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by jfoster 4y ago
Looks pretty good actually. Especially considering the Linux support. Might be my next one.
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by jfoster 4y ago
Looks fancy. Is this what the market wants? I don't particularly like Apple, but I use a Macbook Pro. I've been keeping an eye out for a non-Apple alternative to a Macbook, but nothing seems to come close in terms of hardware. I d
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by jfoster 4y ago
Yes, but medical stuff is a sensitive context too. And financial, as well. Plus ethnicity. And age. As well as anything could be indicative of the aforementioned topics, such as vehicle makes & models, ecommerce products, tea vs coffee
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by jfoster 4y ago
They used to.
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by jfoster 4y ago
My understanding is that Google have a policy against sites doing that. Does Google not enforce the policy sufficiently, or are there exceptions made?
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by jfoster 4y ago
The backlash they ought to be worried about is the one from their customers when it refuses to operate due to an ongoing battle between opposing groups of extremists.
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by jfoster 4y ago
Shouldn't they be able to detect your preferred behaviour and put that on the homepage? They seem to be focused so much on creating magical AI that they're missing some fundamental easy stuff.
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by jfoster 4y ago
If companies are doing hiring freezes and layoffs, will the labor numbers remain strong?
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Show HN: Tock Timer – Simple web-based timer(tocktimer.com)
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by jfoster 4y ago
I had some fun making this over the past few hours: https://tocktimer.com It's a bit rough around the edges still, but I'll try to improve it a bunch over the next few days, especially so if Google are not bringing bac
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by jfoster 4y ago
Have you tried creating it in multiple steps, using the "Edit" button? You can erase the parts of the image you want to change, and you can even change the prompt at each step. If the pig or donkey doesn't look right, you cou
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by jfoster 4y ago
> if people are accustomed to avoiding new Google services because of their potential to be cancelled at any moment... they'll stop trying them to begin with. That's just the 1st order effect. The next thing is that customers a
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by jfoster 4y ago
I decided to try Stadia just now. Their games page has lots of games saying "try for free X minutes", so I tried picking one. Selected the Google account to use, and then I get a 403. Tried a different game with a different Google
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by jfoster 4y ago
For the power button, I just use a recognised finger to unlock and a different finger to lock.
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by jfoster 4y ago
Exactly this. How could Google even expect any of their services to be successful now, besides by attracting sufficiently gullible customers?
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by jfoster 4y ago
It's not that difficult of a loop to break. They simply need to decide: no more shut downs for the next 10 years. After that, they need to think very carefully before starting anything new, and if they do, commit to it.
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by jfoster 4y ago
> Google can fix their reputation but its going to take a lot of work. Every time they take a decision like this one, they are making the hole deeper.
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by jfoster 4y ago
Good to know the S22 Ultra has a decent fingerprint reader. Note that S10 is totally different than S10e when it comes to the fingerprint reader, though. On the S10e, the power button is the fingerprint reader. The position is perfect. Cont
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by jfoster 4y ago
I have an S10e as well and the placement & responsiveness of the fingerprint sensor on it is absolutely perfect. Can't believe that subsequent models didn't retain it. I also want to upgrade, but it's difficult to pick wh
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by jfoster 4y ago
Thank you for adding your view. No major changes in policy around this, then?
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by jfoster 4y ago
I agree & didn't mean to imply otherwise. They should focus on making their system (including appeals via the official channels) work properly rather than doing support via HN.
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by jfoster 4y ago
I'm feel reasonably sure that Google has introduced some kind of internal policy against employees helping out or publicly commenting on such matters. Anyone who has read the comments of a few of these types of articles on HN over the
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by jfoster 4y ago
> I lost interest in the question of its sentience when I saw Lemoine conveniently side-step its unresponsive reply Do you realize that you're holding it to a higher standard than humans here? A single poorly handled response to a q
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by jfoster 4y ago
It feels like it would be good for this to not be a legal grey area. Whether it's considered a large copyright infringement conspiracy or a form of fair use, it would be good if the law reached a position on that sooner rather than lat
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by jfoster 4y ago
I'm surprised that nothing happened when I reached the bottom of the article. Could definitely have got more engagement by having a "you've reached the bottom!" pop-up offering more content or to subscribe.
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by jfoster 4y ago
Interesting. This looks like Custom Search Engines evolved into this? I can't tell whether this is a neglected Google product that they were going to refresh but lost interest in, or something that is undergoing a breath of fresh air.
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by jfoster 4y ago
An answer box is the right thing for that query. (the web servers) The part that Google seem to have unfortunately skimmed over is that the answers need to be relevant, exact & correct.
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by jfoster 4y ago
How come there's no "hi googler here" comments on these types of posts anymore? Did Google become a lot more strict about that type of thing?
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by jfoster 4y ago
You are conflating spam from 3rd parties with having a private file that Google thinks they need to block you from accessing. It is 100% possible (and not even difficult) for Google to prevent me from receiving spam from other Google Drive
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by jfoster 4y ago
Doesn't sound like it... 1. The author of the thread refers to the file having been removed: https://twitter.com/mkramer/status/1547257266465914882 2. The author of the thread says they're storing csv fi

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