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by asimilator 19d ago
> The second one is most software contains bugs. Users that expect to get things done simply choose workflows to avoid the worst consequence of those bugs very quickly. I feel like a substantial source of everyday irritation are bugs lik
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by asimilator 10mo ago
Summarize it with an LLM.
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by asimilator 3y ago
Farming is not done for profit?
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by asimilator 4y ago
Even the smaller subreddits tend to have lots of groupthink. There’s usually a prevailing viewpoint on any given sub and anything contrary is downvoted to oblivion. Maybe I’m not looking at the right subreddits though, who knows.
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by asimilator 4y ago
Context and nuance? On Reddit? Usually I think it lacks both.
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by asimilator 4y ago
Makes sense for Samsung. :(
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by asimilator 4y ago
> you can stop and resume on smaller units of time You can pause a movie? I don’t always watch a movie in one go.
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by asimilator 4y ago
100% agree, and it’s ironic given that the blog is for/about design …
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by asimilator 4y ago
> I can literally grow food in the ground for "free", put it in mason jars and save my food for a year. This is true only in an extremely pedantic, unrealistic kinda way. If it was easy/free everyone would be growing all t
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by asimilator 5y ago
Legal research services (access to dockets, case text, etc.) tend to be extremely expensive. I think making that more widely available is a good thing for people with limited resources. It's kind of nuts how impenetrable the legal syst
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by asimilator 5y ago
> I immediately notified Austin's police (APD) as I could see where it was going. Was the tracking good enough to reasonably narrow it down to a single person? I think people expect too much of the police with a lot of these trackin
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by asimilator 5y ago
Yeah, but wires are also a subpar user experience, period. Rolling them up to store them, untangling them to use them, getting caught on things, routing them to the device, etc. There's a reason bluetooth headphones are still popular d
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by asimilator 5y ago
> Apple doesn’t allow subscriptions priced at less than $0.99. Why not? What if I had a product that i wanted to sell for $0.50 a month? I’d pay $0.50 more. I just had the unpleasant experience of canceling a non-Apple controlled service
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by asimilator 5y ago
Is this a dark pattern? I'm ok with shadow bans if they're reserved for those egregiously abusive users who ruin the community for everyone else. Let them shout into the void.
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by asimilator 6y ago
> I'd rather vendors like Apple gave us the ability to build our own private clouds instead of locking us into theirs. They literally do. I have my iPhone 11 synced with my self hosted Nextcloud instance. It works pretty well.
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by asimilator 6y ago
> Most of my wealth was exposed in the form of Bitcoin Yikes.
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by asimilator 6y ago
Local news websites are just the absolute worst.
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by asimilator 6y ago
Some people like the brutalist aesthetic.
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by asimilator 6y ago
For cases, I would think headnotes and footnotes would be the only proprietary Westlaw data. The case itself is content written by the court.
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by asimilator 6y ago
> I was going to wait until the software on my pinephone was more mature but that pushed me over the edge to get power management working on my own and make sure it could make phone calls. I guess stress is personal, because this sounds
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by asimilator 6y ago
More effective?
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by asimilator 6y ago
Speech to text in the cloud is a hard no from me. Especially if it’s Google’s speech to text.
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by asimilator 6y ago
> The benefit of shell scripting is that it is simple enough to have as a tertiary language that you can pickup and use after a six month hiatus. I've been using/abusing traditional shell scripting languages for over a decade n
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by asimilator 6y ago
My Fenix 5 shows up as a mass storage device when I plug in the usb cable to my computer. You can pull .fit files off that, which contain everything the watch records.
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by asimilator 6y ago
The mobile app is 100% nonfunctional. Also any changes you made on the mobile app (eg editing rep counts in a weight lifting activity) are not synced back to the watch.
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by asimilator 6y ago
Blank white page when javascript is disabled.
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by asimilator 6y ago
> At this point I think I should just switch to Firefox. I use Firefox on Mac, but it is definitely a compromise. Still no multitouch support, which is crazy in 2020.
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by asimilator 6y ago
It's frustrating how the authors of this article drop bits and pieces of the story only to interrupt themselves. I get they're trying to provide "the bigger picture" or broader context or asking those "big questions
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by asimilator 6y ago
> I'd say it's very customizable, but requires (sometimes significant) time investements. It seemed like with enough effort I could get emacs to mostly do what I wanted, but it never seemed like I could get it to do what I want
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by asimilator 6y ago
> 5. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5889/how-to-highli... This is a good example of my frustration. The solution you suggested allows you to change how an existing emphasis character appears in emacs

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