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by maeil 2y ago
~80% of publicly listed multinationals are roughly as greedy as each other, and Apple belongs to that 80%. Then there's 10% in each opposite direction. Pretty standard 80/10/10. Apple could easily be even greedier if they&#x2
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by maeil 2y ago
> I drive on Uber part-time. In my city at least, rating is not such a big deal. The vast vast majority of people give 5 stars ratings (i'm talking about 99% of ratings). Same here, and all that means the scale is different. 4.70 is
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by maeil 2y ago
I'm convinced the person you're replying to is right. At my last job, all of us took separate Ubers every day. I started cancelling every driver below X rating. After a while, Ive ended up only being assigned drivers far above X,
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by maeil 2y ago
> When it takes more than a minute to find a ride, I cancel the ride and choose the "others" option, as this is the de-facto the option for "I will just take a cab", so I get inserted on the "churn risk" lis
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by maeil 2y ago
We use multiple M1 airs as dev machines and they're all still working perfectly fine and very fast, nothing has broken, on top of that they were all bought used. We're not looking to replace them any time soon. Not an Apple fanati
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by maeil 2y ago
> The "loading screen" patent expired in 2015[0]. I cannot think of any games which have incorporated this feature. FIFA/EAFC, one of the highest grossing console games (possibly #1).
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by maeil 2y ago
I'm not sure why SourceGraph is struggling so much that I have to do it for them (maybe the name?), but Cody is competition and has the benefit of being an extension instead of a fork.
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by maeil 2y ago
Cody has done exactly what you said, do it through an extension, and is competitive with Cursor. I've been unable to find a reason to use Cursor over Cody given the "fork" drawback. Though I've mostly switched over to A
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by maeil 2y ago
Do you know of any statistics that back this? I could see it be the other way around, or various factors balancing each other out. From my experience the current young generation is more willing to trade money for QoL , and quit when they f
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by maeil 2y ago
Nondeterminism provides an excuse for errors, determinism doesn't. Nondeterminism scores worse with human raters, because it makes output sound even more robotic and less human.
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by maeil 2y ago
There is no "trick" in the linked question, unlike the question you posed. The trick in yours also isn't a logic trick, it's a redirection, like a sleight of hand in a card trick.
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by maeil 2y ago
I live in one of the countries you mentioned and just showed it to one of my friends who's a local who struggles with English. They had no problem concluding that the doctor was the child's dad. Full disclosure, they assumed the d
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by maeil 2y ago
Example of a legit reason to need sideloading: bypassing wrongful assumptions. a US company I worked for at a non-US office (imagine it was e.g. Google Japan) gave most employees a corporate credit card. Citibank made it impossible to downl
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by maeil 2y ago
Page 3 now.
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by maeil 2y ago
> The other side of the coin is for apps that are already listed in the Play Store, does side loading have any legitimate use cases other than piracy and IP theft? Yes - bypassing incorrect assumptions. For example, a US company I worked
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by maeil 2y ago
Out of the big 4, Gemini sounds the least like a chatbot, GPT the most. Claude and LLAMA are somewhere inbetween.
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by maeil 2y ago
Zoho Mail. Cheapest, no nonsense, very straightforward UI, all the settings you'd ever wish for, support replies quickly even on the cheapest tier.
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by maeil 2y ago
That sounds exactly like a binary, as hinted at by a sibling comment: Breakup of a company monopoly (always good for the consumer) vs. Breakup of a government monopoly (potentially bad for the consumer)
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by maeil 2y ago
> I will admit that Operating Systems are winner take all monopolies and as any other such monopoly should be regulated. Not sure I follow, could you explain how this is the case when the OS market has been much more competitive than the
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by maeil 2y ago
It's good to see more and more articles pointing out that Musk is not interested in free speech at all, given how he's very happy to comply with governments like Turkey and India who target opposition voices that aren't alig
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by maeil 2y ago
I didn't know HN and dang were so brazen about this, good to know. The Reddit case does seem quite a bit worse, not in the least because they sell actual products to EU users, unlike HN.
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by maeil 2y ago
This is at least partially written using GPT, so not sure about its trustworthiness. The "Browsers that support AMP email rendering" section gives it away.
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by maeil 2y ago
Along with undeleting hundreds of thousands comments to preserve the dataset for his friends at OpenAI, in obvious breach of GDPR and similar laws.
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by maeil 2y ago
Am I correct that the use case of doing this is 1. Scale and 2. Defeating Cloudflare et. al? I do scraping, but I struggle to see what these tools are offering, but maybe I'm just not the target audience. If the websites don't hav
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by maeil 2y ago
As someone else not living in the western world, beards may as well be extinct here outside of the creative industries (arts, fashion, music).
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by maeil 2y ago
And those might be the common in SV tech companies, but not as much in the other 99% of the world (and even less so at the time that capsule coffee became popular). They do seem to be popular in places like coworking spaces and other shared
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by maeil 2y ago
> Nespresso machines, and other coffee pod brands, replace many styles of coffee brewing. Provide much worse coffee, at a higher price but are superficially convenient. I dont think John quite realizes the quality of the coffee at the a
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by maeil 2y ago
> - You don't need to shave every day, especially with 2024 social norms, you choose to. Regarding 2024 social norms: the world is a big place and not everyone lives in the US or Western Europe. Also, people have extremely different
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by maeil 2y ago
You can definitely test things such as openness to new ideas and proneness to certain biases, which tend to be fantastic indicators. Probably not yet in an automated, 200 applicants per day way. Though I can see LLMs changing this.
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by maeil 2y ago
This is pointless in the long run. For now, there's still plenty of people who just simply ask ChatGPT a question straight up and copy-paste the output. In such cases, it's doable to catch a lot of them with very few false positiv

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