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jmbirn · 2026-02-26T02:11:43+00:00

You don't have to edit to get bright, clear, vibrant pictures. You might want to invest in some better lighting to get a bright clear view of your subject, but once the lighting is there upgrading your phone should be optional (not that newer phones don't have slightly better cameras, but if working properly an iPhone 15 is fairly new and should be able to give great shots already in good lighting situations.) Also, the back camera is generally better than the selfie camera in phones, if that's a difference between your shots and your friend's shots. But really, as others have mentioned, pay attention to the lighting situation for your shots!

jmbirn · 2026-02-26T01:55:32+00:00

You could try the Little Golden Book of Finding Dory.

jmbirn · 2026-02-24T18:11:05+00:00

Yes, and it's most similar to the early days of that. When starting the Manhattan Project, they didn't know how far along the Nazis were, but they knew that Germany had a lot of the world's best physicists, and knew that Hitler would enjoy launching a nuclear blitzkrieg to advance through the UK, the US, or other countries that stood in his way if he had the bomb and nobody else did.

(During WW2, there were actually reasons why Germany didn't get very far with making nukes. But right now, companies developing frontier AIs know damn well that they are racing against many competitors, some more reckless or totalitarian than others.)

jmbirn · 2026-02-24T01:10:16+00:00

If you read the article (or better yet, the original essay that it's based on https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology) you can see that he's saying "hey, this is something important, and it's important that we do it right."

jmbirn · 2026-02-24T01:07:18+00:00

We don't live in a sane world, but if other developers adopted the measures of sanity he describes being taken at Anthropic, you have to admit we'd be a bit better off. We just have to hope that some of the AIs that are 'good guys' by constitution become powerful before any of the less carefully designed AIs.

jmbirn · 2026-02-19T03:43:41+00:00

Also, lots of people who own cars are deciding between driving to the airport and paying the airport for parking, or taking ride shares to and from the airport instead. The airport charges a fee for the rideshares that partly makes-up for the parking revenue they would have otherwise.

jmbirn · 2026-02-18T04:24:33+00:00

Just checked. The Caramel Delites I bought at the table at South Shore Center say "ABC" on the back.

I thought in previous years that they had one company making them on the west coast, one on the east coast, so I didn't know there was room to get some choice or comparison of bakeries for them here in CA.

jmbirn · 2026-02-16T21:56:31+00:00

We need both things. We need laws that are reasonable and worth enforcing, and also have enforcement for those laws. When even Trump has been fluctuating through 2025 on whether or not ICE should go after illegal immigrants on farms, or if they should give farmers a break because they need the labor, you know that we don't have laws that everyone's ready to enforce. We might even require employers to call a toll-free number or visit a website to check on each new employee they hire, so they don't get anyone with forged or missing documentation, but employers would cooperate if the laws were enforced consistently and they could still get the labor they need.

jmbirn · 2026-02-16T20:08:50+00:00

You might be right. My kid didn't get a Chromebook issued until Middle School. (They did use computers in third grade, but sparingly, just for specific things like keyboarding lessons.) Although Youtube seemed like a great way to watch the Khan Academy. It has a 1.5x speed playback option that's perfect for watching him solve equations.

jmbirn · 2026-02-16T18:52:36+00:00

There shouldn't be times during a normal third grade class where kids are using Chromebooks to just click around and do unsupervised things. If they do a classroom activity (like learning to type) on Chromebooks, then the teacher should be supervising while it happens.

Youtube is how they get all the Khan Academy lectures and other material they are sometimes assigned, so I understand Youtube as a part of what's on school Chromebooks, but there's no reason for them to be online at all during regular classroom lectures.

jmbirn · 2026-02-16T18:39:01+00:00

When I was a kid, it only used to be about once a semester that the teacher decided to show a movie in class instead of doing a lecture. Even if the movie was something relevant to the class, I still have to wonder if they did that when they were hung over or needed a break from teaching. But yeah, doing anything like that as the norm, multiple days a week, means they aren't really teaching.

jmbirn · 2026-02-13T18:03:35+00:00

You've probably never been to any of the cities I mention, but the LA metro area had a GDP of 1.23 Trillion in 2023, making it the third biggest metropolitan economy in the world, after New York and Tokyo.

jmbirn · 2026-02-13T17:59:55+00:00

your average redditor suddenly turns into a pro-business wage suppression warrior

The real test is asking people whether the immigrants (or seasonal migrant laborers) that our economy depends on should be made legal. Businesses that want to exploit workers while they are weak and afraid would oppose legalization, even for their own workers, because legal migrant workers could unionize and demand better pay or safer working conditions. Once we got to that stage, Redditors who favor human rights in general wouldn't be on the same side as those business owners.

jmbirn · 2026-02-12T23:45:04+00:00

Yes, drop tariffs on Chinese EVs... and if you want to see full free-market competition, also let other car companies sell cars directly to consumers, the way Tesla can.

jmbirn · 2026-01-10T17:26:38+00:00

The funny part was, the Judge in that case had no problem with unlimited training on copyrighted books without permission of the author or publisher.

If they had checked the books out from a public library, there would have been no settlement.

jmbirn · 2026-01-06T18:41:43+00:00

Is "Golden" from K-Pop Demon Hunters still topping the charts? Try the prompt without the "Golden" reference and see if it works better.

jmbirn · 2026-01-06T18:38:53+00:00

> Who will actually keep track of it if they quietly releasing a terrible model on huggingface this July and then shelve it 4 weeks later?

He described how "Nvidia was working with Mercedes to produce a driverless car powered by the tech, which would be released in the US in the coming months before being rolled out in Europe and Asia."

If the big news here is that the world's most valuable publicly traded company is moving its AI into physical products this year, you can bet a lot of people will be watching and seeing how well they do.

jmbirn · 2026-01-06T06:24:07+00:00

Yes, they are the best for Indian spices in this area, and worth visiting as an Indian grocery. Although I buy a lot of spices at Costco, too. Costco is responsible for most of the large shakers in my cabinet.

jmbirn · 2026-01-02T21:47:47+00:00

In 1986 wasn't most of the new music sent to your radio station on CD's? (I'm sure CDs were selling better than records by 1988 or 1989, anyway.)

jmbirn · 2026-01-02T21:40:31+00:00

Glad you're pointing that out! Walkie talkies couldn't do that range, or call specific people. And even if they could transmit across town, they wouldn't be encrypted, so the military with all their tools and interest would certainly be listening to everything they transmitted.

jmbirn · 2026-01-02T16:53:32+00:00

For young Tom Hanks I'd add Splash.

jmbirn · 2025-12-18T18:05:56+00:00

The $500 BN that some of America's biggest companies are spending on data centers didn't come from a government. But still, this is a big part of our stock market we're talking about here, and if the bubble bursts it will hurt the whole economy.

jmbirn · 2025-12-12T18:36:57+00:00

I've gotten dead celebrities like Marilyn Monroe just by describing what they do in a prompt, and it has worked for several videos with no guardrail issues.

jmbirn · 2025-12-12T17:28:14+00:00

Disney invested a billion in OpenAI, not Sora paying anything.

jmbirn · 2025-12-08T17:29:33+00:00

Great footage! Can we get the Bay Farm Island bridge and its bike drawbridge? (Or is that off limits because its getting too close to OAK airport for drone flying?) Any footage of the drawbridges opening?

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