lemoncucumber

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by lemoncucumber 2mo ago
And an LLM named Motherbrain perhaps?
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by lemoncucumber 2mo ago
> Issue is what happens to retirees on a fixed income when value of their property increases? That’s not specific to a land value tax, the same thing can happen with traditional property taxes when the property is re-assessed. California
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by lemoncucumber 2mo ago
Apple does the same thing as Google, the button is only labeled "Get" for free apps, for paid apps it's labeled with the price. Paid apps largely failed as a business model though (why would a consumer take a risk on buying a
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by lemoncucumber 2mo ago
I do this myself (albeit pretty rarely) since the rear camera is significantly better than the front camera, especially in low light.
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by lemoncucumber 3mo ago
The Trader Joe's model is an interesting comparison with the Costco model. Similarities: * Like you said, both have fewer choices than a conventional grocery store: if you want ketchup or peanut butter, there's only going to be on
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by lemoncucumber 3mo ago
[2016]
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by lemoncucumber 3mo ago
~10e2/3 is a very unclear what of writing whatever number you're trying to write
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by lemoncucumber 4mo ago
The meaning is the same, it just sounds weird to my ears in the same way that “since years” does (Also I just noticed the extra “it” in my previous comment, oops).
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by lemoncucumber 4mo ago
To my ears it “since years” sounds like it’s missing an “ago” after it (or like the GP said “for years” sounds even more natural). It makes me think of another similar one: I've noticed that British English speakers will say e.g. &quot
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by lemoncucumber 5mo ago
This one drives me nuts. I get it if it’s a single page app, but in many cases right-clicking the same link and choosing “open in new tab” works fine so that’s not the issue.
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by lemoncucumber 5mo ago
Early Quakers rejected using different 2nd person pronouns for different people since it violated their principle of egalitarianism so they called everyone thee/thou (and got into trouble for it as you might expect). https:/&#x2F
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by lemoncucumber 5mo ago
> there was a short window of time where everyone thought Java was the future Makes me think of how plists in macOS are xml because back then xml was the future
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The Apple Charging Situation(randsinrepose.com)
27 points by lemoncucumber 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lemoncucumber 6mo ago
I thought this was going to be about phonemes that used to be part of English but aren't anymore (e.g. all of the vestigal "gh"es in our spellings that used to represent the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by lemoncucumber 6mo ago
Reminds me of when they finally apologized for the train wreck that was IE6 [1] and resumed Internet Explorer development in the 2000s after Firefox came along and started eating IE's market share. In this case it's the MacBook Ne
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by lemoncucumber 6mo ago
I've heard that Waymo relies on having very accurate map data for the areas where they operate, so perhaps they could perform worse than human drivers in areas where they don't have good map data. But I also trust that the company
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by lemoncucumber 6mo ago
It was a great piece and I learned a lot, thanks for writing it. I hope you didn’t think that it was you I was disappointed with rather than the language designers :) It’s ironic how context cancellation has the opposite problem as error ha
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by lemoncucumber 6mo ago
It’s great that they identified this (incredibly common) pain point and introduced a way to solve it, but I can’t help being disappointed. Reading the examples I found myself thinking, “that looks like a really useful pattern, I should book
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by lemoncucumber 7mo ago
You’ve got the first two backwards. The real accountability mechanism in the constitution for a rogue president/administration is impeachment by congress (which is a proxy for the people in theory). Unfortunately neither enough of cong
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by lemoncucumber 8mo ago
"Retina" is Apple's marketing name for high PPI displays.
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by lemoncucumber 8mo ago
They also have a lifetime warranty which is great. With enough use their socks still eventually wear out, but you can get a new pair for free.
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by lemoncucumber 8mo ago
Python's standard library seems comparable IME
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by lemoncucumber 8mo ago
That incident was the first time I ever heard of Jeff Dean and remains the main thing I associate him with.
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by lemoncucumber 9mo ago
I would’ve expected the research to be coming out of Japan if it’s an anime based technology ;)
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by lemoncucumber 10mo ago
I think we're defining "less" differently. You're interpreting "less open" to mean "not open at all," which is not what I said. There's a long history of Google slowly making the experience worse
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by lemoncucumber 10mo ago
Workspace vs Office
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by lemoncucumber 10mo ago
It’s a common pattern for upstarts to embrace openness as a way to differentiate and gain a foothold then become progressively less open once they get bigger. Android is a great example.
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
The app in question relies on the network effect (lots of people crowdsourcing information) so introducing that much friction would kill its usefulness. 99% of users wouldn’t jump through the hoops, and without enough users the app is usele
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Silicon Valley Cashes Checks and Stays Silent(nytimes.com)
8 points by lemoncucumber 1y ago|0 comments
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
Any provider with a free tier doesn’t have the issue so that covers a lot of them

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