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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I've been using the keyboard based KISS launcher for 6 years now. Available in F-Droid, small, light, fast.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I was trying to find out if any product that was legal can bridge that gap other than buying books in print, in bulk, and scanning them and destroying them. From the responses here, it sounds like the answer is a vehement "no". Wa
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Yeah, I wasn't discussing legality, simply the incentives and alternatives.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Yes! And it was ruled legal by the courts, but the media spun it as "Anthropic destroys a million books to build AI". This is the only legal bulk approach I know of, hence my inquiry about such a product. I didn't expect such
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
My comment is being misread as my support for piracy; my comment isn't meant to discuss anything at all about piracy. It's instead intended to look at everything that's not piracy, and examining their costs, and why the ind
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Not arguing it's ok to break the law, but rather examining their incentives and alternatives, along with their associated costs.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Agreed. And don't press the play/pause button on your Bluetooth headset, or Apple Music will fire up and ask you to agree to their terms.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I was just trying to answer parent's question: > Why are people arguing that icons should be intuitively tell you what the app is about? I think the answer may be "because Apple's guidelines say so."
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I see this sentiment posted quite a bit, but have the publishers made any products available that would allow AI training on their works for payment? A naive approach would be to go to an online bookstore and pay $15 for every book, but the
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Because having somebody wander into your house one night and rearrange the rooms and the furniture is an impediment to getting work done the next day.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Apple's HIG: - clearly represent the document the application creates - use graphics that convey meaning about what your application does
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Yeah, what's amazing to me is that they play with the icon so much in an environment where they expect people to find the application by its icon. I always set up my machines so that I use a launcher that allows me to type the name of
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Yep, quite literally form-over-function.
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Every new generation of moral panic assumes that all the children are using their time fantastically if it were not for the latest issue. Except we've gone through this like five times before so if you did the math on that then probabl
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Anyone with experience reading research papers professionally will tell you that one of the responsibilities of a paper's abstract is to meaningfully convey the level of evidence and certainty that the paper is backed by. This paper di
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
You sent me to the books because this is such a fascinating stat. It's true! Heat deaths in the US: 5 per million people. Italy: 500+ per million people. I had no idea.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
There's no button that says that.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I did both! I'm not concerned with defending anyone, I'm interested in truth. His criticism was sound, and your comments contribute even less to the discussion than his. Very disappointing.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Thanks, made my day
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Yep, I agree that jumping to the "deception" angle would be pretty far down on my list. I always admired the simplicity of HN's guideline to focus on curiosity, since it has far-reaching effects on the nature of the discourse
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I think the word doesn't have a good analogue, so I support it. I wish it sounded a bit less sophomoric, but the concept is sound, because it's the intentional worsening of a product to extract more revenue, not just by charging
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Good screenshot! Ads take up the majority of the space on that page, and are styled to look almost identical to search results. That's a problem for people like me that expect a search engine to primary deliver search results, not ads.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
This comment might seem harsh, but this feedback is gold. I agree completely, matched my experience reading through the page, and I was diagnosed in my mid-40s with ADHD. I wonder if the folks doing marketing are neurotypical, but they are
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
What a strange interaction. What was the point you were trying to make?
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite resources that explains wealth distribution. Not sure when it was last updated, but the visualization using stacks of bills is nice. https://lcurve.org/
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Same problem with anything in-ear. I have two pairs of Shokz that I use for work (OpenComm) and play (OpenRun). I thought they would be a gimmick, but 3 years later, I love them and use them daily. Fun hack: when I travel I prefer my over-e
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Well, "My" is the name of the author's daughter, rather than a reference to who owns it.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Came here to mention this. > Ads are always separate and clearly labeled. Indeed. Let's look at Google's launch of Adwords in October 2000: > Google’s quick-loading AdWords text ads appear to the right of the Google search
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I'd love some clarity on that. The linked page says this: ``` How AI Destroys Institutions 77 UC Law Journal (forthcoming 2026) Boston Univ. School of Law Research Paper No. 5870623 40 Pages Posted: 8 Dec 2025 Last revised: 13 Jan 2026
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
His criticism that the paper is speculation is spot on. Many of the references don't support the claims they are cited for. It's fascinating to me that you want to argue the poster's standing to make a criticism more than yo

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