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by ebg13 6y ago
That's a bad reason, and they executed poorly. The techcrunch gif I linked _kills_ the demo (in the good way) in a second. Random schmoe cellphone took their marketing department to school without an ounce of preparation.
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by ebg13 6y ago
The thing that strikes me the most is how absolutely terrible they are at showing off their product. Their whole promo video is extreme closeups on 3D renderings that look no different than what my cellphone can do because it's just a
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by ebg13 6y ago
I do, largely for political reasons, partly for trust reasons.
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by ebg13 6y ago
The title ought to be "Dark Extremely Low Contrast Except, Weirdly, The Arrows Mode for HN". Why are the arrows bright and the text so dark? Is this to encourage voting without reading?
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by ebg13 6y ago
They can't because of hustle culture.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> you should agree that the real value of a quarter pounder in NYC is simply higher The real value of the quarter pounder is the same, because the quarter pounders are identical. The real cost is higher because each dollar buys less. T
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by ebg13 6y ago
> That's already enough to deserve immunity from snarky insults. No, I don't think it is. This is a refusal to do something that costs literally nothing purely out of spite. If anything, that negates the good will that might
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by ebg13 6y ago
What if I'd split it into two separate replies?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I refuse to be a donor. If they want me then make a real donation, say some money towards funeral expenses. You refuse to save lives at literally no cost to yourself or anyone you know unless someone pays your family off? > there
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by ebg13 6y ago
> how much would you pay for a big mac that happens to be located a hundred miles away from you? You just showed that proximity to the buyer matters, not location, because _delivery_ is an additional cost in both money and time. If you
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by ebg13 6y ago
I noticed mine, and I'm definitely not alone. YMMV.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The new PS5 is going to have SSD speeds of over 5000 mb/s, and is coming out soon. That's not notably different than 3500 mb/s in any meaningful sense. Loading speed returns diminish very rapidly because you're lo
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by ebg13 6y ago
If you're not running truly massive amounts of data through it, then PCIe 4.0 provides no benefit over PCIe 3.0 anyway.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> These CPUs don't have PCIe 4. I'm fine with PCIe 4 not hitting mainstream for a few more years. AMD X570 motherboards all integrate noisy and failure-prone active fans directly on the motherboard because the chips get so ho
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by ebg13 6y ago
> waterfront property is also more expensive than similar inland properties. That explains _property_, not McDonalds Quarter Pounders which are exactly the same everywhere.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> since a variable-value dollar would present an easy arbitrage opportunity It is an easy arbitrage opportunity! That's why young adults working in San Francisco can retire earlier if they leave with their earnings.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> In the west, we take fungibility for granted. The fact that a dollar is worth the same in Los Angeles as it is in New York, or Vancouver as it is in Halifax, is worth celebrating. Except that this is both blatantly false and also not
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Yes. Is Notion a Confluence competitor? Yes. I don't know why you're getting such convoluted answers from others.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Anyone mind giving me a TL;DR on the value proposition/use case of Notion? Have you ever used Confluence? If not, have you ever used any Atlassian products? Atlassian is all over corp structures, and everything they make is pain
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by ebg13 6y ago
Some of the statements about population density in this article contradict the information presented in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... unless you use a very specific definition of &quot
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by ebg13 6y ago
> That would be correct if GIF stood for "Gerbil Interchange Format" rather than "Graphics Interchange Format". Exactly like the well known Joint Potatographic Experts Group, yeah? I guess it's time to start sa
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Makes you wonder - was there even a problem in the first place? YES. > I understand they were using a very broad wildcard for permission on websites they could access That is a problem.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I drew the outline of Mickey Mouse's head, and it misidentified that as "male reproduction organ". I don't know if that's meant to be social commentary. Meanwhile, _this_ got let through, and I promise I started wit
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Look at your program's CPU usage. If the sum of your threads is <100% of one core, then there is no reason whatsoever for you to use threads. If your program is not CPU bound, then you would be infinitely wiser to use an event
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by ebg13 6y ago
It's not less information if you have eye tracking VR hardware, because you literally cannot see where you aren't looking. If anything it gives you the ability to dedicate more resources where it actually matters.
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by ebg13 6y ago
My #1 desire for the future of game graphics is universal support for foveated rendering.
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by ebg13 6y ago
All the talk about myths and then it says funny things like: > Place juice in a bowl and pour milk into the ginger juice from a height to allow sufficient mixing. Surely the flow of the pour is more important than the height. You can g
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by ebg13 6y ago
Just grind it fine enough and mix it with vegetable shortening.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> No it doesn't, because all of those attackers have access to the client side salt which is sent to the client in the clear. Why would you send it in the clear?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Obie's Metamorphosis Ovid's Metamorphoses?

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