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by blehn 1y ago
> There's a divide between people who enjoy the physical experience of the work and people who enjoy the mental experience of the work Eh, physical and mental isn't the divide — it's more like people who enjoy code itself
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by blehn 1y ago
Isn't that basically the same premise as Chrome, which already dominates the market? Google even made something called ChromeOS. Arc wasn't really more than a distracting skin on Chromium with a few innovative bits of UI...
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by blehn 1y ago
Perhaps the absolute worst use-case for an LLM
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by blehn 1y ago
Not that Google needs any more cash, but ReVanced has to be the absolute worst defense for maintaining openness on Android. As in, you could have cited the thousands of legitimate apps that have nothing to do with circumventing a pretty rea
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by blehn 1y ago
It's slight, but noticeable. The 15 Pro was 187g and felt much lighter than the 14 Pro, it's a shame they added more weight on the 16.
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by blehn 1y ago
Manual transmissions have no practical benefit aside from arguably being easier to repair. A better car analogy is pickup trucks (and cars in generally really) — they've gotten huge over the years, compact pickups have disappeared, and
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by blehn 1y ago
Counterpoint: I worked there for years and the demand for more people wasn't natural. It came from (1) typical employees not getting much done because they were either not very motivated, not very competent, or stuck in meetings all da
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by blehn 1y ago
I want to love this but the visual language makes it kind of unusable for me. Why not match the track and train colors to their line color (red for the 123) and then use different visual indicators for train state (stopped, at station, etc)
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by blehn 2y ago
I don't really understand what the search nearby places button is doing. I think the solution would be to allow some sort of OR operator (which seems straightforward), or conditions the act on generic queries (which seems more difficul
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by blehn 2y ago
According to this data, traffic is reduced on the bridges and tunnels but not within Manhattan itself, e.g., going from Hell's Kitchen to Midtown East or Greenwich Village to Alphabet City.
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by blehn 2y ago
First, it's not exclusively defined by revenue (which is what my first point was alluding to). Second, the underlying assumption of revenue generated is that it's going to the MTA and used to improve public transit and therefore q
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by blehn 2y ago
> I'm not sure how to reconcile the significant drop in the bridge and tunnel commute times with the apparent non-effect on commute times within the congestion relief zone. Yeah, I'm not sure what to make of that either but it&
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by blehn 2y ago
1. The data is obviously flawed, but if there's anything to speculate from it, it's that the actual congestion in lower Manhattan isn't affected that much. 2. So the success of this policy really depends on how much additiona
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by blehn 2y ago
No one likes decent and cheap public transport? I find that hard to believe. It's basically the common denominator for the best modern cities. Motorcycles are definitely not the solution. Motorcycle usage in NYC has skyrocketed since 2
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by blehn 2y ago
On the other hand, touchscreen page turn has several UX disadvantages. - You have to move the position of your thumb/hand for every page turn (to the screen, and back off of it). I disagree with "more energy required with the phys
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by blehn 2y ago
Why make two sizes and STILL make the smaller phone enormous? Apple is reportedly making the regular iPhone Pro larger as well. Baffling.
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by blehn 2y ago
IIRC the vest schedule is 25% at one year and then 75% over the next three years in monthly installments.
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by blehn 2y ago
You're right it's not huge but (in hindsight) it's not negligible either. Because the vesting schedule is 4 years for each grant, the employees have no choice but to leave the shares in GOOG for 1-4 years.
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by blehn 2y ago
Vesting for each grant starts at one year and is monthly after that. So you're really only waiting one year for the first big chunk of stock to be liquid. 400k TC at Google means that you have 400k (pre-tax) liquid at the end of the ye
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by blehn 2y ago
Does it disable (or allow for disabling) iPhone's dreadful dynamic tone mapping? (It makes exposure-locked footage look like auto-exposure is on)
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by blehn 2y ago
With promotions, equity, and stock price growth (+220% over the last 5 years), probably closer to 2 or 2.5M of Google income.
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by blehn 2y ago
you can expand the video into "theater mode" and it will fill the window width. just as before.
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by blehn 2y ago
Pure change aversion from users. This is a more sensible design. You can now read comments while you watch a video, which is clearly a more important use-case than browsing a bunch of recommended videos while you watch a video. The comments
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by blehn 2y ago
There are definitely plenty of coasters at Google, but these kinds of investor statements are positively vapid. "Google spends billions per year on projects that go nowhere" Isn't that exactly what VC firms do? Google would b
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by blehn 3y ago
"UX is complete and utter trash" is a bit hyperbolic — you listed a handful of nits that don't affect 99.9% of their users. On the other hand, iOS is undoubtedly more efficient, smoother, and more stable than Android. I have
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by blehn 3y ago
I think your mods are sensible, however if Dan Luu added those CSS rules himself, there would be comments on here lamenting the low density and "excess whitespace". Luu's audience, on the whole, probably prefers the relativel
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by blehn 3y ago
You say that like someone who didn't have to periodically clean/erase/throw away their parents' malware-infested Windows machine (which was already bogged down by anti-virus software) in the early '00s. Not that I a
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by blehn 3y ago
Yep I was coming from an older Intel MBP, so the downgrade to the Air was dramatic enough to be irritating. But I agree, the sound engineering in the Air isn't bad in absolute terms, probably even pretty good... just not close to the P
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by blehn 3y ago
The blending looks better, but the LED sign on the bus for example looks almost like handwritten lettering... the letters are all different heights and widths. Not even close to realistic. There's a lot of nuance that goes into getting
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by blehn 3y ago
I really wanted to love the 13" Air but two things made me switch to the Pro after trying it for a few weeks. One is that the internal speakers suck in comparison to the Pro. I 'm not looking for audiophile quality from laptop spe

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