themacguffinman

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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Woah, I match every element of your description. To answer the OP directly, I'm not satisfied with my life, and from my ACE score it's obvious that I have no one else to blame but myself. The CDC website has some stats on ACE dist
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
AI voice agents are weird to me because voice is already a very inefficient and ambiguous medium, the only reason I would make a voice call is to talk to a human who is equipped to tackle the ambiguous edge cases that the engineers didn&#x2
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Etsy is pretty slick, although lately I've heard it has similar (but not the same) product/seller trust issues as Amazon. iHerb has a somewhat Amazon-like UI but noticeably less cluttered and more structured. It highlights a minim
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Most major tech companies will ban it for any use because the virality of it isn't clearly bounded and legally it's untested [1]. The stakes are high at large tech companies with valuable IP, so downside is huge. For whatever reas
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
His Amazon stint was mentioned in Steve Yegge's famous "Platforms" rant [1] where the reason for his departure was described less amicably: > Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
It's advertised as a scanner but for me Stack was essentially a tag/label system on top of Google Drive, something I think is still sorely needed on Google Drive. Having the same document appear in multiple "stacks" (eg
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
Ted was a domestic terrorist mailing bombs across the country, how is it selfish to put that above "how much it hurt her husband"? What is a non-reckless way of pushing your husband to report an insane terrorist actively plotting
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
It's available today, it's just not a product called "Duplex". Android has call screening and "hold my call" and phone menu tree detection. On select Google Maps listings, you can make reservations by clicking
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
It's possible for a beat cop to hand off a complicated case to detectives in their police department. I realize this kind of collaboration requires the police to give a shit, but it is possible.
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by themacguffinman 2y ago
This isn't the US joining China's practices, they aren't cracking down on all foreign ownership, they're targeting China as a tit-for-tat. Tit-for-tat is the right response to a defector like China, the US still cooperat
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
That kind of restriction is now gone https://www.xda-developers.com/android-14-new-apis-app-store...
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
Actually hilarious that you think ads are going away. Microsoft has already started pitching ways to embed advertising and sponsored links in AI responses [1]. They've already built prototypes [2]. It will probably be worse than in sea
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
Fleabag is not a strong independent Girl Boss either, the problem is bad writing and poor characterization which has a lot of broader industry factors. Gig-style inconsistent writer employment, lack of streaming royalties, shorter seasons,
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
First of all, it's not 10%, it's closer to 30% [1]. Estimates put 2022 App Store profits at ~$60B [2], 30% of $60B is $18B. Are you arguing that losing a portion of $18B doesn't matter? $2B of those profits alone is more than
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> And how is that relevant for phones? Epic Games makes and publishes games for phones. Fire tablet apps and its app store are just Android apps, it's just that Amazon doesn't sell phones so they don't brand it like that.
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> And yet no major developer does it. Epic Games does it. Amazon does it. Here's some featured apps on the Fire tablet app store: Minecraft, Paramount+, Roblox, Netflix. > You think getting users to use a third party App Store wo
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
The risk of government intervention (read: penalties for everyone involved) is what drives self-censorship. There's no meaningful distinction between the two.
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
I'm not fine with that either, I think it's essential to rectify the bullying by protecting countries & organizations like the one behind the Hugo Awards from being bullied. But that is different from rectifying the bully ,
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> Sounds like they were scared into actually overdoing the censorship. They were scared into doing the censorship. Saying they overdid the censorship implies there is an acceptable level of censorship that they could have done. And why
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
This time it didn't seem to work out well for the organizers. The organization behind the Hugo Awards "Worldcon Intellectual Property" announced resignations and censures in response to this: > Dave McCarty has resigned as
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> Google is no more permissive about games and in app purchases - where most of the revenue comes from… Yeah they are. For one, you can bypass in-app billing altogether with third party app stores and side-loading. They are also permissi
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
Actually a lot of companies don't need something for desktop use, it's very common to adopt a mobile-first or mobile-only strategy especially if you're a startup. Usually the very largest services will have a good desktop exp
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
Because Apple ruins the "cross platform" part by crippling it on their own popular platforms. It's a lot less appealing to develop cross platform code when you still have to make a native app for one of the biggest platforms
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
If you're actually familiar with human history then you'll know that it's uneven with horrifying dark periods and isn't some consistent curve that goes up. In the lead up to the 2008 financial disaster all the bulls were
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
The Register has been told by an anonymous source that it could be an unintentional bug: > A person familiar with the kerfuffle who has visibility into the Windows giant, though who did not want to be identified, told us it appears that
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
I wonder if 20th century Britain and America were up to your political standards when they fought in WW2. Back when the British king was Emperor of India and America had just finished retreating from occupying South American countries becau
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> So no one is doing you any favors here. Poor utilization is not just an "oops" on the part of the subscriber, but an essential feature of the business model. If everyone was being "personally responsible", the busin
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
> Anyway, a binger whose usage is equivalent to a non-binge watcher, except concentrated rather than diffuse, is not actually underutilizing the service and isn’t really who we’re talking about here. I think. I am actually talking about
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
I don't see the conflict between the two comments. You can lambaste people for not even trying to cancel a subscription they don't want while recognizing that many subscriptions depend on light users. Light users are not people wh
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by themacguffinman 3y ago
I described the reason in more detail in my previous comments up-thread: because I understand the cost is amortized and it's an intuitive billing system that supports two different watching habits: consistent watching as well as bingei

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