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by goblin89 6y ago
If is possible to be deeply obsessed yet maintain work-life balance, restricting that obsession to working hours.
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Thinking one can take care of every aspect of security or privacy when implementing a public website, especially one that publishes UGC, is similar to believing in ability to deliver bug-free software: very likely presumptuous. However, a g
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I often find text exchanges to be lacking in cues, feeling anxious about being misunderstood, but I also avoid 1:1 videocalls with customers as I (1) find faces and visual cues distracting and (2) am not very good at facial expressions. My
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There are countries that have military and didn’t have to use it for offensive purposes against another country. Not having it would be foolish because of rogue actors (case in point, Russia). Similarly, there may well be countries that hav
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> Most of the people interested in this already live in Thailand (but got stuck abroad unable to return) on tourist or other visas and would rent apartments, and not stay in hotel rooms. Am in a similar predicament with my “base” in Hong
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I’m surprised to see no mention of Diaspora by Greg Egan. Just finished it. (Possible spoiler ahead.) I’m not sure it’s not just wishful thinking that consciousness can be cloned and exist in a “software” form at all, but that general idea
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Neon Live Streaming mobile broadcasting app(neonstreaming.com)
1 points by goblin89 6y ago|0 comments
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I know of that case. My point is that Apple disclosed to users that this will happen, so I am confused as to who would consider this an “infraction”. I had to set up iOS multiple times (broke phone screens, got an iPad and so on), and as fa
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IWM is an great example of web design. Site is legible, accessible, responsive across viewport widths. Page layouts maintain clear visual hierarchy. It appears that designers took care to place as few as possible constraints on the content,
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I don’t remember that time, for as long as Siri existed I always recall there being a way to prevent my phone from auto-reacting to words (which I hate) during OS setup. Maybe I am mistaken.
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That's perfect, I don't want my data to go somewhere I don't control and Apple already knows enough that it makes literally no difference but helps support indie developers as I'll be more likely to buy someone's ap
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That Siri sends recordings to humans for analysis without user consent is a myth. I went through a screen pointing out this is exactly what will happen, and buttons to opt in or out, during initial OS setup. This was a while ago, before iOS
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If there was ever a discussion that should be heard by more people working in tech, that’s that right there. DDG’s results are (perhaps decreasingly) heavily based on Bing, which as you will learn from that discussion had had significant
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With recent advancements in ML, a comment thread from people who don’t read TFA could be used to back-generate a plausibly looking article.
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An approach I’m using to deal with “hello”-only messages: – Jog your memory for any input you might’ve been awaiting or could use from the “hello” person, and hit them back with a greeting + request or question. – If they really cannot help
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I have recently migrated off Lightroom to Rawtherapee, and would recommend it to photographers serious about raw development. I don’t see myself going back, really. Open-source, plain-text profile format, works everywhere. Like Lightroom, i
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Maximizing time the users spent in your software must not trump general design sense—just remember the (sometimes devastating) effects of YouTube’s switch to maximizing the time users spend watching videos. While for an ad-supported product
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As far as I understand, on Amazon you don’t have to compete with legitimate sellers anymore: many of them are simply gone. If you are a legitimate seller, you want to be able to communicate with store representative. You want to be able t
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by goblin89 6y ago
The problem with universities simply selecting by score is that it reinforces the inequality feedback loop. Education tends to correlate with wealth. Wealthy people are really good at investing into educating their descendants. Selection by
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All cryptocurrencies live or die by “shilling”. Like with any software, it’s not terribly likely that any single one of them is entirely bug-free, but the loyalty of invested early adopters is what hides mishaps from the public and persists
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Lately I can’t help wondering how emergence of aggregating platforms like YouTube (your video is in the same place as “500 Funniest Fails 2020”) or Spotify (your song appears next to generated muzak by fake artists) and arrival of mobile de
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The Worst Epidemic [audio](samharris.org)
2 points by goblin89 6y ago|1 comments
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I don’t know if you are seeking to counter my point, but open source seems orthogonal to expenses associated with maintaining infrastructure, ongoing development, reviewing massive amounts of UGC and so on.
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> We know that because we at Telegram host and review more public content than the App Store ever will. This reads funny since Telegram, after being banned by Russian authorities with a demand to disclose the E2E keys, got that ban lifte
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The fact that something is free to you does not mean no one is paying.
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The original first Mafia, as far as I know, is the first and also the only GTA-style game with strict road rules and realistic manual gearbox behavior (you could switch to neutral and roll downhill). There is probably a shared reason why Ma
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Decline in Insect Populations(en.wikipedia.org)
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The way I see it, pride is noise. By staying truly humble in the face of non-science, science provides a calm even backdrop, against which it is more manageable to evaluate worthwhile findings from bullshit. This is orthogonal to conflict.
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The Economist’s Democracy Index as of 2019 rates favorably enough most East Asian democracies that have been handling COVID-19 well so far; some of them score higher than the US or half of European countries. It doesn’t seem like “capable o
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The relationship between climate and weather can be locally counterintuitive. When a lot of ice starts to melt, you get colder weather. At a smaller scale I got acquainted with this paradox as a child—where I grew up, every spring temperatu

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