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Pretty cool, I got as far as secret messages urging me too engage the project chat but there was none, I just get redirected to a blank express project on withmarble

Maybe that's the point?

Sure seems like the authoritarians love it.

I was hoping this was going to be an awesome new music player, but no, everything new thing is AI now. Welcome to the future

Grass can survive leaves, I don't see dead patches on my lawn because I didn't move the leaves around

Well maybe that's the issue, I don't spend 1000 hours on my lawn

I live in a very leafy area with a lot of deciduous forest cover, so we're no stranger to leaves. I have never understood leafblowing. It seems like such busy work. It's not hugely common here but I have seen people carefully shepherding leaves into little piles on pathways, battling against the entropy of a light breeze. I'm sure there's a good reason but it always just seems like the ultimate expression of man trying to conquer nature in every way

If this lives up to the demo it's a huge development for anyone looking to do realistic tts without paying to use an API

I don't think I've ever seen such a click bait title on hn

> It also seems clear that this administration currently views almost everything as a threat to U.S. national security — including its own allies and partners.

Also furniture, apparently. And escalators.

My first time hearing of this and I'm very interested.

Does anyone know if it can run a full desktop mode when docked? Windows phones and some Samsung phones used to be able to do this and it was a neat trick.

I would love to have a phone I could hook up to a hotel TV with a keyboard and use like a lite desktop

I actually find a bump better for putting your phone down on a flat surface, and my logic is this:

If your camera lens is flat to the body of the phone, it's more prone to being scratched on a table. With a bump, the lens becomes slightly elevated as the phone balances between the bottom of the case and the edge of the bottom of the camera bump, giving the lens(es) a tiny clearance

We're lucky enough where we live to have a surviving map of the area from the 1600s. On this map, north is at the bottom, and south is at the top, as there was no convention that said it should be otherwise. From the same mapping survey there are other maps that are not oriented merely south but also southwest, southeast, West entirely. The survey taken in the 1600s was not even consistent from map to map - it was enough to show a compass to indicate which way North is.

These iPads I'm using are ipad2, well over a decade at this point

The norden bombsight was a game changing piece of tech that allowed more precision than had been possible.

The RAF tended to carpet bomb at night, but the USAF wanted to precision bomb by day.

It was nowhere near as precise as today's tech but it vastly improved during the course of the war.

Ultimately it didn't work because the theory didn't work. German manufacturing was not disrupted by precision bombing enough to matter

Masters of the air also touches on this, and some of the disastrous missteps during the raids that led to aircraft loss

There's a good book by Malcolm Gladwell called "the bomber mafia" that's all about the airforce doctrine of indiscriminate bombing to break the population and the rebel faction within the airforce who advocated high precision bombing instead. Crippling industry instead of punishing civilians.

They eventually lost out to the former, culminating in horrific napalm raids on Japan that continued even after the atomic bombs were dropped and had more casualties

Sounds like you're using a low power adapter. I have a few ipad2 that the kids use for things. Even if they have 1% and we plug them in they can be used while they charge.

I'd also suggest lowering the brightness slightly, can make a huge difference to battery drain

I agree. Dwelling on the past is pointless. All of this is new.

I think they meant, they are born into the situation and don't have an outsiders perspective, not that they are ignorant of what's happening

I came here to post this exact comment and kick ass. And someone beat me to the comment

I will do me but I'm future I won't tell anyone, and I think that's better for all of us

I am not anti story. I am in fact, a fiction writer. I live for stories. But there's a time and a place. And I think pigeonholing everyone who opines "tldr" as some sort of robotic fascist who wants all human discourse in binary or whatever is reductionist and moronic. I'm not burning books, I just thought an article should get to the bloody point

Narrative is great but not everything needs a narrative. And I'll admit an article about someone who tried to reconcile the rational brain with the emotional mind is maybe such a place, but I just wasn't in the mood. Maybe I should have kept my experience to myself

I stopped halfway, googled the guy, then came back and copied the first paragraph. It's not some great conspiracy

Good point, it wasn't very helpful

> The neighborhood was quiet. There was a chill in the air. The scent of Spanish moss hung from the cypress trees. Plumes of white smoke rose from the burning cane fields and stretched across the skies of Terrebonne Parish. The man swung a long leg over a bicycle frame and pedaled off down the street.

I stopped halfway through this paragraph and just googled Peter Putnam.

If I want an article to take hours to get to the point I'll go read a recipe blog.

I'm also thinking of building a word processor so I'd be interested to see what you're working on if you fancy sharing?

I hope someone is keeping a list of all these crazy rollbacks so the next democrat administration (assuming there is one dun-dun-dun etc) can be held accountable for not rolling back the rollbacks.

Even if they do I'm worried that this kind of sabotage of progress will become the new norm, with each subsequent administration undoing everything the previous one did as standard, and going even further to appease the extremists.

I know this has always happened to some degree with executive orders (the was a great tradition of presidents signing all sorts of crazy stuff just so the next guy would have to undo it and look bad) but it seems nuclear now (sometimes literally)

> Go to a hunting/gun class or just hunt/shoot.

Lol'ed at this. Imagine literally hunting for a new friend

You don't go into the forest with a gun because you crave human company

Was pocket getting traction? It's been around since 2007 and Wikipedia says it had 17 million users in 2015. In an internet of billions of users that's not many.

Google have often killed innovative and popular products (reader, picasa, chromecast, stadia, panoramio) but I doubt anyone would believe that's it's evidence of some kind of infiltrator sabotaging the company.

Firefox is already an excellent and fast browser and people just don't use it. I think it's a marketing problem. Google, Microsoft, Brave, etc all put a lot of money and resources into promoting their browsers, pushing them at an OS level (with legal care), using ads etc. For Firefox to compete they'd need to spend a lot more of their money marketing and end up building far fewer fun toys and experiments, and they could still never achieve the same level as MS or Google.

I think I'd rather they keep innovating