Some Was True

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(appleinsider.com)

“We believe in the transformative power and promise of AI, and we believe we have advantages that will differentiate us in this new era, including Apple’s unique combination of seamless hardware, software, and services integration, groundbreaking Apple Silicon with our industry-leading neural engines, and our unwavering focus on privacy, which underpins everything we create.”

Apple is arriving late to the generative AI party and is bringing a different approach with it. Sound familiar? This is how the company came to dominate portable music players, smartphones, earbuds, tablets, laptops, etc. The strategy doesn’t always work (think cars), but I’m betting it will in AI.

link published in /2024/05/02 on May 3, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Jake’s been working on the Spitfire with Denny for the last couple days…getting it ready for summer. I think they’re going to recruit Jonathan to help once he gets home.

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I finally ordered a new pair of glasses. I probably waited too long, and now that they’re ordered, I can’t wait for them to arrive. Added bonus - this took Renee and I to an area of town we don’t get to very often, which allowed us to have dinner at a great Chinese restaurant that’s too far away to be our regular spot. Tsingtao for me, and green tea for Renee.

post published in /2024/05/01 on May 2, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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The Guardians lost in ten innings last night, but proved my point about them yesterday in the process. They scored five runs in the sixth inning to erase a five run deficit, and held the Astros scoreless from the fifth through the ninth innings. They scored one in the extra frame but couldn’t plate the insurance run, which turned out to be the difference. The Astros walked it off on a two run homer.

Tough loss, but boy this team is fun to watch.

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(slashdot.org)

a software glitch caus[ed] some iPhone alarms to fail to play a sound.

This has driven me crazy more than once, making me wonder what the heck I was doing wrong (is it muted or silenced or whatever?).

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(theregister.com)

the company “never even submitted them for testing to the [Food and Drug Administration] or National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the masks were never certified as N95.”

File this under unintended consequences of the response to the pandemic. Anyone with a factory or supply chain can manufacture and ship medical equipment, devices, and supplies, right? I wonder how many people and companies shipped bogus hand sanitizer.

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Some newspapers are suing OpenAI for its unauthorized use of their content for training its LLMs, while others are striking licensing deals with the company. I’m sure the new revenue stream offered by AI training is, and will be, tempting to some media houses sitting on significant content archives, but I’m happy to see others resist the cash grab and fight the good fight. Of course, they might just be holding out for better terms, too.

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(statnews.com)

I don’t know what a “patent listing” is, at least in the context of “patent filings” as mentioned in this article, but I do know that we already have ways for dealing with “junk” patent applications - the patentability requirements of existing law. If those aren’t met, a patent the USPTO shouldn’t issue a patent. If the Office needs more resources to better analyze “patent listings” or “patent filings” (I assume both refer to “patent applications”), then give the Congress needs to increase funding for the Office.

It’s a question of resources, not rules.

link published in /2024/04/30 at 4:28 PM
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(imore.com)

Hey, look at that…someone else that shares my opinion on Apple’s FineWoven case and wallet. I actually like mine, and am a bit sad to see Apple abandon the material so soon after launching it (although it looks like we’ll get one more round of FineWoven cases and wallets for the forthcoming iPhone 16.

Change is hard.

link published in /2024/04/30 at 10:48 AM
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Boy the Guardians are fun to watch this year. They’re off to a great start — 28 games in, and they’re tied for the most wins in baseball (19) and only the Braves have a better win percentage (.704 vs. .679 for Cleveland). Plenty of players with great personalities, too.

post published in /2024/04/30 on May 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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Jonathan said the magic words the other day — “maybe I’ll re-read Dune before watching the movies.” He didn’t share my love for the book after reading it the first time a few years ago. Hopefully a re-read will change his view on it. Regardless, I’m taking the opportunity to re-read it myself, hoping it still stands up to the “favorite science fiction book of all time” label I’ve given it.

He’ll be home for the summer before heading out for grad school in the fall. Reading — and watching — Dune together will be a lot of fun.

post published in /2024/04/29 at 11:20 AM
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We got up a bit early and went for a walk today. Beautiful weather, with birds chirping everywhere (and loudly!) while the sun rose. Great way to start the day.

post published in /2024/04/29 at 11:07 AM
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(mlb.com)

I’ve only missed a few Guardians games so far this year, last night being one of them. It was a doozy, too. Pitchers duel, with the MLB-best Guardians beating the MLB-second-best Braves in extra innings…in Atlanta.

Rubber match today.

link published in /2024/04/28 at 5:17 PM
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(scripting.com)

But if I don’t know you, I honestly don’t care what you think, esp if it’s negative and has less than ten syllables total.

