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by coldtea 5mo ago
They've been a has-been for the last 5 years at least. They didn't go under, but still lost the title and tons of market share to DJI and 360
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Given how underwhelming (photo/video influencer ad "reviews" aside) the new over-hyped models they released are, they should not survive.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> That's not true unless HN readers are a representative sample of the overall 25-44 population, which they aren't. Higher-income/SES is associated with a lower mortality rate than the overall population average. 7K/
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> and not planning on moving abroad for cost of living improvements How about quality of life improvements? Or life in general?
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by coldtea 5mo ago
When it comes to the shit imposed to the rest of society, and the shit imposed on office workers, it's worse in this industry.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Any review that's not a hard metric can be gamed to be about anything the reviewer cares about. They don't like your age and prefer some fresh face to pull with no family alnighters and work for half the money? The performance rev
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Marc Andreessen argued that we've already reached AGI. He says that the top AI models give better answers than 99% of people he has access to, and he has access to some of the best people in their field. He has access to employee
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Also because their reasoning is just a statistical model of whatever they've been fed. No experience of pain, humility, human connection, etc in this.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
It also doesn't exist if you close the computer and take a walk in nature. But we're talking about a case where you also want/need to use native apps. Not necessarily browser. Even if "it's the same" in this ca
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Huh? Never got deep into it, but always thought it was some kind of arm cpu with underpowered integrated gpu or similar.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Same shit. Same shit vendors too.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Also, unless you log in as root, the apps can't do much. On a personal computer, they "can't do much" to the things you can trivially re-create by reinstalling anyway. Apps, system files, etc. They can however do e
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> This is what happens when you run an OS controlled by some random big corporation You get a channel for installing apps, where someone vetoes random apps that want to have access to control your whole computer and potentially steal se
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by coldtea 5mo ago
It's 100% just firmware + crappy business model. Printers are hardly "complex" - a few very standard gear/roller/sensor based mechanisms we've built for 4 decades pretty identically with hardly any innovation.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Because everyone wants 100% PostScript-compatible printers and nothing else. Nothing about what the parent wrote prevents that.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> And these weren't some cheap amazon basics dongles, I'm talking the $250+ docks from Dell, Lenovo, etc. Most of premium "docks" (if not all) are repackaged cheap hw sold much lower as no-name.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
The bootloader boot/process however is not related to driver support. Not that I know what's nightmarish about it in the Pi.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Rightfully blaming bad parents is reactionary So? Not all reactionary (if you mean "conservative") takes are bad. Sometimes they're better than the alternative: accepting bad parenting as some default and working around
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> The power user market was never that big for Apple since Mac Classic came to be, that was the target market, the "idiots". I'd call the power user market that - the kind of idiocy that's more interested in the proc
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by coldtea 5mo ago
That what apps have permission to access/record what at what times they use it, shouldn't be hidden or scaterred across several Settings panels.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Unfortunately, they often lack what we gained over the last decades. Namely navigating with a mouse For those workflows (as opposed, to say, Photoshop), we could do without that. That's the whole benefit. > and being self-expl
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Display technology has seen so much progress in the past decades. Apple marketing has taught us about "Retina" displays with pixels so small that you can't tell them apart without a microscope. We get these very rich and
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Which then raises the idea that young earth creationism posits a God who would create a world that intentionally misleads people about its age. Not such a good argument either. They're way ahead of you: "The lord moves in my
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Physical evident strongly supports the 13-ish billion year age. Radioactive decay shows that a young earth could not exist, as there would be lots of short-lived primordial radioactive isotopes. Well, if one ascribes to this God thing
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> The thing is, the "task assigned to it" is changing with improved capabilities. Only if you give in to fads and FOMO. The core tasks people need change at a much smaller pace.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Otherwise it would be like Intel and Microsoft had decided in the year 2000 that computers are "good enough" now and we would have explored what's possible with that hardware ever since. That would be the dream... no fu
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by coldtea 5mo ago
"Marc Andreeseen brags about what a cool innovator personality he has, presenting it as advice"
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Recent overuse by language models has led many to declare it bad writing. I'm not so sure. It is bad writing.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
No, I mean what is missing is an AI solution to "nobody cares to pay for what you generated".
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by coldtea 5mo ago
vibe buyers

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