keerthiko

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by keerthiko 19d ago
yep, the curb cut effect is a well-researched and documented phenomenon [0] across ADA development in all aspects of the world. accessibility work isn't just about making things possible for folks with disabilities, it's about m
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by keerthiko 2mo ago
i'd say it is a valid flex if from 16k users, their total volume of support tickets is so low that they can read and respond to them before they're done with their morning coffee -- a flex about how solid and well-targeted their s
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by keerthiko 3mo ago
> The other users could be perfectly happy about it this could be true about a miracle drug that is untested too. still, human rights laws dictate that humans be allowed to opt in to such trials. so you must at least shift your argument
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by keerthiko 3mo ago
Anthropic was making moderate revenue from their API tokens, but everything changed when they started bundling crazy amounts of usage credits at $20/$100/$200 claude max subscriptions relative to the API token rate, but only as lo
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by keerthiko 3mo ago
> FWIW kids of rich parents do not procreate somehow better even if they are not constrained by housing market. I don't think this assertion holds true at all: https://i.redd.it/5wy659956rsc1.png
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by keerthiko 4mo ago
> The original adage of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” doesn’t necessarily rule out the converse. I believe the logical term "converse" means swapping the conclusion and the condition in a logical statement, ie conv
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by keerthiko 4mo ago
You're better off creating a 3D model and then taking image-grabs of it facing different directions/doing different poses from an isometric perspective to get your isometric sprites, with the genAI tools of today without a skilled
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by keerthiko 4mo ago
There can be more than one person or entity to be held accountable, depending on the details of impact If I install a powerful/dangerous app, and I come under harm, I have some accountability — most of it if it's due to user error
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by keerthiko 4mo ago
I think you are misinterpreting gp as saying "LLMs are a tool [like every other tool]" to mean "LLMs have similar properties to other tools" — when I believe they meant "LLMs are a tool. other tools are also tools,&
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by keerthiko 5mo ago
there are many[0] many[1] data points like this. even if individual ones seem like outliers, when there's this many outliers, it's like there's at least two distinct lines depicting consequences, one material and one not. tho
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by keerthiko 5mo ago
I'm not a big space-switcher on OSX, mostly because each of my applications come with spaces (browser, IDE, etc), but unskippable UI animations are an instant roadblock. Looks like HN hug of death killed your comments section though: &
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by keerthiko 5mo ago
Claude Code is fairly notoriously token inefficient as far as coding agent/harnesses go (i come from aider pre-CC). It's only viable because the Max subscriptions give you approximately unlimited token budget, which resets in a fe
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by keerthiko 6mo ago
> Being rich != being famous. > decided that simply being rich wasn't enough, they wanted to be famous While these are true, the real detail is that these people were never satisfied with being rich -- they wanted to be powerful
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by keerthiko 6mo ago
I'd be sad if "quarterly numbers" is a reason for a privately held company with 40% controlling stake still held by Sweeney to lay off 1K folks. As an indie dev, I generally like the guy's stance on shifting the PC gamin
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by keerthiko 6mo ago
Definitely avoid unless you are distributing a consumer application through the dominant app stores (App Store and Google Play) ~globally, in which case you may not be able to avoid (or avoiding will be just as much work). Google and Apple
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by keerthiko 6mo ago
> “ Estimate: You are entitled to a written price estimate for the repairs you have authorized before the work is performed, only if you deal face-to-face with the facility and the work is expected to cost more than $100. Once you receiv
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by keerthiko 6mo ago
It can terminate the current plan where it's at until given a new prompt, or move to the next item on its todo list /shrug
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by keerthiko 7mo ago
"I may play your game if you trim away a core appeal factor for the people who already play your game by splitting the active player base" is not that convincing a feature request to a gamedev. Many live service games that are
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by keerthiko 7mo ago
Does anyone know where I can read more about which devices will be supported? GrapheneOS website devices FAQ doesn't list any Motorola devices, and the press release doesn't have much either.
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by keerthiko 7mo ago
This is the exact same logic as opting to not go through the hassle of registering to and casting your vote in your national elections (unless that physically isn't an option where you live) -- yes, your government isn't going to
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by keerthiko 8mo ago
without having watched the Big Short or having read the article, my first impression from the quote is "Megacorporations are failing dramatically, and the billionaires at their helm are freely doing financial gymnastics to pull the cov
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by keerthiko 8mo ago
Almost always, notes like these are going to be about greenfield projects. Trying to incorporate it in existing codebases (esp when the end user is a support interaction or more away) is still folly, except for closely reviewed and/or
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by keerthiko 8mo ago
> By doing this, you'll chase the ads into IMO regulation never was or is going to force this shift: it's already happening in unregulated ad markets, and is going to keep evolving in that direction because it's simply mor
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by keerthiko 8mo ago
I would argue that limiting the amount of unrequested product evangelism shoved into users' eyeballs is a valuable public and mental health initiative. I wish we could have seen the alternate reality where ad-revenue was not the most l
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by keerthiko 9mo ago
I just received an email from Google Play Developer today morning that they will not be activating the age verification APIs (they will throw an exception) because of the injunction, so there's nothing Apple specific about this.
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by keerthiko 9mo ago
> The fix was embarrassingly simple: once you fall back to screenshots, stay there until the user explicitly clicks to retry. There is another recovery option: - increase the JPEG framerate every couple seconds until the bandwidth consum
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by keerthiko 9mo ago
I just wanted to preview one of the games. It requires me to "Claim a wallet" or "Create a wallet". I don't want to do those things, I just want to preview a game to see how it looks/feels. There is no "Wh
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by keerthiko 10mo ago
as worded is this tax not levied on any entity holding assets that can appreciate in value (businesses can hold stock too)?
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by keerthiko 10mo ago
The premise of this site seems to be that anything designed to make the game "addictive" is a dark pattern — this is contradictory to the concept of "dark pattern" in products in general, which I would define as "wh
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by keerthiko 1y ago
most of the explanation from the horse's mouth will be found here: https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support

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