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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Don't call my claim silly. Not the other guy, but your claims are silly. People can't have a civil discussion with you because you post nonsense.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Getting a certain status for 60 nights stayed in a year gets you in the lounge… or pay an extra $10/night on your room for the same thing. It's essentially the same problem with the fastpass system at theme parks. After a few
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>For that amount of money it’s incredible we aren’t seeing fakes… I suspect we are.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Although I hate to get political on HN, barely 20 years ago Democrats were the ones banning books in school for being too "culturally insensitive", while republicans were the ones who opposed book banning in schools Source? I
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>This is pretty concerning, especially as FDroid is by far the largest non-google android store at the moment That's almost certainly not true.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>I have noticed that thermal notes fade relatively quickly. When they do that I have to think about weather I want to reprint them or just throw them out. Or if you don't catch them before they fade, the task must not have been impo
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by Suppafly 1y ago
It's even worse, other than blockchain, their whole history is having successes and going out of their way to hand that success to their competitors.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>For example, Wikipedia generates >$180M/yr just by running ads for itself requesting donations. Requesting donations is the least effective monetizing strategy and yet it still works because of scale. Plus most of that goes towa
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>I strongly agree. I think it's a form of procrastinating. It's like a special extra bad form of procrastinating too, because they've essentially gamified procrastination to make it feel productive.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>but who then build quite a lot of snowflake software to regain functionality offered by more structured TODO applications. That includes: I pretty much don't want any of that stuff though.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Seems like there is a disease for pretty much every American tree, before long all we'll have is maples and random non-natives.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
hasn't this been known for a long time?
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Getting fined doesn't sound so bad -- if it was like $100, your friend could just be treating it as a $0.30/day fee for convenient parking. I had a professor in college that said she basically treated speeding tickets like tha
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Thank you. I see something like this all the time on one of the sites I use for work. If you fail the 2-factor, it'll tell you your password was wrong and reset the whole thing instead of telling you the 2-factor code was wrong or expi
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by Suppafly 1y ago
The have a list of the presentations in the original link. That should at least give you some idea what they're going to talk about.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Curious how they’ll balance the business needs of moving fast with AI vs quality Why would they need to do that? Is that even a goal or something that this conference is addressing at all?
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Because it doesn't work correctly for advanced users and doesn't work well for low skill or intermediate users. It's a poor solution to handling zip files that doesn't work well for any class of users.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>ZIP Folders was developed by Dave Plummer from Microsoft I'm not sure I'd tell people I did that if it were me.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
It does, but it's annoying because it treats things as folders, which I suppose is nice if you just want to look inside the zip, but a pain if you just want to extract something in a normal way like you'd do with any other unzippi
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Yeah I'm sure they aren't for everyone but for me, the hard plastic still fits better than trying to use different sizes of rubber tips to make another type work.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I've got a Confinity Paypal tshirt from a job fair I went to in 2000 or 2001 from back when they envisioned people using palm pilots to transfer money. I always think it's hilarious that people give Elon any credit for doing anyth
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by Suppafly 1y ago
my son still occasionally uses my 20 year old Sansa in his car.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
If you are still into wired headphones, the basic apple earbuds are a pretty good value at $19. I like them enough to have ordered new ones when I've lost the old ones.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
>because it was the thing that got me into media piracy, and led me to install Linux on an old laptop, which I used exclusively for media piracy I feel a lot of us have similar stories.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
There are other reasons to not want to deal with issues resulting from non-traditional lifestyles beyond that pressures from payment processors and pretending otherwise is a little silly.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Honestly, part of the overall ordering experience has pretty much always been included as part of the review on Amazon. It's weird that people take such umbrage with it. It may not be the author's "fault" but that's
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by Suppafly 1y ago
That's nice of him to part with some, but I feel like most people would rather buy a few than 1000 of them.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Depending how you define 'robot', it's sorta surprising this hasn't already been true for years.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
Probably not anytime soon, LLMs are pretty shit for googling. I doubt the new verb will be anything we can even guess at this point.
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by Suppafly 1y ago
I suspect they are more reliable and the end user experience is better.

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