tweetle_beetle

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by tweetle_beetle 5mo ago
Amusing that's he's praised the original for it's lack of precision and predictability, which makes it more "human" and "honest", then spends loads of money refining it. Must be craving precision crafted d
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by tweetle_beetle 5mo ago
Looks like it is https://docs.sidephone.com/en/articles/13656688-replace-the-...
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by tweetle_beetle 5mo ago
Confluence and Notion are not equivalent products. Docmost looks to be similar to Confluence - a full fat wiki, but the whole point of Notion was its database-like features.
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by tweetle_beetle 6mo ago
As with most things, isn't the truth somewhere in the middle? True cost/value is very hard to calculate, but we could all benefit by trying a bit harder to get closer to it. It's all too common to frame the tension as binary
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by tweetle_beetle 6mo ago
Apparently they are yet to be successful - https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/Success-Stories/
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by tweetle_beetle 7mo ago
Is it that much different? In the past if you downloaded the wrong file, you could get ads opening constantly, a new toolbar taking over your browser, data scraped and sent off to a mystery server, or have some process maximise your compute
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by tweetle_beetle 8mo ago
The thought that someone would feel comforted by having automated software summarise the output of what is likely the output of automated software and publishing it under their name to impress other humans is so alien to me.
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by tweetle_beetle 8mo ago
Looked this up out of curiosity and came across a non-profit which produces reports on the topic and seems to be the basis for the Wikipedia article on modern slavery. According to the 2023 Global Slavery Index, 7-8 of the top 10 countries
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by tweetle_beetle 8mo ago
It's a noble effort, but they're so late to the game that it's hard to see them making a significant dent. I hope I'm wrong. They were: > aiming to serve 30% of French search queries [by end of 2025] https:/&#x2
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by tweetle_beetle 9mo ago
They just sell lifetime licenses to extra content at a fixed (relatively small) fee. > Because every project is different and the way independently authored pieces of code interact can be complex and time-consuming to understand, we do n
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by tweetle_beetle 10mo ago
I think you might be looking at the film through rose tinted glasses without the broader context. Kubrick's films had been nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won 1 (he was personally nominated 3 times) by the time Barry Lyndon started
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by tweetle_beetle 11mo ago
You can construct a philosophical argument that value is all relative without having to casually drop anecdata demonstrating that you personally spend many hundreds of times more on an everyday object than is typical without consideration.
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by tweetle_beetle 11mo ago
Note to people considering publishing articles describing passion projects on their personal websites (especially if they may be considered exciting). Stop! It is vital that you first hire an independent product manager and perform market f
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by tweetle_beetle 11mo ago
To be fair the CEO is quite comfortable using the word 'forever'. It was used as the title of the announcement to withdraw the Hobby tier and also specifically used to justify it: > We’ve chosen to build a company that can last
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by tweetle_beetle 11mo ago
GitLab is around a decade old, is a solid enterprise product and has always had a very similar interface to GitHub, at times even drawing criticism for being too similar. There's more to it than that.
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by tweetle_beetle 11mo ago
While those statements are true, it is much easier to be pro-consumer when you are running a few morally dubious casinos and marketplaces to keep the bottom line healthy. Would Steam have grown into a position where it can comfortably act l
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by tweetle_beetle 11mo ago
Did you read the section about what made the DX7 hardware a good target for this project? https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vin... The ARQ96 is an incredibly niche product all things considered,
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
It's hard to react to something when it's in your interests not to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu Some of the allegations are 15 years old at this point and the trial is still ongo
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
The sugar tax is a strange example to pick as an example of British decline. As of 2022, the WHO reported on SSB (sugar-sweetened beverages): > Currently, at least 85 countries implement some type of SBB taxation. It feels to me like thi
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
This ground breaking research pushed the limit of human-Furby interactions and interfaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
I would say it's not the treadmill at work in this case. It's not simply a replacement. The article linked by the parent comment explains it well and references plenty of considered material. But the tldr is that committing suicid
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We need to talk about Saudi Arabia(architectsjournal.co.uk)
42 points by tweetle_beetle 1y ago|64 comments
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
Ok, but who pays the fine, or has their license revoked when a robotaxi drives over the speed limit to fit in with humans?
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
Apparently a deep dive is an AI generated YouTube playlist with an AI generated summary text for each entry and an AI generated conclusion paragraph.There was me expecting some actual curation.
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
I'd suggest that while /e/ can work at a basic level, the list of cons is larger than you make out when I looked at it. The Murena team seems small and unable to keep up. As an example, look at the hoops users were jumping t
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
> There’s a moral imperative of somehow celebrating making something with people that you think is important and curious and special. This nonsense from a speech Ive gave (in celebration of designing a few expensive jackets that were no
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
Levis are fashion products, not workwear. But even if they were, if you want things to last a long time then buy things made for a specific purpose. Denim products made by cycling brands are a rarity for a reason.
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
I'm not sure how to feel about most of those these days. They are iconic and I'm glad that experimental ideas actually made it to completion, but ultimately they have failed at reimagining life for ordinary people. In the cases of
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
> It has some superficial resemblances to Markdown, which will make it easy to learn if you know MD, but it's quite different in other ways. https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/gemtext.gmi
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by tweetle_beetle 1y ago
A Yoto player might work. They're designed for children. They have two knobs (with momentary switch) to control everything (and a small on/off button). They're designed to be usable by children who cannot read, primarily thro

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