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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Thanks! I must've mixed them up. The Live View compass calibration is a better example, plus an idle Google search found a couple more examples of new useful features (like more AR-overlay info)
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, the juxtaposition occurred to me. But this is not an accurate representation of my view: > you're saying, in so many words, only people who are fanboys use Apple maps because Apple fans are sheep so why should Apple bother. Thi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Outside of niche cases, every user I've ever talked to, here or in-person, has only ever used brand loyalty as their reason for using it. With a userbase like that, why bother making a good service, particularly when you don't hav
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Google has sat on its hands the last couple years with Google Maps: it has hardly improved at all, and outside of their move to jack up prices for API users, I haven't heard of any real changes. It's a pretty mature product,
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't know that that's true. I quickly spot-checked this with NPR (a closer analogue to the BBC) by Googling "npr children covid". The first two results were neutral factual information about current CDC guidelines, an
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's my perception that those op-eds are very much in the contrarian minority, a far cry from being the central position of the media institution. They're roundly and immediately mocked, and the majority of coverage in mainstream
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Some cultures expect people to be engaged with their work, or have their work as a hobby outside of work hours ("do you contribute to open source in your free time?"). Is this actually still a non-negligible factor in tech hi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Mentally insert "under the assumption that these are myths", if that makes you feel better. I have no interest in getting derailed into an essentially irrelevant conversation.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The reference to being impossible to pay was in 1825, when it would have been impossible for pretty much any country to pay.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
What a bizarre comment. Someone describes Haiti's revolution accurately (presumably), and your claim is "how dare you prioritize reality over mythology", using the (also-incorrect) American founding myth to somehow support yo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's 100% what I was taught, as I mentioned in my previous comment before even reading those. Where do you get such confidence in claims that are so incredibly wrong and so guaranteed to be easily rebutted?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
That's how I was taught the American Revolution... What do you find so offensive about it?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
There is literally nobody in this thread arguing that the redefinition is salutary, or even sane. I think that the idea that "racism" only applies to certain races isn't just foolish, it's evil. But one can describe th
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
My use of "consensus" in the OP comment seems to have been mistaken for approval a couple of times in this thread, so I should point out that this ^ comment exactly captures what I'm saying, as does my clarifying comment els
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's a very short comment. Do me the favor of reading the entire thing before beclowning yourself so thoroughly in responding. Literally two sentences later, I call this worldview "childish" and describe it as "afflicti
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm being a little imprecise with my terminology, sorry about that. > It has been around since at least the 1960s and has always been controversial. It has been around since the 1960s, as an academic curiosity. In the last half deca
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I always find it interesting to hypothesize why an automated system does the things it does (the implied theory in the OP video is, unsurprisingly, idiotic). I'd assume that it's a blunt filter that tries to catch racism by not al
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
As you allude to, this is a very straightforward phenomenon. The founding population of the Internet is not identical in distribution to the population that now exists on it. Most people are small and vicious and incredibly stupid, and now
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The Atlantic has consistently done a good job of balancing perspectives, at least along certain axes. They were the first mainstream/prestige publication I can recall that dared to criticize the illiberal swing the left was taking, dur
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> You've clearly not bought drugs (also lol pusher) - drug dealers are notoriously late, slow, uncommunicative, and often you dont have a bunch of other options because to your point, you're in a low trust situation. In more ma
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Foreign Affairs is fantastic. It takes more concentration and has less content, but for the small portion of the news audience that read news to be informed, I highly recommend it.
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> I've been trying to call this out for years, to no avail I think a sizable chunk of the industry feels this way. But the incentives of PR are driven more by the baying of influential parts of the public than by rational considerat
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> a sizeable demographic like PoC (30% of US population or so) is underrepresented in tech Is this true? My understanding is that PoC overall are overrepresented in tech, and certainly so in individual companies like Google. The attempt
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> With regards to the Nazi dog your facts are wrong. He taught the dog to respond to the phrase "Do you wanna gas the Jews" No, your facts are wrong. He taught the dog to perform a nazi salute upon hearing the command Seig Heil
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Thanks for the details, I was mentioning them from memory as well as eliding some details for brevity (though none that I thought changed the nature of my point). > Police horse and dog: people could be arrested for "threatening, ab
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Would it be particularly hard? In the case of Count Dankula, after he refused to pay the fine for his ridiculous wrongspeech conviction, they took it out of his bank account.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
There's no question that the UK's speech laws are abusive, especially to American sensibilities. You can find stories of people being arrested for calling a police horse "gay", or saying "woof" to a police dog,
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I experienced this from the other direction, joining Google and assuming the work would be stimulating because it's The Best Smart-Person Job (at least at the time). I didn't have a lot of good mentorship, so it took me years of w
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> it's illegal in the US to require job candidates to take IQ tests. > So the issue for companies is that without the usual whiteboarding or educational paper trail you have to find a way to identify high IQ people without being
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Oh agreed, I haven't yet purchased the unit because it's on my todo list to look into options that don't have external deps. Historically, I have a strong preference for removing unnecessary servers in favor of using dynamic

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