greggman

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by greggman 8y ago
there is no raw network access from JavaScript in a browser for precisely that reason
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by greggman 8y ago
Microsoft had HTML apps as a standard feature of windows in the 90s iirc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
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by greggman 8y ago
it's not declining in Tokyo afaict. I believe that's because they privatised it? https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/10/why-tokyos-pr...
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by greggman 8y ago
I just setup multiple profiles in chrome which is one thing it seems to do better than FF imo. You can select a profile in the top right corner. Everything about them is separate. cookies, history, extensions , theme so I give each one a di
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by greggman 8y ago
yea that sucks. Chrome and Firefox say they expect have webgpu behind a flag by end of year and if lucky shipping in stable by end of next. Apple is heavily involved but of course Apple never announces shipping plans
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by greggman 8y ago
that product/service already exists in Japan. No idea how effective it is but the company claims it uses deeplearning to recognize suspicious behavior of retail customers and then alert the staff to check. Sorry I don't have a lin
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by greggman 8y ago
IMO Yes. iOS doesn't have this problem. I believe Android finally doesn't have this problem. Windows, Linux, and MacOS all have this problem because they don't run sandboxes by default. OSes should be redesigned to make it ne
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by greggman 8y ago
the difference is whether you actually believe it or are just doing it for fun. you can sing a Christmas song or put on a Christmas hat for the fun of it and still be atheist for example. in Japan you can greet the new year at a temple beca
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by greggman 8y ago
Proof it can be done better, Japan. It's common to be able to choose the day and the delivery time. 8am-12pm, 2pm-4pm, 4pm-6pm, 6pm-8pm, 7pm-9pm and I've never had them be 1 minute outside their designated schedule. And, prices ar
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by greggman 8y ago
Lots of people around the world live in 1 room apartments. Tokyo and HK are full of them. I have friends that grew up in 1 room apartments, parents and all. There's also that eco movement for tiny multipurpose 1 room housing. Not sayi
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by greggman 8y ago
there's Clara.io yea I know not the same as blender in emscripten but the same as in a pro modeling package in the browser I think the biggest hurdle tho is data. 3d editors generally need access to 100s of megs of data so you'll
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by greggman 8y ago
I don't know if Spielberg has examples like Lucus but at least for "Jaws" Speilberg acknowledges that if the tech had worked "Jaws" would likely just be a b-horror movie. The fact that the shark submarine didn'
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by greggman 8y ago
Japan is like any place and has good (eg safety) and bad (eg sexism). if I'm praising Japan on safety that doesn't mean I don't know it's bad parts. It's just I shouldn't have to bring them up if they aren&#x2
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by greggman 8y ago
What's frustrating with AirBnB in Japan is AirBnB lets them lie about how many bedrooms they actually have. The excuse usually given is that Japanese count rooms differently but that is 100% provably false. As someone that's lived
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by greggman 8y ago
change scroll back to top to just scroll up.
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by greggman 8y ago
I guess I'm the only one that absolutely loathes pull to refresh. I try to scroll back to the top to reference something and loose my work whatever comment I was in the middle of typing, or I lose my place, because i didn't want t
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by greggman 8y ago
what bugs me about performance reviews is feeling like I'm a copywriter writing ad copy for products. I have to try to come up with flowery text about the 5-10 major things I did rather than just "did x" which is already know
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by greggman 8y ago
All these comments that MS are going to read your private repos seem really out of place. it makes zero sense for MS to look at private repos because the moment they are discovered everyone would move off the system. they also run outlook.c
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by greggman 8y ago
phones worked for decades with fees. probably can't bring that model back but just pointing out the world still worked when communicating cost money. we had subsidies for the poor (no idea how effective they were) note I'm not sug
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by greggman 8y ago
browsers are moving to webgpu https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gpu/
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by greggman 8y ago
one possibility for cross platform gpu is webgpu. the people working on it seem to be planning to have a c or c++ level standalone library. behind the scenes it will be directx/metal/vulkan Apple/Google/Microsoft/Mo
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by greggman 8y ago
did they announce all the fixes? if not then I'd assume that's why people aren't focusing on them. I too would appreciate stability and fixes. I know they are listed in the notes for each release. Still if that really was the
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by greggman 8y ago
I'm not saying you shouldn't complain but on the other hand to me it's like a director complaining someone didn't watch her movie under perfect conditions or a book author complaining someone read the last chapter first.
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by greggman 8y ago
Is it run like the movie industry? AFAIK in the movie industry few publishers and or studios actually have any production staff on hand. Instead what happens is a core team write and pitch a movie idea. Only after they've gotten fundin
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by greggman 8y ago
curious if all the fake reviews will end up creating a market for certified reviewers or something like consumer reports. Sure we can't trust cnet or wired or pcmag but maybe if the incentive is high enough there will be a market for h
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by greggman 8y ago
I glad it worked out for the author but so far it hasn't worked out for me. It's been 5 years which wasn't my plan. I thought it would be 6 months until I figured out what I want to do. Things that happened. Travelled: found
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by greggman 8y ago
does this really cover all these cases? http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maket...
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by greggman 8y ago
User: "Please drive me to the strip club", Passat: "Sorry, the terms of service strictly prohibit adult content"
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by greggman 8y ago
rather than complain I'm curious what a solution would be. It seems pretty clear we need to get rid of the current phone system to fix this.
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by greggman 8y ago
Yelp is crying sour grapes here. There are so many ways they could have innovated to stay relevant but has anything changed in years there? They could have hired professional reviewers. Yelp reviews are notoriously bad. They could have let

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