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by closetohome 1mo ago
Glasses that record video have been around for decades, they just weren't as pervasive. It sounds like this is a general law against disguised surveillance cameras, which I'm sure has historically included camera glasses, so it s
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by closetohome 2mo ago
This math is what lead me to the iUp program in the first place. It's effectively a guaranteed 50% trade-in, which came out to about $200-300 in actual money that I was theoretically sacrificing in exchange for not having to worry abo
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by closetohome 4mo ago
I would guess it's a talent pool thing. If you're hiring in-office you're limited to locals and candidates willing to relocate. If you're hiring remotely, the pool is much larger not only in terms of size, but in range
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by closetohome 4mo ago
> The bill exempts the following categories: > The primary residence of at least one owner. > The primary residence of a parent or child of at least one owner. > Cooperative and condominium units that are appraised at less than
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by closetohome 4mo ago
Just to clarify, income over $5,000,000/year is taxed at 10.3%. Under a million is 4-6%.
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by closetohome 4mo ago
There was actually an app store rule for the first couple of years after notifications became available, basically saying don't use it for promotions. A few apps actually got pulled for sending spammy notifications. But then everyone
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by closetohome 4mo ago
Was the terrible consequence of pirating MP3s that music is now cheap and widely available because media outlets had to compete with Napster?
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by closetohome 4mo ago
So am I understanding correctly that all of this "unauthorized traffic" was their customers...using their product?
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by closetohome 6mo ago
Every time I read one of these articles it sounds like the author was forced to adopt a smartwatch at gunpoint.
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by closetohome 7mo ago
Similarly, the article also glosses over the issue of disability. Perhaps because the US tends to treat its bus system as welfare, it is adapted heavily to people with disabilities and limited mobility. I'm sure there are solutions t
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by closetohome 7mo ago
I really want to like Halide, and I've had it save a number of photos that the native app couldn't handle. But as a lifelong photographer, technologist, and occasional developer, I still somehow get really lost in the inscrutable
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by closetohome 10mo ago
It's less an issue of access than affordability. The term is "energy insecurity" - https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/publications/energy-in...
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by closetohome 11mo ago
The difference is that in this case OpenAI was able to produce the requested information without compromising security for their other customers.
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by closetohome 11mo ago
Interesting. Apparently the photo from the article is "Voice of the ash forest" ( https://www.maximelegarevezina.com/en/tirage-voix-de-la-for%... ) and the one linked above is "Keeper of the Ashes."
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by closetohome 11mo ago
That picture just feels like a case study in why Apple drug their feet on features like that for so long. If you let people set a background and change the font, you're going to have unreadable purple comic sans over kittens within mi
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by closetohome 1y ago
The "people think they're guaranteed a job" narrative is because the author is a right-wing journalist who "exposes" academics.
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by closetohome 1y ago
If you want to go minimal on the backcountry device as well, PLBs are nice as a barebones alternative that only require a battery change every few years and don't need a subscription.
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by closetohome 1y ago
Heart rate sensors have a number of uses aside from fitness tracking. I'm guessing comfort wasn't considered because it isn't a common complaint.
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by closetohome 1y ago
I can't help but feel echoes of the 2015-era Pebble trying to compete with the Apple Watch, and the lessons learned from that. I have an Apple Watch, I've been wearing one for ten years at this point. All I use it for is notifica
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by closetohome 3y ago
It strikes me as desperate and tacky. Definitely not a great look for a company that already produces pretty bad apps.
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by closetohome 4y ago
I agree completely about the difficulty of a hardware startup, but being "good" means knowing in advance what kind of challenges you'll face, or at least knowing who to consult about it, and when to listen to their advice. I
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by closetohome 4y ago
I mean...back it up to iCloud, wipe it, update it, restore from iCloud. It's inconvenient but it's not like you lose any data.
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by closetohome 4y ago
I mean come on, "Psidecar"
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by closetohome 4y ago
I'm sure I could find videos of people falling off of snowboards and bikes too, so I don't find accident compilations particularly compelling. Especially since I can tell you in pretty much every instance exactly what they did wro
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by closetohome 4y ago
It's crazy how people only noticed that Onewheels are dangerous after a bunch of out of shape tech bros started buying them and treating them like toys. They don't randomly stop, they're just inherently dangerous unless opera
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by closetohome 4y ago
I have an Oru Inlet and I'd say 8 minutes is generous. The actual unfolding and assembly of the kayak is more like 3-5 minutes once you have the process down. Though I understand the larger/more elaborate models can take a littl
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by closetohome 4y ago
It's amazing how hard it is for people to take responsibility for the accidents they cause. Their first instinct is always to blame the board.
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by closetohome 4y ago
This is the real issue. People don't read the instructions and push the board out of its safety envelope, then they crash, get angry, and complain about it online. I've read hundreds of crash reports, and never seen more than a h
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by closetohome 4y ago
All self-balancing vehicles have the same failure mode -- that you can exceed their ability to catch you by leaning too far forwards. The Segway benefits from having a big pole it can jab the rider with to make them learn back. But it&#x27
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by closetohome 4y ago
There are warnings on the box, in the manual, on a piece of cardboard you have to remove to ride the board, and laser marked on the board itself.

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