burgreblast

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by burgreblast 2mo ago
Google clutches pearls and is shocked! Shocked! That anyone would violate its policies (while it pockets 30% of the fraudulent revenue). Shocked! And they would have caught them but those crafty criminals spoofed the user-agent. So how _cou
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by burgreblast 2mo ago
> Paper books are just decaying bundles of plant fiber Enjoy notes the way you want! But when I re-read a book I’ve previously annotated, I get a rush of the time and place it happened, 20 years later. It’s crazy. We are tactile beings w
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by burgreblast 3mo ago
You’re not claiming that most refugees are running from torture are you? Most are economic refugees running TOWARDS a better economic outcome than is available in their home country.
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by burgreblast 3mo ago
Perhaps human teachers would model correct grammar? vs "you like dinosaurs! me too!” From the blog post.
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by burgreblast 3mo ago
So a long article about them being kicked out and all they detail about their own actions is that "we asked him about it"? I'm not sure what "tacitly threatened" means, either. If they want sympathy, they probably
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by burgreblast 4mo ago
No disrespect for your valuable discovery but this attitude of “it’s possible, if you do these non-obvious steps” feels a lot like victim blaming in UI. If Apple (or anyone else) wanted to make a feature used, they can. For everyone else, i
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by burgreblast 4mo ago
Thank you for noticing that Tesla's are priced at premium levels, but they still don't know how to make actual quality that is present the models you listed above. I've owned several of these and driven all but the EQS and th
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by burgreblast 4mo ago
It broke with "tradition" because this was originally designed for Apple. Ive just recycled his previous Apple Car ideas. This car has nothing to do with Ferrari, except they paid him for work he already did once before.
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by burgreblast 4mo ago
>This car is what the Apple Car should have been in the 2010s This is the car apple was working on, slightly modified. Ive just (re)sold previous work, and Ferrari is holding the bag. The reason this doesn't look like a Ferrari i
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by burgreblast 7mo ago
I'm afraid he has it actually inverted. What if the "sanctity of the prose" is just a old gloss, and the Taboola / Outbrain ads are the reality that don't hide the org's true character? The printed version does
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by burgreblast 7mo ago
I don’t get this comment. Inspection does work but the suggested alternatives don’t. Having the client register their IPs isn’t tenable for most folks. What’s my IP at the shop? (No idea) Will it change? (Yes) now it’s broken. Seeing where
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by burgreblast 7mo ago
melanzana aka Aubergine aka eggplant
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by burgreblast 7mo ago
If the author had been paying attention _while it was happening_, rather than looking back at history and re-stating it to fit his mental model, he would have seen something else. Namely, the whole story of the rebound is Nicolas Hayek and
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by burgreblast 7mo ago
But ma, look at our stonk price!
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by burgreblast 8mo ago
I never get the moaning about killing Reader. It was never about popularity or user experience. Reader had to be killed because it [was seen as] a suboptimal ad monetization engine. Page views were superior. Was Google going to support mini
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by burgreblast 8mo ago
When you use Apple Pay, Apple collects ~0.15% (15 bps) from the issuing banks for credit. $1B in transaction volume = $1.5M In 2022 the total volume was estimated at $6T * .15% = $9B. Real number would be maybe half due to lower fees on deb
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by burgreblast 5y ago
Why is collecting all this information suddenly OK as long as it's "only" used for Advertising purposes? Is there a reason we also also forbid Google and FB from gathering this information? Or are their business models too im
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by burgreblast 6y ago
Second oldest trick in the book: attack the messenger
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by burgreblast 6y ago
But it's not "in reality". It's "with the mindsets and experience and architecture and tooling that are prevalent in the industry"...that's what takes more. Any given project might not require large number
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by burgreblast 6y ago
Good luck, I can imagine the cognitive dissonance. Many of their contracts dangle cheap / free hardware with expensive services and hidden over-priced processing in a bundled SAAS. And yet feature wise, it "does it all" exc
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by burgreblast 6y ago
>a completely seamless order-and-pay-from-your-phone system because it doesn't exist. (disclaimer: founder) Yes, this is literally what Zerocontact does. Contactless waitlist, menu, order, pay. Hybrid ordering so staff and guests
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Ohio Prison Death Updates [pdf](coronavirus.ohio.gov)
60 points by burgreblast 6y ago|56 comments
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by burgreblast 6y ago
17 days ago we heard that 3,330 inmates tested positive, 96% without symptoms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980932 There was much speculation, but many people agreed that in 2 weeks we would have super interesting
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by burgreblast 8y ago
Here's "Line busting" the drive thru 68+ cars deep. It's astonishing the WiFi goes out that far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIQWyYQ0EYg FWIW, also an edge approach, with Prometheus etc.
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by burgreblast 9y ago
Thanks for sharing that link. You can see from the product that neither the CEO (Adlink), President (Gannett), Dir or Eng (P&G) have any experience with vehicles. I love that they are doing a hybrid stepside truck chassis with BMW engi
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by burgreblast 9y ago
What electrics have a "big problem with heating" and what are the other vehicles are in the class of "this one, with no insulation"? Also what is your off-road experience, that you can say "you'll cut yourself
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by burgreblast 9y ago
Why use Uber in Germany? I can call a Taxi on an app. That was the "big" invention by Uber, and now it's commoditized. The idea that anyone can be an uber driver doesn't help me the passenger much, as long as I can get
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by burgreblast 10y ago
It's hard for me to interpret this outside the 2017 pressure chamber of headlines/advertising. It's remarkable similar to a top of mind recall of "what last 10 news articles have you seen published recently?" There
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by burgreblast 10y ago
Actually, it's 1000-9000 messages per server per day . Or about 1 message every 10-100 seconds. Of course, that's just the new messages inbound. They may need to distribute that single message to 100M people (who likely won&#x27
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by burgreblast 10y ago
I belive it's in the low 100's of millions of tweets per day. I've seen that stat elsewhere > 14 billion API Do you mean 14B internal, services-requesting-services API requests? Surely you can't mean 14B API requests

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