I like the design, but I can't see myself owning it beyond having it as a hobby vehicle to around town. I've grown far too used to a GPS screen, rear camera and an entertainment system (free of ads thanks to my streaming subscription).
Readit News6DM commented on Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car caricecars.com/... · Posted by u/RubenvanE
Why is this the best business model we can collectively execute on? Whether it is AI, home cameras, or fridges it seems to just come back to, welp, lets slap an ad on it.
I think it's mostly about squeezing consumers for more money, even after they already paid a premium, because they simply can and nobody will do anything about it.
My dream product for this kind of thing is a pen that is able to remember what to write on any paper. Like if you click it open it's a new "note" and it syncs to your computer/phone.
I think live scribe is what you're looking for. I've never used it but at some point they were buying them for people at my first job.
6DM commented on Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019) wired.com/story/archive-o... · Posted by u/Tomte
> That said, this refusal is not new; my parents worked for a bank that was trying to adopt some IBM technologies in the 1980s, and they said that IBM couldn't accommodate the bank's requirements.
That misunderstanding is something that causes a lot of grief in SAP introductions.
When working with large enterprise software, customization is your enemy - and every time you have to customize something there, you should ask yourself if you shouldn't re-think your business processes instead. Often enough IBM, SAP or whatever have considerably more experience than you.
Ironically at my company, our custom software made us too flexible. There was too many crazy left field demands that weren't really that useful.
So when it came time to think about next steps. There was real appeal in being able to say, "No it's not supported in xyz software we just adopted". This prevents us from looking like the bad guy who's just getting in the way and should be laid off because we didn't want to spend 2 months implementing a hair brained idea that would only give us a net return of like four or five thousand dollars.
6DM commented on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO tomshardware.com/laptops/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
If the companies are interested in protecting their margins, I think we will see prices higher than the % increase in tariffs e.g. many grocery stores have a 1 - 4% profit margin, so a 25% increase would mean they have to increase more than 25% because the overall profit margin will decrease. $1 with a 4% profit margin means it make 4 cents, but $1.25 with a 4% profit margin is 5 cents. So that means they'd have to raise it like 27%.
> “Even if they succeeded, the obvious question is, what would you do with it?” said Stuart Pimm, a professor at the conservation ecology research unit at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. “If you had a Woolly mammoth, you would put it in a cage. It’s a colossal exercise in ego.”
This is my thought about all these efforts. The mammoth people talk like it's about a solution to climate change, but that's obviously working backwards from their goal (revive the mammoth for reasons) to some sort of reasonable-sounding justification. They set out with different motivations in mind.
I'd ask the same question here: why try to bring back a species we already killed off? These won't be descendants of the animals we killed, so it's hardly a form of reparations. If it's about preserving the ecosystems we already have, there have to be more efficient ways to do that than rebreeding less stripe zebras.
It's hard not to see this as just the same impulse that led to the poodle: because we can and because it will look cool and draw attention and make money. The only difference is there's a slight nostalgic bent to the aesthetic.
The immediate question that comes to mind for me is where would they live? Usually if they die off it's because they lost their habitat to some destructive force. Their evolutionary advantage or balance is gone. So even if they were the original animal brought back from extinction, what's to keep them from dying out again.
6DM commented on Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate play2048.co... · Posted by u/terabytest
While it's unfortunate that the Threes team didn't receive a proper recognition, I believe the popularity of 2048 mainly comes from the fact that it can be, in some sense, "finished" unlike Threes. Yes, you can continue after 2048, but it was a good milestone that is initially hard but can be done relatively easily once you've got the hang of it. The clear milestone makes every game play much more disposable unlike Threes, even though you can surely continue even after that. (I did play Threes a bit before 2048 got popular and realized this in retrospect.) The same principle applies to more recent Suika Game and I still find it amusing that the only major change for both was the title.
I will add, from playing with this just now, three's feels so much harder.
6DM commented on Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative simplelister.com/... · Posted by u/denizhdzh
6DM commented on Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative simplelister.com/... · Posted by u/denizhdzh
How is Zscaler an underdog of the day? This doesn't seem fair from the start.
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