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by sib 2y ago
Are the bicyclists and pedestrians paying the full cost of the streets and sidewalks that they are using?
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by sib 2y ago
I mean he didn't even sign the letter himself and he's been completely hidden since it was published. No one thinks this is weird or dangerous?
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by sib 2y ago
He is clearly not competent enough to be president. He is, arguably, barely competent enough to be a ventriloquist's dummy at this point, which is effectively what he is. We just don't know who the ventriloquist is. Does anyone be
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by sib 2y ago
Or maybe they're just big fans of Lord of the Rings?
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by sib 2y ago
It was delayed a looooong time and the hardware/OS was locked fairly early. If it had been released when originally planned, it would not have felt so old. I still don't think it would necessarily have rocked the world; too many
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by sib 2y ago
Sorry, but the team that produced Alexa (& Echo) were completely separate from the team that produced the Fire Phone. There were distinct product teams, design teams, software engineering teams, hardware teams, and GM-equivalents (Amazo
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by sib 2y ago
>> Correct, but the thing is, AI blown up much faster than phones >What do you base that on though? Two years into the iPhone, Apple reported a $6.75b revenue on iPhone related sales. ChatGPT may reach or surpass that this year con
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by sib 2y ago
Jamie Zawinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
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by sib 2y ago
And people who need spreadsheets are not the same as people who need documents as people who need slides etc. Of course there is overlap, but there is also lots of overlap among those who need chat/meet and those who need slides.
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by sib 2y ago
I strongly dislike paying for subscription software that I don't use very frequently[1], but I do pay for the Photoshop & Lightroom bundle. At ~$10 / month, it ends up being a lot less than I paid for updating "perpetual&
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by sib 2y ago
Addressing the goal of the author vs the symptoms of Google Takeout, I've found the best way to handle a reasonably large photo library (~3TB) is to manage it locally with a DAM (digital asset management) platform and then back that up
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by sib 2y ago
For someone who is "not even sure what RCS is," you seem very certain of that. Per Wikipedia: "In early 2020, it was estimated that RCS was available from 88 operators in 59 countries with approximately 390 million users per
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by sib 2y ago
Sorry, it's been 35 years since I've read that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by sib 2y ago
I agree - they've recently repositioned it vertically (as it would be launched). I was at the museum a few weeks ago and it is definitely smaller than you'd think.
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by sib 2y ago
RCS is a messaging service / protocol developed by the GSMA (the global system for mobile communications), a non-profit industry association representing mobile telephony operators worldwide . Nothing to do with American phone compa
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by sib 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/arts/design/rokeby-venus-...
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by sib 2y ago
A friend of mine was the official photographer for the move of the Shuttle to the museum in LA. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjtJA0PPWm3/?img_index=1
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by sib 2y ago
I took GP's comment to mean "unfair in a good way" (of course my priors are "fjords good")
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by sib 2y ago
Because they want to build a better product for users rather than one that's been gimped by regulators?
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by sib 2y ago
Looks very interesting, thanks! Anyone remember John Phillips? ======== John Aristotle Phillips, founder of political data-analytics firm Aristotle, graduated from Princeton University with a degree in aerospace engineering in the class of
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by sib 2y ago
My "favorite" thing about Atlanta is the so-called Perimeter Center.
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by sib 2y ago
Q: What do all of these places have in common? Aden Bahamas Bermuda Bombay Gibraltar Halifax Hong Kong Jamaica Malta Singapore Suez Trincomalee A: They are all former coaling stations in the British Empire
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by sib 2y ago
Well, not for me...
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by sib 2y ago
Great book! Sadly, I don't think the sequel (about the H-Bomb) is quite as good.
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by sib 2y ago
Are you missing a /sarc tag?
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by sib 2y ago
>> "then using another actor telling them to copy the first actor's likeness " Assumes facts not in evidence
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by sib 2y ago
>> There's also a more fundamental issue: absent explicit recording, we treat everything that's output to the screen and speakers as ephemeral. This is very much like why it feels quite different to have automated license pl
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by sib 2y ago
A relevant good book, which I recently read, is "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class." https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Memoir-Foster-Family-Social/...
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by sib 2y ago
They do. I've flown many (more than 100x in some years) and I can't count how many times that pilot / co-pilot has announced upcoming turbulence and turned on the seat beat light.
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by sib 2y ago
I'm confused - how do the vandals stop the train?

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