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by canuckintime 5y ago
> I initially didn’t know about the web interface, it has feature parity with the app. The native Libby apps have downloads/offline access and you can dismiss all the ux/window chrome while reading. The web interface doesn’t of
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Working remote from Cupertino or remote from China? Travel/Quarantine restrictions in China might actually be a bigger factor. Who can forget the infamous Tim Cook anecdote [1] about Apple resolving problems in Asia: > One day back
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by canuckintime 5y ago
The near uniform tech press coverage falling for Apple PR spin before the relevant court documents were available I have to guess is because the class action lawyers were pushing the same narrative. Ryan Jones highlighted why the lawyers mi
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> I don't want to be doing anything beyond minimal interactions. Call an Uber. Get directions. Respond to an important text. Answer/make urgent phone calls. Let my family know where I am... Minimal interactions on an Apple Watc
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> I feel like a custom OS (in addition to the hardware) is the wrong approach here. The Docomo Card Keita [1] was the exact same hardware yet ran Android. Lightphone II really should have just been an unlocked version (sim and bootloader
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by canuckintime 5y ago
It all comes down to text input. Steve Jobs launched the iPhone with only a touch screen but he launched the iPad with a hardware keyboard accessory (discontinued after a year but then reintroduced with the iPad Pro). So with iPadOS it’s al
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Another paradigm not often discussed is to keep iPadOS and macOS distinct but offer macOS as an app (hardware virtualized vm) on iPadOS. This is a similar transition to MS-DOS on Windows 95 (successful), Unix terminal on Mac OS X (successfu
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by canuckintime 5y ago
'Nathan Myhrvold tried' is relevant to this topic as another example [1] of a submarine story: > Myhrvold, who has a Ph.D. in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton, envisioned Intellectual Ventures as a merchant o
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Good point. Here's an example: > Apple executive Eddy Cue sent an email in January 2011 to CEO Tim Cook... “I believe there will be a 7-inch market and we should do one,” Cue wrote in the email, which forwarded an article written by
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> On top of that, I used to use his "forward newsletters to Newsblur" feature for a long time. I've long stopped using it and deleted all the feeds with newsletters, partly because it never worked very well, would you shar
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Not quite (HTML5 wasn’t even finalized for release until 2014). Jobs really intended for Apple-only Native Apps, one of which was a Safari, that allowed third party services via webpages > similar to Palm Pre and WebOS. not quite. webOS
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Riffing off your thought: Perhaps goalies should treat penalties like free kicks i.e. the goalie doesn't stand at the center of the goal and offers a far corner for the kicker to aim at? The goalie knows exactly where the kicker should
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Penalty takers aren't perfect and the keeper will save a few
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by canuckintime 5y ago
We're talking at cross purposes. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27256085 Also fwiw just because > Most professional clubs employ people who just look at penalties. They look at techniques, they look
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by canuckintime 5y ago
The underhand free throw is a counterpoint to your appeal to authority: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/sports/ncaabasketball/und...
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> If you pile requirements on the taker, The requirement is actually for the keeper not the tacker. But yes, I know I'm tilting at windmills
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by canuckintime 5y ago
which is what I want: > I hate seeing a keeper dive early to a random side only to be beaten by a weak shot down the middle
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by canuckintime 5y ago
By poorly taken, I mean aesthetics not effectiveness. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27256085
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Aesthetics wise. It's a 'penalty' shot, it'd be pretty ineffective penalty i.e. punishment if the shot wasn't often successful. So I'm unhappy with the Aesthetics because keepers know it's largely successf
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by canuckintime 5y ago
C'mon, I literally said the same conclusion that keeper's reactions aren't good enough. > I assume that keepers don't have faith in their nerves/reactions and thus have to force their bodies to dive before the sh
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Not fast enough for a shot from a pro, a good shot to the top right corner sure. But a penalty shot straight down the middle? A keeper isn't fast enough to catch that?
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> and if the keeper doesn't move early they're not saving anything that isn't down the middle Most penalties are poorly taken. I hate seeing a keeper dive early to a random side only to be beaten by a weak shot down the mi
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> People can be both legitimately impressed by the power and efficiency of Apple's first desktop-class processor, while also understand that certain more niche features were out of scope of a first version. I'm certainly expect
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> How are the reactions incompatible? People like me, who don't need more than 16 GB of RAM and one monitor, are happy with the M1. Other people are waiting on the M1X/M2 chip to bring what they need. I agree with your nuance.
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by canuckintime 5y ago
I consider the ability to drive more than one external display to be directly related to the power and design of the chip.
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by canuckintime 5y ago
I’m reading somewhat incompatible reactions in the top level comments e.g. [1] > Somewhere, the collective whos who of the silicon chip world is shitting their pants. Apple just showed to the world how powerful and efficient processors c
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Edit: double posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957269
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by canuckintime 6y ago
Oh, I didn’t even notice the UI change because for years I’ve been exclusively setting all my alarms with (Type to) Siri. If I add the Alarm shortcut to Control Center, would this numeric keyboard be faster? I wager it’d be more reliably&#x
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by canuckintime 6y ago
Hisense has been offering eink phones for the past two years. The latest iteration is the A7 CC 5G with a 6.7" 300 ppi color e-ink display
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by canuckintime 6y ago
The key problematic proposal was not the business model per se (the agency model was left largely in place even after the anti-trust was lost and punitive measures applied), it was Apple coordinating the publisher oligopoly to force Amazon

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