This is frustrating to me. I don’t know Dave Winer, and he certainly doesn’t know me. I’ve read his blog for years, though, and as a hobbyist developer, I’ve got nothing but respect and admiration for him and his foundational contributions to web publishing, distribution, and interoperability. I understand his main point here — he doesn’t care about spam comments and doesn’t want them associated with his content.

What frustrates me is the way he framed spammers as a subset of people he doesn’t know. He doesn’t care what spammers think, but he also doesn’t care what I think. This is the technorati attitude that has frustrated me since I started tinkering in web dev twenty plus years ago. I’ve now worked on Daystream in my spare time for over a decade. I have no formal education in software or web development. I’m a lawyer for crying out loud. I do this for fun and for my own personal growth and satisfaction. Mostly at night and on the weekends. I have no aspirations or even hopes of being viewed as relevant on the topics of web content publishing, distribution, and interoperability. Dave’s post tells me I have the right mindset on that. It’s a reminder that the technorati (the people, not the website) still exists and clearly remains a closed group that “[doesn’t] care what [outsiders] think.”

I’ll follow Dave’s lead and blame the spammers for this. They got us here, not him.

link published in /2024/04/28 at 4:12 PM
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A discovery on par with the genesis of the mitochondria. That’s truly amazing. Of course, the presence of the mitochondria in the evolution of life is what allows us to view this discovery as something that “hold[s]…the potential to fundamentally change agriculture.”

Biology never ceases to amaze me.

link published in /2024/04/27 at 5:54 PM
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(espn.com)

Another story to file in the “sports and gambling, what could go wrong?” file.

link published in /2024/04/26 at 4:34 PM
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(gizmodo.com)

I’d like to criticize this as a money-grab, but I’m too busy checking to see if “[my] local theaters are participating” and whether I’ll be free during the weekend of June 8, 9, and 10.

link published in /2024/04/25 at 6:03 PM
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And here’s Jonathan on the same day, with a slew of lightning bugs on his hands. I managed to catch one while lit!

photo published in /2024/04/24 at 4:51 PM
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After reading that article on bioluminescence, I figured I had to have some photos of the boys with lightning bugs (fireflies?). So, I searched the photos app on my phone for “lightning bugs” and it dutifully returned a series of five photos from over a decade ago. Pretty amazing.

This one shows Jake with fascinated by a ligtning bug resting on his hand (hard to see as it’s not illuminated).

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Statistically speaking, bioluminescence first appeared on earth at least as early as 540 million years ago. That’s incredible, though there’s something in this article that I find even more remarkable - “Bioluminescence…has independently evolved at least 94 times in nature.” Talk about a winning strategy.

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(cultofmac.com)

I’ve never understood the disdain people have for Apple’s FineWoven case and wallet. True, scratches leave a lasting impression, but, in my experience, the material has held up quite well. I’ve got a case and wallet on my iPhone 15 Pro Max, and really like both. The edges on the wallet have worn down to give a patina of sorts. There’s a small “permanent” scratch or two, but they haven’t weakened the structure of the thing at all and, honestly, seem to add to the overall weathered look. I really have no complaints, other than colors, etc.

I’ll be sad to see them go if the reports of their demise end up being accurate.

link published in /2024/04/23 at 3:15 PM
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(nasa.gov)

Everything about Voyager 1 is remarkable.

link published in /2024/04/23 at 11:05 AM
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I’m glad to see Dave Winer post about the reliability of good ‘ole fashioned feeds for working together and the wrongness of adding new hurdles to interop. I’ve built RSS into Daystream from the beginning, and continue looking for ways to use it.

post published in /2024/04/22 at 8:27 PM
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I felt old a few years ago when the eye doctor first explained progressive lenses to me. I remember saying “so…they’re trifocals,” to which he responded…”yes, they’ve been rebranded.”

Well, he made me feel old again at today’s visit, although this time without the humor. He explained the concept of “office glasses” to me. Essentially, office glasses have lenses with a larger zone for intermediate distances, and smaller zones for far and near distances (progressive lenses typically have a relatively large area for far distances, a smaller area for intermediate distances, and an even smaller area for near distances). You use your office glasses during the workday while most things you’re focusing on fall in the intermediate distance category. This reduces the time and strain involved in moving your head around to land things in the relatively small intermediate zone of “regular” trifocals (sorry, “progressives”). You leave your office glasses, well, at the office and switch to your regulars, and their larger zone for far away distances, for the drive home.

I hate that this makes perfect sense to me.

post published in /2024/04/22 at 5:58 PM
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I noticed an interesting patent marking while waiting for my pupils to dilate in the eye doctor’s office this morning. I’ve never seen a marking with “Patents for” as the introductory language.

Those are some pretty ancient U.S. patent numbers, btw. The second one listed issued in 1966. Tried and true technology in the field of “fine adjustment of optical instruments,” I suppose.

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