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2071.
by causality0 7y ago
Well, for example, they have no interest in doing even the bare minimum support necessary to bring it to a mass audience. https://jasonatwood.io/archives/1881
2072.
by causality0 7y ago
Frankly I think the only Google products that are safe from being Old Yeller'd are ones so ingrained in our society their attempted cancellation would likely result in an act of Congress. Have we started a deathwatch for Google Fi yet
2073.
by causality0 7y ago
Courts have as much to do with justice as HR departments. Both exist only to protect the higher-ups. It's not about protecting people; it's about protecting power and those who wield it.
2074.
by causality0 7y ago
It saddens me that modern medical researchers seem to fall into one of two categories: those who will happily make ten thousand people shit out their lungs in exchange for some seasonal allergy relief, and those who would rather let ten th
2075.
by causality0 7y ago
These days my toughest eyewear challenge is getting an optometrist who's patient enough with my sensitive eyes to actually get the right prescription.
2076.
by causality0 7y ago
You can't save a people from themselves. I don't know how many times the US is going to have to learn this lesson.
2077.
by causality0 7y ago
Eh, it's gotten noticeably worse of late, almost as if their resources are going somewhere other than UX. The client as picked up a habit of hard-crashing on certain files when "Automatic" transcoding or "original"
2078.
by causality0 7y ago
I fear that soon we're going to need an open-source alternative to Plex. Increasingly aggressive monetization seems to be creeping into the Plex experience. I keep finding things I don't own and don't want showing up on my
2079.
by causality0 7y ago
The lack of direct video-out on modern smartphones is something I often find infuriating. Some of them support OEM smart docks, but imagine if the only way to output video on your laptop was a $250 HDMI cable. Sure you can cast, but there
2080.
by causality0 7y ago
True, but I mean vast differences on the sapient being scale. What if a human subspecies was otherwise the same as us but had the life expectancy of a chimp, about forty years at best? What if the difference was as small as a thirty point
2081.
by causality0 7y ago
There are also a lot of connotations attached to those terms with significant implications. For example, does "conformity to social hierarchy" contradict previous findings indicating men tend to be more ambitious and take more ri
2082.
by causality0 7y ago
I think we're quite lucky as a species, and from an egalitarian perspective, that our genders and ethnicities are so similar to each other. The problems we face today eradicating sexism and racism are nothing compared to a world in wh
2083.
by causality0 7y ago
Amazon's UX is horrible though. Having to access it through the amazon.com storefront is like having to walk through a crowded gift shop to get into your movie theater.
2084.
by causality0 7y ago
I do agree with you, but I must point out that hiding income from the government is a very common practice. Probably a quarter of the people I know have significant under-the-counter income sources they feel no need to include in their tax
2085.
by causality0 7y ago
Fascinating. This particular behavior is somewhat widely known but it does serve as a hint that there are depths of animal behavior we haven't yet perceived. Billions of years of evolution have created fantastically complex interacti
2086.
by causality0 7y ago
In my opinion the bigger threat is "gig cancer", the largely-invisible creep of normal jobs turning into gig jobs on paper, when in reality the only thing that changes is workers losing benefits and worker protection regulations.
2087.
by causality0 7y ago
Beat me to it. To expound upon this, Japanese is not unique in basically adhering to Zipf's law. In many organization data sets, including the vocabulary of most languages, the most commonly used word is twice as common as the second
2088.
by causality0 7y ago
>Tumblr was a happy place and using it made people feel good about themselves. Uh, what? Just off the top of my head I can think of people who've been bullied on Tumblr into attempted suicide.
2089.
by causality0 7y ago
Basically correct. If you could attach a magical GoPro to a single electron in a conductor and applied voltage to it, you would see that it zips around at very high speeds in various directions across very small distances and only averages
2090.
by causality0 7y ago
The claim that black holes are perfectly black is subject to those same constraints.
2091.
by causality0 7y ago
>but electron speed in cupper is about 15-20cm per nanosecond so it is usually not a big factor. I'm going to be extremely pedantic for a moment, but this is a case where there's a bit of a difference between electricity and
2092.
by causality0 7y ago
Hawking radiation has been observed in multiple experiments. https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4634 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1241-0
2093.
by causality0 7y ago
Now matter how perfect it is, it is by definition less perfect than the movement of your hand itself. The real world is also limited by inertia, which virtual interfaces are not if they bypass the hands entirely. We're a long way fro
2094.
by causality0 7y ago
>We’re always looking for ways to make Dropbox better for you Like by reducing the number of linkable devices from infinity to 3 for free accounts? I was enjoying my free 16GB of space from referring two dozen of my friends and family m
2095.
by causality0 8y ago
Legally speaking, the photographer is completely within his rights. The band is also within their rights to ban him from their shows because they disagree with the way he uses his legal authority. Personally, I find the idea that the photog