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by albert_e 2y ago
this video posted elsewhere here seems dramatic enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgfkGiHhxs Imagine you are in the cockpit at the top of the plane and your view/perspective - for a layman like me this would seem
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by albert_e 2y ago
As per the translation example shown ... the word "English" translates to "glish"? Seems like a flaw. INPUT "I understand English better than glish." OUTPUT "I sadt glish begt than glish" Meaning is f
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by albert_e 2y ago
Great idea. When text-to-code capabilities of LLMs become more mature, libraries like these are going to create a lot of novel uses cases and opportunities.
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by albert_e 2y ago
Thanks but again this seems to be somewhat related but not identical to the illusion described in the article. (Sure, the illustration / GIF / captioning on the OP aricticle is really poor and confusing) But the illusion described
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by albert_e 2y ago
is there something similar to this on Android?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Interesting. Why doesn't MS just let us "pin" this to Quick Access like a folder
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by albert_e 2y ago
On a tangent ... Somethings I miss: Ability to add a Folder as a "toolbar" to the taskbar. Ability to keep the "calendar" window open while working on another window. Ability to set custom date format say dd-mmm-yyyy in
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by albert_e 2y ago
one can also use page-up / page-down / home / end / arrow / ctrl+arrow etc. ... if keyboard has to be used. scroll bars indicate visually how big the scroll area is and where you are ... and let you directly click o
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by albert_e 2y ago
in many situations we need to scroll both vertically and horizontally -- for example a Excel spreadsheet / google sheets, or maps even on touch screens -- depending on the UI -- if the entire display area is "hot" the scrollb
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by albert_e 2y ago
Add to the list -- -- Make this your default browser? - Yes!!! - No I am a masochist. Nag me every time I use this browser. -- WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY AND CHOICE. <fine print> Turn on Alerts and Notifications and full permissions to s
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by albert_e 2y ago
No the point in article is "OK" and "Cancel" were fairly standardized buttons for ANY general action the user might initiate -- that requires a confirmation. In certain situations where the action itself is "Cancel
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by albert_e 2y ago
I have pressed an imaginary "brake pedal" with my foot many times when travelling as a passenger in vehicles with someone else driving, just because i was watching the traffic and sensed the need to slow down. Another instancee --
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by albert_e 2y ago
One thing I feel in my personal experience -- while I am doing something -- inability to switch attention to someone speaking to me if they do not first ask for my attention (excuse me / hello / myname / cough / knock) b
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by albert_e 2y ago
I love this. I know this is just the beginning and the tech and UX will mature a lot - but being able to consciously choose what we allow into our sensory world would be a great superpower to have. In the distant future this will all be emb
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by albert_e 2y ago
Devil's advocate: If a country A decides to block twitter.com but forgets to ban x.com which remains available ... is Twitter engaging in illegality / violation of CDN terms of service?
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Ask HN: How to add INR/custom currency formats in MS Excel
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by albert_e 2y ago
Currently getting Access Denied error: >> Access Denied You don't have permission to access " http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/05/23/reti... " on this server. Ref
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by albert_e 2y ago
AWS will (should) make this an optional feature. Often the technology is the easier part. The difficult part is how to name the feature intuitively, adding to an ocean of jargon and documentation, and making the configuration knobs intuitiv
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by albert_e 2y ago
this is neat for minimalists for some additional help ... marking days of the week (M T W T F S S) along the top.. at least in relief might be a functional addition. optionally a month name slider could be added at the top - obviously it w
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by albert_e 2y ago
> used Tasker to listen for L-R shake action and make that temporarily disable grayscale mode for 20 secs Wonderful I am using gray scale on personal phone permanently, but avoided that on work phone as I might need to discern color in s
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by albert_e 2y ago
I like the price point - small enough for an individual to commit. Maybe you can try A/B testing to see if $2.99 does much better than $3.00 :)
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by albert_e 2y ago
I initially mis interpreted the title as "... outpaces daily drinking OF WATER" and was stunned.
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by albert_e 2y ago
Very long but well written account of facts and commentary. The summary section describing the cold war environment of distrust ... which made each side assume the worst from the other side ... felt like a mirror of today's political p
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by albert_e 2y ago
I agree there should be some spaces free of politics. Will avoid. (The original point was -- if the law is strictly worded such that it is a crime only if there is demonstrable benefit for the person who is paying then the "loophole&qu
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by albert_e 2y ago
> for the benefit of that other person What if I route the payment through a third party like my lawyer Mr. Cohen
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by albert_e 2y ago
Cool So it is republished and hosted as a website now? this web page / site / post must have appeared on WWW much later in that case? Was originally wondering if this web page is itself published in 1986 (styling /css updates
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by albert_e 2y ago
Pardon the ignorance 1986 Was this first published in 1986? On the ... internet?
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by albert_e 2y ago
I guess earlier people must have assumed it is not really possible to replace all those instruments and tools with a small phone. So the ad was probably punching up in a way back then. Today there is a real recognition of how pervasive digi
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by albert_e 2y ago
Can we also add : Falsehoods that governments / authorities operate under -- - Every citizen has a phone number - Every citizen has a phone number that is not shared with another person (if there are four citizens in a family - they wi
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by albert_e 2y ago
the most far-fetched justification I can muster up for this: the UI/user requried a tabular display of all tickets as columns with one row per user ... and they had a UI that only displays DB table contents as-is. Nah, even for a 5pm d

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