Build and run the app on real and virtual devices.
4. Test and debug the app's logic and UI.
5. Publish the app

Step 4 needs to be tightly integrated into Step 1. Start working on step 2 after you have finished step 4 (and then, after you've done steps 2 and 3, you will need to repeat step 4).

I encourage you to read less articles, they're often giving really bad advice and without experience it's impossible to know which ones are good advice. Instead pay for ChatGPT Plus and just ask it questions. "How do I make a button in HTML/CSS" or "how do I make it execute code when the user clicks it" or "how can I deploy a HTML/CSS/JavaScript app on Android".

What do you think the authors of the video don’t understand?

1. Nuance. It's clear they're trying to turn a complex issue into a simple black and white one.
2. Futility. The "AI Revolution" is happening and nothing will stop it or meaningfully slow it down. If you're worried about it (and everyone should be) then you need to think about how it can be made better, not how it can be stopped.

You must have some insights if you say you understand AI better then everyone criticizing it.

I'm not the person you replied to, but I do agree with them. I don't claim to understand AI better than everyone who's critical and I doubt the person you replied to would make that claim either.

As a rule, I don't watch or read things with clickbait headlines and this is clearly one of those.

I'm happy to take part in the discussion though - because it is an interesting (and important) debate.

I've watched/read plenty of articles on this topic. But if they can't write a good headline, then I'm not going to encourage more of that by giving them an ad impression.

States should do their own review.

The reality is the state governments are responsible for the vast majority of our covid response and the federal government has no business telling them what they should have done differently. Each state took a very different approach and that's fine, because each state is different. Even within states it varied significantly - QLD effectively had three policies - metropolitan south east corner, regional towns/small cities, and outback QLD where going to the nearest hospital usually involves flying to it.

Where the federal government could have done better was mostly indirect issues, such as making stopping vast quantities of medical supplies from being exported. And the impact closing borders had on farms.

As part of the plan they will also pay me 10 cents for each kWh that I feed into the grid

10 cents is still pretty low... the rates were closer to 60 cents in the past. I'm getting 13c in QLD right now.

Whatever the feed in price, the best value you can get from your solar panels is definitely to charge your car with your own panels instead of from the grid.

How far do you drive each week? Can you get away with mostly charging at home on the weekends? Does your work have panels and can you arrange to charge there?

Also - while you should check with the manufacturer, often it's good for the battery to be less than 80% charged (and over 20%)... so plugging in every time you park the car at home definitely isn't the way to get the best resale value from the car unless there's a setting in the car to stop it from charging above 80%.

The whistleblower can read (or ask someone to read) the logs and find out who silenced them, then whistleblow that/get get whoever did it defederated.

Deleting spam isn't optional. If you leave it there your community is dead.

Will you also come up with a plan to be compatible with third party lemmy clients?

Most of them are pretty immature right now, so I'm still using the web client. But the web client is far from great and I can't wait to switch to a native app. It would be really nice to be able to use that app for beehaw, and not just the other lemmy instances I use regularly (and will never stop using, because there are communities that will probably never exist here... for example I don't expect beehaw will ever have a community for the small regional city I live in).

My impression is some of the young ones are good... and then they quit like the person in this article.

As far as I know, the last proper phone recall was when Samsung's battery production line was regularly producing batteries with a bent piece of metal that could short things out and burn down your home while you were asleep, possibly killing you (luckily it was recalled before that happened to anyone).

In other words, far more dangerous than this.

Samsung spent $17 billion on the recall and was able to collect 96% of the devices within a few months (they continued collecting more after that). As far as I know, they literally had a list of every serial number that had ever come off the production line, and they did everything they could to find each and every one of those devices and get it back.

Some of the measures they used were pretty extreme, including sending staff to major airports around the world, asking everyone to show their phone before boarding, and confiscating the phone on the spot if it was one of the affected models.

A fire on a plane is obviously even worse than a fire in your house... if the fire happened over the ocean the pilot might be forced to crash land in the ocean so everyone can get out of the plane. If the fire happened over land... the pilot might struggle to find anywhere close enough to crash land safely. People could die from smoke inhalation/etc before they could ground the plane.

They also issued a mandatory software update, to all of the phones, which crippled charging on the phone. You could still charge the phone but not well. Supposedly this improved the safety somewhat. Less energy in the battery means it's less likely to kill someone.

Customers were compensated - but some people said not adequately.

Most em radiation is literally harmless

Sorry but that's just not true. All radiation is harmful at high enough levels for prolonged periods of time. Sunlight, for example, will literally burn you in minutes if you're near the equator and don't have a tan.

