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by nluken 3y ago
I don't doubt that voice recognition will continue to improve, but doesn't it seems kind of ridiculous for automotive manufacturers to pour millions of dollars into R&D (or spend millions licensing someone else's software
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by nluken 3y ago
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I can’t imagine using a voice command to do something as simple as turn on a seat heater. That feels like way more effort (and honestly more distracting) than one or two button presses that I
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by nluken 3y ago
Check out Mubi, or your local library's Kanopy account if they have one. Lots of great art films on both services.
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by nluken 3y ago
AAA games take thousands of hours of labor from huge teams to create. When you consider how much work goes into it, $70 seems like a bargain. Also, if you account for inflation these kinds of games are cheaper now than they've been for
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by nluken 3y ago
These guys aren't so much selling shovels as selling advice on which shovel to buy despite the fact they've never dug a hole before.
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by nluken 3y ago
The actual paper discussed in that article isn't just comparing frequencies of accidents, but rather using them to calculate the odds that a given vehicle type causes a pedestrian accident in a variety of scenarios. In doing so the aut
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by nluken 3y ago
Music publications are still very important in curation. Sure, you don't need to put money down on a record before listening to it anymore, but just because we have a universe of music available to us through streaming doesn't mea
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by nluken 3y ago
The Ford Maverick is better than most modern pickups, but still misses the mark. As you mentioned, the bed is significantly smaller than a 1990 Ranger despite being 6 inches longer[1]. Honestly the biggest issue I have with these vehicles i
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by nluken 4y ago
I generally agree but in this case how personal are we getting really? There's no login or anything, and you can put a fake name in. At most, my IP is getting logged, and the fact that I'm coming from HN. I don't consider hei
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by nluken 4y ago
Plenty of others in this thread have expressed the mistake of calling these sorts of activities "useless" but I can relate to the splendidness of self-expression for fun. I've recently started writing music and might record s
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by nluken 4y ago
I don't know why anyone still bothers with twitter at this point. I got off the site in December and my quality of life has noticeably improved, which surprised me because I didn't think a single social media site could have that
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by nluken 4y ago
Yes they are so perhaps that was a strawman, if you will. I could equally have made the point with "sustainable" versions of inherently unsustainable products or any manner of surface-level "environment-friendly" change.
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by nluken 4y ago
I mean what do you propose western nations do? Nothing? Yeah stupid measures like removing straws from restaurants make 0 difference, but pushing for more fuel efficient vehicles and cleaner sources of electricity seems like a worthwhile ef
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by nluken 4y ago
Audio has always been a tough spot for Linux in my experience. That said, I also have problems with MacOS too so my problem might lie somewhere between my chair and keyboard.
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by nluken 4y ago
The “innovations” of many (but not all) post-2008 unicorns are more about creating a legal grey area to bypass regulation than they are actual technological advances. Uber and Airbnb are prime examples. If Uber was forced to used licensed c
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by nluken 4y ago
I don’t know that the artists actually want people to file their taxes in the game, but for the critique to land you do actually need to be able to use it to file. That means asking for an SSN.
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by nluken 4y ago
Also being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264787
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by nluken 4y ago
Existential questions aside, this post is a non-article that adds nothing to this conversation. It's the kind of noise that I'd expect LLMs to replace.
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by nluken 4y ago
Typography is a highly specialized field that requires a lot of semantic knowledge about how letters interact to execute well. It's a much harder problem (for humans and computers) than people realize.
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by nluken 4y ago
Should a community be able to vote to exclude people who don't make a certain amount of money? How about people of a certain race or sexual orientation? These are freedoms that supersede the desires of the community, and since the sing
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by nluken 4y ago
> Can't figure out why folks in Suburbia with one or two kids would choose an SUV It’s a mixture of status and an erroneous belief that people are going to be performing the tasks that necessitate an SUV more often than they actuall
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by nluken 4y ago
Rezoning empowers the existing landowner to do what they want with the land, within reason. Newcomers don't have any "moral right" over the land but neither do existing residents have an absolute right to dictate what happens
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by nluken 4y ago
Agreed, there's a difference between looking skeptically at tech LEDs and recommending people go full Chuck McGill, and the author rides that line well until that point in the article.
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by nluken 4y ago
"lololol" != "lol". They're two different words these days. I wasn't deriding the modern lol. I think it's actually more useful than it used to be since it works extremely well to define tone in conversati
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by nluken 4y ago
Funny little project, though the days where "lol" meant something was truly funny have long past. The way we use the word today is actually very important to conveying tone over text, and so I don't know if I would call an &q
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by nluken 4y ago
Interesting that it's done at the county level in TN. In my experience (which, to be fair, is mostly in the Northeast where counties are pretty much irrelevant) these laws are usually made at the state level, not the county level, thou
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by nluken 4y ago
I love hearing about bugs like this one. It's a nice reminder of the problem solving that made me fall in love with computer programming, which sometimes gets obscured in the day-to-day processes of working on software.
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by nluken 4y ago
> You're in a bubble Yeah that seems evident from the breadth of replies I've gotten. Perhaps it's just one factor among many.
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by nluken 4y ago
Agreed: the data in this article only discusses the US, so I was only discussing the US here. I'm not sure if there's a similar crisis in other countries. Some in this thread have indicated yes, others no.
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by nluken 4y ago
A good point that exposes some major bias behind my anecdote. With that said, if these expectations start at elite schools and slowly trickle down, would that not cause a rise in the aggregate across all teenagers over time?

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