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by xmprt 3y ago
E-bikes are the most energy efficient forms of transportation. The problem isn't e-bikes. If anything making e-bikes more ubiquitous would be a good thing since it would lead to better dedicated infrastructure for cycles as well as mor
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by xmprt 3y ago
People block ads because they like to have control over the content they see. Not because of this nebulous fear of manipulation. If ad blocking was made impossible tomorrow then I'd learn other ways to tune out advertisements. It'
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by xmprt 3y ago
The only argument that I have is that wearing glasses kind of sucks and is pretty inconvenient. And glasses are kind of a fashion statement so unless these manufacturers can come up with a way to easily swap out parts like the frame (just l
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by xmprt 3y ago
Why can't it be both? You can get a cheap, reliable answer to a simple question if the search engine directs you to the exact, relevant paragraph of a primary source. Unfortunately that's not the direction search engines are going
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by xmprt 3y ago
For a lot of parents it's as simple as having another extracurricular activity on your college applications which can help you get into a better school. When that's a factor, then it makes the calculus a lot simpler. You don'
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by xmprt 3y ago
Yeah. Completely agree with your analysis there. I think one more point I'd add is that TikTok virality (especially with books and other product recommendations) comes more from secondary recommendations such as people stitching your v
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by xmprt 3y ago
Not to ruin things but 5-10k views on TikTok is not nothing but it's also not very viral so I wouldn't expect that to drive any sales. You'd probably expect with TikTok viewer retention, maybe 1/100 viewers would actuall
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think it's a self regulating system. If the product was so important and so many people relied on it (eg. Unity) where a cash grab by the Unity development team results in the entire community considering switching to a completely di
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by xmprt 3y ago
I don't see the word exclusive anywhere in that press release so in all likelihood they'll be using both providers, just in different capacities.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Do you ever wonder if that's because of the growing up part and not the phone part? Growing up for most people tends to be pretty fun and exciting compared to adult life. And with or without phones, the 80s and 90s were a very differen
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by xmprt 3y ago
> A lot of people trust Adobe products I would have said the consumer sentiment amongst Adobe users is the exact opposite - that people don't trust Adobe products but they use them because they either have to or because they're
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by xmprt 3y ago
You're comparing religions that have existed for thousands of years to ones that have existed for tens of years. I don't think they're exactly comparable.
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by xmprt 3y ago
You're right to be skeptical [1]. In the end it's better than nothing but it's probably not the most effective method and often times (especially with big corporations) these are bought out just as an excuse to pollute more.
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by xmprt 3y ago
Always fun seeing kids at competitions doing these insanely fast solves with their tiny hands.
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by xmprt 3y ago
It's pretty wild seeing how off the estimates are and how far things have come since then. This page about limits lists the expected fastest average at 11 seconds and the best possible average at 5 seconds [1]. Today, the best solvers
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by xmprt 3y ago
If interruptions and meetings are the worst thing to break your flow then I feel like you haven't dealt with truly bad build systems where builds take multiple minutes to run on a good day.
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by xmprt 3y ago
I was wondering why I didn't see this popup and realized that I've been using Firefox for almost a year now. Haven't looked back.
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by xmprt 3y ago
You're right. Employees do tend to have a lot of options. But I think the balance is still in employers' favor for most workers when it comes to making decisions for the employee.
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by xmprt 3y ago
I was under the impression that he's a high level player but far from the top of the leaderboard. Although he's currently the best GeoGuessr content creator and makes the most interesting videos in GeoGuessr adjacent topics such a
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by xmprt 3y ago
This might be a controversial take but by that reasoning, I don't think America is a particularly free country. Most people need to work whatever shitty job they can get and class mobility is relatively difficult even with things like
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by xmprt 3y ago
Not that I agree with the author's approach but I can also imagine the flipside where clubs and other organizations are slow to adapt and get upset that young people aren't joining and that the club is dying. So it seems like it&#
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by xmprt 3y ago
> A bad website will rarely kill someone That's probably true although I think eventually, that kind of callous line of thinking might actually get someone indirectly killed because programmers don't worry about the impact of t
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by xmprt 3y ago
So wouldn't you agree that in a sense, the stakes for programming is much higher? Because you can have a global impact just by putting something on the internet, I think programmers should take more care into the work that they do and
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by xmprt 3y ago
> It doesn't really handle complex problems, at least like the ones you'd find in a college level math or physics course Those complex problems are taught and asked in college level classes because of Wolfram Alpha. Like the pa
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think programmers should re-evaluate the stakes that they're playing with. Even seemingly inconsequential things can have pretty large impacts at the scale that programmers operate. For example, if a form that you write doesn't
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by xmprt 3y ago
Wouldn't the same reasoning for BLOBs apply to JSON columns? Unless you're frequently querying for data within those columns (eg, filtering by one of the JSON fields), then you probably don't need to store all the JSON data i
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by xmprt 3y ago
This isn't really a zero knowledge proof and could technically be de-anonymized and requires a third party service but you could easily set up a trusted verifier that generates one direction hashes which validates whatever claim you&#x
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by xmprt 3y ago
ChatGPT is much slower and much more expensive. You don't have to use LLMs for everything.
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by xmprt 3y ago
> But then I saw what reddit moderation turned into People like the harp on how bad reddit moderation is but I personally haven't seen it. Maybe I'm just in smaller communities or I choose the subreddits I follow more carefully
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by xmprt 3y ago
I think the worst part of this is that companies can (often times intentionally) do extremely scummy and even illegal stuff with the knowledge that if they're caught, the worst they'll have to do is pay back what they should have

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