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by wan23 3y ago
Whoever set up the device is to blame. An iPad can do everything your phone can do so its security is taken seriously. Just write down the password if you can't remember it. Or make it your dog's name. If you can't find the p
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by wan23 3y ago
Kind of an unpopular opinion, but we should create a formal certification system for developers. Not something like a license to code, but something more like a professional organization where to get in you have to do all the BS that you ge
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by wan23 3y ago
You don't need a Facebook account though, you can migrate to a Meta account which can be optionally linked to Facebook and Instagram only if you choose.
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by wan23 3y ago
Except of course, you don't need to go to the coffee shop at all.
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by wan23 3y ago
It's actually very interesting. A lot of the things that people have been impressed by about Apple Vision pro was already possible with the Quest 3 (much of it with the Quest 2 as well). There are a lot of things wrong with Reality Lab
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by wan23 3y ago
I'd like to see a federal law mandating that any future law or regulation that restricts what children are allowed access to makes the parents solely liable if the children gain access. There should be a standard way to declare pages a
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by wan23 3y ago
You can absolutely use the word average to refer to the median when you are speaking in a non-academic context. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aver
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by wan23 3y ago
The Quest is fully cordless whereas the Vision Pro has a cord that goes to a battery pack that you wear on your waist. Though neither device requires you to be tethered to a computer.
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by wan23 3y ago
Venmo and Cash App basically commoditize bank accounts. Banks don't like that. And since Zelle is run by the banks, they get to put their own branding all over it, make it available as the official supported way to send money from thei
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by wan23 3y ago
This one actually did start as a blog post.
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by wan23 3y ago
The LLM pretty clearly got the gist of the joke. The original comment started > Every middle aged former skateboarder turned bartender... In "proper" written English that should have been "middle-aged former-skateboarder-t
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by wan23 3y ago
Sniffies. Don't open it at work.
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by wan23 3y ago
When you have a subscription to music, it's not about your collection as much as it is about discovery. You hear about a new artist and you want to sample their stuff. You don't have to hunt it down - you know where to find and li
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by wan23 3y ago
Without knowing how many marbles are in the bag, if you say that not all the marbles in the bag are black, then I'm going to ask you to show me a non-black marble to prove it. Alternatively, I can prove that all the marbles are black b
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by wan23 3y ago
The linked Bloomberg article actually says that buses served Jacob Riis Park (not Jones Beach) at its opening, and that it is in fact true that the Southern State Parkway has lower clearances along the route to Jones Beach than other simila
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by wan23 3y ago
I live next to a large road in NYC and for me the cars that are loud intentionally are by far the biggest problem when it comes to noise, followed by sirens and horns. The things that are designed to be noticed are the most noticeable.
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by wan23 3y ago
Though even if you are allowed to make infinite bets, most people have finite money to bet with.
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by wan23 3y ago
Very young children obviously require a great deal of care, but somewhat older children might get dropped off by the school bus at 3 PM and then occupy themselves for a few hours at home with an adult present.
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by wan23 3y ago
Roman numerals for years are not so much harder to read than those for single digit numbers because they don't change very often. MMXXIII and MMXXIV are about as easy to understand as III and IV - you've already had three years to
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by wan23 4y ago
Both Cyberpunk and (especially) No Man's Sky have improved significantly from how they were at launch. It might be worth looking into their current iterations if you were interested before but disappointed.
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by wan23 4y ago
The safety models of cities is just different from that of suburbs. If you live in a walkable urban area, there's safety in numbers. It's not uncommon to see children walking down the block to their corner store or going to school
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by wan23 4y ago
The people on the revenue making teams aren't usually the ones who are let go.
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by wan23 4y ago
Your typical non-billionaire hypocrite doesn't have the means to take over an influential platform and run it in a way that showcases his hypocrisy.
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by wan23 4y ago
The social circles thing already exists in the form of group chats. Facebook saw this coming too, which is why they own the platforms that are most popular for this type of social networking.
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by wan23 4y ago
There is a lot of knowledge encoded into the model, but there's a difference between knowing what a sunset is because you read about it on the internet vs having seen one.
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by wan23 4y ago
This is actually not correct any more. 2019's housing stability and tenant protection act changed it so that the preferential rent must continue as long as the tenant keeps the apartment, subject to the same percentage increases as the
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by wan23 4y ago
When you have six figure employee numbers, the internal tools have more users than many startups do. You start to find that off the shelf tools don't work any more and you need to have people customizing them. Then you start seeing thi
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by wan23 4y ago
Or, you build a well architected piece of software that replicates your organization structure if the people (director+) who are in charge of the org structure do their jobs well.
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by wan23 4y ago
38% of the MTA's operating budget comes from train and bus fares. As much as it would be nice if it were free, the money needs to come from somewhere.
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by wan23 4y ago
The current system isn't even 100 years old. In 1920 a large percentage of people were farmers and women generally didn't have jobs. Things can and do change.

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