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by wvenable 2y ago
It sounds like Rashida Jones.
902.
by wvenable 2y ago
You browse the web without an adblocker? How? On that first fresh OS install, it's always amazing how the web looks, in general, without ad blocking. And I even still see some ads!
903.
by wvenable 2y ago
Maybe I know how to handle IOException but not MyApplicationException but the method only gives me the latter. There is effectively no handling MyApplicationException so why even force the declaration. Either way most exceptions cannot be
904.
by wvenable 2y ago
It would break the VBA API.
905.
by wvenable 2y ago
> Semantically if you are wrapping an error it means you that you are purposely shifting the responsibility and declaring that your function is responsible for the failure. I don't understand what this means. If you wrap an excepti
906.
by wvenable 2y ago
> I never understood the objection to checked exceptions. Any non-trivial code tree will throw an unmanageable number of exceptions. The solution, in Java, is to catch exceptions and rethrow them as a new exception with the previous exc
907.
by wvenable 2y ago
Yet when someone picks up an iPad, regardless of specs, it's fundamentally the same experience. Same with all the iPhones and same with all the Macs.
908.
by wvenable 2y ago
How do describe what it means to be an iPad? This is something that Apple cares about. If you have an iPad that is fundamentally different [more or device] then it's not really an iPad anymore.
909.
by wvenable 2y ago
I think they've done the math on this one. They very heavily segment the market and most Apple users own several Apple devices. They fundamentally don't believe in the idea of one device being all things. This is also why their
910.
by wvenable 2y ago
No love for NIBBLES.BAS? I played that way more than Gorillas. And Scorched Earth -- that's a name I haven't heard for a long time.
911.
by wvenable 2y ago
Isn't this the "Pro" model?
912.
by wvenable 2y ago
The law says they need AM radio -- it doesn't say it needs to be good.
913.
by wvenable 2y ago
In my impression of using AI a lot more recently, hallucinations are a non-issue if you are simply using it to transform data. AI hallucinates when it's being asked to extract data from it's own "memory" but not when it
914.
by wvenable 2y ago
Also the appliances in my childhood home weren't energy inefficient but they were solid . My current fridge is full of cheap (and broken) plastic. My new stove lasted just past a year before a part that cost 1/5 the price of th
915.
by wvenable 2y ago
If you gave Americans the option of those old things but also a single income could house, feed, a clothe a family of 5 I think it might be closer than you think. It's not fair to describe what we've gained without describing wha
916.
by wvenable 2y ago
I think the big successes that you describe are the exception rather than the rule. I think you'll find the majority of economic success comes from simple rent seeking -- whether literally as landlord, or as financial service, or othe
917.
by wvenable 2y ago
There is nothing less moral to me than the idea of people only doing good because they fear punishment.
918.
by wvenable 2y ago
We live in a time where almost everything is getting worse. Products are getting smaller, service is getting worse, businesses are closing, quality is going down. I don't think I've ever experienced such an obvious decline in co
919.
by wvenable 2y ago
BASIC is a uniquely useful language on machines with extremely limited RAM. It was designed to take up as little program space as possible even when compared with machine language. On home computers, each BASIC keyword is tokenized into a
920.
by wvenable 2y ago
These devices have no reason to exist. This entire device could be an app on a phone and be 500% more useful and less expensive. I understand this particular product is [edit] designed by Teenage Engineering and it's kinda what they
921.
by wvenable 2y ago
Yeah this my main complaint with Powershell -- Microsoft had one opportunity to build a new shell for the ages and decided to use Bash for syntax inspiration. It could have been so much better and now we're stuck with it forever.
922.
by wvenable 2y ago
> The thing that makes me crazy is that the thing that we do on computers are basically the same each year I think that is some kind of fallacy. We are doing the same things but the quality of those things is vastly different. I collec
923.
by wvenable 2y ago
For GenAI, I wonder if we need consumer hardware to be that powerful. Isn't this exactly what "the cloud" is for?
924.
by wvenable 3y ago
Thank you. This is helpful information on how it works; I did a bunch of googling after your last comment (and went to Crutchfield) but not much explanation how it could work.
925.
by wvenable 3y ago
Software development is a bit of an exception because we have, probably by a whole order of magnitude, too few developers for the world. However, what about all other things that are intellectual? Accountants, word processors, assistants,
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by wvenable 3y ago
Which head unit is that? I looked into it years ago but I definitely couldn't find one that still allowed you to change the car settings and I felt that was a bit of non-starter.
927.
by wvenable 3y ago
Sadly my 2014 CX-5 is not supported.
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by wvenable 3y ago
It's funny that you have trouble with term "cloud" but you're okay with an equally made up marketing term called "outsourcing".
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by wvenable 3y ago
It's not that heavy. I don't have the room for a tennis table nor am I close enough to my friends to play it for 30 minutes every night like I do in VR.
930.
by wvenable 3y ago
Microsoft also tried this with phones...

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