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georgespencer
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About georgespencer
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Comment #49010116
…and for no discernible reason, too. Ordinarily, irritating stuttering pages like this at least do some sort of visually fun thing. This is just a diabolical Framer design with a t…
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Comment #49001212
The author needlessly and inelegantly deploys “incident” and “cyber” twice in one sentence.
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Comment #48999465
> We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly. All the AI in the world and they s…
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Comment #48403468
As someone who has used Ashby pretty regularly over the last several years, I suspect I’m not alone in wishing they’d let the AI make the technical and product decisions. It’s a pr…
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Comment #48390502
Given the abundance of vaguely similar local-first AI memory layers, it might be a good idea to add a "Why Mnemo" section right at the top of README.md to explain why folks should …
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Comment #47958911
OP's Github profile looks very fishy.
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Comment #47826085
Notion’s macOS app is some of the worst software I’ve ever used. If there is a platform design idiom, they likely break it without a second thought.
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Comment #47405917
> And then guess who bought Beats for their exquisite metal weight technology? That's right, it was Apple. It's self-evidently extremely disingenuous to claim that Apple bought Bea…
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Comment #45361894
neat
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Comment #40736769
I think either Adam Bryant (organizational psychology at Wharton) or Erin Meyer (same at INSEAD) turned me on to this idea. I think it's generally a good one to (very slightly) acc…
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Comment #40723042
Happy to skinny my reply down to simpler words for you, just in case you're genuinely here to join substantive discussion of technical topics, and simply suck at it: 1. Why do you …
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Comment #40721640
> And so can people know if they (and their friends) will buy and use a $3k - or $1.5k - VR headset. This is not the claim being made by the parent I responded to. Right out of the…
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Comment #40719726
It's unclear whether you are misusing Vision Pro to mean the entire category of AR/VR headsets, or the specific model Apple launched this year. > unlikely to succeed or at least su…
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Comment #40666032
It's all just car. Goal is provide driving. It doesn't matter whether it's a Ford Model T or a Honda Civid. Goal is driving. Car go drive. It's all just phonecall. Goal is provide …
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Comment #40666005
> ...which is intended to indicate disdain towards people who produce or consume pornographic material. The only intention was to rejoin OP's "hog cranking" euphemism with some fun…
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Comment #40663351
> Spec-wise, that laptop is almost identical to any other laptop Post-M series I hear this from time to time and always ask people to show me something in the same weight class wit…
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Comment #40662854
Truly a golden era for fast-forwarding through videos of dead-eyed men and women rutting on camera. (Thank you – I genuinely learned a lot from your reply.)
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Comment #40662737
> they are literally all the same shiz Oculus Quest 3 screens: LCD displays with a per-eye resolution of 2064×2208p (4.56 million pixels per eye) Apple Vision Pro screens: micro-OL…
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Comment #40662606
Have spent extended periods in the last 12 months with Pipedrive, Attio, Salesforce, and Hubspot, if this helps: Pipedrive - simultaneously lightweight and no-frills whilst impossi…
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Comment #40661881
Neither a Vision Pro owner nor much of a hog cranker, so this comment may be something of a 'premature ejaculation', but I don't think there's any prospect of native applications d…
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Comment #40661806
> Are you still using your Vision Pro? > [150 words about a totally different product and platform] Vision Pro isn't something I would use regularly, but you're bringing opinions a…
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Comment #40518434
Amazing! Congrats on launching. Company motto: "dumb enough to actually have attempted this already".
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Comment #40302494
That is a long time – bet it felt even longer to the poor PowerBook DRI at Apple who had to keep explaining to Steve Jobs why a G5 PowerBook wasn't viable!
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Comment #40291499
> This is marketing we're talking about, people see "supercomputer on a chip" and they get hyped up by it. That is also not in dispute. I am disputing your specific claim that Appl…
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Comment #40288584
> Apple marketed their PPC systems as "a supercomputer on your desk" It's certainly fair to say that twenty years ago Apple was marketing some of its PPC systems as "the first supe…