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by kkarakk 7y ago
None of those sources of info feel like you're reading information written by a human - there is limited emotional context or web context(ongoing internet history is often excluded) Some of the stories ARS presents you won't even
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by kkarakk 7y ago
yeah and then your feed gets bombarded by whatever political leaning that person has coz twitter has no way to "follow" someone without seeing retweets/likes
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by kkarakk 7y ago
most people don't exercise effectively and are too lazy to get a trainer so a workout watch is a good way to know that they didn't really work out as hard as they thought they did. it's a nice way of tracking your fitness lev
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by kkarakk 7y ago
In my experience, hardware scales exponentially. Until business figures out a "need" for all the extra data they have they tend to under value IOT and use it counter productively - like monitoring employees in draconian ways. Ther
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by kkarakk 7y ago
yup my favorite story of animals adapting to human environments is dogs riding subways in Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJf2L2B5fY
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by kkarakk 7y ago
i don't want to ruin your impression of your device but i used mine recently in a store next to a new device and it has noticeable ghosting(characters stay on screen)+ backlight is weaker + interface is waaaay slow Think it needs a new
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by kkarakk 7y ago
It does. Speed limit in my hometown is 30km/h but google always estimates it based on 60km/h that people actually go at.
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Yup, my bro in law panicked when he realized this - even school assignments are on a touch and record based interface so no interaction- and got my nephew a low powered windows 10 machine(dual core i3 from 2013 so the thing CHUGS) and gives
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by kkarakk 7y ago
media lab has a motto "demo or die", i don't think that's conducive to research in any way
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by kkarakk 7y ago
If it has a TED talk it's pretty much guaranteed to be vaporware
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Damn can you imagine versioning issues? Popular plugin creator decides english is too imperial for his tastes, switches to swahili(his native tongue :) ) Framework goes up in flames quite fast.
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Technology is really reinforcing the correct behavior - if you think you don't want to talk to someone, DELETE them off your phone/social media. I used to have the same problem until i took the plunge and just banished everyone i
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by kkarakk 7y ago
I think the point is to get the average beginner dev frustrated and not make macos apps. They've been pruning the platform slowly but surely for quite some time now ipad seems to be their focus for "pro" stuff now. Now that i
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Hard to feel sympathetic about a company that literally has fights with local city councils about their humongous all glass company headquarters
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by kkarakk 7y ago
It doesn't in India. Something is borked about their servers internationally, updates fail on me around 30 percent of the time
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by kkarakk 7y ago
>marketplace amplification this never happens, if you JUST upload your app to the store and think it will take off coz it has good features then good luck. In reality you have to upload and then pay some app advertisement agency to fe
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by kkarakk 7y ago
i was gonna say the website design is weird(why pdfs to download instead of pngs?) but considering it's 7 years old it's held up well
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by kkarakk 7y ago
well as always when discussing functional programming people are not discussing the merits of functional programming but rather the merits of basically throwing away objective programming in favor of functional programming. That is ofco
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by kkarakk 7y ago
This is what happens when you're the sole arbiter of your platform. Give us the ability to control our own hardware and maybe this kinda PR scandal wouldn't happen.
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by kkarakk 7y ago
It can atleast be independently verified. Nothing coming out of the chinese govt's mouth in these circumstances can ever be independently verified
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Which part of their constitution mentions the gulags they sent their muslims/protestors to?
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Made me laugh when Apple made a big stink about privacy BUT "chose" to headquarter their messaging servers in China under "Chinese oversight" basically compromising every iMessage user in China.This is of course labelled
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by kkarakk 7y ago
What exactly are you trying to say? Blizzard has indeed used pride flag in marketing materials and that is a VERY political statement
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Considering how Trump bowed down before Turkey about the christian Kurd fighters issue(basically abandoning people who were promised aid in exchange for dismantling their border security), I don't think he's going to care about Ho
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by kkarakk 7y ago
China has been leveraging their power "quietly" for some time now. Anything anti-China gets buried or discredited or shouted down using whataboutisms. Even here on hackernews you'll see tons of posts on negative chinese news
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by kkarakk 7y ago
yup, a lot of sports streaming companies have gone on a anti-piracy bend recently. a couple of sport streaming subreddits got the ban hammer for eg. RIP r/nbastreams https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/nba-str
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Nah, a lot of people actually do maintain vinyl/DVD collections. CD/VHS sure they may discard but that's because those forms of distribution were inherently flawed and degrade much quicker - VHS tapes stretch out, CDs get scr
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by kkarakk 7y ago
>they kind of just seem like a nepotism/popularity contest. EVERY award is just a nepotism/popularity contest. Nothing is done via merit anymore. I don't know about the Emmy judges but the Oscar judges have gone on record
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by kkarakk 7y ago
Mcdonalds knows that the VAST MAJORITY of the populace goes to McD for fries,nuggets,burgers and shakes but still has salads and healthier food on it's menu now for people who don't want to. I don't see how putting a toggle i
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by kkarakk 7y ago
If they don't sell it, torrent it. Artificial scarcity is a joke that only works as long as you keep shaking your head and going along with the system.

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