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by uncomputation 6y ago
Very true. I feel open-source would be a great fit for a voice assistant
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Not to mention, data-only calls are often much higher quality in my experience. Whenever I go from FaceTime audio to regular calls, I can’t believe I used to use them all the time
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Voice assistant technology. It seems like Alexa and Siri keep getting more features and integrations (one far more than the other) but the actual language processing is rather basic. A different way of phrasing something throws off the assi
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by uncomputation 6y ago
If I see one more app to cure loneliness... It seems techy people have difficulty accepting non-techy solutions
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by uncomputation 6y ago
It’s literally bi-partisan legislation, so yes by definition some Democrats sponsor it too. But it was introduced by a Republican and the excessive punitive measures on issues that have larger roots in society (punishing people isnt going t
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by uncomputation 6y ago
It’s also not “to be a felony soon.” The bill hasnt even passed.
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by uncomputation 6y ago
> actual oligarchies > some voter disenfranchisement > denied access to elections > legitimate election fraud > serious voter intimidation I don’t completely disagree with you: people do have agency at the end of the day in
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by uncomputation 6y ago
More of this “war on drugs” “tough on crime” mentality from Republicans? When will we learn?
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by uncomputation 6y ago
YES! This! I worked for a higher-up “legacy”(?) news paper for three years and what people don’t understand is that “the news” isn’t just some objective collection of facts. It’s work to collect, analyze, verify, source, and interpret those
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Can’t believe I missed that, thanks
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Not that programming languages are arbitrary, but that the choice to use words (Python) rather than, say, punctuation (Brainfck) or emojis is because is easier for our human brains, thus arbitrary. But the task at hand is still problem solv
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by uncomputation 6y ago
This is hardly surprising. The only reason "programming languages" are called that is because early computer scientists borrowed from linguistics research at the time which defined language as a set of strings. Programming is gene
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Do you... You realize that your entire argument is essentially "Oh you are going to critique capitalism on a website funded through capitalism? Curious! I am very intelligent." Like... do you not have self-reflection?
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by uncomputation 6y ago
> Venturing into the internet should [not?] require me to do hours worth of research on how to prevent tracking and fingerprinting. Companies should respect my right to privacy, and my government should annihilate companies that refuse t
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Sure, maybe people more familiar with the ins and outs and news cycles of Big Tech can prepare themselves (the only way I see is to just delete Facebook of course). But the average user who just wants to connect socially with others or foll
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Why is everyone just talking about last-gen consoles? My partner has been playing on the PS5 and it still crashes at least every hour. Sure, not every 10 min but nothing to gloss over either. This doesn’t even mention the texture glitches,
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Sorry to be anti-capitalist real quick but what is it with HN and dying for Big Tech/1%? Do you think FB would show you the same loyalty?
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Not GP, but I believe they meant it is a lot harder for things to get seen on the Internet now than it was on the Internet before, not IRL before.
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by uncomputation 6y ago
"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."
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by uncomputation 6y ago
We shouldn’t put the burden on the bug finder to be “nice” and persistent about doing Apple’s job for them. We should put the burden on Apple - the first trillion dollar company - to take bug reports seriously. Given that iOS and macOS have
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by uncomputation 6y ago
I also feel the text-only format and less visible “points”/“likes” has something to do with it. It’s harder to be attention-grabbing with just text. In many ways, HN feels to me like an online email thread.
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by uncomputation 6y ago
> news media abusive [sic] Criticism is not abuse. They’re also not doing the best job defending themselves since they offer no concrete proof, testimony, or narrative. Who were these employees? What happened? We don’t know, but are left
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by uncomputation 6y ago
Someone please correct me for the sake of all of us if I’m wrong, but it sounds like Apple is using specialized hardware for “NSObject” retain-and-release operations, which may bypass/reduce the impact on general RAM.
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by uncomputation 6y ago
> This is an anti-technology point of view. Except it’s really not though? OP loves technology, saying it revolutionized several industries and really appreciates the power and innovation desktop publishing specifically brought. All they
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by uncomputation 6y ago
> It really is a pretentiousness held in a group of language zealots. Can’t tell if this is ironic or not, but Rubyists are pretty well known as the friendliest out of all language communities, and have been for over a decade now