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by shawnz 4y ago
As far as I'm aware, lightning was never used for any host device product line or use case that wasn't previously served by the 30 pin connector. So it clearly wasn't created with an intent to allow a broader range of devices
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by shawnz 4y ago
How did lightning ever provide "ongoing savings"? It was simply an update of the 30-pin connector, it wasn't created to improve reusability or applicability to other kinds of devices. Also, I don't really appreciate the
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by shawnz 4y ago
Micro-USB was similarly enforced by law (but adapters were permitted with that regulation, thus allowing Apple to continue using proprietary ports) and that legislation had a clear and obvious positive impact for smartphone users. Don'
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by shawnz 4y ago
How much time has to pass before the one-time cost of deprecating lightning is overtaken by the ongoing savings of having a single standard? Also consider that lightning would surely have eventually been deprecated one day even without this
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by shawnz 4y ago
> it's easier and more falsifiable to discuss it as taking a photograph of a work, separating its colors, using those color separations to create plates (whether physical or digital), and using those plates to direct the application
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by shawnz 4y ago
This could be a good candidate for a wordle-style scoring system
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by shawnz 4y ago
I don't think that's what they are saying. I think what they are saying is that we should try to construct laws to maximize net utility for society and this is an example of where net utility would have been deceased if Warhol was
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by shawnz 4y ago
You can disable the ads in Firefox though
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by shawnz 4y ago
Why is it the author's problem to develop a better system? Is it not valuable to remind fellow users of the caveats of using the feature and provide examples of possible failure modes that might not be immediately obvious?
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by shawnz 4y ago
basically Jevons' paradox
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by shawnz 4y ago
Carlsen intentionally throwing games against Niemann hinders his ability to advance his chess career and be recognized, and it makes him unsavoury to sponsors and organizations who favour Carlsen
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by shawnz 4y ago
BPA itself isn't a plastic, it's the monomer used to make polycarbonate plastic
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by shawnz 4y ago
I guess they are referring to how inches for example are commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc.
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by shawnz 4y ago
I think you are misunderstanding their point. They want to ask for more than what they expect to get, because the "reasonable outcome" will be seen as somewhere between what ARM is asking for and what Qualcomm is asking for. http
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by shawnz 4y ago
Are they using an especially unusual choice of surfactant in roundup? Wouldn't it be trivial to just go to one with a better safety profile if it's not the active ingredient? It just doesn't seem like a plausible conspiracy t
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by shawnz 4y ago
Surfactants are essentially soaps, right? So surely their safety profile is well understood already and glyphosate is the more important component to be researching anyway?
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by shawnz 4y ago
Letting customers slip through the cracks of the traditional support channels is a bad indicator obviously, but what's the problem with keeping an eye on social media channels in addition to the traditional channels? Why is that not
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by shawnz 4y ago
I think Android's "custom tabs" functionality is a great compromise. Apps can open a separate instance of the user's default browser which becomes part of the app's activity stack and doesn't share tabs with th
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by shawnz 4y ago
Agreed, the best scene, hands down. A perfect explanation of the philosophical difference between Apple and Microsoft at the time.
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by shawnz 4y ago
For those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" which briefly covers this moment in history.
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by shawnz 4y ago
Well, the point I was getting towards is that if you remove the memory-based requirements from the scenario you set out, then it doesn't sound so far off from what something like GPT-3 can already do today. I am trying to reduce your s
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by shawnz 4y ago
The feature is called variable length arrays (VLAs) See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=arrays-variable-leng...
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by shawnz 4y ago
But it's not sufficient either, right? Just having memory alone also wouldn't prove intelligence, so it's not necessary or sufficient
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by shawnz 4y ago
Why is long term memory a requirement? Are amnesiacs not intelligent?
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by shawnz 4y ago
OK, sure, but what does that have to do with what I'm saying about usability testing being important to validate your hypotheses?
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by shawnz 4y ago
If not then that just means that both this counterargument against cutesy errors as well as the original rationale to have them in the first place are both equally weak. That's not a point in favour of this argument.
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by shawnz 4y ago
OP makes a reasonable argument about why error messages should be constructed the way they prefer, but is it actually backed up by usability testing? Maybe the cutesy errors really do have a subconscious positive effect which is being overl
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by shawnz 4y ago
well, Jeff Bezos didn't seem to need one
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by shawnz 4y ago
You might also like Retro Game Mechanics Explained https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRqWnW5ZkVaP_lZF7caZ-g and Modern Vintage Gamer https://m.youtube.com/c/ModernVintageGamer
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by shawnz 4y ago
Another excellent finance channel focusing on evidence based investing, and occasional collaborator with plain bagel, is Ben Felix: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDXTQ8nWmx_EhZ2v-kp7QxA

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