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by pradn 3y ago
No one wants AR outside of niché applications. Regular people have no interest in walking around with AR headsets. I saw a 3D overlay AR experience that some people were doing at the Minoan palace of Knossos in Greece. It’s a large multi-le
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by pradn 3y ago
Isn’t there a limit to this when one requires an account to be tied to a phone number? Perhaps pseudonymous posting is on a countdown clock.
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Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’(theguardian.com)
5 points by pradn 3y ago|0 comments
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by pradn 3y ago
Pebble Time watches have spiked to $100-150, unfortunately. I really wanted one to hack around with. Their simplicity appeals to me. But they're no longer cheap. I think the other models are similar.
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by pradn 3y ago
It's clear that the biggest problem is companies prioritizing their cost, at the expense of user experience. But after that, the biggest problem is clearly the framework/language you use. The maxim "premature optimization is
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by pradn 3y ago
That’s a movie where the message really did change my life. I used to think a good life was one without sadness, and now I know it’s part of life, and you have to learn to cope with it. A simple insight, maybe I had always known it, but the
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by pradn 3y ago
This is just brilliant, thank you!
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by pradn 3y ago
That’s also the set castigating young people who want to live in expensive cities. Prudence dictates you must live far far away. Why are you even thinking of living in New York City, you fool?! Why live in a cesspool like you goof!! It’s b
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by pradn 3y ago
Maybe we need a Kotlin for XML. I mean a JSON-like, simple syntax without some of the verbosity of XML.
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by pradn 3y ago
This is exciting. It adds to the tools creators have to remix songs. A middle ground between full AI and full human-made songs is a mix, like what Bronze AI has done with one of my favorite songs. ( https://bronze.ai/listen&#
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by pradn 3y ago
I'm with you - there'll be a long term re-allocation. It might take decades, though. It's a larger scale version of the problem of empty storefronts. Store owners would keep buildings empty than reify the financial cost of re
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by pradn 3y ago
It's quite hard to turn modern office builds into housing. Recently-built offices have huge floors, so natural light can't penetrate into the interior. Those spaces are fine as meeting rooms, but won't suffice for living in.[
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by pradn 3y ago
Bank webpages don't need to be more than HTML tables, with perhaps a bit of JS thrown in to ease element collapsing, etc.
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by pradn 3y ago
In this thread, people are 1) assuming what the lawyers say is actually contained in the redacted text (and would stand the scrutiny of the court) 2) that Microsoft's culture twenty years ago is largely similar to its culture today. Th
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by pradn 3y ago
It's not just the state. All human institutions can change. I hope these nonprofit land conservancies can continue their mission forever, but it's not guaranteed. Hell, look at monasteries. Several societies with large religious f
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by pradn 3y ago
For years and years of my life, I had enough friends to do stuff with, but with whom I couldn't really talk about things I cared about. I didn't realize what that did to me until way later, when I finally did find a few of sort of
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by pradn 3y ago
Gotcha, that makes sense! I wonder if there’s any difference in latency/jitter. Or maybe the GameBoy is so old that it’s easily possible to run games without any lag at all.
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by pradn 3y ago
It's amazing that this software exists. And any game you can make with it can be played on a range of new emulator hardware. There's the Pocket Analogue, which is the high-end option that runs games directly from cartridges using
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by pradn 3y ago
We have a sort of meta-stable failure here. Even if it's possible to win the battle against SEO and junk sites (and I don't think it is), this is the best that commercial search engines will do, given their resources and incentive
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by pradn 3y ago
Google can't index an internet that doesn't exist. The open web is truly dying. I believe in the open web, but it seems like an ideological position, not something most people want to participate in. (Just like decentralization!)
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by pradn 3y ago
HN comments have an air of authority because we so frequently do see reasoned, expert opinions. But it's still hard to mix up mere speculation, shooting-from-the-hip thoughts and well-thought-out comments. It's more pernicious her
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What America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up(popsci.com)
74 points by pradn 3y ago|25 comments
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by pradn 3y ago
Oh wow, "pull to refresh" was invented by one of these indie clients? Do you remember which one?
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by pradn 3y ago
I work about 10 min away from the Chelsea Google office in NYC. It's just like you said. I usually start my day reading near my apartment and then going to the office. The subway is right under the building, so I can often get to where
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by pradn 3y ago
The startup that became Google Sheets was basically an Excel->HTML conversion tool.
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by pradn 3y ago
I've never seen "exercise equivalence tables" in the US - that's a great idea! I suppose if pirated PDFs are accessible, this isn't necessary any more.
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by pradn 3y ago
These are fantastic, thank you for sharing!
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by pradn 3y ago
This is the sort of malaise that makes generative chat AIs and native mobile apps appealing.
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by pradn 3y ago
I don't think regular people know that Bing has added AI features. Even if they knew, why would they not just use ChatGPT? ChatGPT also benefits from a fresh, cool brand name that Bing will never have.
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by pradn 3y ago
Airline workers at the gate use similar terminals, and they're astonishingly fast at using them - rerouting passengers, checking flight openings, etc.

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