underbluewaters

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by underbluewaters 9mo ago
I don't think it needed any kind of special foresight to write that script. The idea that the NSA/Intelligence community was monitoring communications to that degree was fringe but not outlandish. Snowden confirmed and provided cr
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by underbluewaters 9mo ago
As a mac user since 2006 I see the problem as twofold. 1. Siri has always been terrible. The rise of chatbots has made that fact even more obvious. It's such low hanging fruit to integrate some sort of llm chatbot. Why didn't
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by underbluewaters 10mo ago
10+ years ago you could in fact just pick the best-reviewed product on Amazon at a certain price point and have a great experience! God help you if you tried that today.
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by underbluewaters 11mo ago
This was a major barrier for me. I had to replace an existing natural, tanked gas water heater. Ultimately I just bought a $750 replacement because I could easily swap it out myself. Installing a heat pump would have involved an electrician
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by underbluewaters 1y ago
I think it's healthy for parents to have other pursuits. Not everyone is 100% fulfilled hanging out with young children all day, and that's perfectly fine. Even with daycare, parents are spending a substantial portion of their tim
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by underbluewaters 1y ago
This was surprising to me too. I think there was some guilt around having a child and not spending 100% of our time caring for them. The reality was that quality daycare teachers have a lot of experience and a support network that enables t
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by underbluewaters 1y ago
Very interested to see what improved runtime performance looks like when this is implemented in MapLibre GL JS. I thought this effort was just focused on reducing tile size (meh). I run into runtime performance issues all the time when visu
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by underbluewaters 1y ago
It's not about the feature set. The Music app is the only software I use which randomly locks up my whole mac, just trying to do basic stuff like play a song or navigate albums. Doesn't seem to be related to whether I'm brows
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by underbluewaters 1y ago
Oh my god they are continuing the story! Loved the first two seasons.
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by underbluewaters 1y ago
Successful standards usually start out scrappy, are embraced by a community, and then are blessed by standards bodies. What comes out of working groups of standards bodies rarely gains traction. See xhtml vs "html5".
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by underbluewaters 2y ago
I love it. The touch-scroll works so well it's like an extension of my mind.
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
That's funny. I had an LG fridge die one night after 1.5 years with a loud bang. It sounded like a gun had gone off in the house and at first I had no idea what it was, but I guess it was something bursting in the compressor. Home Depo
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
This is very not true since many (most) things we spend money on are in limited supply. I can make what I think is good money, but if remote FAANG workers decide to settle nearby then I suddenly can't afford a house. Same for automobil
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
Web 2.0 times were great. It was just taken as a given that the future was open standards, interoperable web services, and creative tools like Pipes that let users and developers easily leverage them. Social media and the drive to monetize
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
I feel lucky every single day that I can take a 10 minute e-bike ride into the office. I say lucky because I know it's not available to everyone, but it's so good for my mental health to get outside every morning and afternoon. Th
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
Having these amounts of RAM on the base models hurt walk-in retail customers as well. Recently I had a computer die and luckily my boss found some extra funds in our budget that needed to be spent ASAP. I had an opportune moment to get a ma
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
Prime Video is by far the worst app on AppleTV. The are so cheap they don't even use 4k resolution icons and thumbnails. It shows how much they care about their customers.
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
I struggle to think of any institutions the VC/tech/internet era has produced with any long-term value. My assumption is that these companies go through a cyclical pattern of providing value and then destroying it once successful.
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
I think the problem is that the same people who care a lot about their phone's form factor also care about features. We need an iPhone Mini Pro with high end cameras. I'm not going to settle for so-so pics of my toddler.
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
Threaded connections are just another point of failure.
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
I just purchased a 2018 F-150 and was concerned about being able to drive it safely after reading threads like these. Surprisingly, I can be much more aware of my surroundings and have fewer blind spots in the truck than my CR-V. Even direc
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
This should be logarithmic
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
I'm curious what would happen if a privacy-focused nonprofit tried to purchase this bulk data and were refused. If it's only truly available to 3 letter agencies then they are acting more like contractors and the legal rationale m
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
I'd recommend people skim the actual report, it's written for a lay audience. https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/News-Assets/PDFs/2021/Sentience-i... I was a bit dismissive of the idea that they can de
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by underbluewaters 3y ago
Yes. For many folks there is an intrinsic value to protecting the environment. I find more and more that even within the NGO and environmentalist community people only care about how natural resources impact people in a utilitarian sense. I
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by underbluewaters 4y ago
This has been transformative for the project[0] I'm working on where I need to host a lot of ocean environment data using vector tiles. I've been able to build out a data upload and tiling pipeline similar to Felt using tippecanoe
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by underbluewaters 4y ago
It's moving towards the local maxima of whatever this clever use of statistics and big data can manage. People who realize these models are in a different category than AGI and how our brains work will be in a better position to maximi
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by underbluewaters 4y ago
I don't believe anyone could sincerely have thought this was a good idea. Maybe this was a petulant act from a dean that didn't think they should have to respond to every tragedy?
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by underbluewaters 4y ago
Ha! I've been to SF once in the last 5 years. Right in front of the salesforce tower a homeless person lunged at me with a broken bottle. It was a half hearted lunge but still, not exactly the sort of thing I run into regularly!
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by underbluewaters 4y ago
I found it made more sense to brew 10 years ago. Back then craft brew wasn't as easy to find, so if I wanted something particular I'd have better luck making my own and sharing it with friends. Now I can go down to Whole Foods and

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