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by apparent 3mo ago
Agree that it would not be best for fine drawing (although the new Pros have the proximity feature that perhaps helps with this. And I agree that Chinese characters could present similar issues in terms of legibility, given how much precisi
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by apparent 3mo ago
IME it's not just about slower. It's about forcing you to think about how words go together, where line breaks fall, how you're laying out bullet points, etc. Since you can change all of this on computers (or it happens autom
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by apparent 3mo ago
I do find the iPad battery drain to be annoying and inexplicable. When they first came out, iPads held a charge for weeks in standby. New ones drain in a few days, even when background app activity and such are disabled. And you're rig
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by apparent 3mo ago
The stroke size is highly customizable. What do you mean "the friction between the pen and stylus is bad"? As others have pointed out, you can get screen protectors and nibs for Apple pencils.
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by apparent 3mo ago
It probably depends on the task. I find that writing things out by hand is extremely helpful for memorizing.
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by apparent 3mo ago
It may be the case that the iPad is slicker than ideal for some people, but even if that's the case it doesn't relate to his point about centuries of adaptation or whatever. In the past, we were limited by the laws of physics and
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by apparent 3mo ago
I find his dismissal of iPad writing to be unconvincing. He talks about how we have calibrated our writing utensils over centuries to involve the proper amount of friction, and how that knowledge goes out the window when you're writing
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When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?(arstechnica.com)
4 points by apparent 3mo ago|1 comments
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by apparent 3mo ago
I don't use passkeys because I can't tell if they're a one-way door. If I use it once, can I still use passwords to log in in the future? I also don't understand how the system works when things go wrong (someone hacks y
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by apparent 3mo ago
Very interesting, and possibly quite smart. To the extent this increases the chance that someone pays their bills, it would reduce the interest rate (either explicit or implied) charged by the financing option. It's like how car loans
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iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments(9to5mac.com)
3 points by apparent 3mo ago|1 comments
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by apparent 3mo ago
Wow, that kind of undermines the entire premise of the piece. It also makes much more sense. Thanks for digging that up!
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by apparent 3mo ago
I imagine they last longer than some other types, but it hasn't been an order-of-magnitude difference that was advertised. Also the cost/hassle is much more than expected. We've put some smart LED bulbs into some fixtures, an
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by apparent 3mo ago
> The use of solid-state technology gives the lights an extraordinary life-span, often measured in decades rather than years. I have found this not to be the case. They seem to last several years, but not an amazing period of time. Also,
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by apparent 3mo ago
Assume you meant "big prize" but I guess it's sort of one in the same?
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by apparent 3mo ago
Found the narrative, it was right there at the bottom. Now I remember reading some of his other stuff and it's very much in the same vein. > I care about having open technology that can be run in the public interest, aligned with th
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by apparent 3mo ago
Especially if you're pre-funding, which the sampled startups (those pitching A16Z) were.
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by apparent 3mo ago
The full quote: > When entrepreneurs walk into the offices of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a big American venture-capital firm, the odds these days are that their startups are using AI models made in China. “I’d say 80% chance [they are]
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by apparent 3mo ago
What a weird thing to downvote without comment. You doubt this? I am literally using AI right now to update software that generates tens of thousands of dollars of revenue annually.
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by apparent 3mo ago
I have used AI to ship software that users pay for.
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by apparent 3mo ago
I have hundreds of open tabs in Brave at all times on my M2 MBA and it's fine. It puts tabs to sleep when inactive and is generally quite usable. Also supports all the same extensions as Chrome (plus older ones that Chrome doesn't
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by apparent 3mo ago
> nobody would buy this watch for its technological aspects I can vouch for the falsity of this statement. I am more than happy to pay hundreds of dollars for a watch that has weeks of battery life and a great UI. Although there are othe
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by apparent 3mo ago
> That was before programs like Prep for Prep, which canvasses the city’s public, charter and parochial schools for promising minority students, gives them an after-school and weekend preparatory boot camp for 14 months and then funnels
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A Test Isn't Racist. Assumptions About Black Kids Can Be(nytimes.com)
4 points by apparent 3mo ago|5 comments
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by apparent 3mo ago
Nah, it's more than that. They didn't just resuscitate the brand and slap it onto some pre-made hardware. They're building everything from scratch. They are building devices that are just like the original Pebbles, but with s
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by apparent 3mo ago
If he had built the feature set you're suggesting, and with the battery life it would require, he'd be competing directly with Apple, Google, and Samsung. And he'd have no key differentiator. The reason Pebble has a chance at
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by apparent 3mo ago
Your reasoning is correct but Pebbles don't use E Ink screens. That's a specific technology made by a company by the same name.
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by apparent 3mo ago
The fact that he's putting his money where his mouth is (replacing all broken screen PT2s for the foreseeable future) is what gives me confidence that the rate is very low, even if his number is not quite right for the reasons you indi
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by apparent 3mo ago
The notion that a ring-sized device could be "so environmentally unfriendly" is just not serious. I have no desire to get one, but environmentalism has zero to do with it. Is my smoke detector "so environmentally unfriendly&q
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by apparent 3mo ago
Given their track record hitting the battery life projections for the P2D and PT2 (almost), I would give them the benefit of the doubt on the Index01.

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