falcolas

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by falcolas 3y ago
Housing builders and investors are currently allowing 10% of the total house stock in the US sit vacant to keep the prices up. They're not competing, whether by silent agreement or individually acknowledging it's in their bes
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by falcolas 3y ago
If there's one thing America has, it's space. There's plenty of land free of zoning laws and regulations right now. Also, NIMBY homeowners don't want the prices to go down either.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Housing builders don't want prices to fall. Nor do the investors who fund new construction and buy existing houses. In other words, the general public are not the ones you need to convince. EDIT: Nor do existing homeowners want to see
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by falcolas 3y ago
Does that make it OK when the Justice Department comes around?
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by falcolas 3y ago
> This is not about "unwilling to pay for quality tools", but completely changing the way they charge for the tools, which gets applied to all legacy software that ever used their tools, despite their previous (now deleted) cla
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by falcolas 3y ago
Ads are a subset of all communication. So no, communication as a whole isn’t evil, ads are. No cognitive dissonance required. Nice fallacy though.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Cult of the Lamb is even threatening taking their game down due to this change to their costs. https://twitter.com/cultofthelamb/status/1701715971663425897
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by falcolas 3y ago
Looks like it wasn't segregated by MFI in the end, but by model. Pro gets 3.0, standard gets 2.0. Whee. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37497199
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by falcolas 3y ago
And USB 3 is almost 2 decades old. How hard is it really to implement?
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by falcolas 3y ago
Ads are evil. They represent the efforts of a multi billion dollar industry using the output of millions of dollars of psychological research to manipulate you into buying things you don’t need. The average person has no chance against this
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by falcolas 3y ago
It’s more distance than screen size that causes strain, and I can’t really pull out a laptop where I use my phone. Plus, reading glasses are hardly an inconvenience in everyday life.
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by falcolas 3y ago
That’s my thought at this point. I really want the usb c, but I can wait a year. It just bugs me how they change sizes like this and cause even more unnecessary waste.
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by falcolas 3y ago
See sibling comment.
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by falcolas 3y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2023/05/06/apple-ip... (there were a number of articles around this time which are now buried by Google et.al.) However, it does look like Apple may have wal
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by falcolas 3y ago
Yes, yes I do. Especially when I'm using my phone for a long period of time.
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by falcolas 3y ago
You're at least partially correct since they require a MFI approved cable to reach USB 3 speeds. Otherwise you're limited to USB 2 speeds.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Ironically, this annoys me because I can't use any of my Apple 14 pro cases.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I recommend reading glasses, they reduce the eyestrain from using up close devices.
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by falcolas 3y ago
If, and only if the developers include controller support. Which they largely don't, even when controllers are supported on every other platform. Two egregious examples: The Final Fantasy Pixel Remastered series, and Monster Hunter S
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by falcolas 3y ago
Based off Apple’s advertised times to produce AI audiobooks, the times are comparable. AI is not running quickly nor inexpensively for this task it seems.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Are the economics actually better, or do they look better due to a lack of quality control? Because no TTS - even the most current AI ones - are perfect. They need corrections, which involves a human's time. And it's time that dic
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by falcolas 3y ago
But as long as you need a place to live, you can't use it as an asset. You might be able to get a few loans on it, but that just means you keep paying monthly, like you're renting. It's not an investment asset if you require
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by falcolas 3y ago
> The 5 largest subtropical deserts in the world have enough room to hold 30 HEUs worth of solar farms. If we built all those and turned them all on at once Funny enough, this was done in the SF novel “The Hail Mary Project”, and derided
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by falcolas 3y ago
The same could be said for NTSB reports, yet those are made public.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Funny enough, the some of the biggest scrapers in the world do respect robots.txt - search engine scrapers, to be specific.
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by falcolas 3y ago
So, a clickwrap User Agreement? Those are generally accepted as legal and enforceable. Though enforcing a pants color might be hard.
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by falcolas 3y ago
IMO, yes. And you can also trespass users - prevent them from ever coming back - even as you provide a business generally open to the public.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Seems like this was ultimately judged to be a breach of the user agreement, and they settled. At least, that's the last ruling noted in the wiki article. The SC also basically ruled that that HiQ did not have the right to scrape Linked
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Hardly legally enforceable, no? Up to the lawyers and the courts. And I can definitely see how it could be interpreted to be a legitimate "bots are not authorized to view this site" directive since robots.txt is a standard wh
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by falcolas 3y ago
Predictable, usually. Lag free? Not in my experience. Most of the time there’s a good quarter to half second between requesting the shift and the transmission acting. For me at least, that lag is very effective at disconnecting me from the

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