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by kcplate 2y ago
The problem is they pursued, was rejected, then approximated. Had they just approximated and made no references to the movie…then I bet social marketing would have made the connection organically and neither Ms Johansson or the Her produce
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by kcplate 2y ago
I’ll agree file management and windows management is wonky, but both were afterthoughts to the platform and not what it was designed to be. Those things were basically supposed to be behind the scenes and not front and center to the user.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I get this is a common complaint about the platform, but after nearly 12 years owning and using iPads not once have I needed a calculator app on the device, nor wanted one.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Myself I quit carrying a desktop replacement laptop and I use an iPad as my “on the go” computer. When I am at my desk, I use my MacBook. If I am going on a work trip, it will come with me. If I need to stay connected to work when ru
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by kcplate 2y ago
I remember all that. Also as a Floridian, I can confirm for HN that it was definitely hot today and I am not presently underwater. Dispelling both the impending ice age predictions from the early ‘80s and the Florida will be underwater pre
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Misquote suggest this is no longer a productive conversation. That was a mistake, I had meant stark and u intentionally mistyped it and I had quoted it already, but I agree that the conversation is not productive. However, its unpro
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by kcplate 2y ago
An Apple 2 was $1300 in 1977. An Apple MacBook Air can be bought at walmart today for sub $700. Does that mean that Apple has shown a “sharp decline” in revenue over their baseline product by nearly $5600 per machine in inflation adjusted
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by kcplate 2y ago
Stark decline? This page doesn’t show a “stark decline”. If anything it’s showing remarkable consistency and slightly growing market share. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...
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by kcplate 2y ago
Stagnant for a decade with literally 55% of the global tablet market. Seems to me that they are doing just fine.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Funny, the iPad is exactly what I want and I just ordered my third IPad Pro.
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by kcplate 2y ago
On the iPad I think the screen size makes stage manager unusable…but I have found stage manager hugely useful on my Mac with an ultra wide monitor along side Rectangle windows manager
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I think the lack of visible galactic civilisations is more plausibly explained by a combination of life being rare (and probably brought to Earth via panspermia after billions of years of evolution elsewhere) and both multicellular an
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by kcplate 2y ago
That’s subjective… I didn’t find it problematic at all.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> unless I become homeless I have bought, lived in, and sold several houses over my adult life. Never in those transactions was I “homeless” in the colloquial sense. Here is the trick in case you are interested and unsure how to do it—
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by kcplate 2y ago
Never said anything to the contrary. There is lots of artwork I don’t like and I am happy to express an opinion or critique when asked. I am not morally outraged about it though.
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by kcplate 2y ago
So everyone in Japan is morally outraged over a commercial? Wow. I better RSVP a “no” to that party in Kyoto next month.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Put your ego aside and accept that advertising might have a significant influence on a person's perception, reasoning, and judgment...and accomplish it in subtle ways you may not be fully cognizant of. That can also lead to more v
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by kcplate 2y ago
Personally… I thought it was a cool visual and I suspect anyone morally outraged over it is probably a real drag at parties.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Further, most people (That I know) are not choosing a path based on data and charts. They are happy if the bills are paid, kids are in a good school, little crime and plenty of food TODAY. Every time I read one of these threads on HN I
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by kcplate 2y ago
> We're living longer. Medicine is getting better at that . But we're not living better. I think to a degree we live better to a point*, but at a certain point of no return that longevity benefit of modern healthcare can creat
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by kcplate 2y ago
Whether or not it’s part of the community guidelines is beside the point. The point was that someone should be able to easily identify obvious sarcasm and absurdity if English is your first language without the need for a “/s”
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by kcplate 2y ago
My dad did a short stint in memory care before he passed (86 years old). He had Alzheimer’s caused dementia. I was surprised by how many younger (60s+) people than him that there were in his facility. Without having much experience with e
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by kcplate 2y ago
> humor and sarcasm stifle conversation …or punctuate conversation vis-á-vis reductio ad absurdum
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by kcplate 2y ago
I still find it wild the number of folks on HN who seem blind to obvious sarcasm. Perhaps if english is a second language you get a pass, but if english is your first language…oof.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> these people just wanted less blood on their paychecks, maybe. Or just that the organisation they work is not complicit in these heinous crimes They succeeded in their mission then. They have the option of having both of those things
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by kcplate 2y ago
I think you could make a case that if any of these fired employees were employed at google prior to project Nimbus contracts they were already complicit by their silence and unwillingness to perform a terminate-able protest stunt against qu
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by kcplate 2y ago
> folks who protested a contract with the Israeli Defense Forces I encourage anyone who believes this was somehow unjust or an overreaction to pick a pet cause and go disrupt executive offices at their own company to see if your company
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by kcplate 3y ago
As someone who used to manage a tech support department with a bunch of Dell and Lenovos for a large traveling sales team, I can assure you that they are not “hella rigid” and definitely will die and break when dropped from waist height. Me
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by kcplate 3y ago
My experience goes back to the early ‘90s. I’ll admit an intense hatred then and the occasional support call, but that was mainly because I was a network engineer in a publishing company and AppleTalk was a chatty POS protocol. Since mayb
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by kcplate 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for, Carter is the poster boy of “good intentions not necessarily equaling good results”. But admittedly he was better than the current candidates we have available to us in November.

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