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by Drew_ 2y ago
Blocking social media on my networks has made this so evident. There's SO much news and information silo'd off on just a handful of platforms it's insane. I haven't blocked Reddit yet, but I feel that would basically set
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Yeah I remember discovering the voice controls built into Windows Vista when I was a kid and being blown away by it.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Iirc, this is because the network access required to control the speakers could be used to determine your location. So it is really the OS that is letting you know what you’re risking, not the app requesting too much.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
I'm certain patching a package is less work than rewriting a project. You should do whatever your heart wants though.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Forking JS packages is easy so I would say those engineers lack passion. Not uncommon unfortunately.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Achieving representation closer to that of the wider population is not racist.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
You can always submit a PR upstream or just fork the dependency. Ignoring the problem or new feature works too.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Waiving penalties depending on the circumstance is interesting but not directly relevant to the question on hand. You would have already been found to have evaded taxes before the penalty could be assessed. So the circumstance/motivati
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by Drew_ 2y ago
> However, "my data is being sent off my device" is incorrect, as GP explained. Metadata, derived from your data, with noise added to make it irreversible, is being sent off your device. Sounds like my data is being sent off my
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by Drew_ 2y ago
I don't see how that's relevant. In what case is the difference between tax evasion and avoidance just the motive/explanation? I'm pretty sure the difference is purely technical. Moreover, I don't think a lack of pr
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Their comment is on a specific kind of person ("those that treat life as 'working and slacking'"), not all people.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
C# has the same thing as Properties, but the backing value is set explicitly as a separate variable: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Tech interview preparation mostly boils down to rote memorization not really what I would call “developing a skill”. You just cram enough until you can pattern match any kind of DSA or system design problem and apply the solution you memori
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by Drew_ 2y ago
"I spent way, way too long" sounds like a lot more than "a couple minutes" to me. My point is that there is no research cost for buying outright. You just buy the phone and then you pick whatever service and plan you wan
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by Drew_ 2y ago
> I spent way, way too long working out the totals from the various methods of getting a new phone Did you add this time you spent into those totals? I think if you did, your math would come out differently. Personally, if I even feel th
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Yup it's the same thing with ProMotion missing on the display even though it's identical to last year's Pro model.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
They were probably subwoofers. The direction doesn’t make a difference for those.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Apple kind of does something like this with iCloud however their per user "databases" are only virtual: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028672
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Publications need to charge a-la-carte instead of force feeding subscriptions.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
People say this a lot about Google, but I'm pretty sure this is true for every big company.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Not super surprising for single player games since they're usually much easier on the CPU than multiplayer. I was not getting minimum 60 FPS in Warzone for example.
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by Drew_ 2y ago
3700X's 8-cores is a generational leap above the 7700k's quad core for modern games. They aren't comparable at all. I ran a GTX 1080 and then an RTX 3080. The performance was not very good in modern games designed for current
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by Drew_ 2y ago
These are all old games so I wouldn't be surprised either
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by Drew_ 2y ago
> i7-7700k from 2017 coupled with a modern GPU will comfortably output 60fps+ at 1440p I can say by first hand this is not true for any modern MP game. In general, I hate these "it does X FPS at Y resolution" claims. They'
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by Drew_ 2y ago
> This suggests the iterated optimum strategy is to just keep chasing new points trying to land that golden moment, though. Yup exactly. We call that venture capital
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by Drew_ 2y ago
Good point though I’m personally willing to pay more for articles. For example a big feature article from a reputable publication is easily worth $10+ to me. Smaller reports would be less but still at least $1. Obviously that’s very expensi
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by Drew_ 2y ago
I've been thinking about this for a few years. It blows my mind that publications are not selling articles a la carte. Surely getting _some_ revenue from readers that don't want to subscribe is better than none at all? It feels li
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by Drew_ 2y ago
> past that fps is sort of meaningless as the response time is slower than the refresh rate and you get artifacts. Not quite accurate since OLED panels do just fine driving >240 Hz refresh rates. There are already 360 Hz OLED panels o
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by Drew_ 2y ago
I'm a recent convert to the iPhone and I'd say Google's apps are definitely worse on iOS. Many of them are missing features, buggy or plain weird. Big ones being Search, Home, Gmail, Calendar and Photos. Overall I get the sen
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by Drew_ 3y ago
Well you sure know how to dodge being wrong I'll give you that. Even ignoring the thread context, your comments on end to end encryption and PGP are woefully misinformed so we can just leave it there.

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