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by naravara 6y ago
The insistence on making the spoken interaction feel as "human" and "natural" as possible honestly introduces way more confusion than it needs to and makes the whole thing feel uncomfortable for its parasociability and s
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by naravara 6y ago
> Now you can mispronounce it, that’s the only leeway we get. Not a bad option. I would much prefer asking 19th century Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, to turn on the lights.
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by naravara 6y ago
The behind the scenes story there is that Steve Jobs never actually cleared it with anyone when he announced it on stage, but it turns out FaceTime depended on lots of elements that Apple didn't have the rights to and, therefore, could
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by naravara 6y ago
This is probably a path dependent outcome from the process that brought us the the "personal computing" era. It really kicked into gear and achieved ubiquity with Microsoft selling both the main operating system AND the "stan
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by naravara 6y ago
Yeah I have the same thought. On the other hand, SaaS and Electron were not really things back then. It's possible that if enough heavy workloads go into the cloud and basic ones just turn into wrapped web apps the actual underlying in
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by naravara 6y ago
Is that still going? I used to lurk but didn't bother posting because of the sign up fee, and then I sort of assumed it went to poo poo with all the other big forums from the Silver Age of the internet. How has the culture fared in thi
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by naravara 6y ago
> That’s a feature, not a problem. It can be both. In the dying days of several community forums I was on, I noticed the conversation got more and more centered around links people were finding on Reddit or Digg. That was my first inklin
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by naravara 6y ago
> This is not possible for any subreddit centering on a topic which is not famous enough to have entire departments of universities about it, such as, for example, Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo GameCube. This was a fun thi
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by naravara 6y ago
Have they announced that it’s temporary or is this an assumption? Obviously it goes away eventually, but going away in year 3 of a transition is a different beast than going away in year 10.
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by naravara 6y ago
If they were going to do this I wouldn't have expected them to make Apple TV+ available on the Xbox and Playstation. If Apple makes real forays into gaming I would expect a sort of cloud gaming service before I expect a full-fledged co
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by naravara 6y ago
> Each land/pin conducts heat so the more the better for thermal conduction. But these CPUs use so little power its not a big deal regardless. Is it possible this is part of a plan for a future high-performance Mac Pro SOC where pow
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by naravara 6y ago
Seems like some form of "Roberts Rules of Order" might need to be developed and become required reading for business/office culture.
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by naravara 6y ago
Honestly I don't really care about video at ALL. I almost wish they'd replace videos with Animoji or a kind of animated avatar like some Twitch streamers are using. I care a lot about video when doing calls to keep in touch with f
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by naravara 6y ago
I realize I've subconsciously ended up doing this with spaces on Mac OS. I have a set of "Productivity" spaces and a "Goof off" space and I've been trying to toggle between the two in 5/25 minute splits. I
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by naravara 6y ago
I can see that being the case in the Air but that wasn’t really running a modern/current chipset to begin with right?
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by naravara 6y ago
I don’t know. I used to avoid updating my OS for a month or two until they ironed all the kinks out, which I don’t worry about so much anymore. I remember updating to Jaguar ended up killing my mouse drivers somehow and I had to manually re
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by naravara 6y ago
Admittedly I haven’t had much direct experience of this, but most of the old guard Mac developers I follow seem more put off and burnt out by the vagaries of the App Store than by technical limitations at the OS level. I think there is plen
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by naravara 6y ago
It’s not without some overhead though, so there will be performance issues. Fortunately those performance issues will probably only affect games released in a fairly narrow band of time, new enough that they’re still resource intensive but
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by naravara 6y ago
> practically ensures that third party software will either not exist or be shit as well I don’t see this at all. The Mac has long had a culture of extremely dedicated developers who have fully acculturated themselves into a design-orien
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by naravara 6y ago
In most population dense parts of the country where traffic is a problem, there is no “side of the road” to dig a ditch into. It’s all built up.
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by naravara 6y ago
I just configured this and it seems kind of clunky? The phone seems pretty inconsistent about registering the taps and even when it does it's slow to respond.
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by naravara 6y ago
> iOS navigation is such that you shouldnt need to use the top portion of the screen, to go back you can swipe from the left edge to right, except some apps override that default behavior This was true with the first jumbo phones, but is
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by naravara 6y ago
I only housesat for someone with one so my experience is limited. My take was audio quality is WAY better, so if your primary desire is for a speaker it blows the Google/Amazon ones out of the water. BUT Siri is less useful so if you w
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by naravara 6y ago
I think those people will end up buying the cheaper, but much higher margin PlayStation 5 Slim a year later. I’ve also heard some speculation that the curvy shape is specifically designed to keep people from impeding cooling by stacking thi
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by naravara 6y ago
> suspect Sony didn't penny pinch since they plan to make most of their money back from sales of games and services(ala Apple) while Microsoft probably wants to make more from the hardware itself(ala Android devices). When I saw ho
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by naravara 6y ago
> But Apple seems very much in the wrong here on an ethical level. If the devices have resale value, then they should be resold, not destroyed! Reduce and Reuse are both higher priorities than Recycle. I can't imagine Apple just not
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by naravara 6y ago
> The list of reasons unionizing drivers would be difficult to impossible is long and obvious, but the outcome would surely be better than some hamfisted state law. The state could mandate sectoral representation for all the drivers, fun
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by naravara 6y ago
When you use Nova and then go back to something web based, like Atom, it becomes clear why that’s not ideal. It jut feels snappier.
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by naravara 6y ago
The paper posits the microbes living in droplets in the clouds hypothesis. Heat and pressure at ground level are not as conducive to life.
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by naravara 6y ago
He covers all that in the article.

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