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endemic

1,018 karmajoined 14 years ago
Personal: https://nathandemick.com Time wasting: https://ganbaru.games Day job: https://www.gifthealth.com

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endemic
·yesterday·discuss
The naming scheme is too "clever."
endemic
·2 days ago·discuss
> they are about the most difficult to solve captchas I've ever done

Sounds like something a robot would say. Joking aside, I'd rather do a captcha that involves slightly more cognitive effort, rather than get trapped in a reCaptcha loop because I didn't select every last segment of a bicycle.
endemic
·5 days ago·discuss
> Non-replaceable batteries

Most batteries are replaceable. The difference is the level of effort involved.
endemic
·5 days ago·discuss
My take is they didn't optimize for something that a small percentage of users would have problems with.
endemic
·8 days ago·discuss
Yeah, he's definitely the cause of all our past and current problems.
endemic
·17 days ago·discuss
So he has money.
endemic
·18 days ago·discuss
What are you going to do? Asking for a friend.
endemic
·last month·discuss
I mean, they're already subsidizing some of the phone services (e.g. maps) that users expect to have.
endemic
·last month·discuss
> Microsoft is completely and utterly defeated.

All the way to the bank, apparently.
endemic
·last month·discuss
I had the exact same thought about the brand crashing due to association with Facebook. Gotta juice them numbers, I guess.
endemic
·last month·discuss
If it makes someone feel better about themselves, why not?
endemic
·last month·discuss
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
endemic
·2 months ago·discuss
That $7 isn't going to the developers.
endemic
·2 months ago·discuss
Jobs really did make a lot of boneheaded decisions when running NeXT; this book just calls him out on it.
endemic
·3 months ago·discuss
Funny, I'm the exact opposite!
endemic
·3 months ago·discuss
> demand for a touchscreen on a laptop

My take is that consumers didn't want this; it was manufacturers trying to "add value" or sell something new. Same as the recent "AI PC" craze.
endemic
·4 months ago·discuss
Even with the latency/frame stuttering inherent in this sort of thing, it's been pretty amazing to re-play games with childhood friends who are now dispersed across the planet.
endemic
·4 months ago·discuss
I'm debating using LLMs for my side projects. Does using one remove the "soul" of my project? On the other hand, a friend is actually making progress with his side app _because_ he's able to lean on the LLM after a full day's worth of working the day job. I might be able to actually do some of the things I've dreamed of and never had the capacity for. First world problems, I guess.
endemic
·4 months ago·discuss
I liked it because it was very fast (I would always demo the startup time vs. Windows) and had a clean, macOS-inspired UI.
endemic
·4 months ago·discuss
I built a few native iPhone apps 15 years ago, but these days do my tinkering in web tech and "Save to Homescreen." Probably couldn't do this if I wanted functionality like photo/video editing or heavy 3D, but for my relatively simple use case, Webkit is fine. This has the benefit of completely bypassing the App Store, and lets me share apps by just linking to them.