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by mft_ 2y ago
I suspect the previous poster's metric of innovation was more along the lines of: * developing the first meaningful fully-reusable first stage rocket, and continuing to develop it to the extent that no other launch systems are even in
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by mft_ 2y ago
100-200 at one worked reasonably well; 10,000 was definitely a problem :)
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by mft_ 2y ago
There's something similar-ish... if you have an Apple TV and install VLC, there's a feature that allows you to upload whole video files across your local network, and then play them directly from the Apple TV. It's a bit les
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by mft_ 2y ago
Another past paying Beamer user here. I used it until it stopped working, didn’t update, then was bought by another company for redevelopment and incorporated into a horrendous subscription scheme, compete with hard sell sales. I’ve used VL
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by mft_ 2y ago
I haven't, but downloading now - thanks. I've been intermittently grinding Mindustry recently...
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by mft_ 2y ago
(Not the previous poster but) for me wth RA2 there's a slickness to the gameplay, the mechanics, the controls, and the graphics. I've tried to get on with RA several times (via OpenRA) but it never quite clicks for me - it feels
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by mft_ 2y ago
I experimented with Cursor over christmas, with writing a simple-ish Swift/SwiftUI app on iOS as the challenge. I can code fairly well in Python, moderately in JS, and almost not at all in Swift. I was using Cursor on a Mac, in paral
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by mft_ 2y ago
I’m not intending to make a typical HN-type snipe, but I’m wondering why (it seems) so many new tools/programs are being released for Mac only at the moment, especially in the ~AI space? For example, is it: - there are specific reasons
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by mft_ 2y ago
The current model of “democracy” in the US —and indeed in most countries— is very arm’s length. In countries with a model closer to direct democracy, Switzerland being the best example I know of, it might be possible to hold a vote about a
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by mft_ 2y ago
I think you’re looking for a conspiracy that’s just not there. It’s just people seeing an idea and jumping on the bandwagon. Plus, if you look at lots of the threads, there are already a pent-up dissatisfaction with the user experience of l
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by mft_ 2y ago
Money alone might not fix stuff... but an absence of money can prevent stuff being fixed.
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by mft_ 2y ago
The big difference is that none of these changes were part of a defined strategy to lock the user in to their products and ultimately generate more profit, as with the Bambu example: - Battery management was to handle an issue that was enco
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by mft_ 2y ago
Well, you either join them [0, 1] (no affiliation to either) or support people trying to fight them? [2] [0] https://www.joinautopilot.com/ [1] https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/ [2] https:&
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by mft_ 2y ago
You're being hugely reductive. What we're really talking about is the richest man in the world, who owns one of the largest social media platforms in the world, using his financial and social media power to directly influence poli
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by mft_ 2y ago
Could you share a link to the article, please?
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by mft_ 2y ago
A great post, well worth reading. The principles in the section on 'people' are applicable to any organisation in any industry. I especially liked the simple 'career ladder' example, for a) focussing on mostly on behavi
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by mft_ 2y ago
I'd go further - AirBnB is virtually the poster-child for enshittification. It was so good and so refreshing once upon a time; now it's just another profit-maximising f*k-the-customer corporation.
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by mft_ 2y ago
A masochist. I've ranted about this before on HN so won't too much now, but suffice to say over the years I've tried to use a Pi for multiple different projects, and it's very rare that anything ever just works , even f
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by mft_ 2y ago
Fair point, as seen with Netflix and Amazon Prime video.
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by mft_ 2y ago
Interesting question. I guess the truth is that the large subscription 'streaming' services (Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, etc.) are effectively micropayment systems , just not quite as transparent and/or direct as the concept
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by mft_ 2y ago
This was my second thought; while we don’t have full performance data, it’s probably a bad day for tinybox.
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by mft_ 2y ago
I think you nailed it. Any basic SWOT analysis of NVidia’s position would surely have to consider something like this from a competitor - either Apple, who is already nibbling around the edges of this space, or AMD/Intel who could&#x2F
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by mft_ 2y ago
A personal take is that ad-based businesses exist because there’s no secure widespread reliable approach for micropayments (yet?). The mean value of adverts on a page is in the order of a tiny fraction of a cent per reader, which is presuma
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by mft_ 2y ago
Agree, on two fronts. Firstly, while pharma collectively spends a lot of money (many, many billions) on drug discovery and development, in the grand scheme of collective global governmental spending, it’s not so very much. If the (e.g.) 20
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"Terrorism"...
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by mft_ 2y ago
This sounds counter-intuitive, but if you live with people that speak your native language, and you work in your native language , then simply being in Germany actually holds surprisingly little value for learning the language. Why? Well,
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by mft_ 2y ago
There's also an implicit assumption that consuming food bought from a country with a regulatory framework for food (say, the US) doesn't usually involve the risk of said food being laced with listeria. The point being, the wbole t
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by mft_ 2y ago
The process for approving a new drug essentially requires proving that they are safe and also have sufficient efficacy, and usually also that the balance of the two (aka benefit:risk) is an improvement over a reasonable existing comparator.
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by mft_ 2y ago
Well, since you mention context, the original thread is about listeria in food, and this part of the discussion is about how the US beef cartels are too big to police and so can effectively do what they want. Thus it was plausible that the
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by mft_ 2y ago
…in UK (and EU) I assume?

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