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by neotek 8y ago
Personally I much prefer Twitter threads like this to big, long, overly descriptive blog posts. The improvisational nature of the writing, plus the interleaved commentary from other interesting people, make it much more conversational and e
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by neotek 8y ago
That video was fantastic!
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by neotek 8y ago
>On the one hand, thinking all cgi looks fake is confirmation bias. There is so much cgi you don’t notice (cars for example, look incredibly real). But when you do, it’s because it’s bad. Also known as the Toupée fallacy: https:/&#
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by neotek 8y ago
I order from Ubereats constantly – at least once a day, sometimes two or even three – and this is my number one issue. For some reason Uber thinks it's appropriate to assign multiple deliveries to a single driver even when those delive
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by neotek 8y ago
Adding "</s>" to the end of a sentence doesn't make it any less of a strawman.
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by neotek 8y ago
Clever move, get out before the indictments land when investors figure out they've been had. uBeam's been completely full of shit from day one, and Perry is every bit as deceptive and deluded as Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes. Da
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by neotek 8y ago
Sure, Google should give all streamers a 500% refund on their YouTube fees, which comes to, let me see, zero dollars.
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by neotek 8y ago
In the same vein, I really miss Bullfrog, and the company that was formed after Bullfrog was shuttered, Mucky Foot. They made some of the best casual RTS games I've ever played, particularly Dungeon Keeper and Startopia. I still play t
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by neotek 8y ago
>I wouldn't, but I don't see why it would be unacceptable. If you don't see why it would be unacceptable, then why wouldn't you do it? You're admitting, whether you intended to or not, that you do in fact recogni
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by neotek 8y ago
>Apple would be easily 3-5x that expensive for no good enough added value Well that's straight up not true, in fact IBM has over 100,000 Macs in the field and they estimate it's saving them $535 per machine over four years. ht
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by neotek 8y ago
At Facebook's scale even the scraps can be worth millions. And the sad truth is that the vast majority of people will not be deterred by, be aware of, or even understand the fact that Facebook is abusing their phone number in this way,
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by neotek 8y ago
Not sure why, but when I try to load your site in Safari or Chrome on iOS, the page displays for a second and then the tab crashes.
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by neotek 8y ago
It might interest some of you to know that youtube-dl has an awesome archive feature which will allow you to scrape a playlist periodically and only download new additions to that playlist. So when I stumble across a track I like, I just ad
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by neotek 8y ago
Yet again everyone rushes to the defence of fascists. If history has taught us anything it’s that giving fascists a platform is never, ever the solution, you can never reason with them, you can never argue them out of a position they didn
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by neotek 8y ago
There's the fantasy reality we wished we lived in, and there's the pragmatic reality we actually live in, and if you only ever act as though you live in the fantasy reality then the pragmatic reality will always leave you disappoi
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by neotek 8y ago
>Why not make the sources go on record? Do you really need someone to explain to you why this is a silly idea?
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by neotek 8y ago
"It's almost a little strange why marketers and advertisers are so apprehensive" about Reddit, said Amanda Parker, an account supervisor for digital marketing agency PMG. "Marketers chase scale, and Reddit has it. I thi
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by neotek 8y ago
Of course it does, don't be ridiculous. The difference between a faceless, directionless algorithm miscategorising videos and performing actions without direct oversight from a human being, and an underhanded (and, frankly, nonsensical
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by neotek 8y ago
>Same reason YouTube wanted to pull the Blender videos. What? Blender was a victim to The Algorithm, not to some nefarious plot by YouTube to rid itself of the billions upon billions of free and unmonetised videos currently hosted on its
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by neotek 8y ago
...what on earth are you talking about? How is any of that relevant to any of the points I've made? Did I at any point state or even imply anything even remotely approaching "maximum correctness, always"? Did I advocate for &
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by neotek 8y ago
What a shabby attempt at deflection. Do you have any intention at all of arguing honestly, or are you going to continue putting words in my mouth?
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by neotek 8y ago
Buying, or investing in, existing companies and then using his marketing skills to convince other investors (and governments) to pour billions of dollars into them is hardly the same thing as "building rockets that land themselves&quot
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by neotek 8y ago
So? You couldn't have illustrated my point any better: Musk is a showman, he's great at drumming up PR but not so great at actually running a profitable business or hitting any of the milestones he constantly promises he'll h
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by neotek 8y ago
Don't be so disingenuous. Nobody is claiming the cars don't exist, the point is that Musk continuously makes insane, overreaching predictions that almost never come to pass, like the ludicrous "three months maybe, six months
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by neotek 8y ago
The fact Musk still has any credibility at all given his penchant for making wild claims that inevitably fall flat is baffling to me. How many more spurious predictions and imaginary milestones does he need to pump out before people recogni
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by neotek 8y ago
What dark patterns do they use, exactly? I've been avoiding the iOS 11.3 update for a while now since I'm waiting for saurik to release his jailbreak, and iOS alerts me about 11.3 maybe once a week at most. It pops up a dialog box
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by neotek 9y ago
>dropbox.design This is fucking mental, seriously.
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by neotek 9y ago
Way better source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW5v93P-gBw
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by neotek 9y ago
>Either we go out into the public roads with very high certainty that OUR software and OUR hardware won't kill someone, or we wait till we get there. As long as it kills fewer people than would otherwise have died due to negligent h
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by neotek 9y ago
CAPTCHA is an entirely pointless way of verifying humans, you can buy human-powered CAPTCHA solves for less than $1 per thousand.

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