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Comment · 4 years ago
Are there any services out there that combine all of these “Store files as XYZ” into some kind of raid config?

Would be interesting if you could treat each service (Youtube, Docs, Reddit, Messenger, etc) as a “disk” and stripe your data across them.

Comment · 4 years ago
Would be interesting if something like OpenSCAD had an interactive editor that allowed for exporting to an openscad code module.

OpenSCAD is great, but sometimes I just want to fidget around with an object like in this SolveSpace demo video.

Comment · 5 years ago
Not sure what OP is using for their photos, but Google Photos handles all of those mentioned features automatically for me. I’m sure there are other similar apps that do the same.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I wonder if Face ID is still able to partially detect a masked user's face, just with a much lower confidence interval. Maybe the presence of the watch allows Face ID to lower the confidence threshold when it detects a mask blocking half of the face. This is just a guess, I have no idea how Face ID works.

If Face ID can't detect anything when a user wears a mask then I completely agree with you. It seems really silly to require the mask in order for the watch unlock to work. I don't understand the security model there.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Just a thought, but it seems like there can be a middle ground where people belonging to certain risk groups (age, preexisting conditions, etc) are encouraged to take stronger shelter in place measures, and in exchange are granted larger amounts of financial aid to compensate.

People not belonging to risk groups can resume working, still taking extra precautions to prevent transmission. The economy can gradually reopen while also slowly building up herd immunity among the least vulnerable population. It seems unsustainable to have an indefinite blanket lockdown, but I’m very open to changing my mind on this.

Comment · 8 years ago
Not disagreeing with you, just genuinely curious: how is this headline biased?

Do you mean that the margins are thinner than one might expect by reading it?

Comment · 8 years ago
But quality criteria is subjective on an individual basis. Individuals place varying weights on aspects of a user interface. Some prefer speed over aesthetic, some prefer whitespace over information density, etc.

The quality criteria among one demographic may differ from the quality criteria among another. So I think it’s safe to say that a company can optimize its UI quality for a certain demographic, and that demographic may not include certain individual users.

Comment · 8 years ago

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