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by gumby 2y ago
This has been around for so long I wonder if there's a patent that is in the way of apple implementing it. Even though I tend to like Apple gear: if there is such a patent in the way I'm sure they'll add this once the patent
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by gumby 2y ago
Those are almost exactly my use cases too; my difference is that I don't watch video but I do take my notes on the ipad, writing with the pencil. This works great because documents seamlessly work between the two devices. By far I use
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by gumby 2y ago
> Volvo XC30 ... will be almost entirely touchscreen driven, Pretty much blows away the "Volvo is safer" marketing message.
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by gumby 2y ago
I don't know; I had an ipad air 2 (until now the thinnest ipad ever) and now use a 2020 ipad air and never had those issues -- I even carry my coffee using the ipad as a tray. The ipad 2 would lie flat on the table. I don't under
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by gumby 2y ago
> But I wonder if we could challenge the conventional wisdom on conversions of deeper buildings. Could we come up with novel things to do with this deep interior space? What if every other floor were removed, so all the apartments had lo
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by gumby 2y ago
Maybe the $100 nano-texture screen will give you the visibility you want. Not the low power of a epaper screen though. Hmm, emacs on an epaper screen might be great if it had all the display update optimization and "slow modem mode&qu
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by gumby 2y ago
Sure, but the computer is a tool designed to be malleable and adapt to the human. This kind of grunt work (adapting to humans' models of collation) is exactly the kind of task that should be handed off to machines.
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by gumby 2y ago
There is a comment from "adolph" parallel to yours with footnotes. But I remember the event well (though it was 30 years ago) as the difficulty for programmers was given as the justification for the law (this was a change in coll
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by gumby 2y ago
This reminds me of the more extreme case of Spain changing the treatment of <ll> due to limitations of PCs in the 1990s. Our tools should adapt to the needs of humans, not the other way around!
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by gumby 2y ago
It’s a convincing essay, even though I miss seeing my country’s flag in the menu bar (especially as I’m not living there).
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by gumby 2y ago
Their hardware is pretty good, but my overall impression (as a mainly Apple user for 30 years) is just that the experience sucks less. I don’t actually know, but my impression is that they work harder “under the hood” than on the user facin
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by gumby 2y ago
There are longstanding lessons in this point that predate software. The US car companies slid in the 60s and 70s by incrementally cutting “irrelevant” costs, like not painting under the seats, cheaper knobs, and the like. Each of these cha
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by gumby 2y ago
Those few architectural licenses are secret, but surely, as you say, allows Apple to discuss all sorts of things with ARM’s engineers. I have long wondered what constraints it might carry. They have added an instruction or two, but I doub
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by gumby 2y ago
Doing this would be worth so much money that if you can do it, you should. You’ll make a mint. Currently, islet cell transplants are possible, but barely available. The insurance companies that pay for a lot of the supplies you talk about
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by gumby 2y ago
I was shocked by the ADA's nutritional training (required by my insurance company) but I figured that the actuaries had decided they'd delay amputation better by encouraging people to eat a small slice of cake rather than no cake
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by gumby 2y ago
They have an architecture license, so can do quite a bit beyond simply "tweaking" it. They have some degree, presumably a significant degree, of "blank sheet" implementation. At this point, probably the main benefit of
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by gumby 2y ago
They have so much cash, and the business is so valuable there isn’t a better place to put it.* So you give it back to the shareholders, and a buyback is tax advantaged for the shareholders compared to a dividend. * if you are, say, Pepsi, a
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by gumby 2y ago
If the bathtub is overflowing you need to fix the broken tap and mop up the water that has already spilled. Yes, if you are the only person in the house, prioritize the tap, but if someone else is working the leak, grab a mop right away!
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by gumby 2y ago
They are being super-solicitous: you need to allow the cookie consent dialogue to record your preferences, using a cookie.
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by gumby 3y ago
I was in the USA in high school when Carter appointed Volker, knowing that it would likely cost him reelection. The things you mention were worse then, not better: > I wonder if such perseverance is possible today in what seems like a t
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by gumby 3y ago
> All this technology has the effect of pushing up the cost of vehicles, often for questionable minor safety improvements. DoT (and other departments) are required to take the cost of rules into account when writing them. So for example
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by gumby 3y ago
Amazing if true!
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by gumby 3y ago
> Right wingers believe that USPS should operate as a business, not a public service, so "rebranding" their website to be .com is definitely a part of that narrative. Seems failing businesses is also on brand for those guys.
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by gumby 3y ago
> Do you also never support going to the hospital because your fever hasn't hit 40C I think that's the wrong metaphor. Regulation functions well when it is 1 - clear, unambiguous, and consistently applied and 2 - conservative,
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by gumby 3y ago
> Apple's business user numbers exceeded the quantitative threshold elevenfold, while its end user numbers were close to the threshold and are predicted to rise in the near future. C'mon EU! This is as bullshit as the US&#x2
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by gumby 3y ago
> There's an old joke about programming with pure functions: “Eventually you have to do some effects. Otherwise you're just heating up the CPU.” I prefer to reframe the old sexist joke: "Side effects: can't live with
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by gumby 3y ago
> I would like to see something that records your keystrokes and gives you stats on what you type the most. ... Not sure how you'd get around it being a huge security risk? A small program that locally collects data and lets you ana
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by gumby 3y ago
It would be fun to subclass null, and make multiple instances of it. I did hack MACLISP to have multiple NILs once. A surprising number of things appeared to run OK for a while. Of course the PDP-10 had a hardware addressing mode just for
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by gumby 3y ago
I don't think FaceID is a good idea on the computer. On the phone it unlocks when the device is quite close to you, but I suspect someone could sit down at your computer and watch it unlock if you are behind them. Touching the keyboa
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by gumby 3y ago
I'm staring at it right now on my new MBA and indeed it is ugly. Fortunately I don't use the menu bar all that much.

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