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by hnick 3y ago
Haven't used the app recently so can't compare them. But there is the question of user vs developer incentives that even if not applicable today, will always be there. As another example, I hate how I cannot mute Stories in Instag
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by hnick 3y ago
I don't know if they do. But the fact is Reddit did offer it (presumably because they saw a benefit from doing so), so that is why people now expect it. Changing the rules on people like this is always going to upset them because they
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by hnick 3y ago
These and more. By releasing an API, and letting third party developers pick up the slack, the community grows and the main company doesn't have to invest as much themselves into this annoying UI stuff. And even if their own efforts ar
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by hnick 3y ago
I miss Slashdot's 2-dimensional voting system, and meta-moderation system. It seemed to work fairly well, it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller which is all that matters in the end for this k
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by hnick 3y ago
I think that as the number of choices and opportunities in life go up, the opportunity cost of giving up a portion of this naturally increases. You might end up with "more" overall than past generations even after having kids, but
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by hnick 3y ago
> applies too much resistance when attempting e.g overtaking It doesn't turn off when you indicate to change lanes? It does on the Hyundai.
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by hnick 3y ago
Ah OK, in my car AEB and SCC ("Smart Cruise Control" as they call it) are the same sub-system - when one broke due to the no-input fail-safe, so did the other. The radar is behind the badge and works in tandem with the camera I be
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by hnick 3y ago
I'm not sure how exactly it works, but for my Hyundai at least it doesn't seem to be "you will hit this if you do nothing", the alerts generally pop up if I'm actively accelerating. Maybe if I got closer it'd k
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by hnick 3y ago
Yeah I was just adding to the things to consider. In my case it has never really confused inanimate objects, the worst was a curved road and a car coming "right at me" which was just at an angle. But it was a temporary slowdown du
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by hnick 3y ago
I think there is one other aspect to consider. Over here at least, generally if someone rear ends you it's always their fault. The law says they were not maintaining a safe following distance. So from the perspective of the manufacture
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by hnick 3y ago
When shopping for a new car Subaru was very proud of its dual-camera setup, I don't know if it's actually better but they make a lot of noise about it. Maybe there is some truth to it.
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by hnick 3y ago
My new car has lane keep assist and AEB and I haven't had these issues. From what I hear it's very much to do with a maker's implementation (mine is Hyundai, who for various reasons seems to have a bad reputation in North Ame
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by hnick 3y ago
I feel like for every comment on Reddit that's even slightly controversial, I need to watch my words and add various layers of overtones in order to avoid things being taken out of context or given the worst possible interpretation. Pe
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by hnick 3y ago
This is correct. You have to swap to old.reddit.com to get in without a login (for now).
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by hnick 3y ago
It's also linear. Reddit has hierarchical reply/conversation trees. Even Facebook has that to some degree. Discord doesn't.
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by hnick 3y ago
I thought Google Maps was the first? There was a big hoo-ha about that a while ago.
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by hnick 3y ago
They might be just removing "to be", that's what I love about English you can break and abuse it and it still mostly makes sense. You could even drop the "the" and "-ed" from those phrases and most people
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by hnick 3y ago
Yes, I meant the time taken estimating. The act of measuring estimated hours becomes more complex because the closer you look, the more you see, you could do it forever and have to stop somewhere. But maybe instead of infinity, it's be
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by hnick 3y ago
This sounds a lot like the coastline paradox. The more precisely you try to measure a coastline, the harder it gets due to its fractal nature. Software estimation, similarly, is fractal in nature - you can always drill down deeper to measur
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by hnick 3y ago
> The only things that matters is how easy is something to debug and to change. These are important, maybe most important, but software exists in an ecosystem. We still use some ASPX with .NET Framework at work and it's old tech but
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by hnick 3y ago
I think it is the other way around. From various accounts I've heard from people coming here, it's more that Australians drive slowly. There are 2 factors IMO: * Decades of 'speed kills' advertising without nuance, and a
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by hnick 3y ago
Worth mentioning Mazda has an interesting approach where they have the screen but it's controlled by a dial instead of touch. Never tried it myself, it has both fans and detractors. It would keep the screen clean of fingerprints at lea
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by hnick 3y ago
Compounding this on a touchscreen is slippage. Cars can be bumpy. If you slip and hit the wrong control it can take an unacceptably large amount of concentration (given what you are meant to be actually concentrating on when driving) to wor
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by hnick 4y ago
The class I did was largely focused on relational algebra. So we learned the formal language of that (which I've largely forgotten) but did many practical exercises in SQL. I think it was valuable, since "thinking in sets" is
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by hnick 4y ago
Do you consider an ASIC a computer? How about a sufficiently large number of NAND gates, arranged a certain way? They can perform computation but are not programmable after the fact. My computer science degree covered a lot of topics that d
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by hnick 4y ago
But there are also sub-divisions. In most sports, the best female athlete knows she won't ever beat the best male athlete, so they generally compete in separate divisions. I think people will still want to be the best human, even if ju
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by hnick 4y ago
Or legal order. If you're on-site or on-cloud and in the US then it might not matter since they can get your data anyway, but if you're in another country uploading data across borders can be a problem.
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by hnick 4y ago
> This is not what humans do when humans think. Are you sure? Our senses have gaps that are being constantly filled all day long, it just gets more noticeable when our brain is exhausted and makes errors. For example, when sleep deprived
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by hnick 4y ago
You didn't mention it explicitly but I think the morale factor is also huge. Once you know it's possible, it does away with all those fears of wasted nights/weekends/resources/etc for something that might not actual
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by hnick 4y ago
I can't remember the game (I think it was Marvel related) but I remember seeing a preview for one where the YouTuber called out suspicious gaps in the UI, which would easily allow in-game store stuff to be added after the fact. And it

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