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by gernb 4y ago
I've had zero trouble with taxis in Japan and Singapore. In Singapore they even had hailing apps long before Uber and they worked just fine. I believe London taxis also have a good rep but haven't use them. On the other hand I&#x
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by gernb 4y ago
Just at the start > now more than ever, it seems — have a profound civilizational anxiety about being alone. It seems to me the "natural" state of things is to NOT be alone. Did cavemen survive if they were alone? It use to be
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by gernb 4y ago
On a M1 Ultra MBP. It's been mostly great. Battery lasts way longer than my previous Intel MBP. The fan rarely comes on. It's much faster. It doesn't get too hot to touch like the Intel ones do. Issues I've had, any node
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by gernb 4y ago
I know this will get downvoted into oblivion and I'm not defending Microsoft, but.... I'm symapthic to your plight but you named your product based on 2 common nouns. It'd be like someone making a restaurant called "hamb
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by gernb 4y ago
why would you need to remember your own phone number. I talk to almost no one via my phone number. I can't think of a single friend I've needed to share a phone number with in ~10 years. Most of them I contact via FB Messenger, so
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by gernb 4y ago
> Nowadays, the smartphone took over: click, ok nice picture, click click, and shared! It's nice and practical but now my picture collection of the past few years is a bloated and unorganized stream of nice and bad pictures mixed wi
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by gernb 4y ago
You can make all the same arguements about the invention of paper and books. > So what happens when we outsource part of our memory to an external device? You mean like a paper notepad, paper calendar, paper daily planner? > Does it e
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by gernb 4y ago
Am I missing how that would work? That's an exponential increase in bandwidth needed to send all the mouse positions. 1 position per 100ms per player vs 10-30 per 100 ms per player. Those positions all have to be propagated to other pl
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by gernb 4y ago
> Facebook can't ask people to sideload some privacy destroying crap on iOS That is arguably the responsibility of the OS and the user. Lots of ways to do that. Examples: Network, no network access unless use gives permission. App m
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by gernb 4y ago
> Premium labels really go the extra mile. Fast, cheap fashion cuts lots of corners. I don't disagree that there's good fashion and shoddy fashion but I disagree "premium labels" is how to find good fashion. For me, A
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by gernb 4y ago
Warning: Reacting to the title If funding happens through package managers there will be race to add packages to make money instead of be helpful, not just to get funding for your actually used OSS project. Package managers will get full of
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by gernb 4y ago
I considered something like this last night as I stay up to 6am working on a new UI library. My conclusion was in part because it's easy. The goal is well defined. I got the first widget working thought I'd call it a day (a night)
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by gernb 4y ago
Seriously curious. If I consume somthing, don't I now posses it (it's in my body) or didn't I have to posses it for at least a moment (in order to consume it) I'm just curious in what ways this distinction would play out
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by gernb 4y ago
Are you just repeating that the OP said? > On the other hand, if you read liberal dissents, they’re mostly about what they think appropriate policy should be. The Supreme Court is not supposed to set policy. It's only supposed to r
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by gernb 4y ago
Niantic also announced layoffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-29/pokemon-g...
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by gernb 4y ago
I don't know Riccitiello but honeslty I've done this myself (not a CEO). Bascially I beleive I (we) can do something and stated so and within 2 weeks my info / situation changed and I we can no longer do that something. To pu
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by gernb 4y ago
Curious what this app does that other apps don't. In other words, applying the same criteria to other apps what other apps should be removed from the store because they do the same things? You post video in it so the app gets camera an
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by gernb 4y ago
sync to git isn't perfect. I use Google Keep, which, like docs, I can have the same document open on multiple machines, start editing on one, finished editing on the other, no "commit/push/fetch/rebase/merge&qu
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by gernb 4y ago
I think I disagree (though happy to be corrected). It's common to have dervied types (example Base = Shape, Derived = Circle, Rectangle, Hexagon). Often you have a collection of Shape and often there is some runtime code that can go fr
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by gernb 4y ago
so that's great and I know this wasn't your point but .... I use this VSCode extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsi... To spell check my code. It's surprisingly useful. It does
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by gernb 4y ago
Property values generally go up with bike lanes? https://www.icebike.org/property-prices/ I get that article is probably biased, maybe you can find the opposite "proof"? I'm kind of addicted to "Not
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by gernb 4y ago
I was listening to "This American Life" and they had a segment on someone who setup an site to give you a random number to call in Russia where you were supposed to give them info about what's happening in the Ukraine. It was
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by gernb 4y ago
You just compile a dev version of the game during development.
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by gernb 4y ago
Plenty of webpages don't work in Safari because Safari doesn't ship the APIs that other browsers have been shipping for years.
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by gernb 4y ago
getting rid of the car doesn't get rid of the commute. Plently of countries in the world where most people commute by train/bus/subway but it's still 40 minutes or more on average to commute.
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by gernb 4y ago
IMO No, The web works because of HTML. HTML is scanable, searchable. It's what allows search engine to exist at all. HTML enables extensions. HTML is also generally responsive. HTML allows uses to be in control (see extensions). HTML a
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by gernb 4y ago
agreed the larger trackpad is a net minus. I get all kinds of spurious input because of it sensing my palms
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by gernb 4y ago
curious too as someone that uses 7 computers running 3 OSes, are my passkeys accessable, syncable, across OSes?
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by gernb 4y ago
at the top you mentioned "Rails". Rails handled the backend. You defined database schemas. It built forms to edge them. To a certain level you install got a working front end and backend. Where does Next fit here?
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by gernb 4y ago
2 companies control the actions of 4-10 billion devices and through them the access of billions of people no car company has that reach. no video game platform has that reach. hence they're not held to the same standard

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