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Em dashes in every other sentence. I've never seen an actual person do that. The language in general reads exactly it's written by an LLM:

"The blah blah didn't just start as blah. It started as blah..." "First came blah -- blah blah blah" "And now: blah"

It's a distinctly AI writing style. I do wonder if we'll get to a point where people start writing this way just because it's what they're used to reading. Or maybe LLMs will get better at not writing like this before that happens.

I use Gyroflow to stabilize GoPro footage from autocross events since I can't stand the left/right panning from GoPro's HyperSmooth stabilization. Gyroflow lets me disable stabilization on that axis and the results look great for my use case.

Who cares if the allergies are lethal or not? They'll cause the person to be miserable for days, possibly cause hives, possibly cause an asthma attack. That's not comparable to sitting next to someone who's annoying/smelly.

Yep, lying about it is why they're being sued: "They misled users into installing the extensions with a privacy policy that claimed they did not collect any personal information."

The cable company and newspaper would absolutely love to do that if it were possible on their technology.

If you put an ad on TV, the cable company is wasting valuable time showing your ad to a ton of people who will never purchase your product (I wonder how many hours of my childhood was spent in front of things like diabetes ads, funeral home ads, depression medication ads). Same goes for newspapers.

If they could somehow target ads based on who's watching, the ads would be massively more effective and they could charge a lot more for showing ads.

By targeting ads and charging so much more for ad time, some companies can even afford to offer their services for free, which massively increases the audience, which brings in more money, which gives them the budget to build a bigger, better service, which increases their audience, which brings them more money, etc etc

And that's how you end up with Facebook and Google.

Obviously the problem is that this isn't transparent. Many people don't know why they get all of this complex technology for free. It's not explained when you sign up for a new account.

Currently Tesla just replaces the entire media unit when this happens, which is extremely expensive for them. In reality they only need to replace a tiny part instead of tossing entire boards.

Do you know that they toss the old media units? Are you sure they don't swap the entire media unit to simplify service procedures, and have have the old units inspected and refurbished (i.e. eMMC module replaced) for future repairs?

That sounds way more efficient than training all of the shop workers to diagnose and swap out individual parts of the media unit.

You're not. It really annoys me when people cite google search suggestions as meaningful.

In my google search suggestions, it falls behind "how to leave a group chat" and "how to leave a meetup group". Therefore it must be true that more people are trying to figure out how to get out of group chats or break it off with their meetup group than leaving facebook. This also must be a sign of the demise of group chat.

Time diversion versus what?

The lack of dedicated controls is only a negative for games that require precise inputs (like classic arcade games). There are so many fantastic games that don't require that at all. Strategy, turn-based RPGs, puzzles, adventure games, etc. For certain games, a touchscreen can blow dedicated controls out of the water if the interface is designed well.

While Chrome does forget about the history of the closed tab, cookies are shared across incognito tabs/windows and aren't wiped until all incognito tabs are closed. You can still be tracked and associated with anything you visited in that closed tab if you have other tabs open.

If they're ditching the 3.5mm jack to get thinner, I'm not sure they're going to switch to the thicker USB-C connector.

It made sense to move to USB-C on the MacBook where it replaces every other connector and makes their product more aesthetically attractive and thin.

On the phone they already have a thinner connector with a much thinner plug. It also allows them to have a high-markup proprietary adapter market.

The last photo in the article is much more recent than that. It's covered in plywood now :(

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I couldn't touch type and really couldn't force myself not to look, so I bought a Das Keyboard and threw out my old keyboard. It was rough at first, but I doubt I could have learned faster any other way and as a bonus I ended up realizing the joy of typing on a mechanical keyboard.

You should look into A Game of Thrones: The Board Game. It's very similar to diplomacy at it's core, but has a bunch more going on. The people who just play the game mechanics tend to lose, and the people who build alliances, make deals, and break some of them at the right time are the ones who win.

It makes it to the table with my group of friends because it takes much less time to play than Diplomacy.

Just like Diplomacy, you may not want to play it with people who take the board game backstabbing stuff too seriously.

Nice to know I'm not the only one. It does not get along with my router (WNDR3700). It will only connect after rebooting the router and even then devices can't always find it when it's connected.

Even when I did get it to work, it would bog down a lot.

The Eagles seem very picky about when they help and who they're helping. I highly doubt they would do such a deed without Gandalf letting them in on the full story.

That's a good default for expiration, but I always expect to be able to dismiss notifications early to get them out the way.

It definitely makes sense to hide the dismissal button when there are interactions prompted that would get rid of it (Retry/Cancel), but the default case is a plain text message to the user.

By the way, I like it, thanks for putting it out there! A more unique name might help me find it for future projects :)

It did strike me as odd that showCloseButton isn't true by default. I can't see many scenarios where you would want to force the user to leave their screen obstructed after they've seen the message.

Yep, 2900 psi; and I just read that they plan to upgrade to 4400 psi tanks.

For reference, I put about 40 psi in my car's tires.

Sure, it's not "pure" black, but his argument is more that the average monitor's #000 text on a #fff background still has too much contrast for comfortable reading.

eep, that's 1/5th of my messaging plan, and exactly why I'm afraid to send a text to any automated system.

I'd rather have Google as the only choice than Comcast/CenturyLink.

I agree with it detracting from the immersion in many cases, but I think your forgetting about casual games. Where this is really interesting is that it enables hidden information in local multiplayer games.

For example, you can't play poker locally because you could see everyone's hand. With this, the hands can be displayed on the player's phones. This goes for a lot of board games.