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by suddenexample 3y ago
What an amazingly well-written article. It's incredible how well it describes the feelings that I've struggled to vocalize on my own.
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by suddenexample 3y ago
Anyone have an idea what features the "RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association" actually entails for users in terms of feature support? I know E2E encryption isn't a part of it, but w
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by suddenexample 3y ago
Is it just me or is Windows phone looked back on with really heavy nostalgia? I never found it to be revolutionary or beautiful, and while I would welcome more players in the mobile space, I think Microsoft's behavior in every other pa
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by suddenexample 3y ago
So refreshing to see some semblance of sanity in these cases...
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by suddenexample 3y ago
That makes it sound like ad companies are invading the websites of news companies who are resisting. These news organizations want to have their cake and eat it too. They rely on these platforms for traffic. Now they also want to be paid fo
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by suddenexample 3y ago
It's interesting that HN seems so divided on Vision Pro. Lots of skepticism, and also lots of acknowledgement that Apple has a habit of shutting down its doubters. Personally, I'm still skeptical. They announced 2 hours of battery
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by suddenexample 3y ago
Ironically, I think Google has by far the most to gain from spinning up a non-profit-seeking Reddit clone in house, as it implicitly benefits search advertising by increasing the value of search.
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by suddenexample 3y ago
Don't need to ask Bard, it was mentioned at I/O and in this tweet: https://twitter.com/Google/status/1656348200263876608?ref_sr...
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by suddenexample 3y ago
This is over indexing on semantics. The feature name is now Tasks, but the functionality is exactly the same and is now better for Tasks users.
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by suddenexample 3y ago
On the topic of Apple building an uneven playing field that disadvantages third party apps - I want an iPhone but don't want to use Apple's services, so I'm sticking with Android for now. It just seems difficult to have an iP
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by suddenexample 4y ago
I know Microsoft has earned back a lot of goodwill especially from nerds like us due to some of the stuff they've done with VS Code, GitHub, and gaming, but I trust Google way more to not be a scumbag company. Of all the companies to h
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by suddenexample 4y ago
ChatGPT user here. Was cool to try out, but I have no real use cases for it. Maybe next time I have trouble brainstorming what to cook - but it seems rather niche.
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by suddenexample 4y ago
Poetic but misguided. The Google of 2005 didn't have so much fat to trim. When you have 150k employees, there's no escaping it. Not everyone is going to be hungry, and certainly not interested or in a position to build things 100x
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by suddenexample 4y ago
I think it's kind of hilarious that tech "journalism" now encompasses a summary of someone else's YouTube video.
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by suddenexample 4y ago
I'm probably just being naive here, but can someone enlighten me to whether Google's Nest cameras have had similar issues? Ring seems to have had a long trail of issues with being hacked, collaborating with police, etc. Not lookin
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by suddenexample 4y ago
It's a bit ironic that to me, the layman, Hubble's space images have been so ubiquitous that Webb looks kind of... posterized. For example, in that last comparison of the Carina Nebula, Hubble has that ethereal quality that so man
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by suddenexample 5y ago
This is the funniest comment I've ever seen on HN, I snorted
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by suddenexample 5y ago
I feel like people on HN are really detached from reality sometimes. For 99% of people, typing "chicken" into Google search means they want chicken, or don't know what a chicken is. Does anyone here actually expect the averag
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by suddenexample 5y ago
Sonos sues for infringing on their patent for controlling the volume of multiple speakers at the same time, Match group sues for infringing on their patent for swiping left/right... I'm starting to notice a pattern here. I underst
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by suddenexample 5y ago
"We’re suing Google and we’d sue Amazon, too, if we had the resources to do it. They’re stealing our technology and trying to squeeze us out of business." Seems like they'd want to follow up with an Amazon suit if this one is
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by suddenexample 5y ago
Additional coverage: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/google-must-halt-some-d...
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Google Infringed on Speaker Technology Owned by Sonos, Trade Court Rules(nytimes.com)
7 points by suddenexample 5y ago|4 comments
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by suddenexample 5y ago
As far as I can tell, these are the patents mentioned in the document: Method and apparatus for adjusting volume levels in a multi-zone system - https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2/en System and method
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by suddenexample 5y ago
Well, I'd bet a big factor is that these spammy sites probably spend a lot of time on SEO - illuminating StackOverflow answers and official documentation don't.
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by suddenexample 5y ago
Google Assistant is pretty good. But Google's on-device voice transcription in GBoard (unsure if it's a Pixel exclusive) is borderline magical. The delay between speaking a word and having it appear on the screen is shockingly sh
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by suddenexample 6y ago
There are often a variety of overly simplistic solutions to a problem that address one issue but sacrifice a lot in return. The reality is that fake reviews are incredibly difficult to solve.
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by suddenexample 6y ago
Everyone's hate boner for Google is making them blind to how bad of a law this is. This doesn't benefit Australian news - it benefits Murdoch's news. Yes Google has a ton of power and it's crazy that it got this way. But
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by suddenexample 6y ago
Each day I become more convinced that Google at the end of this decade will be nearly irrelevant. It's a company with MBA leaders who don't care about the product, which values engineers that have technical prowess and often don&#
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by suddenexample 6y ago
Company: Supports measures that lead to additional privacy because they realize how important it is to their users HN: Don't be tricked, Google is evil. Like I understand WHY there's a hate boner for Google. I just don't und
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by suddenexample 6y ago
It's about convenience. Cooking while having full control over what's playing in the background. Following along with recipes. Asking random questions you might usually take out your phone to Google. Coming home after a long day,

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