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by filoleg 3y ago
Sure, let's rephrase it to be more accurate, despite everyone knowing what they meant by that phrase anyway, and this just being nitpicking. "Objectively good looking" means "someone that a heavy majority of people would
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by filoleg 3y ago
Heated seats were a "standard feature" and every single car had them? I guess maybe, if you drove porsches and higher trim Mercedes cars 20 years ago (or any comparable luxury vehicles). Otherwise, I can totally assure you they we
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by filoleg 3y ago
Collective solutions to collective problems are often just individual solutions applied at scale by many unrelated individuals (on their own).
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yes, but it is unpatchable for any currently existing cars on the road, I believe that's the point they were trying to articulate (though not super well). And yeah, you are correct, Tesla can close up that exploit in their newer hardwa
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by filoleg 3y ago
Because you also prevent legitimate uses of such "feature", such as playing games you purchased legitimately from other regions, as that "feature" also allows to defeat region-locking. As for why not just buy those same
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by filoleg 3y ago
Current ones instead charge you a recurring subscription for seat heating, right?
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by filoleg 3y ago
Your response to "by that metric, essentially almost everything is disallowed" is "well yeah, just don't do it". I don't think that stance would sit well with most.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Farming life is better than city life. Why would they stop farming and move then? Because they are looking for a worse life?
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by filoleg 3y ago
There was a thread on HN in the past few days linking this[0] post about a tool that seems to solve just that problem. 0. https://eclecticlight.co/2023/07/17/how-does-icloud-work-plu...
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by filoleg 3y ago
You know else I don't see? Railroad tracks going through the entirety of a city, and trains delivering cargo to local stores and other businesses directly.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Nope, they are not, but they are bound to eventually join as they are obligated to by their Treaties of Accession[0]. Seems like the grandparent comment just didn't bother checking their facts first and jumped the gun on blaming the US
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by filoleg 3y ago
> But how many actually manage to pull off that feat? Quite a few, but that's not the point. Increasing opportunities for everyone does not mean that there will be the same levels of increase in top tier outlier outcomes. Just like
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by filoleg 3y ago
The only thing that I foresee coming out of this is increased re-election chances for some of those house representatives on the judiciary panel. Mostly due to this grandstanding move making it appear like they are trying to be "tough
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by filoleg 3y ago
Venues and their increasing costs have nothing to do with production costs. Production costs refer to what it costs to actually produce a track and release it out there to the public. Not even talking about insane amounts of good educationa
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by filoleg 3y ago
To be fair, I am not sure it was your perceived lack of reach in my specific case. I simply got burned out on trying to use reader apps, given there are so many of them out there, all just not feeling quite right to me at the end of the day
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by filoleg 3y ago
Thanks for the post, this is very nice. While I am not switching browsers yet, this is looking very promising, and so far I love the direction you are taking with this. Incidentally, discovered your reader app[0] thanks to this post, and it
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by filoleg 3y ago
Because real life isn't an action movie, and police would rather try to ram the door for a while and hope it budges, instead of instantly going for rappelling from the rooftop or for using a ladder. Especially given how relatively unco
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Why not? Because then it loses value. Think of it as if a publicly traded company just issued bajillions of shares onto the market. This is what dilution is, and the price of each individual share plummets, thus screwing over all exist
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I don't think native speaker count really means anything though Especially since there are plenty of people who aren't native speakers, but got to the native level of fluency (usually, due to moving to an english-speaking cou
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by filoleg 3y ago
> The objection (more surprise than objection) is that web browsers are supposed to be sandboxed environments. They are not supposed to be able to do things that negatively impact system performance. I agree with the sandboxing model, bu
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by filoleg 3y ago
I use regular terminal SSH+VS Code remote machine feature. It pretty much feels like i am using VS Code with code on my local machine, except it is on the cloudtop. That covers heavy majority of use cases I care about, so I have zero need f
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by filoleg 3y ago
If you think professors care much about DEI when it comes to hiring students for their research labs, I have a bridge to sell you. Professors don't seem to have DEI as one of the primary metrics tied to their performance and financial
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Undergrad researchers are typically shielded from all of the bullshit that goes on behind the scenes because they aren’t in lab 40+ hours a week. Sure, but the original comment was about the difficulty of getting published without bein
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by filoleg 3y ago
After seeing the sort of argument you are replying to countless times on HN, I came to a simple conclusion. Some people, esp on HN, just have disdain for anyone who might not be willing to deal with the hubris of running a piece of software
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by filoleg 3y ago
> It is neither an endorsement nor an ad. It is a music video. Now, Nokia could have been paying her to use their phone during the music video - product placement is a thing, and you can see the brand logo in the shot. I believe it is a
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by filoleg 3y ago
The manager is also doing you a favor by letting you express yourself to what you believe your strong points during the review cycle were, going over them with you, and helping you come up with ways of writing it that would result in your d
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by filoleg 3y ago
How common is this at all? Asking because I went to one of the fairly prominent public research schools in the US (Georgia Tech), have tons of friends who got published during their undergrad (almost did myself too, but priorities changed,
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by filoleg 3y ago
> My larger point is that there are many little ways where legacy advantages can leak through even if you have an explicit policy of not considering it. I mean, if we are going down this rabbithole, your "legacy advantage" defi
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by filoleg 3y ago
Not a manager and not the person you are replying to, but I kind of get their perspective, as I see it somewhat similar to how I treat referral/recommendation letters. If someone I closely know asks me for a recommendation letter, and
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by filoleg 3y ago
> But they still are bad pointing devices as a type of pointing device. The Apple one is so good though, it convinced me to buy their dedicated desktop trackpad for when my laptop is docked and I work on my large monitor at the desk. It

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