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colept··on Workspaces for Mac 1.0
I wonder if you could tell it to open a Workflow automation and have the automation perform that - would be nice.
colept··on Patent Application: Full body teleportation system (2006)
Well put! This is what I am most afraid of.
colept··on Patent Application: Full body teleportation system (2006)
Because it shatters the meaning of what it means "to be." Am I a meatsack that houses consciousness or am I a complex stream of consciousness that controls a meatsack?

In which case, if consciousness can be streamed, can that consciousness be hijacked? Or do I stop existing the moment it's transported?

Too many uncertainties.

colept··on Patent Application: Full body teleportation system (2006)
Teleportation is one of those technologies I would never use even if it was bullet proof.

There would be no way to determine if your consciousness persists - such that the same "you" is the same connection on both sides. Even if it looks like you, acts like you - it would shatter the foundation for what it means to be conscious.

colept··on Smart Reply in Gmail
*For iOS and Android
colept··on US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware Plague It Helped Create
What is there to gain, say for example, if this wasn't an accident?
colept··on Git 2.13
Patch and interactive modes are the best thing next to sliced bread. I'll start with a feature and end up refactoring something and it's difficult to organize large sets of changes without them.
colept··on Snapchat messages won’t always disappear as fast as they used to
I doubt this will have any bearing on the platform as Snapchat isn't so much an ephemeral platform. Where Snapchat excels is being in the space where your friends are and your parents aren't.
colept··on Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support
Because they need upvotes for their product on a community homepage that churns out tech spam and the occasional golden goose.

Product Hunt is beyond the tipping point of being an inside community where your product only succeeds if a dozen or so other "makers" (as they call it) can also advertise their churn in your thread.

Just last week that Spreadshare product was at the top of the page because their maker went out and spammed Slack channels soliciting upvotes under the false pretense of offering jobs to developers.

colept··on Mini.css – Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework
It looks neat but I'm left wondering what sets this one apart from the many others in what seems like a flavor of the week.

It's minimal indeed, but almost too minimal. In my experience working with CSS frameworks, the "there's a class for that" pattern is almost always not enough and it's much easier to write rules to handle customization. That leaves out both developers that aren't designers and designers that develop.

Applications aside, the semantics of some of the content is not up to date (for example <section> vs <div class="section">).

colept··on Facebook told advertisers it can identify teens feeling 'insecure', 'worthless'
Doesn't that account for just about all teens?

Question is can they identify the insecurity?

colept··on Apple AirPods satisfaction at a remarkable 98% for customers
I doubt that very much.

Having owned Jaybirds Bluebuds and Airpods - I can say that without a doubt the number one selling feature is the convenience.

The pairing is seamless. Switching between phone and computer is fast. Most days I forget they're still there until the battery dies and I have to charge them. If it weren't for the price, I would get a second pair.

Airpods are just "well done." The audio quality is not exceptional, but everything else marks the definition of the new standard for bluetooth headphones.

colept··on Juicero founder defends machine
That's exactly what it is.
colept··on Ask HN: What is the most underreported trend in software engineering?
Augmented Reality and Assistive technology.

We hear about it every once in a while but it's generally drowned out by the white noise of virtual reality, new smartphones, and self-driving cars.

colept··on A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components
What about all the SEO, Stack overflow questions, and the differentiation between the two(?) platforms?
colept··on Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
There's more to consumption and creation. Snapchat is ephemeral and fun - so you're somewhere and thinking "this would be a great snap" so it makes sense to open to the camera.

Instagram is so much more self-regulated and bound in crafting identity. You're right in that it's much more focused on consuming since the barrier to posting is much higher than snapping.

colept··on Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
Absolutely. I give out my snapchat before I give out my phone number.
colept··on The Mac Pro Lives
I think what he's trying to say is that you're stuck a generation behind in GPU's - for example there are no Pascal drivers for Nvidia.

For anything earlier, Nvidia periodically releases drivers about a month later than the OS version bumps. There are drivers for 10.12.4.

colept··on Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
I use these everyday, they better have flags to re-enable them. Would be annoying to have to drag a tab to a new window and close the other window.
colept··on T-Mobile introduces new features to combat phone scammers
This week alone I have received 25 calls from telemarketers, with 9 calls in one day alone.

I can't believe it's 2017 and we are still dealing with this.

colept··on Manage your Ruby on Rails models, relations, and migrations from a simple UI
This looks really neat - can't wait to try it.
colept··on Ask HN: $4,100 worth it for traffic surge to non-profit website?
It looks like a semi-static website. $4100 is an outrageous quote. If it's just for a day or two and the content will remain the same - then I suggest using a static cache and something like Cloudflare.
colept··on USPS Informed Delivery – Digital Images of Front of Mailpieces
What I like about this, despite the privacy implications, is that it lets you preview upcoming mail. Less keys for me to carry every day.
colept··on Galaxy S8 Leak Details 15 New Features
Shame it's a Forbes link. Guess I'll have to search elsewhere.
colept··on Building a Hackintosh Pro
Yes it works with a spoofed serial
colept··on Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
The software is free. At least when you're done with it, you get to keep the hardware which over time will pay for itself.
colept··on Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
Pi-hole with raspberrypi is free.
colept··on You Don't Get AMP
> As soon as Google stops providing value to publishers, they lose their power in the industry

As soon as Google stops providing value to publishers, they are the industry.

colept··on Introducing the Invisible reCAPTCHA
What I want to know is what happens if you get 'trapped' in this invisible ReCAPTCHA?

The most frequent encounters with CAPTCHA's I see are rejected API requests over VPN.

colept··on You Don't Get AMP
Cleverly leaves out the part where Google siphons your traffic. AMP is the trojan horse and I don't "get" those welcoming it into the gates.
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