This has been my experience as well. It's incredibly grating to repeatedly read "genuinely load-bearing", "honestly?", etc. I've tried to get Opus to stop using these phrases via an entry in its memory, with mediocre results.
Deletion of comments critical of the US government, while not typical, do not comprise the only form of moderation on social media platforms based out of the US which many Americans consider to be censorship.
The point being that there are no "free speech" social media platforms, at least not on the open web, because true free speech on the internet would require allowing felonious content. The only difference between Chinese social media and American social media is where the arbitrary line between allowed and disallowed speech is drawn, and by whom (governments or corporations.)
I'm not arguing that this is a bad thing, personally I prefer private platforms having the option to choose what to moderate and what not, and for the government not to get involved more than necessary, but the premise that an American familiar with Facebook or Twitter or even HN (where you can be negged for just about anything) should be shocked by the lack of "free speech" on a Chinese app is absurd.
That's true, but softer things have happened, like the White House coercing platforms to delete content that questioned covid19 vaccine mandates. Until judges stopped it.
US govt is also trying to ban an entire social media platform. The law itself just mentions national security, but some lawmakers supported the ban explicitly because of the anti-Israel content on TikTok.
I think the disconnect here is that Google engineers are much more likely to answer the low volume of technical "nerd-snipey" questions from other developers than the high volume of non-technical questions they'd get from the general public for something like Gmail.
I had to google "cosplay market size" to confirm, but the paper's assertion that it's a billion-dollar industry does appear to be correct (!)
Two of the paper's authors work at the technology arm of Zozotown, one of Japan's largest fashion e-commerce sites, which points to how this could have practical benefits.
> I had to google "cosplay market size" to confirm, but the paper's assertion that it's a billion-dollar industry does appear to be correct (!)
It's a thing, I'm taking remote classes now and some seemingly 20 somethings are taking the time to dress up more and more in cosplay attire for them.
I'm all for it as I grew up in the 90s, alongside various Japanese sub-cultures that involved anime/manga, but I admit it is kind of hard to see a lolita with a goth background at 8am lecture for linear algebra or something.
I'd prefer to see it in person, as seeing a cosplay girl online is become blase to me, and would prefer to see if they could pull look off in the summer heat or winter snow.
I frequented a night club before this pandemic where it was typical that dressing for the occasion meant cosplaying to some degree, which meant Halloween was always over-the-top.
Capitalizing on this market is pretty interesting, so many DIYers (some even on hack-a-day inspiration streaks) have become the default for difficult to make things like armour, weapons and helmets. I'm not sure how grass-roots it is anymore, but when I cared to look there were lots of social media posts on sites like Deviant art about their current projects and signups for pre-buys/groupbuys. I'm not sure the West has caught up to Japan's boutique clothing stores that cater to a specific genre of anime quote yet, but I can see there being an incentive now that it is or exceeds being a billion dollar Industry.
If you're interested, this is pretty much the main-plot to a J-movie from the early 2000s called Kamikaze Girls [1], funny movie.
I feel that complex workflows are best served by dedicated integrations, but it takes time for developers to build each integration natively into a product. We launched https://kloudless.com to simplify the process for app developers to natively integrate an entire category of SaaS services at once (I'm a co-founder).
Ignoring platforms like Salesforce, some of the "product" apps that we see adopting native integrations instead of directing users to Zapier include apps that require:
1) synchronous interactive integrations and not just background automation. e.g. a user pulling a lead from Salesforce into a marketing app.
2) complex/multi-step integrations that offer way better UX and much lower support costs to just build natively for users.
3) integrations as a competitive differentiator, or without requiring users to pay for third-party tools.
4) integrations without an API of their own to integrate to.
That said, there are always a long tail of apps and use cases so I'm certain we'll see more specialized tooling pop up to handle specific complex workflows.
