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by pnathan 3y ago
Alexa & Google Home work fantastic in these areas: - Playing music - Playing audiobooks - Telling the time - Setting timers for cooking. - Giving the day's weather. Alexa beats Google solidly in kid-friendly material. I subscribe
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by pnathan 3y ago
Absolutely. Clearly the problem was that Alexa was taking too much space/runtime, thereby inhibiting profit.
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by pnathan 3y ago
There was a HN commentator who believed that. In his case, the output of a RNG. Poor guy was brilliant. Wrote a whole OS around his idea. He had a tragic life.
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by pnathan 3y ago
I worked retail many years ago. I found the required fake cheer rather horrid. I was good at it, and every now and then I'd have an interesting chat. But I prioritized moving people through _fast_, because they didn't come to chat
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by pnathan 3y ago
A lot of Americans, particularly the more traditional minded, really are into hierarchy.
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by pnathan 3y ago
The US k-12 school system is well understood to, as a first approximation, optimize for average or a bit below. There are often carve outs for interesting tracks for kids. I'm not sure the right approach. Rigorous testing and sorting f
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by pnathan 3y ago
Location: Spokane, WA Remote: YES Willing to relocate: For a lifechanging opportunity. Technologies: Golang, Kubernetes, Rust, Python, GCP, AWS, Linux, (and more, but I hate to yammer on) Résumé/CV: http://pnatha
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by pnathan 3y ago
all gone
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by pnathan 3y ago
I have a few invites. Email me and I'll pass them out. :)
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by pnathan 3y ago
Correct. This analysis misses a LOT of economic factors. As well as corporate control factors.
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by pnathan 3y ago
This is good advice. Looking at the future you _and_ at the idea of taking a leap of faith into the unknown. I am reminded of the Hebrew Lech lecha , which occupies a certain amount of commentary space and has some alignments. There is som
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by pnathan 3y ago
s/political correctness/art world correctness/ is probably a better phrasing. The art world is a _thing_, with tastes that can vary quite a bit from mid-brow average consumers. Its sensitive in its own way to "PC" a
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by pnathan 3y ago
I've had a lot of family time in the hospital systems in a relatively well-managed part of the US. And, I worked in the 'back office' of a medical system a while ago. Talking to billing people, etc, I came to the conclusion t
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by pnathan 3y ago
My take is that if I want to run a business on open source, I license as AGPL3 with asterisk. Asterisk: if you want a permissive license, our salespeople are _right around the corner_, and they will take you to a steak dinner with our profe
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by pnathan 3y ago
Nothing about this article really has to do with a knife. :) thanks for submitting it.
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by pnathan 3y ago
Also, in order for them to capture appropriate granularities of detail, they take a lot of time and conversation with readers. I usually go with as little graphs as possible and prefer to write text; it can capture more, better, faster, and
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by pnathan 3y ago
This is really sad. I've often thought about offering a similar service, but the abuse potential has always stopped me. I've noodled with a blockchain type system which allows blob uploads as part of the chain, but I haven't
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by pnathan 3y ago
My suspicion is that the Enlightenment's transvaluation of all values to valorize individuals, the material, change, and progress is what was required, excluding material conditions. A related question might be: why no Chinese or India
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by pnathan 3y ago
Hahah, I've ridden bikes for like... 35? years now. Got the ebikes about 4? years ago. I'm very, ah, midwit about bikes. I like using them - zipping around in the city -, and doing minor repair, but I am not a real gearhead.
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by pnathan 3y ago
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/27/microsoft_windows_rus... mmmm... the Windows kernel? Amazon Firecracker (the AWS Lambda engine, afaik)? I have used Rust off and on for a decade, and in the last 5 year
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by pnathan 3y ago
This is fantastic. I've been doing more Rust hacking at home and I genuinely think that this next decade will be just gangbusters for Rust; its gotten a lot of early adoption, and the next wave is going to be wild. one of these days I&
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by pnathan 3y ago
> Uber/Lyft did outcompete taxis on merit, and to suggest otherwise is revisionist history! quite correct! The Uber/Lyft "package", as it were, is easily worth a full 20% over conventional taxi systems circa 2010ish.
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by pnathan 3y ago
It's amazing. I can appreciate the _desire_ to have a linked app to deal with the electronic internals of an ebike. We have a Yuba cargo and a Rad, and it'd be cool to "open up the insides and tweak". Yet. Yet. Honestly
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by pnathan 3y ago
I use this regularly. It's _pretty_ good. But autocomplete and Copilot tend to fight a fair bit.
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by pnathan 3y ago
Reddit and its communities (comprised of users and mods) are in a symbiotic relationship. Both have a claim on the total value of the company. Neither can survive without the other. I thoroughly believe there are several win-win outcomes p
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by pnathan 3y ago
I mod a top-1000-by-subs subreddit with about 800-900K subs. It has tight rules and aggressive automods. And people like that subreddit. Not gonna lie, if reddit strips our moderation, once the automod rules get figured out by the spammers,
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by pnathan 3y ago
I do agree that Google lost the spam war. This is particularly notable when looking for recipes.
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by pnathan 3y ago
thank you for the references!
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by pnathan 3y ago
I work remote for a startup. I have a 15 minute walk to my kids' school - not a bad one either, a 30 second walk to the bus stop, a 3 minute walk to the grocery store, a 7 minute walk to the fancy grocery store near the hardware store.
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by pnathan 3y ago
that's really what the article was saying. that, yes, there's a thing, and that the powerful will work to use it to their advantage, and the swivel eyed loons _notice_ that and start constructing wingnut theories and reaction agai

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