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by objclxt 3y ago
> It's not like you'd ever want to live in his austere glass boxes. I have had the pleasure (or misfortune?) of working for a number of years in buildings designed by Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, and Norman Foster. Was the Le Cor
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by objclxt 3y ago
> The public transport boats in London are operated by Uber They're sponsored by Uber, that's it - they bought the naming rights. The actual boats are owned and run by the Thames Clipper company.
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by objclxt 3y ago
> the variety in frames makes it look like a very specific and distracting art style instead of true animation. Well, what is "true animation"? There are number of types of traditional animation where you draw both the characte
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by objclxt 3y ago
> is still irrelevant noise for non-users of safari Safari vends an in-app view controller used by lots of third party apps to display web content.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. How many managers do you have for this to be a problem at a company of 35 ?
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Although I'd also gamble on [Apple] acquiring Epic Games Given Tim Sweeney holds a controlling stake in Epic this seems like the least likely outcome.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Is this a corruption story? Are they all just that incompetent? I have heard through the grapevine that some startups were locked into varying exclusivity deals with SVB.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Bing is more accurate and able to reference live internet data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34804874 ...Bing consistently hallucinates facts, and isn't able to reliably give you today's date.
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by objclxt 4y ago
It’s unclear that the Amazon deal is outperforming expectations versus a quid pro quo on AWS hosting.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Interesting that Twitter is shipping features faster than ever after 80% layoffs. I don't know if deliberately breaking their developer API for third party clients counts as "shipping features faster than ever".
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by objclxt 4y ago
> They were behind the state of the art (of laptop/desktop chip performance) with their A series chips starting with the A4 ...but A series chips were never intended for laptops or desktops? And by all accounts, the A series nearly
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by objclxt 4y ago
That’s the tunnel along Mass Ave, which Wigglesworth runs parallel to, rather than going through the yard itself.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Of course there are many lines that are but the majority. Even boring subway lines not intercity. Many subway lines are automated. It just turns out that it is not cost effective to move between Level 2 (driverless, but the driver oper
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Auto-tweening has basically displaced hand animation for most TV cartoons. That's got nothing to do with AI, it's just economics, and it's been like that for years. Everybody doing animation on the cheap wants to avoid d
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by objclxt 4y ago
> I am convinced you can run the entire tech stack with a team of a 100 people. This is because you don't see the complexity. What you see as a Twitter user is a fraction of what's actually there. You have to build a platform
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Cylde is notably the only male assistant. Siri defaults to male in some countries and languages.
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by objclxt 4y ago
Apple’s financial year runs September to September.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Besides, the idea that you have to be wealthy to avail yourself of test prep is absurd. I buy books at the thrift store all the time, and there are always test prep books there for a couple dollars [...] There are no excuses. Not quite
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by objclxt 4y ago
From The Verge's article: > I was told the headset would last between one and two hours on a single charge, then take around two hours to recharge That's...not great for a device targeted at enterprise? Especially without any s
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by objclxt 4y ago
> how twitter invest almost 2B in R&D and there are no visible new features with that investment From a financial reporting perspective, nearly all engineering costs will be recorded as R&D.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> This article states 2029 but their own site says 2024. The article says they intend to carry passengers in 2029, which isn't incompatible with going into production in 2024 (of course, they will do neither).
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by objclxt 4y ago
> we do need standardization in this modern web world and chromium is just that. Yes, we need standardisation - that means we need multiple browser engines. You can't have a standardised web with a single browser engine. That's
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by objclxt 4y ago
> HRT without medical/parental gatekeeping are widely supported positions in the trans community It's a widely supported position of the trans community that minors should have access to home-made HRT without any quality co
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by objclxt 4y ago
> There is a shitton of crap movies in Hollywood. I wonder... The movie doesn't need to be crap to be a product of money laundering! The Wolf of Wall Street[1] was infamously funded by money laundering (from the Malaysian Sovereign
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by objclxt 4y ago
> As such, it seems like there should be some kind of legal obligation to keep it public. The challenge here is royalties. You have to pay people royalties for broadcasting their work. You could take the position that publicly funded m
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by objclxt 4y ago
It’s nowhere near a solved problem, there’s a large number of camera moves you can’t do with that tech, and it doesn’t help you if you have any sort of virtual or CG augmented character or prop in the shot (because you’d still have to do th
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by objclxt 4y ago
> it was bad enough not to justify one. Hollywood doesn't greenlight sequels based on how good or bad a film actually is. It's all about the numbers. The budget for Tron Legacy was $170 million, and it made $400 million at the
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by objclxt 4y ago
> Coinbase was also extremely generous with severance. 12 weeks plus two for every one year at the company, I think [...] Three and a half months of dev salary is pretty incredible. ...literally this is the minimum they can get away with
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by objclxt 4y ago
> locks into the car while charging The EU plug locks into the car while charging. Not sure why you think it doesn't. There's also no obligation to have an extra flap, my Model 3 does not.
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by objclxt 4y ago
> my impression is that some of those problems – especially the homelessness, crime and public defecation issues – are much worse in San Francisco proper (Oakland too) than in (say) Silicon Valley Kind of? Violent crime is always going t

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