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fortyseven
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Coder, gamer, complainer.
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https://Network47.org/
- fortyseven parentWell... little of A, a lot of B...
- Certainly mine!
- Personal financial stake in this, or do you regularly police the use of ancient software?
- Have the advantage of hosting content on Plex and other media servers that you can play them remotely. I can be on the other side of the Earth and still access my media. This is an extremely common use case.
- Aside from money, I think one of the major issues I had with toll booths was... Well the booths. Stopping, having to fish out exact change, planning ahead to make sure you had enough change, etc.
Nowadays we have those boxes that we can put in the windshield that automatically bill us later. And that's made me far more willing to take a trip via the highway. Removes a lot of anxiety. And, so far, at least in my experience, they work.
- Impressive! My company is willing to buy this from you for 200 million dollars.
- 2 points
- No, it isn't a patch on the original. But I did find it better than I expected at least. A low bar, but at least it passed it. ;)
- It's definitely interesting seeing him physically morph from his younger days to today. When he first came on my radar as a director, I wondered if it was just another guy with the same name, I had to go look it up, and I was surprised. Seemed like a really great guy. :(
- 51 points
- You know, sometimes things just work. They get whittled way at until we end up with a very refined endpoint. Just look at cell phones. Black rectangles as far as the eye can see. For good reason. I'm not saying don't explore new avenues ( foldables, etc. ), but it's perfectly fine to come to settle into a metaphor that just works.
- Unless you're stopped at the border and a cop decides to take a stroll through your social media on your phone. Wish THAT was a joke.
- And here I am thinking it was just a goofy lark that I got a minor chuckle out of. No, apparently it's a major bit of drama for people. Geesh.
- Oh, you're just obsessed with this, aren't you?
- Sure, this is a good point, but only if you completely ignore the the accessibility gains provided by the change. But I'm guessing rationality wasn't on the menu when this was written.
- On Firefox mobile with unblock, here. Experienced nothing intrusive. It works, apparently. :)
- Look at that stupid dog. It's reading a book, but it's really trashy YA. It's not even Shakespeare. Dogs are stupid.
- Does profit outweigh the penalty?
- I suspect this was an editing error versus a conscious choice. That is to say I'm betting that "How" came from a prior revision and they published it before realizing the error. I've done this myself too often. ;D
- Yeah, Linus, what's the point?
- Jesus christ, must everything be transactional?
- It's a user, personally, I hate these things. I almost always have my password vault at my fingertips. And I just want to paste my damned password. Instead now I got to flip over to my email app, hope to hell that the email actually arrives in a timely manner, etc. If it was available is an option? Fine. But I've seen people to use these almost exclusively is the login mechanism. Hate it. It's not that it doesn't work, it's just inconvenient for me more often than not.
- The sidebar where I can integrate my own locally hosted LLM? So I can quickly grab summaries and stuff? THAT'S helpful. The rest, get the hell away.
- And?
- They better have that thing in a fucking OtterBox then.
- Yep. Tables for tabular data are still on the menu.
- It's pretty crazy the number of times I've banged my head against the wall trying to fix something... and then I'll either step away for an hour, or just come back the next day, and I'll have it fixed in minutes. It really does work sometimes.
- Ah, yes, the usual "Umm, ackshully this issunt dithering IMHO" segment of the audience is here.