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631.
by sib 6y ago
Right - the year after Amazon's Alexa was announced.
632.
by sib 6y ago
Nope.
633.
by sib 6y ago
Because different words have very different best potential performance characteristics when used as wake words. We would have liked to enable fully custom wake words, but it would have led to bad user experiences with the device either fail
634.
by sib 6y ago
Given that Alexa was launched publicly in 2014, perhaps it was responsible for the initial increase in popularity in 2015 by raising awareness of the name? Having been on the inside of the project and directly involved in picking the name
635.
by sib 6y ago
I also have a Model 3 from December 2018. No issues / defects at all. I have had mobile service for things like rotating tires and installing a rear spoiler. Better "initial quality" experience than the VW and Subaru vehicles
636.
by sib 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that we're talking more broadly about content that's "not allowed today" (according to some decision made by some people) and there's no reason why that decision wouldn't carry weight beyon
637.
by sib 6y ago
So we're all going to go to the library and start removing (maybe burning??) all the books that are no longer proper?
638.
by sib 6y ago
Not to be difficult, but how many of those were invented in the past 27 years? Bell Labs is (barely even) a shadow of its former self. If you want to read a great book about when Bell Labs was really Bell Labs: https://www.amazon
639.
by sib 6y ago
Yup - this is very common in southern California, for example. My mother-in-law and brother-in-law's homes are both in this situation. Ours would also have been except we were lucky that the previous owner was an EV early adopter and w
640.
by sib 6y ago
> If anything he was just an actor He had a longer political career (and one more directly relevant to being the chief executive of a government) than Obama before each became president.
641.
by sib 6y ago
Oh, I agree. I think whitelist / blacklist is a manufactured controversy. But my point is that, if people took the time to learn the background, perhaps (in both of these examples, and others), we could avoid the kerfuffles.
642.
by sib 6y ago
For a while, people were getting in trouble for using the word, "niggardly," even though it had nothing to do with the offensive term that it sounds like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_
643.
by sib 6y ago
Pretty sure that most newspapers that charge for subscriptions also sell ads. Similarly with TV news channels.
644.
by sib 6y ago
Giraffes also reach up to eat. (They do look quite funny when bending down to drink, though!)
645.
by sib 6y ago
I think you should probably give it a try. Every car I've owned except for a $300 beater in college was manual transmission (including a modified WRX STi) and my Model 3 Performance is much more responsive to the "throttle"
646.
by sib 6y ago
Thank you for the link to FP Castle! Their FAQ is a brilliant way to lighten up a Friday afternoon...
647.
by sib 6y ago
>> itsoktocry 2 hours ago [–] >> When I was part of a union it amounted to 2 hours of wages per month, not exactly onerous. reply >> elefanten 2 hours ago [–] >> Counterexample: the nascent Google employees union is
648.
by sib 6y ago
When I needed a similar non-emergency procedure (cervical, rather than lumbar, MRI), my neurosurgeon, at a large, university-affiliated hospital, referred me to the in-house radiology department. Within a day or two, I received a phone call
649.
by sib 6y ago
Why? (Seriously - you seem to be assuming the answer here.) Would the same statement be true for food and shelter (also necessary for life)? Should the government be the provider for all food and shelter in order to avoid additional steps?
650.
by sib 6y ago
Unfortunately, there's really no moat & no differentiation (so others could also be horizontal competitors, making this a commodity), and the giant platform players will always make it easier for their own vertically-integrated off
651.
by sib 6y ago
Took me a couple of minutes to figure out who you are :) Still proud of this product!
652.
by sib 6y ago
True. And in the early (internal) alpha days, false positives for wake word detection were quite high. So we felt the pain from eating our own dogwood; even though we spent huge amount of science / engineering resources on reducing tho
653.
by sib 6y ago
It's a balancing act. We built it, to build trust. But talking about it too much would - we thought - highlight concerns and increase worries that we hoped (most) users wouldn't have. As an example, we were very clear and upfront
654.
by sib 6y ago
Yeah... I thought it was pretty clear. While still hoping that we could build something (product & reputation) that users wouldn't want to turn off.
655.
by sib 6y ago
I left some years ago. Yeah, not a huge fan of these "by the ways" but agree that having them would be less bad if there were a "don't ask again."
656.
by sib 6y ago
When we discussed this - at long length - during the original Echo development program, we consistently came to the conclusion that it should be hardware, not software, to maintain customer trust.
657.
by sib 6y ago
Has anyone used this (or made an open source version)? I'd like to find one that acted as a a line-speed internet bridge so I could plug it in between the cable modem and the router.
658.
Continuously monitor your internet connection(monitor-io.com)
1 points by sib 6y ago|1 comments
659.
by sib 6y ago
Imagine that you and your partner are remodeling a bathroom. It's a simple way for you both - plus your designer - to collaboratively collect and view images of sinks, cabinets, fixtures, tubs, tile, etc.
660.
by sib 6y ago
That really is a perfect example of why Darktable will never (I know, it's a long time) replace Lightroom on macOS at least. (Most) users are not going to adjust their core working styles - which have been consistent on the Mac platfor

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