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by DCH3416 2y ago
Stuff like this. It feels like there's less of a case here than with Microsoft. In the 90s, Windows nearly became _the_ OS, especially had Apple folded like it nearly did. There really wasn't an alternative in the emerging home co
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Uh. So they can keep track of what the user is doing? Why would you just send a document when you can generate a heat map of where the user is on your website. And then complain about the performance and wonder why it costs so much to run a
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by DCH3416 2y ago
What would really help the working class is building out actual forms of transportation beyond private automobiles. That way we're not subject to a single point of failure in our ability to move around. Maybe warm up to the idea of ebi
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by DCH3416 2y ago
The problem is government surveillance is useful. If your car gets stolen for example a plate reader camera can help find it. I think people know that and weight it against the trade off of decreased privacy and exploitation by corrupt gove
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Since when were they trustworthy organizations? Seriously I've always been under the assumption it's run by a bunch of deep pocket fat cats.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
> making 4/5G become reliable overnight? Not necessarily, it depends on how the network operators laid out their bands. In theory I suppose it could free up adjacent bands for more network capacity. > a bunch of the frequencies a
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by DCH3416 2y ago
That's true. But generally you can still connect devices to the carrier network minus the ability to make voice calls.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
> unless you’re so far on the spectrum you won’t make eye contact even with a picture of a person. I don't know. I think you'd be surprised. That's already kind of an issue with vloggers. Often they're looking just le
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by DCH3416 2y ago
You critics stay away from VLC. I swear if I have to deal with another "modern" UI implementation.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
I mean Haiku is the best OS in my opinion. But nobody really uses it because it lacks the software support. Sometimes you got to put up with the BS to get what you want done.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Why do people want tabs anyway? It's kind of clunky compared to just having smaller individual file explorer windows. Like you can't _really_ drag and drop files between tabs without the added time overhead of waiting for the tab
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by DCH3416 2y ago
My favorite thing is when I open VS2008 or something. And it blinks into existence faster than the splash screen window can render fully. I don't understand how the editor has regressed to the point that 15 year old software performs b
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Oh good. More things I have to configure out of box.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
I ended up just compiling notepad from wine and tossing that into the windows directory. Among other things.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
It depends on the design of the icon. You generally can't scale Windows 3.1 graphics to higher resolutions without it looking like it's lacking details. The charm was with what you couldn't see and your mind could fill in the
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by DCH3416 2y ago
That's true. Right up until you look at Haiku and its vector icons. But I get it. Everyone has to look the same.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
> Icons were high contrast Seriously. Who demonized having legible color icons in exchange for blurry grayscale icons?
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Yeah but look how _cool_ those css effects look. What, people actually use keyboards to navigate?
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Because it's a pain in the ass to distribute. And there's not much for support integrated into mobile operating systems for seamless browser windows. MacOS is getting there kind of lately with safari being able to turn web pages i
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by DCH3416 2y ago
No? Most modern apps these days _are_ just web apps. Why does it need the overhead architecture of running full standalone applications when a web clip works just as well? Plus there's no need for updating. The problem at the time was
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Who would've thought steve jobs was right (although premature) with the initial iPhones only having web apps. That's interesting though, I would've expected iOS to be slower with android largely leveraging chrome because Goog
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by DCH3416 2y ago
I mean sure. But. There's also probably lower cancer diagnosis in the first place. I imagine these folks aren't exactly quick to jump to modern medicine until absolutely necessary. Plus I imagine their average lifespan is lower fo
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by DCH3416 2y ago
There isn't enough food stock on this planet to sustain the population growth as it is. We'll just have to come up with ways of dealing with shrinking human reproduction. It's catch 22 unfortunately. Either we die from over p
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by DCH3416 2y ago
> "but what about a gorillion turbines and solar panels" It's a good thing to have a diverse portfolio of energy solutions to help avoid single points of failure in the network. Especially as something like solar continues
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Screw that
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Sure. I don't disagree. Where the line starts is when it starts to affect me fiscally. When I in the tax paying public have to pay for fuel subsidies, pouring wider roads, excess land use for parking lots. It's one fuel crisis awa
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by DCH3416 2y ago
And there's nothing wrong with that. Pick the best unit for the job and move on.
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by DCH3416 2y ago
The easiest way I can describe the difference is to go test drive a Tesla model 3 and a model Y. Same basic car. If you go down the road and yank the steering wheel a bit because of the weight of the things you'll find the model Y gets
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by DCH3416 2y ago
The sedan, designed well, is the ideal shape that you want to cleanly cut through the air with the least amount of wind resistance. As you go up in size the area that a car covers increases, as does weight, among other things. So you lose t
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by DCH3416 2y ago
Well, there is because it's wasteful. Wasteful of material, and finite resources that we in the US subsidize to keep fuel prices from being adjusted to what they would be relative to the rest of the world. Further roads now in modern s

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