Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Replace "Apple Car" with "MP3 Player". In 2001, there were plenty of players on the market that sufficiently did the job of playing audio. Apple saw that they could do better and they did. They must feel that they can
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That's where I think Apple making a car might be interesting. They've already shown they can handle effectively renting a phone. And we know for sure their car isn't going to be cheap. What I suspect they're going to d
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Their problem with Siri is that their stance on privacy gets in the way in this regard. They won't mine and use the massive amounts of data that they need to train their AI. To your point; that does mean they probably won't have
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I have a Prius and I'm one of the apparent few Prius owners that hate it. Not because of the mileage--I've heard that the Prius hybrid engine is some top-notch engineering. No, I hate my Prius because there are so many little thi
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
That presumes only people in the US fear my being a Freemason and, so the question remains.
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That's quite a straw man comparison to the scenario I describe.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I'm a Freemason. Some people don't like that. They think we worship the devil (we don't) and that we control the world (were that wishing made it so but, no, we don't). It's not out of the realm of possibility tha
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Not to put too fine a point on what you said but since lot of people here are saying, in essence, "Unless you do support storming the Capitol then you have nothing to worry about" I think it's worth highlighting with a concre
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Well, if Trump tweets "I'm gonna nuke Iran" tomorrow they don't want to be the place Trump announces this. That is a far better argument for permanently suspending his account than what they cobbled together.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I fully support the efforts to impeach President Trump, if for no other reason than to prevent him from being able to run again. I also support Twitter's right to kick him off their platform. That said; it seems a stretch to me to per
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I'd like to see something like this built into the Operating Systems. Maybe it's just me (misophonia) but having someone typing while a conversation is happening is so distracting as to make it next to impossible to follow the co
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I believe you may have misunderstood my post. I’m not excusing Facebook’s actions around their users’ privacy (or any of their crooked actions for that matter) I’m trying to encourage people to remember that this is what these companies do
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
It has been said that companies that build rely too heavily on the public, free API’s of another service are doomed when that service decides to monetize those API’s. See, for example, API users of Google Maps. I think we are now at the poi
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
The flaw in that way of thinking is that kids, broke college students, and those generally less well off had no social life or network before social media.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
This describes why I have had a Mac for the last 20 years. I used to build my own machines (before laptops really became commonplace, of course) and then install Linux. I loved the learning experience and the almost total control over my
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I feel strongly that we’re at the point where one can’t think of Facebook and be ignorant of the problems and the clear abusive practices they have and continue to be engaged in. Every time they get caught they feint an apology and proceed
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I've actually found, to my surprise, Walmart to be somewhat comparable to Target in the sense of feeling like I'm getting what I ordered instead of a knockoff like with Amazon. I had avoided them for years because of the terrible
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
The only way this changes is when more people stop buying from Amazon. The incentives otherwise are too great for Amazon to do anything about it.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
I don’t disagree but OP’s argument is, to me, why AI isn’t going to put programmers out of a job anytime soon.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
On the subject of touch typing; I’m curious how many people here are touch typists vs not? I am also curious what your thoughts are, if you’re a hunt-and-pecker, of how much that does or does not affect your productivity? I have this ongoin
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
The US being a “melting pot” probably means that unusual names are more common than the UK which is homogeneous by comparison. Also, and I don’t know if other countries do this, but Americans just love coming up with unusual and distinct na
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Trying to not have a thought is one of, in not the biggest misconceptions about meditation. You can’t turn your brain off. It’s going to think. That’s what it does. The point is to notice those thoughts in a nonjudgmental way. See them fo
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Yes!! This is where our modern society has gotten off track in thinking emotions such as fear are “bad”. That’s like saying skin is bad. It’s simply there to protect you. Unlike skin, sometimes our emotions try a little too hard to protect
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Practice noticing when you’re falling asleep. That alone can be every bit as helpful. The key word here being “practice”. I doubt anyone achieves these ecstatic states without it.
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I’ve seen mention elsewhere in the comments how this article is flawed because, in essence, if distraction is endemic to humans, how can it be bad? I think the intent of the article is to highlight just how much we are distracting ourselv
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Very much this. Gmail (well, all of Google properties anymore) is pretty terrible from a UI perspective. Not to mention the abject privacy considerations with anything Google related. I would love for Mozilla to start a competing email se
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Vim with the Vim-Fireplace plugin works great for me.
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Basic regex is readable, at a glance, for the most part, with a little practice. Anything marginally complex and you have to stop what you’re working on and really read the regex to try to understand what it’s doing. SQL isn’t hard, but try
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
Me too. To that end; if you aren't a magician and have no interesting in becoming one, do yourself a favor and don't try to figure out how a trick is done. You don't look at The Mona Lisa and yell, "That's not a re
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by Zelphyr 6y ago
See also: https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/810885087214637057?la... I get it; there is more than one way to do something--especially in code--and what feels correct for one person may leave a bad taste with

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