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by freetinker 2y ago
Utter bullshit. Or more politely - wrong take. OpenAI embeds itself further in public consciousness, arguably attracting more users therefore profiting. Enabling mass-production of Ghibli style without permission or monetary compensation is
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by freetinker 2y ago
I am strongly of this view. ADHD seems like a maladaptation in modern times, but in the right context and the right environment it is a superpower. Until this realization a few yrs back (when I was in my early 40s), life was a struggle. Now
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by freetinker 2y ago
I’m of the same view as you. 15% (or higher) of post-tax total is double-taxation. I do tip a hefty amount (50%+) on occasion if I feel the service is exceptional. I feel this is one way of incentivizing good service. Maybe the bar has shif
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by freetinker 2y ago
This is correct. The rest are incorrect.
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by freetinker 2y ago
From a UX perspective, there’s really no way to measure “fewer ads”. Customers with subscriptions aren’t doing A/B tests and feeling satisfied that they’re seeing fewer ads. They’re seeing ads. Still a subpar experience. The “fewer ads
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by freetinker 2y ago
I will give any “Data Not Collected” app a fair chance. The design/UI look suite polished from the screenshots. Look forward to trying it out!
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by freetinker 2y ago
US player Skydio seems pretty interesting - for non-consumer applications anyway.
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by freetinker 2y ago
Higher probability of making a final sale. Another drink, sir? Uh, sure.
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by freetinker 2y ago
Indeed. Ignore capitalistic forces at your own peril.
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by freetinker 2y ago
Do you perceive a difference in quality when you compare the content and comments on HN, vs. LinkedIn? Or if I understand your comment correctly, the quality of content on LinkedIn doesn’t really matter because you use it infrequently – as
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by freetinker 2y ago
It’s an arbitrary human rule, not fundamental knowledge. Quite understandable how someone may not have the interest or knowledge to know this nuance (perhaps to their own detriment). It’s somewhere along the spectrum of the knowledge of arc
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by freetinker 2y ago
I miss this flavor of advertising. It all feels too anodyne these days.
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by freetinker 2y ago
As a fellow introvert, this is succinctly put.
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by freetinker 2y ago
I think the tricky bit here is “fair use”, an inherently subjective concept that’s a function of context. What’s fair in one context (meat computer training due to limitations of meat computer) may not be fair in another context (silicon co
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by freetinker 2y ago
Love your artwork. Thanks for being so generous with your tips and insights – very inspiring.
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by freetinker 2y ago
I love the skeuomorphic timer design. The reflections and surface modeling are brilliant. I will be greedy and ask – could you share how you made it? Thanks!
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by freetinker 2y ago
Google is Goodhart’s Law in action at corporate scale.
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by freetinker 2y ago
That this hurling chunk of metal still communicates with us is mind-bogglingly impressive…
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by freetinker 2y ago
Accurate. Abject lack of a cohesive vision/strategy, and no leadership to articulate and drive it. It’s a motley collection of fiefdoms competing for perf points.
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by freetinker 2y ago
I’m no artist, but I’m not sure I agree. As an example, Cubism (Picasso) or stuff by Pollack (arguably another ‘great’) seems quite distinct and therefore reproducible – at least visually if not physically (paint texture, etc.).
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by freetinker 2y ago
Indeed. But then they’d be ‘sticking it’ to China too. A welcome outcome, but naive expectation.
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by freetinker 2y ago
That’s because average residential construction has some tolerance for error (and is therefore poor quality imo). Sure - perhaps not plumb to within +/- 0.001 radians, but there’s still an expectation that the wall needs to be vertical
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by freetinker 2y ago
You are correct. But it’s also fair to say (imo) that AVP has made massive leaps. Are we now taking for granted the major leaps in nailing the interaction model (look and finger-tap), and delivering display tech that makes watching movies o
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by freetinker 2y ago
A bit chicken-and-egg. Another perspective: Google’s system incentivizes SEO spam. Search for a while hasn’t been about searching the web as much as it has been about commerce. It taps commercial intent and serves ads. It is now an ad engin
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by freetinker 2y ago
Tragicomic and so true.
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by freetinker 2y ago
I don’t quite understand Tesla’s insistence on vision-only. I don’t believe vision-only “FSD” will ever be good enough for mass adoption – even if it performs at human-level. Autonomous systems need to be better than humans to gain acceptan
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by freetinker 2y ago
Thanks for your reply! Will send you an email shortly at the address in your HN bio.
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by freetinker 2y ago
What sort of factory are you building? Passionate about revitalizing US manufacturing. (I’m a mechanical/manufacturing engineer.)
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by freetinker 2y ago
A matter of opinion. Sure, maybe NY Times ain’t NY Post yet, but it doesn’t take that long for a frog to come to full boil, even on slow simmer.
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by freetinker 2y ago
iCloud seems peerless from a privacy standpoint. I haven’t seen this mentioned much on HN (perhaps because it’s relatively new, an opt-in feature, and not open-source), but iCloud offers E2EE for most of its services. Of course, one has to

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