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Love it, you’ve got to do 132nd street next. Trying to exit south bound during rush hour is delightful

I always think as an individual I would like this. But at scale I worry it would incentivize each department to advertise themselves to the public, which seems to me like a waste of funds. I already dislike the reelection cycle (politicians incentivized to always be fundraising) and would hate to see that happen per department.

(1) playing with godot and building a Polynesian sailing rpg where you navigate waters by reading waves

(2) setting up MCP servers for Spotify and Substack that can pull what I’ve recently read / listened to. I want to try pulling transcripts and guest information to build myself a recommendation/follow system

(3) raising the sweetest little 5mo old

Facebook and Twitter do not have the violent posts solved by any measure. But at the very least they make the gestures and put money towards trying to fix it.

Parler has been vocal that they have no plans solving it. If they had at least showed some vague plan to resolve it, they would have earned some sympathy.

(In US) I agree that business owners should never refuse people based on political opinions. I would be firmly against AWS/Google not willing to work with a company because it has conservative views.

In Parler's case, the issue isn't that they are conservative. The issue is that they refuse to take any responsibility for the hate and violence on their platform. John Matze had every opportunity to take responsibility for the content, but he was vocal that he would not do anything about it.

If I were running a cloud provider company, I wouldn't want anything to do with this behavior either. Who cares whether the users lean right or left - hate and violence are unacceptable.

Those are very small sample sizes to make any assumptions from. 11 clicks for their test, and only 256 clicks for the larger referenced test. The larger test then makes a huge assumption in user behavior:

"So, arguably, a user who sees this ad and clicks legitimately on it will be looking to get a demo of the analytics tool we were marketing"

Uh, no. Just because the ad brought them to your site, doesn't mean the user wants to interact with your video. You got them there, you have to work to keep them.

OnHub 11 years ago

Ah, okay. Hadn't thought of that, thanks.

OnHub 11 years ago

I find it odd how it seems to be marketed to the general consumer, who usually won't need the high specs. What is the average person going to use USB on the router for?

I have a $200+ router myself, but would feel too restricted with the OnHub's single LAN port.

Still very interesting. Just wondering why the high price point and (imo) over the top specs.

It could be just because we're coming from Android, but my friend and I experienced an approachability problem with the iPad about a month ago.

I was using an iPad on a flight (the in-flight entertainment was broken) and it took us, both computer engineers, a good ten minutes to figure out how to turn down the brightness. It was a painful experience trying to find the settings - swipe down? No.. swipe other directions, nope.

It took us forever to discover that 'settings' is just an app on the tablet.

Maybe it was just because we are part of the Android ecosystem, but using one didn't seem very logical.

Note: Neither of us specifically avoid Apple products, but just found them way too expensive with university for purchase.

> "Shopping on Amazon is a superior user experience and it runs the table on the magical retailer formula of selection, price and convenience"

Clearly has never used Amazon Canada.

But in all seriousness, a great article. It's interesting to see how the different web markets overlap so easily.

I have a good phone and a great laptop. I can't really justify buying one. I have some friends that plan on buying them, so at least I have the chance to try them out.