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There was an Amazon UXR study that floated around ~8 years ago that said the only things people care about from a voice assistant are music, weather, and alarms.

PMs keep trying to make them "smarter," and it just makes the core user journeys worse.

Surely they think they're inventing cars when we're griping about buggy whips. But it really feels like voice assistants peaked ~10y ago for the things people actually want them for.

My parents bought an Amazon TV at Costco that is surprisingly responsive for being a smart TV.

> Roku's decision to get involved in streaming content at all

As I recall, it was originally a Netflix product that was spun out due to its potential to cause a conflict of interest in their main business. They didn't want devices like Chromecast and AppleTV to see Netflix as a competitor, and be reluctant to bundle the Netflix streaming app on their devices.

Is the flavor of Markdown (e.g. CommonMark) specified? Didn't see anything about it by perusing the first few pages, but that feels important for a spec.

My primary phone number has been a Google Voice account since 2010.

It's unclear to me how I'd be impacted by these new rules, but I don't believe there's any requirement to provide PII to get a VOIP number.

Are they actually made in the UK?

I'd presume they're shipped from China like most tech goods.

There's a whole big conversation to have about the bureaucratic state.

One of the things that appeals to voters is the argument that too many decisions are made by unaccountable bureaucrats. Trump has been as effective at fixing this as with "drain the damp," and our elected officials clearly haven't been great about writing policy either. But one of the grievances that gets people to vote is "look at all this shit that some guy in Washington just decided."

Here's the link to submit a comment to the FCC:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express

Ran a quick search and found a whole bunch of news articles, but nobody includes info that makes it easy to route your comment. Feels like the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide:

> It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened.

Until that point, I thought wars were a stupid thing that humanity realized were stupid and stopped doing.

If the referendum passes and the population crosses the threshold, Switzerland may need to remove itself from e.g. the Schengen area. All the remediations mentioned in the referendum are about suspending immigration.

In NY + SF, it's used for anything you might want to attend that would be organized by an individual - parties, meetups, food crawls, classes, concerts, local events, etc.

Partiful feels like it has replaced Facebook Events, Meetup, and the other formerly-popular hubs for in-person event planning.

He's right - that phrase evokes what he means better than many alternatives.

But this feels like an article where you get all the useful info in the title. The rest is just a rant about the modern internet being bad for your brain.

I feel like I heard this same rumor a decade+ ago.

Not a rumor when announced on a public market, but it's not the first time they've been perceived as a precarious has-been.

Glad to see movement here!

It's been so long since I've heard about Debug that I was afraid it was cancelled.

I remember when they first pivoted from multiperson multitouch tables to tablets. It sounded like a really cool device - even got me to walk into a Microsoft store.

Then I realized that it used the same shitty Windows with the same shitty registry that I had mostly avoided for my whole life to that point. I certainly wasn't jumping in on that tablet.

Is soon now?

The performance envelope was already uninspiring. They said it does better than some big percentage of the people on Steam, but it's not an obvious upgrade over my 2023 Legion Go handheld in anything but a bit more RAM (and it's only 8GB discrete VRAM, which may be paltry for 4K).

It also used to be run as an independent company with access to MS's resources.

Now it's a unit in their AI hype machine.

Probably because one of the main explorations of the articles is quantifying "young people."

Isn't FRP more like RxJS/CycleJS?

If you ask the people who work on any of those frameworks I mentioned, they'll tell you they're taking the React style and applying it to their platforms.

Flutter, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose: a whole lot of other platforms have been implementing React as their UI framework

The Supreme Court has recently had an appetite to overturn precedent deemed to be rooted in faulty case law/reasoning (controversially, Roe v Wade). It would be nice to see that energy pointed at blatantly unconstitutional notions like "you have no privacy when traveling."

Except for the parts that say "we get to be even more invasive for 'national security concerns'" and that they can compel you to provide a password, this doc seems mostly reasonable if you accept that they can search you. Then again, it's not clear _why_ they should be able to search your devices. There are no foreign pests nor WMDs that exist as documents on a device. This is clearly just the government being nosy because they think they can.

It says they're supposed to put it in airplane mode before searching. Of course, there's nothing preventing a Snowden-style klep the cookies and let a three letter agency reuse them later.

[citation needed]

The internet is largely predicated on American law, because so much of it has been invented by Americans.

The EFF, Creative Commons, FSF - they're all based in America. The licenses they write are based on American legal concepts.

It's interesting to see a Czech CEO commenting on (and quoting) and English translation of Chinese law in the context of a license written in America. As he points out in the thread, AGPL is unenforceable against a Chinese company if China doesn't recognize the rights AGPL is predicated on.

Asylum is an international concept negotiated by treaty. You apply when you arrive - that's true everywhere.

My buddy married someone he met in grad school abroad, then got a job in the US when he graduated. She had to move in with her parents in Japan while waiting for the green card. It took at least a year.

It sounds like you're trying to defend going nuclear on green cards by arguing about a quirk of the H1B.

The H1B system was stupid. That doesn't justify any of what the Trump admin has been doing.

I'm so happy for my friends that got green cards before this insanity.