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West Virginia University recommends ending math graduate programs(twitter.com)
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by joe5150 3y ago
I can think of a handful of things that it might be nice or convenient for someone to be able to access (subscription services and whatnot), but I agree that it seems legally unwise to encourage anyone to try to log into my financial accoun
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by joe5150 3y ago
Does this explain the proliferation of "Salesforce Towers" around the world? I have not been convinced they actually need that much office space.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Well then I'm just confused about what you were talking about if "they killed the user experience of their catalogues in the move away from cards and terminals" doesn't refer to card catalogs....
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by joe5150 3y ago
Many people move to the suburbs nominally so that their kids can safely walk, bike, and play in the streets. Obviously the actual built environment of the suburbs doesn't remotely support this supposed goal, but the idea that suburbs &
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by joe5150 3y ago
All of the orthodontists I quickly searched in my area have DMDs from dental schools.
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by joe5150 3y ago
This is a genuinely bizarre point of view. Your nostalgia for the card catalog is shared by approximately nobody, least of all anyone whose job it would be to update and maintain it.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Your library would very likely love to have both, but the cost of providing eBooks is such that for systems whose budgets are shrinking, it often does mean choosing one over the other. The decision to eliminate a print collection is unfortu
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by joe5150 3y ago
I was at Seattle Central Library twice recently and the only problem I had with it was I thought the aluminum flooring was noisy in places. Other than that, it was a very pleasant visit: bright, quiet, staff were engaging.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Public libraries have no such duty, no. Outside of the largest systems, most aren't fit to do this in a way that would materially achieve the goal of preserving anything, either in terms of space, equipment, or expertise. So generally
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by joe5150 3y ago
It seems misguided to assume people bringing their children to work is because they don't know any better and haven't been educated properly rather than because they have no other choice.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Google search on mobile is so bad now I am increasingly reluctant to bother searching for things rather than just going straight to Wikipedia or somewhere else to find information. 80% of the page is "knowledge graph" junk, trendi
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by joe5150 3y ago
You would never be asked to pay $100 for a trip from JFK to Manhattan--unless you're in an Uber! NYC taxi pricing is more transparent and more predictable than Uber. Until recently the fares were printed on the cars .
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by joe5150 3y ago
A high-quality wifi card and software is more valuable to me than ethernet ports, which are so bulky that I don't especially care if they come built in. The Framework approach here is ideal.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Plus if it matters to you, the Roots stack makes the whole Wordpress experience much more coder-y. https://roots.io/
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by joe5150 3y ago
San Juan appears to have been about ten times the size of Titan, and that article says it took them over ten days to report the finding.
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by joe5150 3y ago
While you're undergoing cancer treatment, you're going to be too fatigued to worry much about your cognitive performance. I wouldn't expect to be able to distinguish lower productivity as a result of "chemo brain" f
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by joe5150 3y ago
If we're really being fair, the vast majority of people buy cheap laptops with poor battery life and even poorer everything else.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Not hard to imagine how tools to predict and manipulate your emotions might be useful in a device that even in the wildest dreams of its developers is mainly designed to provide an immersive environment for taking Teams calls and working on
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by joe5150 3y ago
I'm sure it will be a very slick and uncanny effect in action. But I think the lack of eye contact is a key part of maintaining some of the social friction to using these kinds of things all the time (which is, just in my personal opin
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by joe5150 3y ago
Maybe, to the extent that people care enough about it to bug their android-owning contacts about it. I don't think that will be a very large number of users, especially since this is pretty trivial compared to the features you lose in
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by joe5150 3y ago
They just showed inserts for vision correction. They didn't specifically mention astigmatism correction, so not sure if that will be an option.
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by joe5150 3y ago
They just said there will be inserts for vision correction. No real detail about ranges of power yet.
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by joe5150 3y ago
I would expect that glasses won't be necessary for most nearsighted users and farsighted users would probably have some kind of internal diopter adjustment.
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by joe5150 3y ago
The "EyeSight" feature has weird implications for how Apple thinks this thing should be used. I'm not really sure I love the idea of making it "easier" for someone to leave the goggles on while interacting with me.
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by joe5150 3y ago
It's a livestream. There is more content being added literally as we speak.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Haha, it's fine to me that they're using attractive hip young (or old) people in their promos, it's just funny to imagine how these features will play out in the real world given the kinds of pictures real people tend to take
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by joe5150 3y ago
I see! That's better/easier. I hope they've come up with something that still looks decent for the majority of my contacts who don't have or share a contact photo or who (shock) don't use an iPhone.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Steve Jobs talked about the iPod that way. Maybe even earlier products ("I’d like to have Macintosh speak for itself.")
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by joe5150 3y ago
Apple is once again making unrealistic assumptions about how many friends I have professional-quality headshots of to put into my contacts.

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