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>Isn't the WPF-Automattic relationship more or less the norm with companies that have 'open-source business models'? No, it's not, and I think that's the crux of most of the controversy. One quick comparison woul
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Conceptually, I appreciate the design challenge: what is the conversational equivalent of a tool tip? But it's just an inherent limitation of the interface: there simply isn't the same information capacity to convey or manipulate
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>Alexa+ is also proactive when it’s important — like ... telling you a gift you wanted to buy is on sale. I feel there is a growing divide in digital culture, with the majority being the eager consumer of surveillance capitalism, and the
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>Sure, some useful things might get trimmed. But staying on our current path until the whole system fails would be worse. I'm suggesting that there will be a strong political backlash. If this were as easy as Musk acts like it is, i
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>But he’s not looking to tear things down—he’s here to protect democracy. Someone just sent me an article about lamprey control in the Great Lakes. It existed before Musk, now it doesn't. So those fisheries are on borrowed time. And
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The data backing up the 'chaos' in this article consists of three quotes: 2 Redfin real estate agents and an anonymous builder. Those quotes describe in total two canceled building contracts, one owner's decision not to list
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I encourage anyone taking this line of criticism to compare an e.g. $5B state university to any other similar sized enterprise, and consider what increased operational and administrative costs those other organizations have had to undertake
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This is just what I want to get to: write-ups as some form of personal accountability, and to reiterate my thought process and learning. My problem is that I rarely feel I'm competent enough to really contribute to the subject, so I ju
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>hasn’t taken off because of discoverability issues I just don't think of all of indie web as mass media. Blogs can be for friends and colleagues, they don't necessarily want to maximize 'reach'. I hope part of this m
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>True, but presence of significant revenue is still promising. If started selling 5 dollar bills for 1 dollar, I could generate a lot of revenue with $150B. You wouldn't believe the demand we would see for $5 bills.
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For those not familiar with the author, Ethan Marcotte literally wrote the book on responsive web design (and coined the phrase). I point that out about because I think it is (or was) relevant that someone with such a place in digital desig
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>now we have a new user-agent available, "AI Agents", that somehow is unacceptable and should be blocked? Giving deference or even exclusive access to certain service clients is as old as the commercial web. The article specifi
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>from the demo, it's a stationary seat for a VR user. so in the VR experience, everyone will be sitting in that exact same seat. From other videos of the app, you can see the viewer isn't bound to any specific position. It appe
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Do you have a recommended provider or other pointers for GPU rental?
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Have the people telling you these things put any effort into making them independently verifiable? That would be an important early step in any kind of transparency effort. People are not shooting the messenger. The messenger has no credibi
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>it's doing nothing to help the disabled I make you a deal: Instead of hundreds of posts from random people, find me just 50 posts from disabled people that agree with this.
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I don't support any of this reactionary nonsense, but there are certainly lists of forbidden words that grew along with the DEI movement. Of course they were forbidden for different (I'd say better) reasons, but it was ultimately
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This sounds like a conflation of responsibility with accountability. A machine responsible for emitting a certain amount of radiation on a patient can and should be reprogrammed. The company and/or individuals that granted a malfunctio
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Some analysis I've been reading on the implications of DeepSeek says that model optionality is probably here to stay. If so, I think incorporating model choice would be a valuable aspect of this kind of product. Conversely, I agree wit
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Is there any frame of reference to compare this to? I.e what is the normal fluctuation/movement of that 'datasets available' number? For instance, it dropped by 18k between 9/13 and 10/13.
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The President: >Asked how he could come to the conclusion that diversity played a role in the deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Trump said, “Because I have common sense, OK? And unfortunately a lot o
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I found it to be the grind half of a game, the chores you do to make the fun part more fun. But there is no fun part. The creative part is all prefabricated, and the exploration is very low-dimensional variation on templates that quickly bl
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>Once you're an adult, do you even need one in the first place? >I'm 24 No offense, but you're barely an adult. Life is hard, everyone needs help at some point. This is not a new concept.
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"Cheaper software means people are going to want more of it. More software means more jobs for increasingly efficient software developers. Economists call this Jevons Paradox." If we accept there will be increased demand for softw
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Making the transition from anthropology to tech, the use of 'cargo cult' in tech really made no sense to me. So at best it's an idiom with wildly different meaning depending on context. I bristled at this kind of prescriptive
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Drupal has spent at least the last ~9 months positioning for this with the 'Drupal CMS'/'Starshot' product development initiative.
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From the guidelines: > Don't be snarky.
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> what this ever-popular narrative misses out is that the banks were motivated to make these loans because someone else - FMAC and FMAE - guaranteed them. I don't think the popular narrative misses this point at all. That's key
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Well, do those WeChat services have competition? That's where I've seen the push for better UX: it's a signal to users that your product is overall higher quality. So not so much 'pretty power company technicians' a
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> but if I did that I'd probably be consenting to using the picture _for that one session_, where I'm in control. You mean you you'd be wanting to consent to one session, while actually affirmatively consenting to someth

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