Your analogy only works when applied to the hiring stage, as that is when the publishing house decides to work with you. If the publisher accepted your manuscript, assigned you an editor, gave you a target publish date,…
An ICE vehicle will always and forever run on fossil fuels. An EV may start its life getting electricity generated from fossil fuels but can get its power from whatever the generation changes to
Engineers who work 100 hour weeks at suppressed wages on tenuous visas.
The automatic stop-start system found in newer cars isn’t especially hard on the starter. These systems have reinforced bearings, faster engagement mechanisms, direct fuel injection or integrated starter generators,…
The time to start a business is in your 20s, before you have a kid. Unfortunately, China runs short of these. The largest demographic bucket is 50-54 years old. The second largest is 65-69. The 20’s are 7th and 8th……
> But it does give them a _lot_ of leeway for easy growth. They just need to make the country more business-friendly at the lower end. Consumption-led growth is all but over. The population is shrinking, manufacturing…
Shazam was bought to boost Siri’s ability to recognize music but Siri isn’t really good at much, so it hasn’t been fully absorbed. Now with AI eating the world I assume that functionality will get reproduced by a…
We have these in the US and they are falling out of favor because they tend to attract crime and drugs. They are called SROs.
Note that this hasn’t happened with Shazam, miraculously
"This is a huge week for the Mac, and this morning, we begin a series of three exciting new product announcements that will take place over the coming days," said Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus, in a…
They said there would be three announcements this week and this is the third
You’re allowed to say kill on Hackernews
Can you think of any examples where a company trying to sell you something made unfavorable comparisons between their product and a competing product?
The Atlantic reported on similar research in 2014. The article from The Atlantic is titled "Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head" [0]. Here's a choice quote from that article: >“The problem,” [Intervoice…
Education as well. Main reason why that headphone jack has stuck around I suspect.
>Now 4 generations in, they are still comparing performance to M1. I get that 15-20% improvements aren't too exciting but it feels old. FTA: "Compared to the most popular 24-inch all-in-one PC with the latest Intel Core…
Toyota set up shop in the US in 1981 because the US auto industry and unions lobbied for import restrictions. Then Congress held hearings and threatened legislation, followed by the UAW filing trade complaints. Then, in…
The status quo before fediverse-type services was the lack of existence of fediverse-type services. Therefore, the continued existence of fediverse-type services proves that the status quo is changeable. People want to…
It’s okay if loops doesn’t become the next TikTok. Not every project needs to take over the world. Alternatives are good.
Their CEO seems to be reacting to a perception that Chevy is “behind” and trying to get ahead of the market on EVs. If they were smart they’d still be making the Volt, since it’s an extremely reasonable PHEV that many…
The Bolt EUV is the perfect EV, and it’s a travesty that they stopped selling it. Hopefully the talk of them bringing it back is true.
Not a bad idea, but the purpose of the legislation is to prevent Surfside from happening again. Newer buildings were built with different regulations and brand new buildings likely have fees commiserate with their age,…
It is much easier to correct a transcription than to generate it wholesale. As well, the task of audio transcription correction has long since been commoditized because of the deployment of speech recognition on every…
Kobo has Pocket integration, is this substantially different?
I’m not a Bluesky user, but I contend that it is time to rethink success when it comes to the web. The website I am most active on has fewer than 50k active users, is limited to about that many intentionally, runs on…
Your analogy only works when applied to the hiring stage, as that is when the publishing house decides to work with you. If the publisher accepted your manuscript, assigned you an editor, gave you a target publish date,…
An ICE vehicle will always and forever run on fossil fuels. An EV may start its life getting electricity generated from fossil fuels but can get its power from whatever the generation changes to
Engineers who work 100 hour weeks at suppressed wages on tenuous visas.
The automatic stop-start system found in newer cars isn’t especially hard on the starter. These systems have reinforced bearings, faster engagement mechanisms, direct fuel injection or integrated starter generators,…
The time to start a business is in your 20s, before you have a kid. Unfortunately, China runs short of these. The largest demographic bucket is 50-54 years old. The second largest is 65-69. The 20’s are 7th and 8th……
> But it does give them a _lot_ of leeway for easy growth. They just need to make the country more business-friendly at the lower end. Consumption-led growth is all but over. The population is shrinking, manufacturing…
Shazam was bought to boost Siri’s ability to recognize music but Siri isn’t really good at much, so it hasn’t been fully absorbed. Now with AI eating the world I assume that functionality will get reproduced by a…
We have these in the US and they are falling out of favor because they tend to attract crime and drugs. They are called SROs.
Note that this hasn’t happened with Shazam, miraculously
"This is a huge week for the Mac, and this morning, we begin a series of three exciting new product announcements that will take place over the coming days," said Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus, in a…
They said there would be three announcements this week and this is the third
You’re allowed to say kill on Hackernews
Can you think of any examples where a company trying to sell you something made unfavorable comparisons between their product and a competing product?
The Atlantic reported on similar research in 2014. The article from The Atlantic is titled "Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head" [0]. Here's a choice quote from that article: >“The problem,” [Intervoice…
Education as well. Main reason why that headphone jack has stuck around I suspect.
>Now 4 generations in, they are still comparing performance to M1. I get that 15-20% improvements aren't too exciting but it feels old. FTA: "Compared to the most popular 24-inch all-in-one PC with the latest Intel Core…
Toyota set up shop in the US in 1981 because the US auto industry and unions lobbied for import restrictions. Then Congress held hearings and threatened legislation, followed by the UAW filing trade complaints. Then, in…
The status quo before fediverse-type services was the lack of existence of fediverse-type services. Therefore, the continued existence of fediverse-type services proves that the status quo is changeable. People want to…
It’s okay if loops doesn’t become the next TikTok. Not every project needs to take over the world. Alternatives are good.
Their CEO seems to be reacting to a perception that Chevy is “behind” and trying to get ahead of the market on EVs. If they were smart they’d still be making the Volt, since it’s an extremely reasonable PHEV that many…
The Bolt EUV is the perfect EV, and it’s a travesty that they stopped selling it. Hopefully the talk of them bringing it back is true.
Not a bad idea, but the purpose of the legislation is to prevent Surfside from happening again. Newer buildings were built with different regulations and brand new buildings likely have fees commiserate with their age,…
It is much easier to correct a transcription than to generate it wholesale. As well, the task of audio transcription correction has long since been commoditized because of the deployment of speech recognition on every…
Kobo has Pocket integration, is this substantially different?
I’m not a Bluesky user, but I contend that it is time to rethink success when it comes to the web. The website I am most active on has fewer than 50k active users, is limited to about that many intentionally, runs on…