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by mft_ 3y ago
IANAL, but I’d wonder whether ‘creativity’ is really present in labelling - and indeed, mightn’t it be the last thing you want? I’d argue labelling should be strictly factual and reproducible, and ideally following a logical structure… mayb
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by mft_ 3y ago
Fair enough - no offense intended. Have a nice day :)
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by mft_ 3y ago
Broadly speaking, any individual or organisation working in a regulated industry is directly incentivised to either maintain the current status quo of conservatism, or increase it further. Maintaining existing conservative approaches brings
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by mft_ 3y ago
I wonder whether there' a reason behind all of this that they absolutely cannot share, perhaps related to the challanges and delays they experienced with the environmental assessment in '22? Maybe that they calculated they'd
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by mft_ 3y ago
It seems to be the standard for internet discussions: if there's the slightest caveat to something that someone wrote, even if the meaning should be obvious to a reader from the context, someone else will take the time to point out tha
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by mft_ 3y ago
I agree with all of this. The vast majority of people aren’t good at being visionary, most aren’t technical, and many will give you a default culturally-aligned answer (eg positive to be nice and conflict-averse, or negative because they ar
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by mft_ 3y ago
On Mac/Firefox 113 it doesn't autoplay; it works fine if I right-click and select 'play'.
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by mft_ 3y ago
I have a Fitbit Inspire 3 which, while looking more like a bracelet than a watch, offers all of the functionality the author was searching for. (I bought it primarily for sleep tracking, for which it offers AFAIK the best feature set outs
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by mft_ 3y ago
I’ve been waiting for this for years. If it’s possible to stick health tracking features into a ring, it should certainly be possible to fit them into a watch strap. I’m imagining a standard-looking watch strap with a small display that wou
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by mft_ 3y ago
> I had in mind the omnichord. ...as also used by Bowie in a lovely cover of America, once upon a time. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-simon-and-garfunkel...
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by mft_ 3y ago
Tesla’s is pretty good. My only gripe was occasional slow loading of map times (oddly slow enough to suggest they didn’t cache at all?)
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by mft_ 3y ago
I always assumed they bought it to augment Google Maps with Waze's superior real-time stream of road condition data?
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by mft_ 3y ago
I use it periodically (in Europe) and haven't seen an advert yet?
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by mft_ 3y ago
Agreed - an alternative (but much simpler) approach. Users have to pay reddit, and then can use their choice of 3rd party app.
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by mft_ 3y ago
Disagree - common idiom in the UK.
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by mft_ 3y ago
It seems obvious that Reddit could have altered the rules for 3rd party apps and made them include adverts in exchange for continued free API access , or am I missing a reason why this wouldn’t work?
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by mft_ 3y ago
No conflation. The living wage is a concept --a wage level required to achieve a certain standard of living-- rather than an instrument. You wrote: "If all jobs must pay a living wage..." - and it therefore follows that if all j
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by mft_ 3y ago
That a higher minimum wage causes job losses is a long-held but unproven economic theory, and attempts to study it have suggested it might be wrong. "...that have deepened the amount of data that shows the original theory about the mi
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by mft_ 3y ago
> The economics of service jobs make it an uphill battle for the employers to ever pay living wages. And yet in some countries, low-end service workers receive reasonable (i.e. meaningfully higher than the US) salaries, paid vacations, a
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by mft_ 3y ago
Wow, there're a lot to parse here, and it looks like you're coming at this from an "I've already decided" and "axe to grind" angle. > - Lockdowns did little to prevent the spread of COVID... <citati
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by mft_ 3y ago
Random thought: if someone's goal was to replace their old comments with text designed be directly adversarial to future usage in training machine learning algorithms (therefore not just removing their comments' incremental valu
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by mft_ 3y ago
Because... that's how the user signals that the form is complete and correct, and ready to go , or to be submit -ted? Maybe I'm not understanding your frustration...?
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by mft_ 3y ago
> https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma Took between 1.2 and 1.8s for a full fresh load, for me.
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by mft_ 3y ago
No, but they'll likely release a cheaper variant. Note that this is the Vision Pro - there's perhaps a Vision, or a Vision Air, in the pipeline.
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by mft_ 3y ago
Maybe add the 3D scanner on the back of the Pro iPhones (and some iPads?) to your list? It’s cool, but I never understood why they bothered, especially as they barely supported it with their own software.
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by mft_ 3y ago
A laptop that can’t be upgraded likely also can’t be fixed by the user. I’d like a realistically user-fixable laptop - especially as I (unfortunately) bought a 2017 MB Pro which has had a screen failure, a prematurely dying battery, and th
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by mft_ 3y ago
It’s not the answer you’re looking for, I suspect, but it’s the price that it is because Apple’s marketing team has run a bunch of market research and this is the price they judge will maximise their overall profit.
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by mft_ 3y ago
Best of luck to you. Having failed to find an avenue to even get a reply from Tesla’s customer services when they overcharged me (luckily for a relatively trivial amount) I’d like to donate any Tesla karma I’ve built up to you
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by mft_ 3y ago
I don't disagree (notwithstanding the extent to which we're already in a "world where corporations and the extremely wealthy suck up all the economic benefits and we're left with massive wealth disparity" ). My poi
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by mft_ 3y ago
That's not quite the issue I'm raising. It's not about being able to communicate better with existing robots - it's where (as yet) there are no robots suitable to do the job. There are plenty of tasks which are simple,

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