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by aikinai 2y ago
I’m not native, but have read and spoken Japanese fluently for almost twenty years. I still can’t get used to and hate vertical text. Maybe it’s because 99% of my Japanese context is business-related or on devices (computer, phone) and I do
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by aikinai 2y ago
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by aikinai 2y ago
You mean in another country? Where would that actually be in the US?
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by aikinai 2y ago
Not in France, but same experience here. Telegram has by far the best UX and clients of any chat app, so that’s what I use with my friends and family.
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by aikinai 2y ago
“That kind of monopoly” meaning the traditional definition where customers have no choice but to use their services. Their “monopoly” is one of quality, habit, and convenience, not lack of consumer choice.
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by aikinai 2y ago
So if you sell your hardware at a profit, you forfeit your right to profit off the platform post-sale? Nintendo never sells hardware at a loss either, by the way. And your Samsung comment doesn’t make sense. Samsung gets the operating syste
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by aikinai 2y ago
Google is not even close to that kind of monopoly. Every one of their products has viable alternative, and plenty of anti-Google people get by without using them.
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by aikinai 2y ago
Crapware maybe, but I don’t see a correlation between AI and bloat. If anything, AI features are correlated with less bloated software since the AI is supposed to smooth over complexity. And some companies are using it to deliver real value
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by aikinai 2y ago
Well since we ended up with the most popular religions being monotheistic, it follows that regardless of what is true, most religious people are wrong. We just can’t prove which ones.
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by aikinai 2y ago
We do talk about curing anything that happens to human bodies that we don’t like, even if it’s a natural part of aging.
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by aikinai 2y ago
It’s a funny joke, but debunked by Elon Musk, along with a lot of other celebrities and normal people.
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by aikinai 2y ago
Most developers are writing routine code to implement crud apps.
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by aikinai 2y ago
Exactly my thought. When they replace Finder, it’ll almost certainly be with a port of the useless iPad Files app. Apple unfortunately isn’t in the business of making powerful, efficient (user-facing) software anymore.
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by aikinai 2y ago
Or embedded videos, or non-trivial animations, or non-Google fonts, or transparent strokes, or vector shapes (excluding the workaround I shared above). Sure, you can win clients without any of that stuff. Why do you need anything more than
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by aikinai 2y ago
There’s still one painful workaround to get SVGs into Google Slides! I actually posted it in that bug thread at Google and then ended up with people attacking me like I was on the team and claiming the workaround is good enough. Anyway, her
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by aikinai 2y ago
PowerPoint I believe you (or at least don’t know enough myself to argue). But for Slides, there’s no way. How, for example, would you put an outline around text?
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by aikinai 2y ago
You can’t do anything you want just by adding developers. If it were that easy, the entire software industry would look completely different. And that’s not even accounting for the inevitable system-wide repercussions of the work. https:&#
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by aikinai 2y ago
I'm not sure how you're framing that as a subsidy. It's a killer app that gets people over the threshold to purchase the platform (console). And then once the install base is established, everyone else wants to make their own
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by aikinai 2y ago
You’re obviously insinuating that they are delaying features in the EU just to be petty, but the ostensible reason is plenty compelling on its own. The EU regulations will require them to do insane amounts of custom work building a public A
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by aikinai 2y ago
Parent didn’t say when smart people figured it out. This is also why Nintendo (when they moved into video games) set up their business model as platform-holder, not just game developer. And their own games are primarily there to seed the pl
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by aikinai 2y ago
The consumer doesn’t care, but an evaluation of the state of the art and potential of self-driving should.
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by aikinai 2y ago
You haven't watched or read what they announced then. Almost all queries are processed locally or in the "Private Cloud" on Apple chips in Apple data centers. For queries that are better answered by ChatGPT, the phone will ex
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by aikinai 2y ago
If he didn't create $450B in value, then his pay package isn't $56B as everyone is quoting. Those are valued in the same "hype-dollars." The "He didn't do anything valuable anyway" and "His pay packag
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by aikinai 2y ago
A fair strategy for new stock grants, but reneging on a agreement from years ago isn't the appropriate time to test your leverage.
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by aikinai 2y ago
I also really appreciated that magical window with my 2018 iMac Pro at work! Never going to be able to justify a Studio Display…
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by aikinai 2y ago
The UK doesn't have nearly as many vending machines.
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by aikinai 2y ago
I switched to Macs in 2006 and haven’t felt like Windows’ grass is greener once since then. Until today. Maybe it shouldn’t be on by default, but this looks amazing.
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by aikinai 2y ago
This is a great explanation of important points many people fail to recognize. Thank you!
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by aikinai 2y ago
> employees being told that the company would collapse without him. These employees are smart enough to decide for themselves how critical they believe Altman is.
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by aikinai 2y ago
She’s was a PhD candidate in theoretical physics and is working at a startup directly building mobility robotics prototypes. How is she a consulting/finance showman? Because she was at McKinsey at one point? Maybe if she quit immediate

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