LexGray

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by LexGray 2y ago
Is it that big an advantage to test APIs that are still in beta and may change at any time? With their built in apps they can fix both pieces at once, but if they started breaking large numbers of apps every update I do not think developers
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by LexGray 2y ago
> reasonable way to manage menu bar icons I believe the new control center API is intended to push seldom used icons into the control center > searching through open windows by typing The new Siri is context aware once the developers
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by LexGray 2y ago
Given the well documented Russian tendency to wage nation hostile whisper campaigns and app algorithms natural tendencies to promote such speech we are in place where every country both democratic and not have CIA levels of disorder, new me
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by LexGray 3y ago
There was a gyroscope based motorcycle which I thought was more the Apple Style. I was imagining single person cars just like they make all their devices single user. Get one auto-driving bike for each member of the family and you would rid
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by LexGray 3y ago
Because it assumes the data only has negative use. Asian and black communities are underserved in many ways from employment, medicine to education. Forbidding AI to identify race is forbidding AI tools to help serve those people better or e
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by LexGray 3y ago
I think that is a change in definition. 15 years ago it was only rain if you were sure to get drenched. Now rain means 1mm of water hit the ground in your general vicinity. I blame an abundance of data combined people who refuse to get damp
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by LexGray 3y ago
From reporting I have seen Sacramento SMUD is generally 25% cheaper than PG&E with faster outage response and more green initiatives. Supposedly carbon neutral. Potentially 35% of power generated from natural gas which replaced decommis
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by LexGray 3y ago
I’ve seen quotes that something like 40% of all California politics revolve around prop 13. The promise your parents aren’t going to lose their house from arbitrary reassessments is a strong one (instead it will because they can’t afford me
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by LexGray 3y ago
I do not see that happening in California without some virtually magical building material. California is wary of earthquakes, noise, toxics, fire, and crime. Perhaps other states will create cheap high density paradises to suck the populat
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by LexGray 3y ago
I should imagine large kickbacks to apps using Google and Facebook SDKs even if they do not launch stores directly. They don’t need a store if they can get every other store compromised. I also think shareholders in those companies that lus
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by LexGray 3y ago
Yes, but in a world where people have been trained to ignore signs if they want to have nice things. No kid and most adults would think twice before clicking I agree even if the screen was flashing red and the phone was making klaxon sounds
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by LexGray 3y ago
It was far less glitchy than iTunes for Windows, but no longer exists on macOS. years ago Apple split it into TV app, Music app, and they do device sync is through the file system Finder app. Generally the replacements still lack many iTune
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by LexGray 3y ago
Perhaps there is some sort of pressure by stockholders to have the ability to promote their own products and services on the device or just some sort of backroom dealings. My personal hope is that Apple course corrects at some point that th
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by LexGray 3y ago
Isn't looking at an Apple device just like looking at a newspaper? I seem to recall papers being chock full of ads outside the front page to a far greater extent than the Apple News app. Our society depends on advertising for promoting
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by LexGray 3y ago
Once you hit the shutter button you do get a great photograph due to all the machine learning and other post processing the photo is exposed to. I could see an argument that a heavily augmented normal photo is not much different from a phot
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by LexGray 3y ago
I wandered just a bit south on a whim with no destination and as you go even a bit past the first major city the roads are empty, people just leave the highway whenever, the city streets are dirt with massive pits, and the small towns can r
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by LexGray 3y ago
Presumably require a degree and certification for sex work. Need proof to advertise and any client who doesn’t check ID is current is guilty of facilitating trafficking. If degree includes self-defense, financial literacy assistance, and a
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by LexGray 3y ago
I would not count on immediate price drops. Typically cheaper devices like iBook or iPhone SE were years down the line. Apple picks a price point and sticks to it (first generation iPhone was a one-off). People with too much money pay for e
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by LexGray 3y ago
I have a friend in the call center world. You are required to take the next call before you finish your notes on the previous and to never mute yourself. It is nearly straight torture to keep people talking two hours at a time with penaltie
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by LexGray 3y ago
That ~80% figure comes from an Epic argument. At that time Apple had argued the number was completely wrong and they were going to refute. I do not see any article online with an updated number, but it is almost certainly wrong. It is super
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by LexGray 3y ago
That would be easier if there was a required nutrition label "Requires root access which will not be revoked on uninstall", "requires background services when app is not running", "shares telemetry with developer&qu
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by LexGray 3y ago
One of the complaints about remote assistance is the missing olfactory clue needed by remote surgeons and the like. I am sure some company has it in the pipeline, but given how Apple will likely always have their "not meant for medical
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by LexGray 3y ago
Some general use cases: - training/education: say giving you tips and correcting you while cooking with checklist recipes and concurrent demos of the current step. Works for painting, fixing instrument finger positions, workout tips, S
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by LexGray 3y ago
I agree there is a lot of low hanging fruit which could differentiate consumer from Pro for the next generations. The pro could increase the FOV (some mentioned black borders at edge of vision), increase refresh rate and brightness (some me
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by LexGray 3y ago
3D movies were mentioned as a use case and there were multiple 3D app demos. The dinosaur roaring out of an educational app. The beating heart and heart take apart viewer from multiple angles. Walking around machines in place as you examine
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by LexGray 3y ago
You say that now, but bulky embarrassing camcorders at kids birthdays were a major thing in their day. Perhaps there will be some livestream type features to share the birthday with grandparents across the country in 3D.
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by LexGray 3y ago
Having a patent moat is also a message to the consumer. Apple has had promised features pulled because it ran into somebody else’s patent minefield and it can affect device price considerably. Having a software update pull features for lega
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by LexGray 3y ago
At this point no. Virtually every IoT device requires upload to the manufacturer’s server to get even basic functionality, which of course breaks when the server goes offline. The privacy policies when they exist virtually never promise end
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by LexGray 3y ago
I would not say zero. I visited a jailbreak store early on and this is exactly what I saw. However, it was not the developer. The store had pirated versions of popular games hacked to create fake in app purchases. I foresee numerous headach
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by LexGray 4y ago
At least for the Apple ecosystem 2FA is built into the iCloud Keychain so you can access it from multiple devices. While there are security implications, in general it is a good trade off that the Safari or apps will only offer to auto-fill

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