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by schnable 3y ago
There are so many ways POTUS tweets can be archived irrespective of general Twitter/X policies.
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by schnable 3y ago
Also, fake progress bars that are really just spinners with the illusion of showing percentage complete. These are pretty obvious when you see them move smoothly to 90% or so then stall out.
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by schnable 3y ago
Long ago, I was working on a small Windows desktop app. It was a companion app to a much larger app that took tens of seconds to load. The companion app had a requirement to show a splash screen while loading, but the app was so simple and
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by schnable 3y ago
JSON is fine too, if it carries the same semantic information.
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by schnable 3y ago
The World Wide Web is a smashing success of HATEOS and REST, properly understood.
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by schnable 3y ago
I don't know the specifics in Oregon, but in many places (especially bigger cities) that stopped prosecuting drugs and prostitution, "throwing everyone in jail" was not the previous scenario. People were arrested then put int
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by schnable 3y ago
Is a billionaire really more likely to be corrupt? The marginal value of money is much lower for them. It's much more interesting when people of modest wealth enter politics and become wealthy while in office, or shortly after leaving.
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by schnable 3y ago
My house came with a Subzero Fridge from 1989. Works like a champ and has a great layout. The only feature I miss from the late model LG I had at my last house is on-door water and ice. The SZ has an interior ice maker that works great thou
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by schnable 3y ago
Yes, the e-bike drivers are creating the risk by riding against traffic and in crosswalks where turning traffic can't see them coming. This would be an issue even if all the other traffic was bikes and not cars -- though admittedly not
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by schnable 3y ago
I felt this way until I switched to Arc which completely changed how I work, for the better.
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by schnable 3y ago
This is a really weak argument. Chase "requires" certain OSes because that's all the QA and develop for, not for some client trust reason. There's no reason for a bank to require a trusted environment, user authenticatio
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Supporting SaaS products “until the end of the Internet”(37signals.com)
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by schnable 3y ago
This hasn't been true since Dodd-Frank in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment "included provisions which allow retailers to refuse to use credit cards for small purchases and offer incentives
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by schnable 3y ago
Basically can summarize as "Threads uses your Instagram identity."
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by schnable 3y ago
That doesn't sound very much like a plan. What an exhausting style of rhetoric.
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by schnable 3y ago
True, but Musk is in the social media game now too!
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by schnable 3y ago
Leveraging Instagram identity was smart, but it offers little for most Instagram users that either publish or consume images.
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by schnable 3y ago
> Is this a nothingburger, or is it really what it appears to be: security theater, brought to us by techbros who don't know how to roll their own auth? Are those the only two options?
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by schnable 3y ago
Props for being the original craft beer, but I never liked it.
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by schnable 3y ago
Should be noted that this isn't an editorial from The Economist but an opinion piece from a contributor that was run side by side with a counterpoint: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/06&#x
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by schnable 3y ago
For super simple stuff, sure, but many issues are easier to explain in natural language and a fluent UI (something with a lot of conditionals, well beyond a simple HTML form.
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by schnable 3y ago
Yes. This article is criticizing the primitive chat bots deployed by companies today, not good ones that ought to be possible with the latest and upcoming LLMs.
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by schnable 3y ago
Now that is Meta!
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by schnable 3y ago
Sure, but the role of structured analysis is also done by Product Managers and Architects - if we end up in a world of AI code monkeys, the work shifts to these roles, themselves also assisted by AI.
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by schnable 3y ago
Yep. I got a counterfeit product, reviewed it with photos showing it alongside the authentic version and the very obvious differences (like lack of branding). Rejected as "the information we have indicates that the product you received
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by schnable 3y ago
Yes, I think so.
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by schnable 3y ago
It surprisingly has up to date content where I live, and generally anything 4+ stars is good and below 3 stars is not too good. The individual reviews are usually not useful, but looking at patterns and trends of recent reviews can be usefu
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by schnable 3y ago
Sometimes they show TripAdvisor reviews instead of Yelp.
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by schnable 3y ago
Hate to break it to you but the counterculture in the 2020s is the mindset of Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald, and that overall crew. They are the ones pushing back against mainstream consensus and institutions, for better or worse! Really
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by schnable 3y ago
> That's good to see from GPT-4, but the comparison seems disingenuous, and I'd expect more from someone in academia. Apparently you haven't been following many academics on Twitter.

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