Microwaves operate at about the same frequency as cell phones and at a thousand watts or more they will turn your blood into gas with just seconds of exposure. That would be a very very painful way to die.

The government has officially defined a power level that phones are allowed to output, and iPhones are outputting more than that. So they need to fix it. Immediately.

There are a lot of subjects where ChatGPT knows more than I do.

Does it know more than someone who has studied that subject their whole life? Of course not. But those people aren't available to talk to me on a whim. ChatGPT is available, and it's really useful. Far more useful than a toaster.

As long as you only use it for things where a mistake won't be a problem - it's a great tool. And you can also use it for "risky" decisions but take the information it gave you to an expert for verification before acting.

Such as? I've considered buying a pixel (for other reasons). But one of the things holding me back is they're worse for long term software support and they're no better than an iPhone for repairability.

There was hardly any backlash.

They're doing it as part of reducing their carbon footprint. There's so much carbon produced during manufacturing that they need devices to continue being used for about ten years after the original sale, otherwise the company will never be carbon neutral.

That means the devices have to be cheap to repair - both in terms of parts and labor/time. I have an older phone (too old to be eligible for Apple's self repair process) that I tried to repair recently - took it to a tech, they gave me an outrageous price - more than the phone is worth. And when I checked ifixit's step by step guide for the repair... yeah over a hundred steps and it will take at least 3 hours with a high probability of messing it up and having to buy other parts that you've damaged during the process.

Apple's newer models, that are supported for self repair, are designed to be easy to repair. That's why they're the only ones that are supported.

Huh? A phone battery, for example, is about 50 bucks (the exact price is slightly different for every model). And they sell the parts directly, to anyone, via self service repair.

They recommend renting or service tools that often cost quite a lot... but you don't have to use them, such as their "heated display removal" tool which gently and consistently heats up a display then pulls it off with a suction cup and a "display press" which holds a phone and a display perfectly aligned and allows you to pull a lever to glue them back together with sub-millimetre precision. Those do cost a bit of money (especially if you buy them, instead of renting them) but again - you don't have to use them. There are cheaper ways to do it (such as microwaving a standard heatpack from a first aid kit then resting it on the display to heat it up).

No it usually works like this:

1. Plug in/turn on your smart device (light bulb, temperature sensor, etc)
2. Open a smart home app on your phone (Apple and Google both include one in the OS, or you can use third party apps)
3. Click "add device"
4. It'll pop up a QR code scanner, scan the QR code that came with the device

Once scanned, it will do whatever is necessary to connect the device to your home network.

It's a flexible system that can use a variety of network technologies... (wifi, ethernet, bluetooth, thread, ultra wideband, etc). It will pick the best one available. And switch technologies automatically if one of them becomes unavailable.

Thread has about the same range as wifi, but it uses a lot less power. It doesn't really have enough bandwidth for something like a video camera, but it's great for light bulbs, temperature sensors, etc.

Generally, cold climate heat pumps are an efficient source of heat down to -15 degrees Fahrenheit

"Generally" is the wrong way to approach this. What you should be looking at is the specific capabilities of the actual system that you are considering installing. Some of them can go much colder.

If the Mitsubishi FE18 isn't efficient in your climate... then don't buy that unit. Simple.

If it's really cold where you are... then you could consider a ground source heat pump instead one that uses air as a heat source. The ground doesn't get anywhere near cold to have efficiency issues no matter where you are in the world and ground source heat pumps don't cost all that much... though they do require a bit of digging.

Also, if your heat pump is inefficient for a couple really cold weeks a year... oh well. You're still coming out ahead because it's very efficient the other 50 weeks a year. It's not like they stop working at extremely cold temperatures, they just produce a bit less heat than you might like for the amount of power consumed. Maybe they're "only" 80% efficient instead of 600% efficient... you know what else is 80% efficient? Heating with gas.

In my house? Pretty much never. We have solar as well as a grid connection and can connect a generator as well.

In fact, I even have a second stand alone portable solar system that we take camping. It's not powerful enough to heat a house... but it is powerful enough for pretty much everything else. And I can heat my house with a fire if it came to that.

Redundancy is the name of the game if you're worried about reliability.

Some of the stations in Antarctica use heat pumps. They have been proven to work effectively at -53°C (-64°F) and do so reliably.

Are they more efficient at more reasonable temperatures? Yes. But they still work even when it's very cold outside.

How well a heat pump works in cold temperatures obviously depends what temperatures it was designed to operate at. Don't waste your money on a model that is designed to operate in a different climate. In fact a lot of heat pumps aren't even capable of heating at all - they can only output cold air (which they can do even if it's stinking hot outside by the way).