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by caseyy 1y ago
Hah, that's a good point. When I think of it, the first Android skins, like HTC Sense (~3.0), were quite customizable. Every widget had a few stylistic variants, and I think you could even change the look of many components in the OS.
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by caseyy 1y ago
> On a machine with good specs, this is perfectly fine. I think the VMs are fine on the type of machines most people would buy for Windows/macOS. Chromebooks go exceptionally low-spec on the low-end to the point that I'd say th
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by caseyy 1y ago
That's a good point. And it's a noble effort by the Google Design team. Unfortunately good will and good efforts are sometimes abused.
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by caseyy 1y ago
Well done to the team for good documentation and sneaking in many good UX lessons, too. For example: > Notifications should: Be about the user, not the product [..] Give users easy controls to opt out, Not be used to send unsolicited ads
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by caseyy 1y ago
I don't entirely agree with other commenters saying it's uninspired. It is neutral, but many functional considerations go into making a UI framework, and neutrality serves an important purpose. However, given Material's popul
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by caseyy 1y ago
People say more Linux availability would make it mainstream. However, Chromebooks are one of the most available laptops. The software is 100% compatible with hardware, and in many cases, the Play Store is included to address the lack of sof
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by caseyy 1y ago
You can buy a PC with Linux off the shelf in some countries. In practice, it's an open secret that the machines are for people who don't want to pay for a Windows license but will use Windows anyway.
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by caseyy 1y ago
I think it's a 3D visualization of Earth with simulated clouds. You can ask an AI to generate a GIS layer to visualize an event. Then, you can talk to parts of the event in chat.
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by caseyy 1y ago
> Learning from copyrighted works to create new ones has never been protected by copyright The term "learning" (I presume from "machine learning") shoulders a lot of weight. If we describe the situation more precisely
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by caseyy 1y ago
All these fines are coming, but corporate lawyers stall as much as they can. Then, they appeal first-instance court decisions to stall some more. And they do get fined, 3-7 years down the road. Then, they change tactics just enough to viola
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by caseyy 1y ago
I’m sure some grifters won’t get their second Mercedes, but sites with no context and just ads disappearing would be a wonderful, almost dream-like outcome for the internet. It might even solve the dead internet problem to a degree. There’s
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by caseyy 1y ago
That’s understood. But is 250k euros an appropriate fine for the personally identifiable information that’s been collected and associated with behavioural metrics, political preferences, confidential health data, and other private data poin
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by caseyy 1y ago
250k euros for an association of 600+ advertising agencies (IAB) is an exceedingly cheap cost of doing business.
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by caseyy 1y ago
As I always say, you can’t outlaw being an asshole. But I am curious about what sort of assholery we will see next. Maybe all tracking will become “legitimate interest” (I’m kidding, please don’t actually entrench that garbage any more than
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by caseyy 1y ago
Every two months, “Half-Life 3” flashed on the screen. The humans have invented Tyler McVicker.
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by caseyy 1y ago
It's missing a dash of contemplative philosophical anxiety for a proper Ted Chiang story. But close, indeed.
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by caseyy 1y ago
That's true for large urban areas like Oslo. However, the small tourist towns in Vestlandet, Norway, have some shuttle-sized hop-on-hop-off buses. Or at least had them when I last lived there circa 2016. And in Klaipėda, Lithuania, the
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by caseyy 1y ago
Many cities in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia have (or used to have) Marshrutki[0]. These mini-buses and passenger vans don't stop at bus stops but where they are flagged down. You press a button where you want to be let off.
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by caseyy 1y ago
I was under the impression WiFi Calling was just regular phone service through WiFi. It seems to work that way for me, 2FA codes and all.
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by caseyy 1y ago
The dad’s photo in the end in SDR looks so much better on a typical desktop IPS panel (Windows 11). The HDR photo looks like the brightness is smushed in the most awful way. On an iPhone, the HDR photo is excellent and the others look muted
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by caseyy 1y ago
HDR is when you’re watching a dark film at night, looking at the subtle nuances between shades of dark and black in the shadows on the screen, making out the faint contours the film director carefully curated, and the subtitles gently depos
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by caseyy 1y ago
Not everyone wants the cheapest, but lemons fail and collapse the expensive part of the market with superior goods. To borrow your example, it's as if Mercedes started giving every 4th customer a Lada instead (after the papers are sign
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by caseyy 1y ago
There are many behavioral economics ideas about smartphone choices. There are various psychological aspects, such as lifestyle, status, social and personal values, and political influences. That is all true. The strongest decider for whethe
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by caseyy 1y ago
I mean "inferior good" as a macroeconomics term: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/inferior-good.asp . And the point of my comment is to show that product quality alone doesn't determine whether i
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by caseyy 1y ago
By the way, inferior goods are not necessarily poor-quality products, though there is a meaningful correlation, and I based my original comment on it. Still, a OnePlus Android phone is considered an inferior good; an iPhone (or a Samsung Ga
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by caseyy 1y ago
> I don’t think this leads to market collapse You must have read that the Market for Lemons is a type of market failure or collapse. Market failure (in macroeconomics) does not yet mean collapse. It describes a failure to allocate resour
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by caseyy 1y ago
You are right, but you picked a game by a studio known for its technical expertise, with plenty of points to prove about quality game development. I'd like them to be the future of this industry. But right now, 8-9/10 game develop
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by caseyy 1y ago
That's true. I meant it in a broader sense. Quality = {speed, function, lack of bugs, ergonomics, ... }.
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by caseyy 1y ago
There are many exceptions. 1. Sometimes speed = money. Being the first to market, meeting VC-set milestones for additional funding, and not running out of runway are all things cheaper than the alternatives. Software maintenance costs later
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by caseyy 1y ago
We have much hardware on the secondary market (resale) that's only 2-3x slower than pristine new primary market devices. It is cheap, it is reuse, and it helps people save in a hyper-consumerist society. The common complaint is that it

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