cmelbye

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by cmelbye 4y ago
> Apple can't control what applications get uploaded to the third party stores Is this actually true? I don't know how I would find the answer to this question without paying a team of lawyers to analyze the 40,000 word Digital
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by cmelbye 4y ago
The fee to set up a developer account is $99/year. The biggest apps on the store and the smallest pay the same fee. A fixed fee helps to equalize the barrier to entry, and everyone likes that. On the other hand, App Store's cost s
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by cmelbye 4y ago
> $8 is way more than the profitability of an ad supported user. I don't think so. Twitter's ARPU from advertising in Q2 2022 was around $4.50. ARPU from advertising in the US was more than $14. Users likely to subscribe at $8&
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Autopilot is basically worthless to me. I use it for a couple minutes at a time at most. The first time it slammed on the brakes on an empty highway, taking me from 70 to 40, I completely lost faith.
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by cmelbye 4y ago
TikTok will make $11B in ad revenue this year. It is their business model. This is twice as large as Twitter's business, and a third of Instagram or YouTube.
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by cmelbye 4y ago
That ship has sailed. Spraying chemicals into the atmosphere to modify the weather happens around the world already, including in the US.
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Facebook policy is to require a real name for every user. I'm struggling to see how that's relevant here. If you want to tweet under an anonymous pseudonym -- great! We are talking about an optional verification feature for a subs
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Because I didn't have a physical SIM. The phone was lost.
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by cmelbye 4y ago
I give it a year before they dip their toes into Creative Suite integrations.
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by cmelbye 4y ago
So government ID + some reputable source (news article, etc.) that links your real name to your professional name, and then it can’t change.
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by cmelbye 4y ago
The usual: My account password, two factor auth, account security PIN. Additionally, an SMS is sent to the number that’s being transferred giving a chance to block (with a timeout to auto-approve if the device is lost). I haven’t explored i
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Have you tried eSIM? It’s dependent on carrier, of course, but it’s actually an incredible UX. My partner lost his phone (and SIM) recently and I was able to transfer his T-Mobile line to a different iPhone in a few minutes using eSIM. It
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Could they simply disable the ability to change display names for verified users? It must match the government-issued ID / business documents / etc. that were used to verify in the first place. If you want to change it, send updat
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by cmelbye 4y ago
I've noticed that the language parsing of these knowledge/assistant queries is a bit strange sometimes. A more subjective example is "10 lakh in USD". This isn't a perfectly formed query -- lakh is not a currency bu
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Yes it’s very common. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu...
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by cmelbye 4y ago
The problem is that it's insane to leave all of this for the website to implement correctly. It's a UX nightmare and it opens the door for a company to game the system, secretly ignore my privacy setting, etc. The EU solution is,
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by cmelbye 4y ago
From what I've seen of mobile games, in practice it means that it starts off fun and well balanced. Then after [x] minutes it starts to get a bit frustrating, and suddenly you're unable to make progress without sitting and waiting
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by cmelbye 4y ago
I think his point is that FSD is an inevitability and when it comes it will generally upend the way we think about cars. Manual driving may always be a thing but it would become more of a passion than a way to get to work in the morning. Th
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Good luck winning a war if you're not censoring your enemy's propaganda.
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by cmelbye 4y ago
This doesn't make much sense. At the highest level, America imports more than it exports. I struggle to look at that and call it a one way street. It's a simple case of reciprocity. If China wants to ban American social media netw
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by cmelbye 4y ago
The funny part is that JUUL discontinued their "fruity / sweet" flavors years ago. Meanwhile, that market has been taken over by dozens of competitors that have every dessert flavor you could imagine at every gas station in t
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Apple didn’t design iPadOS to be “arbitrarily different enough to be called new.” They are incrementally building a new type of GUI from first principles. Mouse-based input took decades to evolve to where it is today. Its okay to feel like
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Wait til you find out that "sick" and "ill" can also be synonyms for "really great".
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by cmelbye 4y ago
That’s not the main message. No one cares that iPod touch is being discontinued. No one was buying them. People see this news as the "end of an era" -- an era that began with Apple's reinvention in the early 2000s. That'
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by cmelbye 4y ago
Whether or not that's true, the government should ban this type of business. Not support it with our tax dollars.
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by cmelbye 5y ago
If you are audited by the IRS and they find that you overpaid, they will issue a refund. It's not a one-way street.
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by cmelbye 5y ago
The problems you’re describing are problems of the internet, not decentralization. Few could’ve predicted what the initial rules of the internet would generate after a few decades. We can learn from the outcome and come up with new rules. T
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by cmelbye 5y ago
Steam Deck has a very similar form factor and is way more open to hacking. It seems like the free market is working. Why should the people who develop products at Nintendo have to design around some politician’s law?
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by cmelbye 5y ago
I don't think that's true. The paper says that a camera pose estimated by a SLAM system is required. ARKit implements SLAM and can easily provide camera pose for each frame through the ARFrame class. But there are countless other
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by cmelbye 5y ago
16" MBP with M1 Max is the best performing Apple computer available, according to GeekBench. Some Mac Pro configurations outperform on multi-core benchmarks, but those start at $6,500 for rack mounted configurations. The new MBPs are i

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