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by Miraste 6y ago
> No reason self-driving technology should be bundled with a car It seems to me that there are many reasons it should be bundled, and I'll bet that in the long run all self-driving cars will be integrated systems. It's not a go
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by Miraste 6y ago
Crawford's travails remind me of the story of the pottery class ( https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramic... ), in which half a studio is graded on the sheer quantity of pots they prod
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by Miraste 6y ago
I don't think these examples have anything to do with being open source. They're problems of funding and organization. Of course a lot of open source software doesn't compete well with corporate projects, because it's ma
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by Miraste 6y ago
With apologies to Joseph Heller: "There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own UI in the face of flaws that were real and immediate was the process of a power user. Orr was an average use
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by Miraste 6y ago
That's their justification, but put a non-technical user in front of a gnome system and you will find nothing but confusion. It doesn't operate like any other OS GUI, nor is it intuitive or discoverable, nor does it have feature p
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by Miraste 6y ago
My Samsung wireless earbuds came with three sizes of earbud tip and three sizes/shapes of exterior. Apple could do better if they wanted to.
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by Miraste 6y ago
On the one hand, trying to work with a company as intractable and anti-OSS as Nvidia must be incredibly frustrating and I sympathize. Nouveau is too slow and broken to be usable, and that's also NV's fault. On the other, I'm
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by Miraste 6y ago
In my experience Gnome is the worst major FOSS project for this. Ever since Gnome 3 the design philosophy of all of their projects seems to be "find out what the users want and do the opposite."
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by Miraste 6y ago
I don't agree that being forced to suffer the consequences of other people's poor decisions is freedom. To counterquote: "Your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins." Attribu
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by Miraste 6y ago
This is an unconvincing article. If we look past the paragraphs of emotional appeals, the actual results for "technosolutionism" during the pandemic are this: China created a technosolutionist fix. They implemented it widely with
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by Miraste 6y ago
> However, to say that free speech is absolute is absurd, because absolute free speech in this context would require the limitation of rights of organizations and owners too. I agree, but that's a common position here.
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by Miraste 6y ago
I support banning Parler, but this argument becomes more transparently untrue by the day. The internet is speech now. Visiting city halls and council meetings doesn't affect elections or policies, voting is useless without being part
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by Miraste 6y ago
> The adversarial model of employment where passionate employees fight against penny-pinching bosses is neither natural nor inevitable Very few people would continue working their jobs if they didn't need to to survive. The legal, c
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by Miraste 6y ago
> the inefficiency of everyone cooking and cleaning is starting to have market implications Elaborate on your reasoning here? While I can maybe imagine a more centralized food preparation system being more efficient, the currently growin
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by Miraste 6y ago
In modern Safari this pattern will often take you directly to the website (or some other, non-Google website when it guesses wrong). When it works it's very nice.
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by Miraste 6y ago
For marketing purposes, it doesn’t matter if the phone actually has those problems, just whether people associate the brand with them.
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by Miraste 6y ago
What were you expecting? That's one of the main selling points.
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by Miraste 6y ago
> Getting augmentations were meaningful choices which alter ways you can approach explorations (such as picking up heavy items blocking vents). It's mostly through stats rather than augmentations, but Cyberpunk has a ton of this. Th
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by Miraste 6y ago
> which is a function of greed and laziness This is incorrect, or at least not a useful lens with which to examine the problem. Societal changes on the level of the obesity epidemic (universal to the point of affecting lab animals) don&#
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by Miraste 6y ago
I live in the US and recently tried to find bread--standard, sliced bread--without sugar in it at my local store. They don't have any. The lowest I could find was a gram of sugar per slice!
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by Miraste 6y ago
For users to PR their own comments, or for anyone to PR any comments? The former sounds overcomplicated, but the latter... I don't know how that would turn out, but it would be fascinating to watch.
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by Miraste 6y ago
Fair enough. I can't edit it now, but s/disingenuous/flawed
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by Miraste 6y ago
A flawed comparison; the ethical issues discussed in that thread and the things the AI group is complaining about are non-overlapping.
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by Miraste 6y ago
> 3. Invest more in Thunderbird the application and develop Thunderbird the privacy focus email service for independent professionals and small businesses. I know Mozilla's non-Firefox projects aren't popular here, but if Thund
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by Miraste 6y ago
HN has never been a forum for geeks. Y Combinator is an investment company focused on profit, like any other. It and (much of) the HN readership extract that profit from technology, but the money ultimately supersedes the tech. This is wort
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by Miraste 6y ago
Allowing companies to self-certify their products' safety is the same thing as rubber stamping fraud. Issues can only be caught after some disaster, as we see with Grenfell and the preventable tragedies behind every other regulation an
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by Miraste 6y ago
Data isn't sexy, data doesn't sell. The "common man" neither cares about real numbers nor has the education and ability to interpret them, even in very simplified graphical form. Look at the percentage of people who can
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by Miraste 6y ago
How would DeepMind get any revenue? I thought it was solely for research.
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by Miraste 6y ago
I haven't used a lot of subway systems, but worst in the world seems excessive. It's vastly better than NYC or London, at the very least. Breathing in the London Underground turns your mucus black. Exciting!
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by Miraste 6y ago
> So many benchmarks again and again proved Chrome and Firefox to be faster than Safari. In the benchmarks I've seen ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/google-chrome-is-ava... ) and the ones I&#x

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