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by yowzadave 2y ago
Yes, although then you have a lot more traffic to deal with. A typical garbage truck moves slowly down a city block, preventing a line of cars behind it from moving. Every change will upset some constituency, and their various needs need to
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by yowzadave 2y ago
The one I thought of was the Silver Hornet from Revenge of the Pink Panther: https://youtu.be/0z-FtAMg6Vw?si=zGsEnyt4NKtsMnLb Even though I’ve seen many different versions of this gag, they are all still funny to me.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
My favorite ones are the comment threads for sentimental songs from the 80’s—you just get a flood of heartbreaking stories from older folks talking about their first loves, now passed on.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
This guy didn’t make an explicit comparison to tech in describing his scummy history in telemarketing and how it’s a clear expression of our cultural values…but it’s an easy one to make—ad slop, algorithmic feeds, deceptive product websites
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> You thought that your success was a product of your gifts, but the success itself was a gift, a gift of randomness, of luck This is important to remember, and also: those gifts themselves are yours due to luck. That’s why we call them
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Yes, and also design changes never seem to align precisely with the parameters you anticipated at the beginning. I.e., you don’t just need to update one color variable, you need to update that color AND add a secondary accent color AND chan
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Some friends noticed another one the other day—none of the image generators were able to generate a “glass of wine, full to the brim.” All of the images were just of regular partially-filled glasses of wine, with the accompanying text tryin
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I think this is a good point, and perhaps one of the bigger reasons for the “average” quality the OP is describing. We are all consuming the same media, so our culture is homogenizing. Just like speciation requires isolation, perhaps our cu
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Yes—also, the McMansion has a much more toxic and lasting impact on a place’s urban qualities than a five-over-one. The five-over-one, yes, often looks bland and cheap and “same-ey”, but it does at least allow for a productive density and w
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> Riley Goodside discovered how an attacker might interrupt a ChatGPT session using a visual prompt injection of the name "David Mayer" rendered in a light, barely legible font embedded in an image Lol, will people now watermar
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by yowzadave 2y ago
How do you keep your allies from believing your fake encoded messages and taking the same action that they would have taken, had you not suspected the code was broken?
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Your link does not support the claim that the Albright quote is apocryphal--it in fact repeats the quote and notes that Albright does not dispute the "half million" figure, and characterizes other attempts to minimize the figure a
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Incorrect, it outsold “I Want to Hold Your Hand” worldwide—it just happens that most of those sales were in Africa. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Isn't TFA about how the technology is not resulting in lowered costs for end users? What are you suggesting would change the dynamic described in the article?
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> there's surely a higher chance of being mugged walking down a dark street than riding in a 5000 lbs vehicle with tinted windows Please account for the danger of being struck by other people riding in 5000 lb vehicles with tinted w
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I hear some people say this, and my first reaction is usually yours--where do they live that could justify feeling so afraid? My 12-year-old daughter rides the subway to school in NYC every day, and she doesn't feel endangered (a bit c
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Older Macs can’t run the latest macOS. My daughter uses a 2013 MacBook Air for school, and it is limited to macOS Sierra, which none of the evergreen web browsers support any more. I’ve also not been able to find a modern email client to in
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I have an old MacBook Air that my daughter uses for school; it doesn’t support the evergreen version of MacOS/Safari, or Firefox or Chrome. I think Proxies have been around long enough that they are supported…but I’m waiting for the da
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Our society, like all societies, has many imperfect people within it. A malign influence that amplifies our weaknesses can still be criticized and resisted. Yes, a society made up of infallible individuals would not be susceptible, but let’
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by yowzadave 2y ago
In this case it sounds like a bug--the issue is resolved on reboot.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> there are hundreds of scientific papers about collective intelligence, how to make teams online more effective, how to socialize newcomers to online sites, I'm curious what research there is about how to create better-socialized g
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I don't think GP is saying nothing matters, they are objecting to the idea that the way to make systemic change happen is to convince individuals to change personal behaviors through moral persuasion. We have, however, had some success
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I wonder if this is the reason Google killed the product? I.e., pressure from autocratic regimes so that they can control information better.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I don't like to nitpick word choices on HN comments, but since you used the word three times in this one: I believe you meant "equated" (to imply that two ideas are equal), and not "equivocated" (to show uncertainty
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by yowzadave 2y ago
And how many of those wounded are totally unconnected bystanders, who just happened to be standing next to the individual in the grocery store or wherever?
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Exactly--GP's preference for a watch with a longer battery life and user-replaceable battery is at direct odds with the desire for a thinner watch. Presumably Apple has just done the math and decided the market is better for the latter
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Alternatively, you could just drive slower
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> Implement reasonable public transit I agree this is the right idea, but you may have seen other commenters in this thread talking about how Phoenix is fine because you can just go from your AC car to your AC garage without having to wa
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> gold, nickel, and / or iron that's supposedly worth many times more than the entire global economy You hear these statements sometimes about asteroid mining, and they betray a misunderstanding of the way economies work. The r
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Yes, also because (at least where I live in NYC) cops are flagrant violators of both traffic and parking laws. Follow a random cop car for a few minutes and you will undoubtedly see them run a red light. Walk to ANY precinct in the city and

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