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Re:Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:37PM (#24436332)
It would be fun down the line to hear "Wait, Amazon used to sell physical things like this??"
Re:Low adoption of features and the sad realization on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @04:04PM (#24286659)
What do you think is a happy medium between the technical buyer and the financial buyer if not a demo?

My company is having trouble with this right now, in that we built a tool for the users with some higher level features managers would like, but it's still 3 ranks below the person purchasing the software. Even pitching it as a cost savings, they reply with "oh, my teams don't have trouble with that so we're not wasting money on it" then someone lower usually cuts in and says "well, we've been having trouble with it recently..."

Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:08PM (#22740495)
> Our goal has always been to provide the world with the best weather information possible

Sounds like they gave up on their goal or changed the definition of "the world" to 13% [1] of smartphone users.

I always loved Dark Sky as an Android user, guess I'll find something else.

[1] https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os

This article [1] says they announced it today.

I'm excited to see the fallout on this decision.

[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/reddit-banned-for-upvote-policy/

Actually just ran into this [1] today. Not production ready, but you could hack something together with it. It was even trained on Wikipedia articles.

[1]: https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/

Re:A billion medical images are exposed online on Saturday January 11, 2020 @03:02PM (#22021931)
In theory, yes. I was working on doing this (for internal data) at a large healthcare system some time ago.

The de-id part was actually really easy since DICOM is a very standardized format and this hospital system had good practices in place to only input certain information about each patient.

Re:A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song on Saturday January 11, 2020 @02:43PM (#22021837)
And they'll keep pumping that same techno in 5 years when they want people to get Gen 2 electric cars
Re:Sony Announces Electric Concept Car on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:30PM (#21983747)
I wonder if there's a way to modify Android Auto/Apple Car Play for passenger viewing. That way you can use all the applications on your phone but in your car. Do email in the back of a taxi/airport limo on a big screen or watch a Youtube video with 1 tap.
Re:Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developer? on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:49PM (#21227216)
My XPS 15 (9550) has treated me very very well for the past 4 years! Ubuntu works straight out of the box and the battery life is wonderful. The super slim bezels keep it looking modern looking, too, if you care about things like that. I do somewhat wish I waited a year to get the fingerprint reader, though (not sure if it would work on Ubuntu).
Re:OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:09AM (#19729372)
I used Shotcut to get me through my film certificate (video essay class, short film class, etc.) and it was difficult to work with. Random freezes and crashes left me very frustrated.

I switched to Flowblade [1] and it was so much better for my needs. I could do basic color correction without crashes and editing audio is much more powerful. All in all a better program (for my simple needs).

[1] https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

I love OldTony for his humour! I'm not quite interested in metal work but he explains things so well and makes it funny during the process!
Re:Lyft Files S-1 on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:12PM (#19284261)
From this article [1] posted a few days ago, TC says 34% (Uber is at 66%) and that's due to running at a larger loss by offering discounts to riders. Gaining 4% market share is no small feat but doing it by giving discounts isn't exactly a long-term vision.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/heres-why-youre-getting-al...