makeitdouble

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by makeitdouble 4d ago
You're describing a bank, any bank. Without specific arguments on what Revolut consistently does that no other bank (e.g. HSBC, wells-fargo etc.) do, you're just yelling at money shaped clouds.
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by makeitdouble 4d ago
> You're paying with your data. Parent was pointing at the value exchange, and I argued that users' privacy is not the currency Google deals with. Your privacy can be valuable to you, it just has no weight on the exchange.
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by makeitdouble 5d ago
People have this fixation on privacy, when there's so much more going on, potentially way mor important. Google's strong position in AI gives them bragging right to attract more companies and get them to actually pay, subsidizing
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by makeitdouble 6d ago
You're looking at it from iOS side only, and for a US company that would be the last platform they'd ever drop. It was a different picture out of the Apple garden, when a company only brings their next major feature to iOS becaus
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by makeitdouble 7d ago
It's a claim in a marketing presentation though. Apple also touts ultra durable screens in their presentation and people still shatter them regularly.
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by makeitdouble 7d ago
Are the on screen controls fixed to the right ? The curved right side makes me think so, but it sound like a pain for people using their phone left hand dominantly.
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by makeitdouble 9d ago
> laptop His current setup doesn't look bad to me from an ergonomic standpoint. Displays are fully articulated in all directions and probably at eye level, and keyboard and mouse will be in a comfortable position, with th trackball
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by makeitdouble 9d ago
I'd look at it from the lens of the situation near the door changing in unexpected ways. Like turning the thumblock, moving the bench, shoving other people's shoes in the way etc. There is a myriad of things the patient's fam
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by makeitdouble 9d ago
TBF getting shoes on and off is literally 2s. There's photos in the article, those aren't dress shoes with laces to be done and undone, they're fit for the purpose. Also in cases where it's really dire they'll just
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by makeitdouble 9d ago
These people will handle emergencies, but at a notch or two below fully equiped firefighters breaking the door and ready to deal with everything falling apart. For instance for an elderly couple living together but both being pretty weak, i
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by makeitdouble 10d ago
I think it's due to the lack of proper ads at a price point worth it. For instance your local fishing shop won't win the ad auction for your eyeballs against Binance or Tinder, even if you have absolutely no interest in the latter
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by makeitdouble 10d ago
Being surprised or not, and being pissed about it or not are orthogonal. I'm also not surprised and do fault Google for it. We shouldn't give them a pass just because they're regular offenders, it should be the opposite IMHO.
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by makeitdouble 10d ago
It's about 3~4 years I haven't used Immich so it might have evolved a lot since then, but looking at their current roadmap there is a ton of features I use everyday in Photos that won't be there. And it's not to fault Im
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by makeitdouble 11d ago
At the same time buying compute is more expensive than ever, and the gap between homemade projects and what's available online in term of speed, functionality and LLM capacity is bigger than ever. Building the equivalent of Google Phot
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by makeitdouble 11d ago
The two interesting points: - you're assuming the 3 person you're hiring are women - the people you hire only work for slices of time in a day What's gone "wrong" is in the 70s women were still fighting for ERA and
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by makeitdouble 11d ago
> zero-sum One direction out of it is reducing the social burden on the family in the first place. Perhaps at some point we end at a zero-sum state, but IMHO we're still a long way from there. I'm thinking about suits and Y-shi
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by makeitdouble 11d ago
Hire a three person staff and you're set. On the salary, you might want to raise that a bit.
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by makeitdouble 14d ago
I imagine it would become a different job altogether, more in the style of buddy cop movies: you'll be spending all your work hours doing every project with your partner, sometimes they code, sometimes you do, but you become a single u
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by makeitdouble 14d ago
Or that N could be Nvidia now.
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by makeitdouble 14d ago
Why skip this part ? > legislation needs to either make it just as hard to merge two companies as it is to unmerge them
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by makeitdouble 15d ago
> a browser is a complex program A browser in the class of Firefox or Chrome is for all intents and purposes a full OS constantly exposed to the world. I understand open source OS development to be sustainable thanks to the the effort pu
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by makeitdouble 19d ago
> nobody You're saying there's 2% of non-Apple laptops with good trackpads. Apple laptops are below 10% share, so by your own account that 2% is nothing to sneeze at. Yes, there's a pretty decent number of good trackpads o
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by makeitdouble 19d ago
These problems will surface whenever they get big enough, whatever size the agency is. As an extreme, if there was one single guy in charge you'd still get recalls every time a problem reaches national levels, and you could get a lot o
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by makeitdouble 19d ago
Could be part of it. Another angle is payment processors longing for stronger KYC. Felica is bound to a phone with a carrier on a national network, which basically guarantees full traceability of the user. Same for WeChat. PromptPay also bi
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by makeitdouble 19d ago
> resignation is the proper action Why not act according to your conscience and get fired if your employer really feels like it ? Otherwise, in many circumstances a simple "is this legal?" question in a chat or chain of emails
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by makeitdouble 20d ago
The chip is not missing, the configuration is. I assume it's a licensing issue, where Google is too cheap to pay JR for the phones sold outside of Japan, so only setup the JP models and only pay the license for those.
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by makeitdouble 20d ago
There is a perhaps a trend of local payment means being less accessible to tourists. I haven't experienced it first hand but WeChat/Alipay are in the same boat as I understand, and PromptPay in Indonesia can be somewhat be used bu
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by makeitdouble 21d ago
Tremendous effort and circumstances were needed for that, and as parent points out there were significant numbers of defectors, sometimes to the point they tuppled the whole process. No system is perfect, but I read the whole thread as need
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by makeitdouble 21d ago
You're arguing for diffusion of responsibility, and we've seen it leading to outcomes that screw the whole society. Engineers, as everyone involved, should definitely assess whether what they're doing is legal or even ethical
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by makeitdouble 23d ago
Just some anecdata, but I have yet to be asked by Microsoft for some bitcoin ransom to get back my computer data.

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