rchaud

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by rchaud 5mo ago
It'll probably require access to your contacts, call history, messages, geolocation and browsing information at all times. Maybe even a Microsoft Recall-style data suck where it takes periodic screenshots of your activity and ingests i
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Except that Chromebooks are widely reviled as cheap, laggy garbage plus a negative mental association with tedious schoolwork. If anyone buys one, it'll be in spite of the brand association.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Pot calling the kettle black. It'd be like Barney Gumble telling Boris Yeltsin what a great president he could be if he cut out the drinking.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
One of the first viral videos in the early years of Youtube. This was at a time when the Internet was just small enough that a single video could organically circulate around the whole world and be universally appreciated for its ridiculous
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by rchaud 5mo ago
"Google" and "local" is an oxymoron. The same goes for Amazon and Microsoft who all sell cloud compute. They'd all prefer that the computers of the future are all dumb terminals that can't do anything without b
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by rchaud 5mo ago
What's high in demand is supply infrastructure, i.e. GPUs and RAM, purchased with borrowed money. Actual end-user customer demand is an entirely separate question. Nobody is selling AI services at anywhere near what it costs to supply.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
They already do. Apple News is basically a gossip blog plus Taboola ads. Apple TV+ is useless without a subscription.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
The US is the only market where Apple's blue bubble iMessage empire exists, so its makes sense that they'd try to make Apple Maps tolerable to use for users there.
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Another factor might be that Apple knows that its days are numbered when it comes to charging giant premiums over Windows and Android hardware and getting away with it because of its purportedly superior ease of use. If you are of the gener
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by rchaud 5mo ago
The old internet can't come back, no matter how many MySpace[0] and Geocities clones[1] are spun up. The world has changed. Even the author's reference to TikTok lip-syncing videos are at least 5 years out of date - kids aren&#x27
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by rchaud 5mo ago
A few things come to mind: - SPAC IPOs that dodge standard disclosure requirements and worsen information asymmetry. See WeWork. - Board positions filled with CEO loyalists instead of independent directors. See OpenAI firing Altman before M
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by rchaud 5mo ago
I think the the author is greatly overstating how big the tablet market is for the product strategy he's hoping for. "Tablet-optimized apps" are a historical artifact of the 2010-2015 period when tablets were a new and exciti
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by rchaud 5mo ago
Actual capitalism is the free and unfettered ability to handpick cabinet members, bribe government to deregulate an industry in your favour, hand out no-bid contracts, offer tax credits and subsidies, and shelter you from foreign competitio
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by rchaud 6mo ago
DeX is not a fork. It is a UI layer on the phone that activates when you connect to a USB-C display. There is no difference between doing something on your phone and on DeX.
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by rchaud 6mo ago
The product is perfectly fine as it is. The way I see it, if it's being advertised, it's being monetized behind the scenes. That changes incentives and usually makes the product experience worse. All it has to be is a window manag
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by rchaud 6mo ago
Samsung, Motorola and Huawei have had this for years. Samsung DeX is probably the most popular desktop environment of its type, and has been available for 9 years. Plenty of people use it (like myself), but it's too niche of a use case
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by rchaud 6mo ago
Romance Scam-as-a-Service. With an aging population, sky's the limit for TMV.
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by rchaud 6mo ago
For the same reason the shoe industry spends billions sponsoring athletes and sports teams to hawk their gear. It's to build layer upon layer of abstractions to move the conversation away from how the sausage is made, and towards somet
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by rchaud 6mo ago
I don't think I've updated my Logseq since 2022. As far as that is concerned, it's Markdown files that I can sync with an open-source tool like Syncthing-Fork.
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by rchaud 6mo ago
I've found that the core issue is that they don't accept or love themselves. If you can't accept yourself in spite of your imperfections, it becomes nearly impossible to love/care about someone else for reasons beyond th
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by rchaud 6mo ago
This sounds like a Sheldon plotline from The Big Bang Theory.
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by rchaud 6mo ago
Seeing Zuck's "swag" makeover, down to the gold chain and Justin Timberlake curly coiff, I'd say the analogy should be Russ Hanneman's 100-foot Coachella hologram.
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by rchaud 6mo ago
Do as we say, not as we do. They are unimpressed with the French far right's economic plans because they are not sufficiently subservient to the American far right's economic interests. Americans can effectively nationalize TikTok
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by rchaud 6mo ago
That doesn't work, regular people who aren't the audience for ragebait don't realize that quoting ragebait tweets with a sardonic reply is a positive signal for the algorithm to circulate that tweet even further. Mute is the
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by rchaud 6mo ago
Hasn't everybody already figured out how to do this with a Mute Word list? The topics and names that trend on Twitter are not exactly a mystery. Every post of that nature follows a predictable pattern of key phrases/terms plus stu
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by rchaud 6mo ago
One of the perks of being at the top of the food chain is that you get to define what things mean. Just like the meaning of AGI has been redefined by the masters of the universe to resemble whatever the current state of AI is, so too will c
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by rchaud 6mo ago
Reminds me of Foxconn's "$10 billion" factory investments in Wisconsin in 2017 that turned out to be just another tax dodge. In 2022, the investment amount and jobs created estimates were reduced by more than 90%. https:&#x2
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by rchaud 6mo ago
How else do you propose selling the idea of giving a foreign company years of tax breaks in exchange for a minuscule number of jobs while slashing public budgets because there isn't enough tax revenue coming in?
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by rchaud 6mo ago
On regular TV, you can change the channel when the ads come on. On YouTube, there is no alternative.
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by rchaud 6mo ago
At airports and drugstores, the magazine racks will usually have a "Guide to iPhone/Android" type publication with a ton of pictures that are aimed at this market. I picked one up and realized while flipping through it that t

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