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by NBJack 4y ago
Anecdotally, the reverse is not true. West to East non-stop flights have been scarce as of late to many major cities, even from a major hub, compared to a few years ago. Some flights in the same direction have sometimes been faster via Cana
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by NBJack 4y ago
But it sounds like it would be trivial to look the other way on these investigations, as evident by their repeated lack of action. Most likely though someone at Amazon doesn't want to hurt their metrics for sales/relevance.
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by NBJack 4y ago
Or confusion. I still remember Q1 with a problem of "cross dressing" players that wore both red and blue due to your ability to customize the other accent color on your character.
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by NBJack 4y ago
Availability on the market vs your wallet. Power consumption vs how much power you can safely draw from an outlet in your apartment/home/place before a breaker trips. Massive waste heat vs your native climate and whatever your pla
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by NBJack 4y ago
As an owner of both, the Switch catches up in price fast when we start talking about cost of the games over time vs. what you can save on a regular basis in Steam sales. Nintendo is infamous for rarely putting its exclusive games on sale, d
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by NBJack 4y ago
https://soundraw.io/ has impressed me, and it's both a permissible license as well as reasonably affordable. I'd say only about 10-20% of what it makes is acceptable to me, but that fraction of it is actually pret
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by NBJack 4y ago
Silo'd teams that don't talk to each other? That sounds like a sign the culture is already deteriorating, or the lack of communication is inherently part of the culture. I'd be curious as to how the iOS team would be independ
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by NBJack 4y ago
This sounds terrible. I'd love to get more background on what led to this. Is Foxconn in trouble financially?
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by NBJack 4y ago
I think you'd normally be right, but Meta just laid off 10k+ people, and is currently in a company wide hiring freeze until at least Q1 of 2023. Much of the rest of FAANG is either doing one or both as well. In Meta's case, they f
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by NBJack 4y ago
Ads targeting is actually a huge motivation for ads platforms, IIRC; customers buying ads want to know if they work.
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by NBJack 4y ago
Linux is one of the biggest, shining examples of publicly viewable code. Unfortunately, it has a history of bugs, issues, gotchas, and major flaws that can go unnoticed for years. [1] Just because something can be audited by everyone doesn&
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by NBJack 4y ago
That's a broad stroke. I could say the same thing about crypto exchanges, and even several coins themselves (i.e. can we at least go for a few months without another 'stable coin' fiasco?). Whether you use PoW, PoS, or some o
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by NBJack 4y ago
IIRC, context is one of the most expensive parts of Alexa in their infrastructure.
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by NBJack 4y ago
Spot on. I can vouch for all those use cases plus I enjoy my Amazon Music sub on it. Everything else they've added often makes the experience for those very core things worse.
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by NBJack 4y ago
This is most certainly the real culprit. There are undoubtedly markets where the Red Delicious lives up to its name. The rest of us end up with whatever freshness roulette is played by the local supplier; while I too have occasionally eaten
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by NBJack 4y ago
From what I heard, and this was years ago, it is a very resource intensive service to actually run. Given how little I have personally used my Alexa to make or inform actual purchases, I suspect it unfortunately doesnt actually earn much.
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by NBJack 4y ago
This whole thing sounds like a Netflix movie waiting to happen.
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by NBJack 4y ago
Basically everything he said as a justification (sourcing, firmware, etc.) applies to every sufficiently advanced part of the vehicle. By that logic, they should not be using touchscreens on the center console, etc.
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by NBJack 4y ago
Why does this sound familiar? https://go.dev/doc/faq#exceptions
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by NBJack 4y ago
Note that, in the event of retrieval, it's not just per GB, it's also per request. Synology has offered Amazon Glacier and S3 as a destination option with Hyper Backup for years as part of their NAS offerings. Given the available
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by NBJack 4y ago
Given we are effectively modeling humans, and there is often plenty of room for misinterpretation in human natural language, we will see. There are good reasons things that 'must not fail' (i.e. civil engineering, accepted medical
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by NBJack 4y ago
+1 to this. Make ZERO assumptions about the problem, and observe everything you reasonably can. In the increasingly (?) service-oriented architecture world, that includes fundamentals on your platform (i.e. I recall the first time I root-ca
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by NBJack 4y ago
Sorry, this just isn't feasible. ASINs are by no means a globally unique and robust identifier. Even within the site itself, there are significant issues with duplicate products, abuse via ASIN swapping, etc. The author uses books, whi
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by NBJack 4y ago
Note that minivans have been around longer than SUVs, but do not appear to be as disproportionate in fatalities. I suspect part of this is that they are typically lower to the ground and, more importantly, tend to only weigh about 500 lbs m
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by NBJack 4y ago
I really miss the slide out keyboards. Touch screen SSH sessions are a miracle if they work, and it's frustrating when you retype a word for the fifth time in a row only to realize autocomplete was trying to 'help' you.
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by NBJack 4y ago
Wow, I felt similarly about my Aspire One. There was something special about how tiny and portable it was. It was so nice to be able to comfortably bring it to work with my work laptop if I wanted to work on a side project during lunch, and
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by NBJack 4y ago
One of the saddest trends in this day and age is the centralization of search. You can debate whether Google search has gone downhill, you can debate whether or not it hurts anything right now, but it is hard to argue that Google is NOT the
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by NBJack 4y ago
They can't compete with the big ad players and they know it. They tried. It's another classic example of "if you can't beat them, use your other enormous industry leverage to change the game to your advantage." Trut
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by NBJack 4y ago
Just don't let it update itself. Or update it at all. I've had it break multiple times during 'upgrades'.
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by NBJack 4y ago
It doesn't come through well, and it is phonetically confusing (perhaps doubly so for those with English as a second language). In an age of mobile touchscreen keyboards, it just looks like a bad autocorrect.

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