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by npunt 8y ago
It felt a bit persnickety - focusing on some minor details of the event that weren’t perfect, probably as a proxy for author’s larger skepticism. Skepticism is warranted given the big claims & article wasn’t too bad overall.
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by npunt 8y ago
Yes, mentioned in live stream was that other co’s only spend 1/5 the time actually boring and the rest on logistics of putting up retaining walls and the like. Part of Boring Co innovation is to automate that and keep the borer working
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by npunt 8y ago
It’s for added safety factor at high speeds (150mph).
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by npunt 8y ago
Yes he mentioned it would be a standard any autonomous EV could add, and specifically said it would not be a walled garden. Makes sense to add these to the vehicles so the tunnel can be as ‘dumb’ as possible, since we’ll need a lot of tunne
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by npunt 8y ago
FB is getting bad press because: a) historically it's done a lot of shady stuff and gotten a pass on that, b) it really screwed up around election time, with major / unprecedented geopolitical and economic consequence, c) it doesn
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by npunt 8y ago
I considered chiplets but I probably dismissed them prematurely based on my understanding that they introduce some efficiency loss, and it would be un-Applelike to make their iDevice cash cow less efficient in order to serve the Mac niche.
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by npunt 8y ago
I might simplify that further into three segments with different silicon strategies: Low (~15m units) - MacBooks except 15" MBP Med (~2-4m units) - 15" MBP, iMac, and Mac mini High (<1m units) - iMac Pro and Mac Pro In LOW, sil
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by npunt 8y ago
My read is Apple is most definitely on for ARM Mac and this is too little, too late (I assume that's your reaction as well). Doesn't seem like much IPC increase and mostly just catch up on both features and process. I'm sure
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by npunt 8y ago
From what info is available on LinkedIn, it looks like 1Password does not employ anyone in Australia currently: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1password/people/ However, Agile Bits (parent company) does hav
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by npunt 8y ago
Von Braun was also the recipient of big time image rehabilitation courtesy the US, in exchange for his work after scooping them up in Operation Paperclip. Not to take anything away from his instrumental role in US rocket development, but I&
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by npunt 8y ago
Thank you!
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by npunt 8y ago
All the Airplay tutorials I've seen are about being a receiver for Airplay signals from something like an iPhone. These boxes then plug into speakers for output. Does anyone know if there are tutorials on making an Airplay client that
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by npunt 8y ago
Very good point, and 100% agree. Browsers need to be on the side of users, if only because authors are demonstrably terrible at user experience. This isn't just because there's intrusive, bright/colorful/motion ads every
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by npunt 8y ago
I think we're probably at a mature enough point in websites-as-documents that browser compatibility won't be an issue, except in very specific more cutting edge media like 3d where they're dependent on non-standard features.
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by npunt 8y ago
Nice to hear you're making progress. Given these are 30 years old, what's a few months here or there, right? :) Look forward to seeing v2.
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by npunt 8y ago
Turns out this doesn't do the thing I'd expect. I set my homepage to Facebook and it doesn't load the container. Eh, back to my former opinion - Containers are great, Containers UX needs work.
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by npunt 8y ago
Thanks for the details. Sounds like it wasn't handled well.
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by npunt 8y ago
Oh that's a bummer. They should add that functionality back and bake it into same UX. FWIW Safari Reading Mode information is linked to your Apple ID so it's stored externally as well.
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by npunt 8y ago
Ah great! I guess this was added more recently, I hadn't seen it before.
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by npunt 8y ago
Thanks this is great!
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by npunt 8y ago
Purely from a feature development perspective, I guess I don't see how adding a read-it-later / bookmarking feature would generate so much consternation. Functionally its roughly equivalent to Reading List + Bookmarks on Safari, w
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by npunt 8y ago
Yep, and meanwhile Mojave would be really familiar to an original Macintosh user from 35 years ago. So much has changed yet so little.
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by npunt 8y ago
Been watching this project for a while (via 68kmla), haven't seen any updates recently but excited to about any progress you make!
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by npunt 8y ago
Agree with everything you said and NeXT was the right call (even sans Jobs). Apple needed mature ecosystem, libraries, etc, not just a base OS. However, BeOS was far more stable/mature than its 'developer release' status im
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by npunt 8y ago
To be honest, I actually really like that they added Pocket, and I don't think it takes anything away from FF.
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by npunt 8y ago
Containers are such a great idea. My one wish is if you could set a default container. I use FF to browser Facebook primarily and want that to be default, but instead I have to load Firefox then load a container then load Facebook. Wish it
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by npunt 8y ago
You're onto something. This should be a chart though, and encompass the whole scope of Google's attempts at messaging over the years. Plot out all the bundling (Hangouts & G+) and unbundling (Allo's features -> Message
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by npunt 8y ago
Sure but lets not forget the single most successful consumer product in history (iPhone) owes much of its success to it's clean, consistent UX across a suite of built-in apps. More people probably use those than downloaded apps.
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by npunt 8y ago
1. People regularly complain about inconsistent web UI. 2. Even web apps often have similar idioms and patterns to their UI that they've settled on. It's their own patterns that are different from desktop OS, it's basically
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by npunt 8y ago
Let me restate what you're saying to see if I understand it: A product that looks the same across platforms is better than a product that adapts itself to the platform it is on, in part because platforms have a lot of UX that isn&#x27

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