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c4ptnjack··on In Dallas, panhandling from the median might soon get you a $500 ticket
Nonetheless they'd be breaking the law as well - why would they not be subject to the standards?

Just seems like a natural externality that i doubt the town council people will see coming.

c4ptnjack··on Pokemon Card Animation
Your work is incredible, thanks for sharing! Mind boggled by the swift card design you did and posted next in the Twitter thread. Im mind boggled by how realistic the 3d effect looks using the gyroscope and tasty design.
c4ptnjack··on In Dallas, panhandling from the median might soon get you a $500 ticket
Real question is if this will also affect fire department and other various fundraising groups that do the same exact thing.
c4ptnjack··on Future Pinball – A Real Time Pinball Development System
I don't do the whole VR thing(outside of my brief Super hot obsession with a friend's device).

However, this seems like an obvious simple but satisfying VR game if the physics and design are actually well done

..@markzuckerberg surely this is a sneak preview of a future metaverse release right? /S

c4ptnjack··on Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial
Worth noting that understanding why a problem occurs is not the same as treating that underlying condition. And moreover, you can treat and even cute something without fully understanding the precise mechanics of its attack vector, per say.
c4ptnjack··on Sony and Honda plan to start selling their electric cars in the US in 2026
For gods sake.. you think a car made by Sony would manage to remove the tacky bezels, at least on the back of headrest monitors.

Can't understand if it's a stylistic choice or design limitation, but it befuddles me in this day and age

c4ptnjack··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
Meta studies show those supplements in fact have little to no quantifiable impact on most people's depression out side of placebo
c4ptnjack··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
all of those things cause depression, leading to a nuerobiological effect needing the treatment
c4ptnjack··on Whodunnit? – Facts Related to the Sabotage Attack on the Nord Stream Pipelines
^^^this

Unfortunate. The title led me to believe I'd be reading an interesting discussion regarding this fairly unprecedented occurrence.

Instead, a cess pool of conspiracy laden incels using phrases like "genital frostbite" to describe what it's like in Germany and the rest of Europe after the Russian invasion.

All proceeding to claim Biden, the eu, and "globalism" wanted the invasion and made it happen to continue the takedown of western societies via those dangerous snowflake, lefties.

Lmao

c4ptnjack··on YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
Oh yeah.. i wouldn't even dream of Vimeo being anything like we're talking about in the future lmao.

But there was a time where it seemed like it could be what the people deserved, even if it was just teenage optimism lol

c4ptnjack··on The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]
All very true. And he is gold in all of those, although he was still relatively unknown at the time.
c4ptnjack··on Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
I work for an outsourced tech company supporting a large system of hospitals in the NE USA.

In my team of 50+ people, the last 2 years since starting this contract have been steady transition to using Teams for all communications. They are now moving to use it for scheduling as well with it being integrated with the rest of the Office suite.

Moreover, the entire hospital system uses it as the defacto means of communication. This makes it incredibly easy to connect with any of the thousands of employees we have immediately in a lot ways.

I don't like Teams or the office suite whatsoever. However, I think the real secret to their sauce is simple: > Ecosystem integration > Cram every feature possible into each product

Those two things alone can makeup for all the deficiencies in Microsoft's products within the marketplace. Their software may be clunky, buggy, and terrible to use but if you have those two factors it will stay dominant imo.

c4ptnjack··on YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
Exactly what I'm getting at, well said. Rip when Vimeo being actually competitive.
c4ptnjack··on The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]
Mostly agree with all you have to say minus the reference as Steve carrell being a safe, reliable pick at the time period. Being on the daily show is a great metric for a casting director as far as quality goes but in reality he had close to zero exposure and public recognition before the office.

That fact is supported by how bad the first season of the US office did ratings wise. People warmed up to it quickly thanks to the quality of writing, but the showrunners and producers clearly didn't feel confident in the future success of Steve carrell as a leading star or they wouldn't have ordered he get hair plugs to make him more look more likable.

Lastly, there is something to be said, at least regarding comedy, about differences in taste between cultures. British and US comedy have often been quite different over the last 70 years and is evident in the stylistic differences between the british and us versions of the office in season 1.

c4ptnjack··on YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
Can this not be at least partially solved by relying more heavily on a user's feedback(like/ dislike buttons, numerical rating systems, and any other feedback mechanisms) to better understand preferences of the viewer? Along with simply being more patient and diligent when trying to discern actual user desire?

It seems like the problem of asymmetry in recommendation platforms is more a choice from a design perspective than a challenge yet to be figured out.

I'm far from an expert tho so just a thought from a laymen

c4ptnjack··on Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved
Im pretty sure a ton of people complain how Google spends their money, quite frequently. As well, one of the major complaints from people has nothing to do with their ad budget. It has to do with the fact they both host the marketplace for advertising and are a competitor in the same space. And they expert that market dominance by manipulating prices, perception, and their own products success.
c4ptnjack··on Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved
I agree that growth of the editor base is essential to the continuation of Wikipedia, but are the consumers(as the people I presume donate the most, tho I might be totally wrong) not just as important?
c4ptnjack··on Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says
From an economic perspective they are quite comparable.

However, the complaint isn't asserting that such marketing practices are inherently illegal or harmful to a competitive marketplace.

The accusation is that google abused its market dominance to render any competition virtually impossible, or at least fiscally unfeasible. If the market for search engines that also control the end-to-end ad/marketing space like Google does were genuinely competitive, this practice wouldn't be illegal according to the DOJ. Even if a company as unethical, obtrusive, innovative, and effective as Google existed and wanted to compete in this field, thered be almost no way of breaking into the market. That also explains why the charges are happening now instead of when they began this practice in the early 2000's, to answer the defense's question asked regarding why this happening now after all this time.

IMO, the most telling and head-scratching detail is Google's claim that they face competition in the search engine marketplace with the likes of Amazon, GitHub, tik tok, meta and even Expedia? All because people don't have to use Google to access those products.

It's ridiculous to claim just because you have information and a search function, it's somehow a competitor to Google. Feels insulting they claim all of those entirely different products, which don't seek to index the web and provide general search capabilities, qualify as competitors.

c4ptnjack··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
The font chosen for the numbers destroys my soul. It feels like someone from Jitterbug was hired to lead
c4ptnjack··on RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
I'm curious to see how performative this will manage to actually be... Itd be interesting if it could eventually run audio software and AU plugins at a low latency.
c4ptnjack··on Gen Z have 86% less purchasing power compared to baby boomers in their twenties
It's actually the opposite, we are at an all time high for young people living with their parents, for longer.

Approximately 50 percent of young adults 18 - 29 live with their family now[0].

Initially that was thought to be a transient externality of the pandemic but it seems to be sticking[1] thanks to the outfall of the bull market crashing.

[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...

[1]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/07/20/young-adult...

c4ptnjack··on Ask HN: I want a modern 2-way pager with clamshell keyboard. Does this exist?
They still use pagers in the medical industry if that helps your search. I support a service that uses them for communicating with patients and doctors on-site from nurse stations and for relaying alerts. They're often issued as needed for temporary use.
c4ptnjack··on Deadbolt locks offer false sense of security (2014)
Deadlink to a domain hosting site... original link available?
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