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The problem is most heavy computer users set themselves up with a proper ergonomic setup, i.e. external keyboard. And by not building the touch bar into external keyboards, they killed the entire concept of the Touch Bar, because any "pro" application has to assume that you may or may not have a touch bar and can't put essential functionality there. Which limits the Touch Bar to proper first-class support primarily in Apple first-party apps.
Never happened to me. If there are no letters after unit numbers, and the delivery person sees a delivery for unit 522B, they'll leave it at 522.
One hack around address limits is to put in a unit number. 1 Park Avenue or whatever in Manhattan will have multiple units in it. And if you live in one of these units you can add a letter, like "Unit 522B" which will just get delivered to your unit 522.
Some companies have databases that know the layouts in each address but many do not.
Ordering groceries creates employment at a time when unemployment is higher than literally ever before.
I mean for Amazon Prime you have to have a Prime susbcription to even play, so the $129/year fee is a good barrier to bots.
Singapore is anything but a mono-cultural country and is only recently rich. Basically through extreme government competence they made themselves rich and yes, their society definitely has Chinese at the top but unlike the US, the society is not completely riven by racial strife.
I'm sure there are 16,000 people that would be thankful that you were 14,000 ventilators short instead of 30,000.
The fine print has always been that it's 2 days from Amazon's ship date and not from your order date.
For some reason I initially read this as "Prince Charles." And thought that I was totally ignorant of Prince Charles' programming exploits, as though he were a Lee Hsien Loong.
Because it works. The earliest industrial base of the United States was created from textile production IP stolen from the United Kingdom, which eventually outcompeted British textiles.
The American government has been captured by the American CEO class, who don't suffer from IP theft since they get paid before the IP theft bears fruit, so the government doesn't care.
No one said it does. But if you tell someone "fix whatever is causing the disks on this machine to fill up" they're going to be more motivated to do so, and more able to make the best decisions about how to do so, if they know what the purpose, or "story," is, that they're a part of.
It's just like if you told someone to play the part of a random extra in a convenience store in a movie, they will do a better job if they know what the movie is about. Even the way you play an extra is different in a slapstick comedy vs. a movie about blood diamonds, for example.
Adoptive parents are people who have gone through a lot of effort and expense to get their children, so they're far more likely to be heavily invested in their kids. It's also expensive so they're likely to have money. If the effects of parenting are strong, but "cap out" -- i.e. above a certain level of care, parenting does little, but before that level it has a strong effect -- then twin studies will show little of that effect.
What's a seat rocker? Google is turning up household furniture.
I can’t believe a drivers license scan is all that is needed for many companies. That means that losing my wallet on the street effectively means that someone can go get my entire digital history.
Why not require the user to request this data while signed in to the service?
When the iPhone 6S came out the iPhone 4S seemed like a dinosaur. Now even though the iPhone 10S is out the iPhone 6S works just fine. It happened in PCs and now it's happened in phones -- the annual increase in specs eventually passed the needs of most of the market.
oof, not comparable at all. The increased mechanical latency from a cello, compared to a violin, is an incredible source of tonal and musical complexity. First of all, the latency can be felt by the musician, so I don't lose control of the feedback loop. Second, the latency isn't a hard start/stop, but you can feel and hear the string first displacing under the bow and then starting to move. There is zero latency in terms of the physical universe... there is just some more latency between when you start an action and when the note reaches its full steady state.
The comparison is like the difference between driving a truck and a car compared to driving a car with a 500ms delay on its inputs.
The author's description of the various typefaces and their semicolons is just exquisite. What a fucking writer.
The original purpose of the “hackable” button was to give a fun piece of experimentation kit that worked with AWS and encouraged people to try it out. I set up my AWS account just to use one.
This is the first thing I’ve ever upvoted on Hacker News
My guess is that this whole story arc was planned from Day 1. They knew they’d need to do this, and they’d get caught, so they just tried to tag as much stuff as they could before the shit hit the PR fan.
It is not at all a given that machine learning systems need covert review of user data. The training data can come from paid users or explicitly opted in users. Do not normalize this behavior, it is not normal, OK, or required.
Thinking for yourself is not an unalloyed good. It’s important to realize where you need to rely on expertise.
And corporations would pay a lot to have extensions security reviewed if they had a business use case.
I won’t even share it’s name, why would I open source it? Lol. It makes a decent amount of money and requires close to 0 engineering know how to build. So no, I will continue to let it make money quietly...
Hong Kong is a cube and the US is a plane. Delivery costs are not comparable
I don’t have a problem with it although I think it’s good that they changed it. If drivers complain “we’re not getting enough tip” and the company says “OK we guarantee your tips will be at least $5 on this order” that’s the behavior you get. The customer feels ripped off by a program that ostensibly benefited drivers to begin with.
Yeah, a young artist would be so much better served by getting even a used iPad. It will make her familiar with the tools that the pros use, and is massively better than its competitors. I hope she consults another person.
Can someone explain to a complete n00b what you need these graph databases like Neo4J and Dgraph for? I've just built some small business SaaS always on MySQL.
No because it’s too easy to clone.
I have a SaaS business which exists ONLY because of advertising. It’s highly niche, really the only product that does what it does, and a few dozen people a day click through from Google Ads and find that I have a product to automate something they had been spending hundreds of hours on. You should see the effusive thank you notes I get if you think advertising is pointless. This product wouldn’t exist without Google Ads because I would have no way to find the 50 people a day worldwide who need it.