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by lopis 3y ago
While they are good, they fall in the graphic design uncanny valley where several details are disturbing and distracting.
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by lopis 3y ago
Right. First thing will be bright billboards in space illuminating our night sky.
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by lopis 3y ago
> I think that if I was Google or Amazon...I would do the same? Of course. There isn't anything particularly evil in Google or Amazon. They are a result of the capitalistic environment. If not them, some other mega corp would have
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by lopis 3y ago
Or maybe they have similar morals are made for each other. Clearly OP doesn't care enough about that misery either.
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by lopis 3y ago
> They’d have to pay me to use Mac OS And for many HN users, they do get paid to use Mac OS and offered a Macbook for work. I personally still use Linux for work but I have to admit it hinders my work in certain ways (e.g. no easy acces
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by lopis 3y ago
I'm almost sure you're right. Some images have the distinct text generation issues of early DALL-E.
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by lopis 3y ago
He paid exactly the amount he proposed.
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by lopis 3y ago
People pay 5 bucks for an avatar skin. You're just a bit out of touch with the times.
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by lopis 3y ago
All Smartphones are PDAs
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by lopis 3y ago
The term phablet has been pretty much obsolete since 2015 or so. Better accept that we're not going back.
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by lopis 3y ago
And there you have it folks. That's the number one reason why they are forcing you to use their app.
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by lopis 3y ago
You can't be serious. If this gets implemented, trust in the EU will be greatly reduced. And maybe I do trust the EU, but not each individual country that will implement this this?
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by lopis 3y ago
Bad actors can use this to actively harm children by intercepting their communication with their friends and family and putting them at risk. No need to even change arguments.
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by lopis 3y ago
It virtually always better to allow the button to be pressed and present a reason why the click action failed. "this field is required" or "this field is not valid" or "do this action first". A disabled button
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by lopis 3y ago
Most people love talking about themselves. So it's actually quite easy to be a good listener if you care to stop and listen.
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by lopis 3y ago
What sort of monopoly does AirBnb operate? I rarely see an apartment these days that isn't published on all the accommodation listings.
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by lopis 3y ago
I was thinking the same. CRTs pull a lot of power, and everything is just exposed and crammed together. I'm sacred.
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by lopis 3y ago
Corporations are not people. Google and Apple have more power than several countries and their monopolies mean people have less and worse choice. The free market is a myth.
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by lopis 3y ago
Youtube search at this point is incapable of showing relevant results past the first page or results. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of relevant results, after the first page it seems to show more and more what Youtube thinks
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by lopis 3y ago
It really isn't. If you go to wilderness, away from phone signals and wifi networks, which are already used to improve accuracy and speed in the cities, GPS just isn't enough. But then again, gaming and rideshare companies only ca
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by lopis 3y ago
Well of course. If they sell you a specific product and then don't deliver, then there wasn't money on the table, that's just lying.
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by lopis 3y ago
I often see this argument that if we'd all pay for services like Facebook, they wouldn't have to charge. Let me offer a counterpoint: if there is money on the table, corporations will get it. Example, you pay for cable, and still
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by lopis 3y ago
> sue the first two, get $$$. This is textbook discrimination Ah but they did no wrong! They just licensed the AI du jur that functions pretty much like a black box, but just so happens to feed on multiple sources of data from dozens of
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by lopis 3y ago
Because despite being currently at the forefront of technology, Apple has shown time and time again to be anti-user.
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by lopis 3y ago
And barriers there are... Lots of websites only allow the Google bot and no one else.
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by lopis 3y ago
Even European Websites do this. I know that in principle I never check the "I want to receive spam" but I still do and still have to unsubscribe later.
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by lopis 3y ago
Actually, if the EU gets its way, a future with mandatory removable batteries might be the only possible future. And I'm so looking forward for it. Next up should be mandatory recycling of batteries by the manufacturers.
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by lopis 3y ago
I didn't say otherwise.
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by lopis 3y ago
Very wide paragraphs is just bad accessibility. It's harder to read and there are studies on this. You can always just disable the page styles if you hate it.
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by lopis 3y ago
Google Search is an app like any other. It might be tightly coupled with your launcher app, and also other apps like Google Translate and voice input might require it. But the EU has forced Android to provide a search engine selection optio

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