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by rifty 2y ago
The word is interfacing generally (or programming for some) but it's just not commonly used for general users. I’d say this is probably because the activity of focus for general users is in use of the applications, not the computer its
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by rifty 2y ago
> Honestly having 20 tele-operated robots… I think it’s interesting because it reveals their development strategy: • Build a hardware kit that can well avatar human motion from motion capture suits. This gives hardware a validation mode
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by rifty 2y ago
> if the cost is the same then yeah you might as well own it The cost per mile will be the same for whomever owns the vehicles, thus i think many will likely be in the position where they would pay at minimum equal, and likely more by ad
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by rifty 2y ago
Because of the word taxi in the name it gives off the initial impression that this is a product for fleet use and not something you own personally. But I don’t think that impression is going to explain the larger reality. if it’s inexpensiv
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by rifty 2y ago
I think with Fandom similar with Reddit, or Twitch, most people focus on the interface experience as sole advantage of the platform, and miss how they provide an accessible space to incubate new communities. You get low barrier to entry hos
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by rifty 2y ago
I don’t think you should expect exponential growth towards greater correctness past good enough for any given domain of knowledge it is able to mirror. It is reliant on human generated material, and so rate limited by the number of humans a
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by rifty 2y ago
Maybe you want to look into running wordpress locally and exporting it as a static website? Or alternatively using something like https://getpublii.com/
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by rifty 2y ago
> Nvidia appears to be the only financial beneficiary It depends how you look at it. A lot of the spend by big tech can be seen as protecting what they already have from disruption. Its not all about new product revenues it’s about keepi
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by rifty 2y ago
I suppose the idea is that while the SimCity Maxis studio met its true end later after SimCity(2013) [1], Maxis the company was destroyed earlier. They had originally tried and failed to make SimCity 3000 be a full 3D game. It was only desi
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by rifty 2y ago
Also cool is that the company the community formed (as a distinct entity from Jagex) to manage the Runescape wikis has now also become the host of the Minecraft wiki helping that community to migrate themselves.[1] 1. https://wei
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by rifty 2y ago
I believe the author isn’t dishonest about how they felt. But that supportive reasoning is pretty discardable. They emphasized one change as additive but glossed by the subtractive change implying there was none in concurrent executive deci
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by rifty 2y ago
> The fee systems effectively mirrors the fees already imposed on local broadcasters. I suppose the question becomes should it have been there on the others? I kind of feel that due to the reduced population scale and density of Canada,
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by rifty 2y ago
A tech debt ceiling so to speak then. There might be some use to it. It's still inevitably increased, but only after debate, discussion, and a lot of time in-between really considering the form and impact of the code being entered to f
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by rifty 2y ago
I feel like the focus on language appearance is taking too much precedence over covering other aspects like parser composition. For example mentioning the 'indention trick' feels like a deviation and distraction from the actual po
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by rifty 2y ago
I think people expect more from Apple moment to moment because of their storied history then their identity really aspires to release at a rate of. At the same time, there is probably some place for a change of strategy if they did want to
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by rifty 2y ago
You could say it’s the living results of that fate already. Here’s an HN discussion about firing the leads of Starlink[1] early in development (2018). And another in the following year laying off 10% of the workforce[2] (2019). 1. https:&#
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by rifty 2y ago
If you don’t want to use a finder replacement app which would add the extra right click functionality like creating a text file, there are finder extensions/plugins. There’s one called FinderUtilities[1] which does specifically what yo
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by rifty 2y ago
It would have been nice to see if the correct answer showed up in the distribution field once in under 1000 runs. For specific information recall like this it isn’t useful if you want immediate answers… but to be given a distribution of out
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by rifty 2y ago
Perhaps a bit hyperbolic on my part, it is fine, but it’s poor for the velocity of content it produces. Up until 2 years ago it lacked comment search… [1] which afaik can only search only so far back as well. It also doesn’t search it’s fu
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by rifty 2y ago
The relationship between Google and Reddit goes beyond just improving normal web search for Google - it's actually symbiotic. Because Reddit has horrible search, the best way to search Reddit content is actually using Google's ind
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by rifty 2y ago
This distinction feels mostly a metaphoric and superficial difference in practice if the iOS home screen is considered a zooming UI because of how it visually presents things. Interfacing-wise it doesn't feel like a significant differe
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by rifty 3y ago
If you want a standalone cross platform text expander I currently enjoy using Espanso[1] 1. https://espanso.org/
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by rifty 3y ago
Expecting growth along a single metric like dollars while staying product-offering static is a problem once most of the energy/production/scale optimizations have been implemented. It seems fine that we should expect innovation co
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by rifty 3y ago
My issue with Apple has been less about green vs blue text and more about how they lockout to lockin. In effect you can’t make equally competing products around and on the iPhone unless Apple supports and has decided the API, or user defaul
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by rifty 3y ago
Popular words are easy sacrificial signals so that people can provide an example of social intent by avoidance if questioned. It’s annoying right now that we have a doubled dictionary to signal intention, but it is also concerning looking f
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by rifty 3y ago
I suppose to make the title legitimate Elon should’ve formally started another company, and then acquired the other? It seems like getting in and operating in a pivotal way within the first 12 months is a valid time frame to still be given
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by rifty 3y ago
I run into this issue a fair bit because I enable 'larger text' for the display zoom option on my iPhone. I do this because I find it is just more comfortable to do things on the screen with one hand when there are larger hit boxe
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by rifty 3y ago
From my perspective since the ad cannot be skipped the ad is not separate from the video runtime experience behind the thumbnail - except in your reception of it. Also another notable indicator of the coupled relationship between ad and vid
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by rifty 3y ago
Text seems like a much more difficult medium to bring ads in such that it feels ‘right’ while still being noticed. YouTube is effectively analogous to burying the ad Indicator late in the reading cycle by not indicating to you which video i
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by rifty 3y ago
The manner in which they became for-profit does not feel like an exact comparison to Elon thinking that they should become private to be competitive. For example, merging with Tesla isn't the same path the non-profit OpenAI went even i

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